Asheville's hippie-less hemp house
A home built using Hemcrete, an inexpensive, hemp-based eco-building material is completed in Asheville, N.C. CNN is on the scene but does not inhale.
Tue, Aug 31 2010 at 10:32 AM EST
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Please, hold your “green” house jokes for a moment to take a look at a beautiful and efficient home in Asheville, N.C., that’s built from hemp. Yes'm, you read that right: hemp.
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The 3,400 square-foot home was built using Hemcrete, an inexpensive and sustainable building material that’s composed of lime, water, and hemp, one of the world’s most maligned environmentally friendly crops thanks to its close cousin, marijuana.
The proud homeowner? No, Tommy Chong has not relocated to Asheville. Designed by Anthony Brenner of Push Design, “Hemp House” actually belongs to Russ Martin, a former Asheville mayor, and his wife Karon Korp. Naturally, the couple have an excellent sense of humor about their new digs. Korp tells CNN in the below video: “We heard that we could have a really great neighborhood party if it ever caught on fire.”
In addition to Hemcrete, which aside from being affordable offers excellent insulation and air-purifying properties, the home features walls and doors made from recycled paper and other eco-friendly bells and whistles. From watching the below video, you'll see that the interior decor scheme that Martin and Korp went with does decidedly not match the spirit of their preferred building material ... there's not a blacklight poster, hanging spider plant, or crumpled up Cheetos bag in sight.
[CNN] via [Huffington Post]
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Comments
Paul
11/06/2010 16:46 PM
And this is not the only way to build with hemp. You can self-build. Most owner builders need a more cost effective solution at the hemp buildings at http://www.thehempbuilder.com are affordable as well as sustainable. They use the whole hemp stalk which can be grown (legally) on site.
Steve
09/16/2010 18:13 PM
It is so bloody annoying to see ignorant remarks like the headline to this story. I have a sense of humor but re-legitimizing a plant that has been in use for thousands of years (for things like rope, sails, clothing) is hard enough without misleading information like this. The only effect you're going to get from inhaling the smoke of burning hemp is a headache. Industrial hemp has less than .3% THC whereas cannabis has anywhere from 6 to 20% THC. We need hemp for our farmers, for industry,.... More
Ryan "Ice Cold" C.
09/25/2010 15:29 PM
I have the agree with Steve's sentiments above. Publishers, journalists, and others are doing nothing positive for re-legitimizing a plant (hemp/cannabis sativa), by still referring to terms of the past - that were coined to help the prohibition of "marijuana". Please review the history of words when trying to refer to a plant in a scientific sense.
Roscoe
09/01/2010 01:29 AM
The creators of this hemp house are Push Design, who can be found online at http://www.pushahead.com. Their focus on healthy buildings as opposed to just being green/eco portends to the way the industry will move going forwards.
