One of the great climate ironies is that more extreme weather necessitates more resilient infrastructure. More resilient infrastructure requires more concrete, and concrete releases a lot of planet-warming carbon into the atmosphere.
That means one of the most resilient and cost-effective ways to adapt developed areas to extreme weather and rising seas is actually making climate change worse.
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Carbon Dioxide Absorbing.
We believe your walls should not just keep you comfortable, they should help clean the environment.
The materials used to create hempcrete biocomposites absorb CO2 during the curing process. Additionally, CO2 is absorbed and offset during the life cycle of the industrial hemp plant. Few decisions in your construction program can take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as deciding to build with hempcrete.
7 Great Uses for Industrial Hemp
https://www.treehugger.com/perfect-plant-great-uses-for-industrial-hemp-4857990
Of all the uses for hemp, even if you only have a cursory knowledge of the subject you're probably away of hemp fabric, clothing and paper, but here's one that's an eye-opener: Hemp provides all sorts of good building materials. You can make it into insulation as companies in the Netherlands and Ireland are doing. It can be used to make engineered building products like fiberboard and pressboard, and even be used to make 'hempcrete', a stronger, lighter, and more environmentally friendly version of concrete.
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