Hemp Fiber Growth | Clipmarks


	Hemp Fiber Growth

Richclips777

3-3-2009 12:35 PM

252 views

tags:

hemp fiber, hemp textiles

Richclips777 says:

Higher yield, no pesticides, less water, a carbon sink. It's time has come!

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from March 3, 2009

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0e1920ad-a038-462d-afad-3dd7b210db66/CCD665DE-282E-441F-885F-5E5D1B6CEAE9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html" href="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><H1>Homegrown solution goes global</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><P><SPAN>When</SPAN> <SPAN>Jason Finnis</SPAN> <SPAN>launched his eco-textile company in the 1990s, he heard a lot of jokes about products made with natural fibres like hemp. "People said I must be smoking what I'm selling – who would want to buy clothes made of hemp?" he says.</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/img/8EAB39A7-6593-4085-AE56-3D3271B73D83" alt="Raw hemp stalk" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="center" class="caption">Raw hemp stalk</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><SPAN>Today, 13 years later, consumer demand has caught up, and Finnis' company Naturally Advanced Technologies (NAT) provides environmentally friendly clothing to clients such as Google, Starbucks and Costco through its wholly owned subsidiary HTnaturals. "Sustainability is a global megatrend – everything from cars to food to cosmetics is becoming greener," says Finnis.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html">The company is banking on that demand as it prepares to enter the $150 billion global market for apparel and upholstery textiles with Canadian-grown hemp that offers an environmentally friendly alternative to organic cotton</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/img/4DD8ADA1-C71B-4882-B115-7A92B8F87AF2" alt="Chopped hemp strand" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/img/834D757D-AB5B-42DD-9CCF-44D7516E13EA" alt="Hemp after processing with the biotech enzyme technology developed by NRC." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html">29,000 litres of water are required for every 1 kilogram of cotton produced. "All that hemp needs is rainfall</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CCD665DE-282E-441F-885F-5E5D1B6CEAE9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Today's Top Clips