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Discussion about using hemp to solve the problem of global warming. Based on the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing, www.hempmuseum.org, Richard M. Davis, Founder, Curator, standards of information clearance.
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Call to Action: Use hemp's ability as a low cost resource material to make 50,000 plus non toxic products that will help us solve our economic and environmental crisis.
Here's a paper written almost 20 years ago that explains how we can use hemp to help us save ourselves from the evil and stupidity that's been in charge for way to long.
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TOWARDS A GREEN ECONOMY
by Lynn Osburn
The nationwide popularity of Earth Week 1990 festivities seems to indicate the American People are concerned with the continuing degradation of the global environment. The twentieth anniversary celebration of the original Earth Day focused on ways the individual citizen can reduce waste and retard pollution.
The necessity of recycling used materials and lowering power consumption was demonstrated in a plethora of multi-media displays from coast to coast. It was indicated a change in lifestyle is needed to halt the poisoning of earth.
An environmentally conscious populace would prove to be a frugal one if those Earth Week programs were adopted.
Assuming Americans are willing to cut back on energy consumption and muster the effort to recycle their trash, are industrial corporations and energy producers willing to do the same?
Will corporate America drop the aggressive sales pitches wherein billions are spent encouraging people to buy impulsively? Will people be able to kick the mass consumption habit generations in the making? Will corporate America even entertain abstaining from the short term profit fix and consider what the consequences of quick return capitalism has done and will do to future generations of life on earth?
President George Bush's speech, given just days after Earth Week 1990 at the 17 nation conference dealing with global pollution problems held in Washington D.C., drew criticism from European participants. He emphasized scientific and economic uncertainties in what was seen as a White House foot dragging effort on the environmental issue.
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Scientists throughout the world agree: the single most effective way to halt the greenhouse effect is to stop burning fossil fuels.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
A memo prepared by administration staffers for members of the U.S. delegation read, under the heading Debates to avoid: It is "not beneficial to discuss whether there is or is not warming, or how much or how little warming. In the eyes of the public we will lose this debate. A better approach is to raise the many uncertainties that need to be better understood on this issue." Bush repeatedly stressed the need to find policies that do not limit economic growth: Environmental policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are destined to fail." [Science News, April 28, 1990]
President Bush is proud of the public image his career in the oil industry presents. He is, to say the least, an energy industry celebrity. And he has gone to great lengths to represent himself as the environmental president.
If the Bush administration believes, "in the eyes of the public," they will lose the debate questioning the scientific validity of the greenhouse effect; is it reasonable to conclude they don't believe the excessive accumulation of greenhouse gasses generated by burning fossil fuels is unbalancing the global carbon dioxide cycle? Or is it possible the corporate industrial energy complex that controls the trillion dollar per year energy industry fears profit loss, and unlike the American people, is in no way willing to make a sacrifice in corporate "lifestyle" to help heal the Earth?
President Bush is right about one thing: "Policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are destined to fail." In this case the economic factor and the human factor converge in the dire strait: if we do not convert from a fossil fueled economy to a biomass fueled economy, the human factor will become fossil history on planet earth.
The corporate industrial energy complex is collectively holding its breath on the topic of biomass resource conversion to replace fossil fuels. The industrial energy giants spend millions in public relations explaining how they are environmentally responsible energy producers. Yet it is the fossil fuel resources they peddle that are endangering the fragile ecosphere. The majority of scientists throughout the world agree: the single most effective way to halt the greenhouse effect is to stop burning fossil fuels.
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The only way to reduce the ever-thickening blanket of CO 2 warming the earth is to grow more plants to absorb it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was proven in the 1970's that biomass, specifically plant mass, can be converted to fuels that will replace every type of fossil fuel currently produced by industry -- and these biomass fuels are essentially non-polluting.
Fossil fuel materials: coal, oil and natural gas were made by nature from earth biomass that lived over 160 million years ago. Crude fossil fuels contain hydrocarbon compounds that were made by plant life during the process of photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide and water were converted into hydrocarbon rich cellulose. Plants manufacture many other biochemicals in the complex and mysterious act of living, but cellulose and lignin are the compounds that give plants structure, body and strength. They are the main components of plant mass.
Nature took millions of years to concentrate the ancient plant mass into what we call fossil fuels. The eons long process that converted the once living biomass into hydro-carbon rich fossils also compressed sulfur into the fossil biomass. It is this sulfur that causes acid rain when belched out of power plant smoke stacks. According to Brookhaven National Laboratory 50,000 Americans and 10,000 Canadians die each year from exposure to acid rain.
Mankind through the science of chemical engineering can transform modern biomass into hydrocarbon fuels that contain no sulfur because the fresh plant mass contains no sulfur. And the scientific method of biomass conversion into hydrocarbon fuels requires mere hours instead of eons to accomplish.
The inherent problem with burning fossil fuels to power industrial energy systems and economies is the mega-ton release of CO 2 into the air. However biomass derived fuels are part of the present day global CO 2 cycle.
The quantity of CO 2 released into the air from burning biomass fuels is equal to the amount of CO 2 the biomass energy crop absorbed while it grew. If the energy crop is an annual plant then one years biomass fuel when burned will supply the CO 2 needed for the next year's fuel biomass growth. There will be no net increase in atmospheric CO 2.
For over 100 years industrialized nations have burned hydrocarbon fuels that are not part of the current ecosystem. The delicate balance between life and climatic cycles is being undone by injecting ancestral CO 2 into the atmosphere.
The only way to reduce the ever-thickening blanket of CO 2 warming the earth is to grow more plants to absorb it. Yet the Bush administration's plan to plant one billion trees a year will only reduce by 15% the amount of CO 2 predicted for the end of the century. However, U.S. CO 2 production (from burning fossil fuels) will rise by 35% during the same time period. [Science News, April 28, 1990]
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Hemp hurds are richer in cellulose and contain less lignin than wood pulp. Hemp paper will make better cardboard and paper bag products than wood paper.
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The Bush Administration's plan is futile as long as fossil fuels remain America's major energy resource. And at the rate forests are being cut down to make the paper our society is wrapped up in, a billion saplings a year will barely compensate for that loss in CO 2 absorption.
Wood happens to be the government's chief biomass candidate to replace the dwindling fossil fuel supply. Officials claim U.S. yearly energy consumption can be met by harvesting one third of the trees in the National Forests on a rotating basis coupled with more intensive silvaculture (tree farming) techniques. Estimated yearly biomass production in the National Forests is one ton per acre. [Progress in Biomass Conversion Vol. 1 Kyosti V. Sarkanen & David Tillman, editors]
The U.S. Forestry Service is the government bureaucracy promoting this ludicrous forests-for-fuel idea. However private industry has been clear-cutting without conscience timber stands not protected in National Forests and Parks. And none of that wood goes into biomass fuel conversion.
The trees of the world are the biosphere's CO 2 cycle safety valve. Trees convert CO 2 into wood. Since a tree will live for centuries, forests can gradually pull the excess CO 2 out of the air. Trees are not only aesthetically pleasing -- they are the cure for our ailing atmosphere.
Is it realistic to halt construction to save trees or ask people to stop using paper? If wood resources cannot hope to meet the demand for lumber, paper and biomass fuels, can any plant be cultivated to meet these needs?
This problem is not new. Civilizations have been exhausting vital resources and dooming themselves for many centuries. Versatility, cleverness and common sense are the hallmark of the ones that survive.
About seventy-five years ago two dedicated USDA scientists projected that at the rate the U.S. was using paper we would deplete the forests in our lifetimes. Those government scientists were endowed with common sense -- something government officials are hopelessly lacking nowadays. So USDA scientists Dewey and Merrill looked for an alternate agricultural resource for paper products l to prevent the disaster we now face.
They found the ideal candidate to be the waste material left in the fields after the hemp harvest. The left over pulp, called hemp hurds, was traditionally burned in the fields when the hemp fiber had been removed after the time consuming retting (partially rotting the hemp stalk to separate the fiber from the hurds) process was completed.
Hemp hurds are richer in cellulose and contain less lignin than wood pulp. Dewey and Merrill found after much experimentation that harsh sulfur acids used to break down the lignin in wood pulp were not necessary when making paper from hemp hurds. Sulfur acid wastes from paper mills are known to be a major source of waterway pollution. The coarse paper they made from hemp hurds was stronger and had greater folding durability than course wood pulp paper. Hemp hurd paper would make better cardboard and paper bag products than wood paper. They found the fine print quality hemp hurd paper to be equal to writing quality wood pulp paper. [ Dewey and Merrill, Bulletin #404, Hemp Hurds As Paper-Making Material, U.S.D.A., Washington, D.C., October 14, 1916.]
The only problem to implementing the paper industry resource change from wood to hemp hurds was machinery to separate hemp fiber from the hurds needed to be developed. Separation was still done by hand after the machine breaks had softened the hemp stalks. The "decorticating" machine that separated the fiber and hurds wasn't developed until the early 1930's. Even Popular Mechanics declared in 1937 that hemp would be a billion dollar a year crop because of this new machinery. And their predictions did not consider hemp's potential as a biomass fuel resource. Unfortunately, hemp was maligned. Its flower tops were condemned as marijuana and subsequently outlawed just when the fiber-hurd separating machinery was perfected.
If America had not been infected with marijuana hysteria, hemp could be solving our energy problems today. When marijuana was outlawed most people did not know "marijuana" was Mexican slang for cannabis hemp. The American people, including doctors who routinely prescribed cannabis extract medicines, thought hemp and marijuana were two different plants. Otherwise hemp prohibition would never have happened.
Eastern Europeans were not subjected to the hysterical anti-marijuana syndrome plaguing the West. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia among others, continued to make clothing from hemp fibers and medicines from hemp flowers. They pressed the versatile and edible oil from the seeds and used the left over high protein seed mash to make breakfast cereal and livestock feed. And they used surplus hemp for building insulation.
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GREEN ECONOMY based on a hemp multi-industry complex will provide income for farmers in every state. . . . thousands of new products generating tens of thousands of sustainable new jobs.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Currently in the U.S.A. a private firm, Mansion Industries, has pioneered the use of agricultural fibers to make sturdy light weight construction paneling to replace plywood. Mansion Industries uses straw to make their Environcore(TM) panels. Based on Dewey and Merrill test results, if hemp was an available resource, Environcore(TM) construction paneling would be even stronger.
It's not too late to save our environment, but it is absolutely essential that we start now. Restoring the balance to the biosphere's ecosystem will require courage and determination, but not self-denial. We need not give up our comforts or quality of life.
America stands at the cross roads of greatness and decline. The might of weaponry will not sustain us anymore. Our chance to again lead the world will require the same kind of determination we once initiated to convert our peace time economy into war production during the 1940's. But now the "war mentality" won't help. This time we must be innovative and change the very way we produce our energy resources.
Hemp prohibition must end at once in order to inaugurate a nationwide green economy. To save the world that gives us life we must begin immediately to grow our own energy.
Hemp is the only plant capable of becoming the American biomass energy standard. Hemp grows well everywhere on earth except the polar regions. Hemp will out produce wood at a rate greater than four to one per acre in cellulose/pulp. And by analyzing pre-prohibition hemp crop reports from various States, ten tons per acre becomes a reasonable biomass production figure. Hemp will make ten times more biomass per acre than forest wood.
Wood is not a viable fuel resource. The forests are essential to scrub the excess CO 2 from the air. Soft wood forests should not be harvested for paper products or biomass -- their only economic value. Hemp can supply that need. Hardwood trees should be harvested, utilizing sustainable yield ecology, for board and finishing lumber only. Hemp will make pressed board lighter in weight and more durable than plywood.
Hemp can be grown for: crude biomass fuels on energy farms; fiber/hurds for textiles, pressed board and hurd cellulose products; seed for oil and high protein foods; flowers for pharmaceutical grade extract medicine and recreational herbal products for adults.
The Green Economy based on a hemp multi-industry complex will provide income for farmers in every state. Regions for each hemp agricultural industry application will be established through open free market competition. The historical and traditional hemp fiber growing areas in the eastern U.S. will re-emerge creating new jobs in an old industry. The economically devastated northern plains will see a boom as the nation's energy farming states. Medicinal and intoxicant grade hemp will be grown on less productive higher elevation lands. Mountainous areas have traditionally produced intoxicant quality hemp.
Ironically, the hemp medicine and intoxicant industry will generate the least amount of capital, though it is the target of prohibitionist "reefer" propaganda. The hemp seed oil and food resource industries, and the hemp textile and cellulose industries will develop thousands of new products generating tens of thousands of sustainable new jobs. Hemp energy farming will become the backbone of a trillion dollar a year non-polluting energy production industry. And the petroleum corporations need not fear this for their expertise, hardware and manpower are vital to turn the farmers' raw biomass into refined fuels.
These projections represent a tremendous boon to our flagging economy that can be realized as a by-product of saving our world from human induced biocide. If we as a society have the courage and determination to set upon this bold path to planetary restoration, we can, in our life times, leave a healthier world to our children; and a lifestyle based on renewable resources in a balanced ecosystem that our children can leave to their children for generations to come.
Burning fossil fuels is the major cause of the greenhouse effect. The forests of the world can reverse it, if the trees are allowed to grow.
Hemp is a renewable natural resource capable of providing biomass alternatives to fossil fuels. Hemp cellulose and fibers can supply the demand for all products derived from wood.
Renewable resources mean economic growth and stability.
Please copy. Produced as a public service by:
Access Unlimited
P.O. Box 1900
Frazier Park, CA 93225
805/632-2644
A web search for "hemp economy"
The paper is posted: http://www.ratical.org/renewables/greenEcon.html
For more information on how hemp can help us save ourselves please visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org , a private museum with a virtual wing. Read More »
Here's a paper written almost 20 years ago that explains how we can use hemp to help us save ourselves from the evil and stupidity that's been in charge for way to long.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
TOWARDS A GREEN ECONOMY
by Lynn Osburn
The nationwide popularity of Earth Week 1990 festivities seems to indicate the American People are concerned with the continuing degradation of the global environment. The twentieth anniversary celebration of the original Earth Day focused on ways the individual citizen can reduce waste and retard pollution.
The necessity of recycling used materials and lowering power consumption was demonstrated in a plethora of multi-media displays from coast to coast. It was indicated a change in lifestyle is needed to halt the poisoning of earth.
An environmentally conscious populace would prove to be a frugal one if those Earth Week programs were adopted.
Assuming Americans are willing to cut back on energy consumption and muster the effort to recycle their trash, are industrial corporations and energy producers willing to do the same?
Will corporate America drop the aggressive sales pitches wherein billions are spent encouraging people to buy impulsively? Will people be able to kick the mass consumption habit generations in the making? Will corporate America even entertain abstaining from the short term profit fix and consider what the consequences of quick return capitalism has done and will do to future generations of life on earth?
President George Bush's speech, given just days after Earth Week 1990 at the 17 nation conference dealing with global pollution problems held in Washington D.C., drew criticism from European participants. He emphasized scientific and economic uncertainties in what was seen as a White House foot dragging effort on the environmental issue.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Scientists throughout the world agree: the single most effective way to halt the greenhouse effect is to stop burning fossil fuels.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
A memo prepared by administration staffers for members of the U.S. delegation read, under the heading Debates to avoid: It is "not beneficial to discuss whether there is or is not warming, or how much or how little warming. In the eyes of the public we will lose this debate. A better approach is to raise the many uncertainties that need to be better understood on this issue." Bush repeatedly stressed the need to find policies that do not limit economic growth: Environmental policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are destined to fail." [Science News, April 28, 1990]
President Bush is proud of the public image his career in the oil industry presents. He is, to say the least, an energy industry celebrity. And he has gone to great lengths to represent himself as the environmental president.
If the Bush administration believes, "in the eyes of the public," they will lose the debate questioning the scientific validity of the greenhouse effect; is it reasonable to conclude they don't believe the excessive accumulation of greenhouse gasses generated by burning fossil fuels is unbalancing the global carbon dioxide cycle? Or is it possible the corporate industrial energy complex that controls the trillion dollar per year energy industry fears profit loss, and unlike the American people, is in no way willing to make a sacrifice in corporate "lifestyle" to help heal the Earth?
President Bush is right about one thing: "Policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are destined to fail." In this case the economic factor and the human factor converge in the dire strait: if we do not convert from a fossil fueled economy to a biomass fueled economy, the human factor will become fossil history on planet earth.
The corporate industrial energy complex is collectively holding its breath on the topic of biomass resource conversion to replace fossil fuels. The industrial energy giants spend millions in public relations explaining how they are environmentally responsible energy producers. Yet it is the fossil fuel resources they peddle that are endangering the fragile ecosphere. The majority of scientists throughout the world agree: the single most effective way to halt the greenhouse effect is to stop burning fossil fuels.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The only way to reduce the ever-thickening blanket of CO 2 warming the earth is to grow more plants to absorb it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was proven in the 1970's that biomass, specifically plant mass, can be converted to fuels that will replace every type of fossil fuel currently produced by industry -- and these biomass fuels are essentially non-polluting.
Fossil fuel materials: coal, oil and natural gas were made by nature from earth biomass that lived over 160 million years ago. Crude fossil fuels contain hydrocarbon compounds that were made by plant life during the process of photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide and water were converted into hydrocarbon rich cellulose. Plants manufacture many other biochemicals in the complex and mysterious act of living, but cellulose and lignin are the compounds that give plants structure, body and strength. They are the main components of plant mass.
Nature took millions of years to concentrate the ancient plant mass into what we call fossil fuels. The eons long process that converted the once living biomass into hydro-carbon rich fossils also compressed sulfur into the fossil biomass. It is this sulfur that causes acid rain when belched out of power plant smoke stacks. According to Brookhaven National Laboratory 50,000 Americans and 10,000 Canadians die each year from exposure to acid rain.
Mankind through the science of chemical engineering can transform modern biomass into hydrocarbon fuels that contain no sulfur because the fresh plant mass contains no sulfur. And the scientific method of biomass conversion into hydrocarbon fuels requires mere hours instead of eons to accomplish.
The inherent problem with burning fossil fuels to power industrial energy systems and economies is the mega-ton release of CO 2 into the air. However biomass derived fuels are part of the present day global CO 2 cycle.
The quantity of CO 2 released into the air from burning biomass fuels is equal to the amount of CO 2 the biomass energy crop absorbed while it grew. If the energy crop is an annual plant then one years biomass fuel when burned will supply the CO 2 needed for the next year's fuel biomass growth. There will be no net increase in atmospheric CO 2.
For over 100 years industrialized nations have burned hydrocarbon fuels that are not part of the current ecosystem. The delicate balance between life and climatic cycles is being undone by injecting ancestral CO 2 into the atmosphere.
The only way to reduce the ever-thickening blanket of CO 2 warming the earth is to grow more plants to absorb it. Yet the Bush administration's plan to plant one billion trees a year will only reduce by 15% the amount of CO 2 predicted for the end of the century. However, U.S. CO 2 production (from burning fossil fuels) will rise by 35% during the same time period. [Science News, April 28, 1990]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hemp hurds are richer in cellulose and contain less lignin than wood pulp. Hemp paper will make better cardboard and paper bag products than wood paper.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Bush Administration's plan is futile as long as fossil fuels remain America's major energy resource. And at the rate forests are being cut down to make the paper our society is wrapped up in, a billion saplings a year will barely compensate for that loss in CO 2 absorption.
Wood happens to be the government's chief biomass candidate to replace the dwindling fossil fuel supply. Officials claim U.S. yearly energy consumption can be met by harvesting one third of the trees in the National Forests on a rotating basis coupled with more intensive silvaculture (tree farming) techniques. Estimated yearly biomass production in the National Forests is one ton per acre. [Progress in Biomass Conversion Vol. 1 Kyosti V. Sarkanen & David Tillman, editors]
The U.S. Forestry Service is the government bureaucracy promoting this ludicrous forests-for-fuel idea. However private industry has been clear-cutting without conscience timber stands not protected in National Forests and Parks. And none of that wood goes into biomass fuel conversion.
The trees of the world are the biosphere's CO 2 cycle safety valve. Trees convert CO 2 into wood. Since a tree will live for centuries, forests can gradually pull the excess CO 2 out of the air. Trees are not only aesthetically pleasing -- they are the cure for our ailing atmosphere.
Is it realistic to halt construction to save trees or ask people to stop using paper? If wood resources cannot hope to meet the demand for lumber, paper and biomass fuels, can any plant be cultivated to meet these needs?
This problem is not new. Civilizations have been exhausting vital resources and dooming themselves for many centuries. Versatility, cleverness and common sense are the hallmark of the ones that survive.
About seventy-five years ago two dedicated USDA scientists projected that at the rate the U.S. was using paper we would deplete the forests in our lifetimes. Those government scientists were endowed with common sense -- something government officials are hopelessly lacking nowadays. So USDA scientists Dewey and Merrill looked for an alternate agricultural resource for paper products l to prevent the disaster we now face.
They found the ideal candidate to be the waste material left in the fields after the hemp harvest. The left over pulp, called hemp hurds, was traditionally burned in the fields when the hemp fiber had been removed after the time consuming retting (partially rotting the hemp stalk to separate the fiber from the hurds) process was completed.
Hemp hurds are richer in cellulose and contain less lignin than wood pulp. Dewey and Merrill found after much experimentation that harsh sulfur acids used to break down the lignin in wood pulp were not necessary when making paper from hemp hurds. Sulfur acid wastes from paper mills are known to be a major source of waterway pollution. The coarse paper they made from hemp hurds was stronger and had greater folding durability than course wood pulp paper. Hemp hurd paper would make better cardboard and paper bag products than wood paper. They found the fine print quality hemp hurd paper to be equal to writing quality wood pulp paper. [ Dewey and Merrill, Bulletin #404, Hemp Hurds As Paper-Making Material, U.S.D.A., Washington, D.C., October 14, 1916.]
The only problem to implementing the paper industry resource change from wood to hemp hurds was machinery to separate hemp fiber from the hurds needed to be developed. Separation was still done by hand after the machine breaks had softened the hemp stalks. The "decorticating" machine that separated the fiber and hurds wasn't developed until the early 1930's. Even Popular Mechanics declared in 1937 that hemp would be a billion dollar a year crop because of this new machinery. And their predictions did not consider hemp's potential as a biomass fuel resource. Unfortunately, hemp was maligned. Its flower tops were condemned as marijuana and subsequently outlawed just when the fiber-hurd separating machinery was perfected.
If America had not been infected with marijuana hysteria, hemp could be solving our energy problems today. When marijuana was outlawed most people did not know "marijuana" was Mexican slang for cannabis hemp. The American people, including doctors who routinely prescribed cannabis extract medicines, thought hemp and marijuana were two different plants. Otherwise hemp prohibition would never have happened.
Eastern Europeans were not subjected to the hysterical anti-marijuana syndrome plaguing the West. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia among others, continued to make clothing from hemp fibers and medicines from hemp flowers. They pressed the versatile and edible oil from the seeds and used the left over high protein seed mash to make breakfast cereal and livestock feed. And they used surplus hemp for building insulation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GREEN ECONOMY based on a hemp multi-industry complex will provide income for farmers in every state. . . . thousands of new products generating tens of thousands of sustainable new jobs.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Currently in the U.S.A. a private firm, Mansion Industries, has pioneered the use of agricultural fibers to make sturdy light weight construction paneling to replace plywood. Mansion Industries uses straw to make their Environcore(TM) panels. Based on Dewey and Merrill test results, if hemp was an available resource, Environcore(TM) construction paneling would be even stronger.
It's not too late to save our environment, but it is absolutely essential that we start now. Restoring the balance to the biosphere's ecosystem will require courage and determination, but not self-denial. We need not give up our comforts or quality of life.
America stands at the cross roads of greatness and decline. The might of weaponry will not sustain us anymore. Our chance to again lead the world will require the same kind of determination we once initiated to convert our peace time economy into war production during the 1940's. But now the "war mentality" won't help. This time we must be innovative and change the very way we produce our energy resources.
Hemp prohibition must end at once in order to inaugurate a nationwide green economy. To save the world that gives us life we must begin immediately to grow our own energy.
Hemp is the only plant capable of becoming the American biomass energy standard. Hemp grows well everywhere on earth except the polar regions. Hemp will out produce wood at a rate greater than four to one per acre in cellulose/pulp. And by analyzing pre-prohibition hemp crop reports from various States, ten tons per acre becomes a reasonable biomass production figure. Hemp will make ten times more biomass per acre than forest wood.
Wood is not a viable fuel resource. The forests are essential to scrub the excess CO 2 from the air. Soft wood forests should not be harvested for paper products or biomass -- their only economic value. Hemp can supply that need. Hardwood trees should be harvested, utilizing sustainable yield ecology, for board and finishing lumber only. Hemp will make pressed board lighter in weight and more durable than plywood.
Hemp can be grown for: crude biomass fuels on energy farms; fiber/hurds for textiles, pressed board and hurd cellulose products; seed for oil and high protein foods; flowers for pharmaceutical grade extract medicine and recreational herbal products for adults.
The Green Economy based on a hemp multi-industry complex will provide income for farmers in every state. Regions for each hemp agricultural industry application will be established through open free market competition. The historical and traditional hemp fiber growing areas in the eastern U.S. will re-emerge creating new jobs in an old industry. The economically devastated northern plains will see a boom as the nation's energy farming states. Medicinal and intoxicant grade hemp will be grown on less productive higher elevation lands. Mountainous areas have traditionally produced intoxicant quality hemp.
Ironically, the hemp medicine and intoxicant industry will generate the least amount of capital, though it is the target of prohibitionist "reefer" propaganda. The hemp seed oil and food resource industries, and the hemp textile and cellulose industries will develop thousands of new products generating tens of thousands of sustainable new jobs. Hemp energy farming will become the backbone of a trillion dollar a year non-polluting energy production industry. And the petroleum corporations need not fear this for their expertise, hardware and manpower are vital to turn the farmers' raw biomass into refined fuels.
These projections represent a tremendous boon to our flagging economy that can be realized as a by-product of saving our world from human induced biocide. If we as a society have the courage and determination to set upon this bold path to planetary restoration, we can, in our life times, leave a healthier world to our children; and a lifestyle based on renewable resources in a balanced ecosystem that our children can leave to their children for generations to come.
Burning fossil fuels is the major cause of the greenhouse effect. The forests of the world can reverse it, if the trees are allowed to grow.
Hemp is a renewable natural resource capable of providing biomass alternatives to fossil fuels. Hemp cellulose and fibers can supply the demand for all products derived from wood.
Renewable resources mean economic growth and stability.
Please copy. Produced as a public service by:
Access Unlimited
P.O. Box 1900
Frazier Park, CA 93225
805/632-2644
A web search for "hemp economy"
The paper is posted: http://www.ratical.org/renewables/greenEcon.html
For more information on how hemp can help us save ourselves please visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org , a private museum with a virtual wing. Read More »
CALL TO ACTION: SUPPORT THE PRO ENVIRONMENTAL TICKET OF OBAMA-BIDEN
On this blog you’ll find many articles on how hemp can remove the excess CO2 from our atmosphere, the cause of global warming. This article deals with one of the effects that could be reversed if we would just stop living by the rules of dead people and remove government restrictions from nature, starting with the hemp plant.
The governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is leading the state that is suing the US Fish & Wildlife Service for their decision to protect polar bears by putting them on the endangered species list.
The new Vice Presidential candidate, with less than two years experience as governor of the state of Alaska, with ties to big oil, Sarah Palin said regarding the matter:
“We believe that the Service’s decision to list the polar bear was not based on the best scientific and commercial data available.”
Yes, her idea of opposing the Bush Administration is to take a stand against the little they are doing for the environment, since it's in the way of big oil.
As Al Gore pointed out years ago in his film An Inconvenient Truth, all honest scientists are saying that global warming is in process, polar bears are dying now from the experience, and the rest of us are in danger too.Below is the link to the press release about how Palin's Alaska’s does not want polar bears on the endangered species list.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/polar-bear-08-05-2008.html
For Immediate Release, August 5, 2008
Contact: Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, (760) 366-2232 x 302 or (951) 961-7972, ksiegel@biologicaldiversity.org Josh Mogerman, NRDC, (312) 780-7424 or (773) 531-5359 Jane Kochersperger, Greenpeace, (202) 319-2493 or (202) 680-3798
Statement of the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, and Natural Resources Defense Council on the State of Alaska's
Lawsuit to Overturn Endangered Species Act Protection for the Polar Bear WASHINGTON— The state of Alaska has filed a lawsuit in federal district court (District of Columbia) challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming.Statement of Kassie Siegel, climate program director at the Center for Biological Diversity, and lead author of the 2005 petition to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act:“The State of Alaska’s challenge to the protection of the polar bear is a lost cause based on discredited, industry-funded attacks on science. This case has no merit, and the Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC, and Greenpeace will be seeking to intervene in the lawsuit and have it dismissed.”Statement of Andrew Wetzler, director, NRDC Endangered Species Project:“The state of Alaska's response is disappointing, but certainly no surprise. They have taken their cues from industry every step of the way.”Statement of Melanie Duchin, global warming campaigner at Greenpeace USA:“Alaska is on the front line of global warming impacts, and the polar bear is our canary in the coal mine. The state's lawsuit isn’t about the science of global warming and polar bears – it is merely doing the bidding of oil companies that want to drill for oil in sensitive polar bear habitat, without any concern for how that oil will impact the climate when it's burned.”# # #The Center for Biological Diversity is a nonprofit conservation organization with more than 180,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places. www.biologicaldiversity.orgGreenpeace is an independent campaigning organization with 2.7 million members worldwide that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions for the future. www.greenpeace.org The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing. www.nrdc.org
Please vote Obama-Biden ’08 www.barackobama.com. Now more than ever, change we can believe in.
For more information on how we can use hemp to save ourselves from the ravages of global warming, visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing. The museum's founder, Richard M. Davis has a great book called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.
Read More »CALL TO ACTION:
CONTACT ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS
TO USE HEMP TO HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF
GLOBAL WARMING AND TOXIC ENERGY.
Hemp 4 Fuel - a roll-in from 'Time 4 Hemp'
(Webeo link above to TIME 4 HEMP'S
intro from BILLION DOLLAR CROP)
Artist Statement From Youtube: Added: October 11, 2006
"This is a segment from the film, 'The Billion Dollar Crop' created by John Birrenbach. It was used as a roll-in on the television series, 'Time 4 Hemp' hosted by Casper Leitch. To find out more about the first television series to ever focus on the topic of marijuana, check out 'Time 4 Hemp' where you can find over 80 free video and 100 free audio downloads. Time 4 Hemp cable access © Casper Leitch - 1991 "
Text of webeo from the show Time4Hemp:
"Fuel. Hemp can also be used for the production of methanol.
According to World War II production rates of hemp per acre, we can produce the equivalent of 10 - 15 barrels of oil from one acre of hemp.
If we use the production rates that are in evidence in countries currently producing hemp, we could produce the equivalents of 20-30 barrels of oil per acre of hemp.
Can we fuel the nation with hemp?
The answer is YES!
According to United States Agricultural statistics, in the United States we have an excess of 950 million acres of farm land.
Of that land we planted in 1987 some 450 million acres.
This leaves some 450 to 500 million acres un-planted.
In order to produce the amount of methanol to fuel all of our transportation needs, we would need to plant some 12-34 million acres of hemp.
This would produce the biomass necessary to fuel our country."
This webeo explains how in 1980's energy needs, we could grow our way out of the energy crisis with hemp using only 34 million acres of unused farmland. If our energy needs quadrupled since then, we're only talking about 136 million acres of farmland to grow enough energy to power our needs. Double 136 and it's still only 272 million acres of farmland to solve our energy and have an impact on our environmental crisis. The aftermarket products that come from this vast resource material can have a positive impact on our economy and health care (life empowerment) systems.
Since hemp is a weed, it can grow in many places, inside and out, to contribute to solving our problems now. We're talking hemp biofuel and biomass to power engines cleanly while removing excess CO2, the cause of global warming, from the air as it grows.
YES, WE CAN DO IT NOW!!! WE JUST NEED TO THROW OFF THE LAWS OF DEAD PEOPLE THAT ARE KILLING US, LIKE HEMP BEING ILLEGAL TO GROW.
Hemp is nature's way to remove the oil from the land and change it into useful items like energy.
Hemp is a biomass champion that is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel.
Hemp energy pellets burn clean as biomass to fuel the nation's electric plants.
Anything toxic energy can do, hemp can do better.
The question is 'How many hemp acres do we need to grow our way out of this energy crisis in modern times?' The next logical question is how much hemp do we need to grow to remove enough CO2 to have a reversal impact on the global warming crisis. Research on the second will be posted shortly in a separate blog entry.
Looking beyond the webeo above, let's get to real world calculations. The film clip from Time4Hemp's webeo from the film the BILLION DOLLAR CROP does not explain if they calculated one or 4 crops per year per acre.
We're looking at different energy reference sites for how much energy do we need as a nation and as a planet, given the reality that we all are one. Below are some research links we're using, and will post others here for consideration.
'How many acres do we need to grow our way out of this energy crisis?'
1. How much energy do we need?
Renewable Energy Consumption http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/renew_energy_consump/table1.html
Just How much energy does America Use http://www.2dtime.com/weblog/C1379175330/E1115191134/index.html
International Energy Outlook 2008 http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/highlights.html
"Total world energy use rises from 462 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2005 to 563 quadrillion Btu in 2015 and then to 695 quadrillion Btu in 2030 (Figure 1). Global energy demand grows despite the sustained high world oil prices that are projected to persist over the long term. "
Annual Energy Outlook 2008 with Projections to 2030 http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/demand.html
Here's some historic numbers of energy use: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/mer/pdf/pages/sec1_3.pdf
2. How many "barrels" "acres" can exceed the nation and the world's projected energy needs?
Of course an effective energy strategy is one that combines clean energies like wind, solar, hydro, magnetic and other biofuels. Working together, we can create a better world for future generations, the real purpose of life.
Tell the politicians, 'we don't need no toxic energy.' Any energy strategy that can hurt us and/or generations ahead should be turned off and replaced with clean, natural and in some cases free energy.
For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing. Richard M. Davis is the museum's founder and curator and he has a book called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which is a great piece on how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Other research pages on hemp energy include:
Hemp Biofuels Room, USA Hemp Museum: http://hempmuseum.org/ROOMS/ARM%20BIO-FUELS.htm
Renewables: http://www.ratical.org/renewables/
Fuel and Fiber: http://fuelandfiber.com/Hemp4NRG/Hemp4NRGRV3.htm
Davis is proposing using the successful WWII Hemp For Victory program and solve the problems of global warming and our growing energy needs. We'll be posting his projections here soon and please share your thoughts on this blog.
Read More »Call to action: Develop a new energy policy that does not include toxic energy. Use hemp biofuel, solar, magnetic, hydro, wind and other clean, non toxic sources of power.
With hemp biofuel as the foundation of a clean energy policy, we can grow our way out of our global warming and energy crisis. A wise energy policy includes non toxic energy, of which there is an abundance.
Hemp can help solve both the energy and environmental crisis we are in. The cause of global warming is too much CO2 in the atmosphere and much of it got there because of how we produce energy. Rather than taking the oil from the soil using natural means like the hemp plant, we've put what looks like rape machines, oil drills, and take as much as we want without consideration of if the earth needs her oil to operate the planet like we need oil for our bodies.
There is a webeo from the early 90's that is posted on Youtube, the link is below that gives the math on how we can grow hemp on unused farm land (not mentioning the government owned unused land) to solve our energy crisis. Since hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows, it will help with the environmental crisis we are in too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPxcLnpgX8w
Hemp 4 Fuel - a roll-in from 'Time 4 Hemp'
Artist Statement From Youtube:
Added: October 11, 2006
"This is a segment from the film, 'The Billion Dollar Crop' created by John Birrenbach. It was used as a roll-in on the television series, 'Time 4 Hemp' hosted by Casper Leitch. To find out more about the first television series to ever focus on the topic of marijuana, check out http://www.Time4Hemp.com where you can find over 80 free video and 100 free audio downloads. Time 4 Hempcable access © Casper Leitch - 1991 "
Text of webeo:
"Fuel. Hemp can also be used for the production of methanol.
According to World War II production rates of hemp per acre, we can produce the equivalent of 10 - 15 barrels of oil from one acre of hemp.
If we use the production rates that are in evidence in countries currently producing hemp, we could produce the equivalents of 20-30 barrels of oil per acre of hemp.
Can we fuel the nation with hemp?
The answer is YES!
According to United States Agricultural statistics, in the United States we have an excess of 950 million acres of farm land.
Of that land we planted in 1987 some 450 million acres.
This leaves some 450 to 500 million acres un-planted.
In order to produce the amount of methanol to fuel all of our transportation needs, we would need to plant some 12-34 million acres of hemp.
This would produce the biomass necessary to fuel our country."
Yes we can use hemp to grow our way out of our energy crisis. Though the piece above was from the early to mid 90's and the size of the nation has grown, we still have enough unused land to grow the hemp needed to both scrub the air of excess CO2 and provide a clean, easily renewable energy source.
Tell the politicians, we don't need no toxic energy. What we need is hemp to solve our energy crisis.
Hemp is nature's way to remove the oil from the land and change it into useful items like energy. Our greed got the best of us and we pulled the oil at a rate faster than natural. The result, global warming.
Hemp is a biomass champion that is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel.
Hemp energy pellets burn clean as biomass to fuel the nation's electric plants.
For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing. Richard M. Davis is the museum's founder and curator and he has a book called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. Read More »
With hemp biofuel as the foundation of a clean energy policy, we can grow our way out of our global warming and energy crisis. A wise energy policy includes non toxic energy, of which there is an abundance.
Hemp can help solve both the energy and environmental crisis we are in. The cause of global warming is too much CO2 in the atmosphere and much of it got there because of how we produce energy. Rather than taking the oil from the soil using natural means like the hemp plant, we've put what looks like rape machines, oil drills, and take as much as we want without consideration of if the earth needs her oil to operate the planet like we need oil for our bodies.
There is a webeo from the early 90's that is posted on Youtube, the link is below that gives the math on how we can grow hemp on unused farm land (not mentioning the government owned unused land) to solve our energy crisis. Since hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows, it will help with the environmental crisis we are in too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPxcLnpgX8w
Hemp 4 Fuel - a roll-in from 'Time 4 Hemp'
Artist Statement From Youtube:
Added: October 11, 2006
"This is a segment from the film, 'The Billion Dollar Crop' created by John Birrenbach. It was used as a roll-in on the television series, 'Time 4 Hemp' hosted by Casper Leitch. To find out more about the first television series to ever focus on the topic of marijuana, check out http://www.Time4Hemp.com where you can find over 80 free video and 100 free audio downloads. Time 4 Hempcable access © Casper Leitch - 1991 "
Text of webeo:
"Fuel. Hemp can also be used for the production of methanol.
According to World War II production rates of hemp per acre, we can produce the equivalent of 10 - 15 barrels of oil from one acre of hemp.
If we use the production rates that are in evidence in countries currently producing hemp, we could produce the equivalents of 20-30 barrels of oil per acre of hemp.
Can we fuel the nation with hemp?
The answer is YES!
According to United States Agricultural statistics, in the United States we have an excess of 950 million acres of farm land.
Of that land we planted in 1987 some 450 million acres.
This leaves some 450 to 500 million acres un-planted.
In order to produce the amount of methanol to fuel all of our transportation needs, we would need to plant some 12-34 million acres of hemp.
This would produce the biomass necessary to fuel our country."
Yes we can use hemp to grow our way out of our energy crisis. Though the piece above was from the early to mid 90's and the size of the nation has grown, we still have enough unused land to grow the hemp needed to both scrub the air of excess CO2 and provide a clean, easily renewable energy source.
Tell the politicians, we don't need no toxic energy. What we need is hemp to solve our energy crisis.
Hemp is nature's way to remove the oil from the land and change it into useful items like energy. Our greed got the best of us and we pulled the oil at a rate faster than natural. The result, global warming.
Hemp is a biomass champion that is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel.
Hemp energy pellets burn clean as biomass to fuel the nation's electric plants.
For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing. Richard M. Davis is the museum's founder and curator and he has a book called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. Read More »
Call To Action:
We've made nature's hemp plant illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment.
The melting ice caps are releasing enough methane gas to burn on top of ice as demonstrated in the three web videos (webeos) below.
FARTING ICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36EoEuKjVg
Methane Gas from Arctic Lakes and NASA Climate Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKIdXXc54LA&feature=related
COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdaR33FqnfU&feature=related
This can't be a good thing.
Hemp does not remove methane gas, but is a biomass champion at scrubbing the air of excess CO2, the cause of global warming, as it grows.
For more information on hemp and global warming I urge you to download the n/c ebook edition of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org.
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf Read More »
We've made nature's hemp plant illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment.
The melting ice caps are releasing enough methane gas to burn on top of ice as demonstrated in the three web videos (webeos) below.
FARTING ICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36EoEuKjVg
Methane Gas from Arctic Lakes and NASA Climate Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKIdXXc54LA&feature=related
COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdaR33FqnfU&feature=related
This can't be a good thing.
Hemp does not remove methane gas, but is a biomass champion at scrubbing the air of excess CO2, the cause of global warming, as it grows.
For more information on hemp and global warming I urge you to download the n/c ebook edition of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org.
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf Read More »
CALL TO ACTION: ASK AL GORE TO INCLUDE THE EFFECTIVE TOOL, HEMP, TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL WARMING.
Vice President Gore, thank you and your crew for your brilliant speech about a 10 year challenge to solve our climate crisis. With a little bit of luck, we can get this done much sooner.
Not once did you mention the amazing hemp plant as part of your solution. It's time to stop pretending not to know that nature's solution to global warming and other problems includes the restoration of her hemp plant.
When the problem is too much CO2 in the air, the solution is to remove the excess CO2. Hemp is a master at removing excess CO2, yet, it's the illegal solution to environmental pollution.
Hemp can help heal our environment, economy and have a positive impact on our health.
WE HAVE MADE NATURE ILLEGAL AND WONDER WHY WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. LET'S LEGALIZE NATURE AGAIN.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our environmental problems, there is a research edition of the book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org . The book is posted http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf Read More »
Vice President Gore, thank you and your crew for your brilliant speech about a 10 year challenge to solve our climate crisis. With a little bit of luck, we can get this done much sooner.
Not once did you mention the amazing hemp plant as part of your solution. It's time to stop pretending not to know that nature's solution to global warming and other problems includes the restoration of her hemp plant.
When the problem is too much CO2 in the air, the solution is to remove the excess CO2. Hemp is a master at removing excess CO2, yet, it's the illegal solution to environmental pollution.
Hemp can help heal our environment, economy and have a positive impact on our health.
WE HAVE MADE NATURE ILLEGAL AND WONDER WHY WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. LET'S LEGALIZE NATURE AGAIN.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our environmental problems, there is a research edition of the book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org . The book is posted http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf Read More »
CALL TO ACTION: FOLLOW WILLIE NELSON'S LEAD AND USE HEMP TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS NOW.
The great American artist Willie Nelson has a project going called A Peaceful Solution. He and his daughter Amy wrote a wonderful song and have made it available for peace activists to use. Jay and Liz are working the project like angels encouraging activists to keep on going despite the illusions of the world.
The Hemp Museum and many others have made many webeos to the tune over the last year. If so inclined, make one of your own and submit it.
This overview of hemp posted below was written by PRI's Jay. He writes about how hemp is not only a global warming solution, but a solution to many of the problems we are solving now. The piece is so strong that it's pasted here and wherever else I can to get the word out.
Jay has deep descriptions of why we are where we are, and how to fix it with hemp, as Willie Nelson has been saying we should do for decades, and is still right in saying so.
The webeo and text are posted on their site:
http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/672/a-peaceful-solution-with-hemp.html
A Peaceful Solution with Hemp
June 15th, 2008 Jay Posted in Appropriate Technology, Arts, Environment, Family Farms, Peace |
Beyond any doubt or debate, hemp can be used in over 25,000 useful and essential products. Some researchers insist upon a much higher number with as many as 50,000 practical uses for hemp.
These products threaten the cartels now making obscene profits with petroleum, textiles and pharmaceuticals. This potential of hemp was the motivation behind the powerful interests that moved to have the plant declared illegal and tried to eradicate hemp from the face of the planet.
After decades of secrecy this truth can no longer be suppressed.
The cartels follow a logic that leads from a simple observation. They observed that the wealth and power of all nations depended upon controlling people and production. All people and production depend upon basic resources.
The cartels sought to control all basic resources. Through the control of all basic resources the cartels sought to control all nations and people.
Monopolies grew around fuel, lumber, textiles, communication and health care then merged into multinational corporations. But control over these basic resources did not cover all the bases.
It was still possible for individuals and communities to live quality lives without using the products of the multinational corporations and hemp served many uses in this alternative lifestyle.
To shut down those outside of their control the hemp plant was criminalized.
Perhaps you are satisfied with the way things are now but many are not. The power of the multinational corporations is exercised with money from their control over basic resources.
The military and police are hired with the money they extract from everyone dependent upon the basic resources they control. Deny them their profits and their power and control vanish.
Now you can understand the true potential of hemp. The true potential of hemp goes far past 50,000 possible products. The true potential of hemp is to neutralize the global control of the multinational corporations over the basic resources of life.
The peaceful resolution, the peaceful revolution and the peaceful solution that can save America and the rest of the world may well pivot around the decriminalization of hemp.
Senator Barack Obama promises to help We The People in our struggle to regain control over our own lives by supporting the decriminalization of hemp. We hope this is more than an election promise to be thrown away after the ballots are cast.
The value of medical marijuana to the California economy cannot be denied. Yet this represents only a single use of the hemp plant.
I doubt if anyone can totally predict the massive changes that the further decriminalization of the hemp plant will instigate. If you just take a little time to begin to think about the implications you can glimpse the truly mind-blowing potential.
Let the forests grow and use hemp for paper and fuel. Eliminate dependency upon petroleum products and the power it puts in the hands of a few. Forestall the lopsided profits that enable the corruption of governments.
Pre-empt the collapse of civilization as we know it by transforming society now with a shift to renewable, sustainable and affordable hemp products. This is a viable option to waging war for vanishing non-renewable resources until the end of all life.
If Senator Barack Obama becomes the next President of the United States of America, then do not let his promises fade away. Insists upon the complete redemption of hemp.
Help the local efforts to decriminalize hemp. Virtually every region and community supports a grass-roots effort to decriminalize hemp. You can support that effort and it may be the most important thing you do for your community.
Out of a field of many issues and interests, one issue alone possesses the ability to transform society all by itself. Society is well overdue for a transformation.
Take Back America.
Vote Back America.
The peaceful solution can save America.
* * * * * Artist's Statement * * * * *
BARACK OBAMA -- A PEACEFUL SOLUTION -- USA HEMP MUSEUM, is a 30 second spot about the senator's courageous stand on hemp, a solution to our problems.
In 2008, a pro-hemp candidate is a winning candidate. Walk through the clouds and pay attention to the issue of hemp legalization if you are not doing so already. In the vast majority of the states where hemp's on the ballot, hemp's won.
Hemp is California's number one cash crop.
It is time for an evolution, the type we're hearing in Senator Obama's call for change, the original call for real change in this campaign.
Senator Obama seems to think things through, like the wars in Iraq and on drugs, both subjects he has taken public stands against.
A Course In Miracles teaches that LEARNING IS CHANGE. The more we learn about how the hemp plant can help us save ourselves, and use that information, the better we are able to accomplish our goals.
This webeo is based on Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute, A PEACEFUL SOLUTION project.
The soulful sound is Willie Nelson, written by him and his daughter Amy for open use in the peace community, for which we are grateful.
This piece is produced by the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator and author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION with Sherwood Akuna and J. Nayer Hardin.
We put up a link to Richard's book at:
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
to be shared with environmental activists interested in hemp.
We've also gone to WeCanSolveIt.org and set up a Hemp For Victory group.
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/group/HempForVictory
Visit and support Sen. Barack Obama and if so inclined, VOTE OBAMA '08 -- A Peaceful Solution to our political turmoil. Read More »
The great American artist Willie Nelson has a project going called A Peaceful Solution. He and his daughter Amy wrote a wonderful song and have made it available for peace activists to use. Jay and Liz are working the project like angels encouraging activists to keep on going despite the illusions of the world.
The Hemp Museum and many others have made many webeos to the tune over the last year. If so inclined, make one of your own and submit it.
This overview of hemp posted below was written by PRI's Jay. He writes about how hemp is not only a global warming solution, but a solution to many of the problems we are solving now. The piece is so strong that it's pasted here and wherever else I can to get the word out.
Jay has deep descriptions of why we are where we are, and how to fix it with hemp, as Willie Nelson has been saying we should do for decades, and is still right in saying so.
The webeo and text are posted on their site:
http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/672/a-peaceful-solution-with-hemp.html
A Peaceful Solution with Hemp
June 15th, 2008 Jay Posted in Appropriate Technology, Arts, Environment, Family Farms, Peace |
Beyond any doubt or debate, hemp can be used in over 25,000 useful and essential products. Some researchers insist upon a much higher number with as many as 50,000 practical uses for hemp.
These products threaten the cartels now making obscene profits with petroleum, textiles and pharmaceuticals. This potential of hemp was the motivation behind the powerful interests that moved to have the plant declared illegal and tried to eradicate hemp from the face of the planet.
After decades of secrecy this truth can no longer be suppressed.
The cartels follow a logic that leads from a simple observation. They observed that the wealth and power of all nations depended upon controlling people and production. All people and production depend upon basic resources.
The cartels sought to control all basic resources. Through the control of all basic resources the cartels sought to control all nations and people.
Monopolies grew around fuel, lumber, textiles, communication and health care then merged into multinational corporations. But control over these basic resources did not cover all the bases.
It was still possible for individuals and communities to live quality lives without using the products of the multinational corporations and hemp served many uses in this alternative lifestyle.
To shut down those outside of their control the hemp plant was criminalized.
Perhaps you are satisfied with the way things are now but many are not. The power of the multinational corporations is exercised with money from their control over basic resources.
The military and police are hired with the money they extract from everyone dependent upon the basic resources they control. Deny them their profits and their power and control vanish.
Now you can understand the true potential of hemp. The true potential of hemp goes far past 50,000 possible products. The true potential of hemp is to neutralize the global control of the multinational corporations over the basic resources of life.
The peaceful resolution, the peaceful revolution and the peaceful solution that can save America and the rest of the world may well pivot around the decriminalization of hemp.
Senator Barack Obama promises to help We The People in our struggle to regain control over our own lives by supporting the decriminalization of hemp. We hope this is more than an election promise to be thrown away after the ballots are cast.
The value of medical marijuana to the California economy cannot be denied. Yet this represents only a single use of the hemp plant.
I doubt if anyone can totally predict the massive changes that the further decriminalization of the hemp plant will instigate. If you just take a little time to begin to think about the implications you can glimpse the truly mind-blowing potential.
Let the forests grow and use hemp for paper and fuel. Eliminate dependency upon petroleum products and the power it puts in the hands of a few. Forestall the lopsided profits that enable the corruption of governments.
Pre-empt the collapse of civilization as we know it by transforming society now with a shift to renewable, sustainable and affordable hemp products. This is a viable option to waging war for vanishing non-renewable resources until the end of all life.
If Senator Barack Obama becomes the next President of the United States of America, then do not let his promises fade away. Insists upon the complete redemption of hemp.
Help the local efforts to decriminalize hemp. Virtually every region and community supports a grass-roots effort to decriminalize hemp. You can support that effort and it may be the most important thing you do for your community.
Out of a field of many issues and interests, one issue alone possesses the ability to transform society all by itself. Society is well overdue for a transformation.
Take Back America.
Vote Back America.
The peaceful solution can save America.
* * * * * Artist's Statement * * * * *
BARACK OBAMA -- A PEACEFUL SOLUTION -- USA HEMP MUSEUM, is a 30 second spot about the senator's courageous stand on hemp, a solution to our problems.
In 2008, a pro-hemp candidate is a winning candidate. Walk through the clouds and pay attention to the issue of hemp legalization if you are not doing so already. In the vast majority of the states where hemp's on the ballot, hemp's won.
Hemp is California's number one cash crop.
It is time for an evolution, the type we're hearing in Senator Obama's call for change, the original call for real change in this campaign.
Senator Obama seems to think things through, like the wars in Iraq and on drugs, both subjects he has taken public stands against.
A Course In Miracles teaches that LEARNING IS CHANGE. The more we learn about how the hemp plant can help us save ourselves, and use that information, the better we are able to accomplish our goals.
This webeo is based on Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute, A PEACEFUL SOLUTION project.
The soulful sound is Willie Nelson, written by him and his daughter Amy for open use in the peace community, for which we are grateful.
This piece is produced by the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator and author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION with Sherwood Akuna and J. Nayer Hardin.
We put up a link to Richard's book at:
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
to be shared with environmental activists interested in hemp.
We've also gone to WeCanSolveIt.org and set up a Hemp For Victory group.
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/group/HempForVictory
Visit and support Sen. Barack Obama and if so inclined, VOTE OBAMA '08 -- A Peaceful Solution to our political turmoil. Read More »
CALL TO ACTION: DEMAND THOSE RUNNING FOR OFFICE STATE WHAT THEY WILL DO TO RESTORE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE REGARDING HEMP.
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Thank you to the State of Vermont for your heroic work regarding hemp legalization and implementing the Will of the People. It's a step in the right direction.
If what we want is effective energy and environmental policies, we should be growing hemp on a large scale now. Hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows and is a clean burning biofuel that is 4 times more efficient than corn. Hemp also aerates soil up to six feet deep, healing deep earth burn areas and restoring farmland.
Vermont is doing its part in stopping global warming with this legislation. Whose next?
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Here's the press release from Vote Hemp in praise of Vermont's new legislation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080701/pl_usnw/vermont_hemp_farming_bill_becomes_law
"Tue Jul 1, 4:01 PM ET
To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Adam Eidinger, +1-202-744-2671, adam@votehemp.com, or Tom Murphy, +1-207-542-4998, tom@votehemp.com, both of Vote Hemp
Controversy Resolved by Opinion of Attorney Generals Office
MONTPELIER, Vt., July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vote Hemp, a grassroots advocacy organization working to give farmers the right to grow non-drug industrial hemp, is extremely pleased that the Vermont Secretary of States office accepted Formal Opinion #2008-1 from the Office of the Attorney General and gave H.267, the Hemp for Vermont bill, the designation of Act No. 212 last Friday. There had been a constitutional controversy as Governor Jim Douglas forwarded H.267 to the Secretary of State intending it to become law without his signature. The bill had overwhelmingly passed both the House (127 to 9) and the Senate (25 to 1). The new law sets up a state-regulated program for farmers to grow non-drug industrial hemp which is used in a wide variety of products, including nutritious foods, cosmetics, body care, clothing, tree-free paper, auto parts, building materials and much more. Learn more about industrial hemp at: www.VoteHemp.com.
Smart and effective grassroots organizing by Vote Hemp and the Vermont-based advocacy group Rural Vermont (www.RuralVermont.org) mobilized farmers and local businesses, many of which pledged to buy their hemp raw materials in-state if they have the opportunity. Rural Vermonts Director Amy Shollenberger says that the Hemp for Vermont bill is another step toward legalizing this important crop for farmers. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't allow this crop to be grown. Looking at the Canadian experience, hemp provides a good return for the farmer. It's a high-yield crop and a great crop to mix in with corn.
Vermont grows an average of 90,000 acres of corn per year, a small amount compared to Midwest states; however, the need for a good rotation crop exists nationwide. From candle makers to dairymen to retailers, Vermont voters strongly support hemp farming. Admittedly a niche market now, hemp is becoming more common in stores and products across the country every day. Over the past ten years, farmers in Canada have grown an average of 16,500 acres of hemp per year, primarily for use in food products. In Vermont, the interest in hemp includes for use in food products, as well as in quality and affordable animal bedding for the states estimated 140,000 cows.
Vermonts federal delegation can now take this law to the U.S. Congress and call for a fix to this problem of farmers missing out on a very useful and profitable crop, comments Eric Steenstra, President of Vote Hemp. North Dakota farmers who want to grow hemp per state law are currently appealing their lawsuit in the federal courts. The real question is whether these hemp-friendly state congressional delegations feel compelled to act, adds Steenstra.
Rural Vermonts Shollenberger states that the Vermont law is significant for two reasons. First, no other state until now has followed North Dakotas lead by creating real-world regulations for farmers to grow industrial hemp. Second, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, as well as a member of the Committee on Agriculture -- both relevant committees that could consider legislation. We also have a friend at the USDA in new Secretary Ed Schaffer who signed North Dakotas hemp bill as Governor. I plan to visit Washington, DC and try to figure out what Congress and the Administration intend to do.
Link source: Vote Hemp" Read More »
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Thank you to the State of Vermont for your heroic work regarding hemp legalization and implementing the Will of the People. It's a step in the right direction.
If what we want is effective energy and environmental policies, we should be growing hemp on a large scale now. Hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows and is a clean burning biofuel that is 4 times more efficient than corn. Hemp also aerates soil up to six feet deep, healing deep earth burn areas and restoring farmland.
Vermont is doing its part in stopping global warming with this legislation. Whose next?
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Here's the press release from Vote Hemp in praise of Vermont's new legislation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080701/pl_usnw/vermont_hemp_farming_bill_becomes_law
"Tue Jul 1, 4:01 PM ET
To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Adam Eidinger, +1-202-744-2671, adam@votehemp.com, or Tom Murphy, +1-207-542-4998, tom@votehemp.com, both of Vote Hemp
Controversy Resolved by Opinion of Attorney Generals Office
MONTPELIER, Vt., July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vote Hemp, a grassroots advocacy organization working to give farmers the right to grow non-drug industrial hemp, is extremely pleased that the Vermont Secretary of States office accepted Formal Opinion #2008-1 from the Office of the Attorney General and gave H.267, the Hemp for Vermont bill, the designation of Act No. 212 last Friday. There had been a constitutional controversy as Governor Jim Douglas forwarded H.267 to the Secretary of State intending it to become law without his signature. The bill had overwhelmingly passed both the House (127 to 9) and the Senate (25 to 1). The new law sets up a state-regulated program for farmers to grow non-drug industrial hemp which is used in a wide variety of products, including nutritious foods, cosmetics, body care, clothing, tree-free paper, auto parts, building materials and much more. Learn more about industrial hemp at: www.VoteHemp.com.
Smart and effective grassroots organizing by Vote Hemp and the Vermont-based advocacy group Rural Vermont (www.RuralVermont.org) mobilized farmers and local businesses, many of which pledged to buy their hemp raw materials in-state if they have the opportunity. Rural Vermonts Director Amy Shollenberger says that the Hemp for Vermont bill is another step toward legalizing this important crop for farmers. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't allow this crop to be grown. Looking at the Canadian experience, hemp provides a good return for the farmer. It's a high-yield crop and a great crop to mix in with corn.
Vermont grows an average of 90,000 acres of corn per year, a small amount compared to Midwest states; however, the need for a good rotation crop exists nationwide. From candle makers to dairymen to retailers, Vermont voters strongly support hemp farming. Admittedly a niche market now, hemp is becoming more common in stores and products across the country every day. Over the past ten years, farmers in Canada have grown an average of 16,500 acres of hemp per year, primarily for use in food products. In Vermont, the interest in hemp includes for use in food products, as well as in quality and affordable animal bedding for the states estimated 140,000 cows.
Vermonts federal delegation can now take this law to the U.S. Congress and call for a fix to this problem of farmers missing out on a very useful and profitable crop, comments Eric Steenstra, President of Vote Hemp. North Dakota farmers who want to grow hemp per state law are currently appealing their lawsuit in the federal courts. The real question is whether these hemp-friendly state congressional delegations feel compelled to act, adds Steenstra.
Rural Vermonts Shollenberger states that the Vermont law is significant for two reasons. First, no other state until now has followed North Dakotas lead by creating real-world regulations for farmers to grow industrial hemp. Second, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, as well as a member of the Committee on Agriculture -- both relevant committees that could consider legislation. We also have a friend at the USDA in new Secretary Ed Schaffer who signed North Dakotas hemp bill as Governor. I plan to visit Washington, DC and try to figure out what Congress and the Administration intend to do.
Link source: Vote Hemp" Read More »
Call To Action: The toxic energy companies keep nature's hemp plant illegal. No wonder we have problems with the environment. If anyone has any ideas to share about how to make hemp, a solution to global warming, legal, please share.
There is a report in the news that says the polar ice caps might melt this year. We know how to solve this problem, but refuse to do it so far.
The problem is we have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. The solution is to dramatically reduce the excess CO2 by both removing the excess and not replacing it. Growing hemp and shifting to hemp biofuel and other clean energies like solar, wind, magnetic and hydro, accomplishes both tasks.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org recommends that we immediately institute the old HEMP FOR VICTORY program and grow hemp on a large, international scale, to remove the cause of global warming, excess CO2, regardless of its source. Many family farmers who lost their land over the last 20 years and would be more than happy to relocate to grow hemp. Hemp is a strong plant that can grow up to 4 crops a year in the right climate or indoors.
Hemp pulls excess CO2 from the air as it grows, is a biomass champion at producing electricity without pollution, and can restore burnt and otherwise damaged soil using its up to six foot deep root system that aerates soil. Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel and can serve as both energy and a food source. Since hemp is wind pollinated, it makes a great backup food source in case the bees don't return.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our problems please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator and author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION www.hempmuseum.org. Read More »
There is a report in the news that says the polar ice caps might melt this year. We know how to solve this problem, but refuse to do it so far.
The problem is we have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. The solution is to dramatically reduce the excess CO2 by both removing the excess and not replacing it. Growing hemp and shifting to hemp biofuel and other clean energies like solar, wind, magnetic and hydro, accomplishes both tasks.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org recommends that we immediately institute the old HEMP FOR VICTORY program and grow hemp on a large, international scale, to remove the cause of global warming, excess CO2, regardless of its source. Many family farmers who lost their land over the last 20 years and would be more than happy to relocate to grow hemp. Hemp is a strong plant that can grow up to 4 crops a year in the right climate or indoors.
Hemp pulls excess CO2 from the air as it grows, is a biomass champion at producing electricity without pollution, and can restore burnt and otherwise damaged soil using its up to six foot deep root system that aerates soil. Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel and can serve as both energy and a food source. Since hemp is wind pollinated, it makes a great backup food source in case the bees don't return.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our problems please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator and author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION www.hempmuseum.org. Read More »
We've made nature, hemp, illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment. I thank God that the phrase 'renewable biofuels' is finally being spoken by folks in leadership with force.
Right now the strategy of using food for fuel is stupid.
Here's the wise next step. Hemp is a biomass champion that is an excellent, non toxic, four times more efficient than corn renewable biofuel. Hemp grows 4 crops a year in the right climate, which can include indoor growing powered by hemp biofuel. Hemp foods can help with the current and future food crisis by providing a delicious, nutritious food source for breads, cakes, butter, salads, snacks, cereals, vegetarian main dishes and cooking oil.
There are 50,000 plus uses for the remaining parts of the hemp plant after excess CO2 removal as it grows and oil for gas to power everything from motor bikes, to rockets, to making electricity.
We must change from toxic to non toxic building materials, which is an aftermarket for the industrial hemp plant. All laws must be altered to allow wholesale hemp growing now. A government coordinated project manager type assistance could use this resource to create family farms of abundance and wealth for all people.
Hemp can help rebuild devastated areas quickly from restoring burnt soil with its up to six foot root system, to being able to pour "hempcrete" (hemp cement) housing for people suffering from a loss of their homes, especially due to global warming and other environmental crisis.
So, when the problem is an excess of CO2, the solution is to remove the excess CO2. Hemp does that like a champ.
When the problem is dislocated populations due to environmental crisis, the solution is to provide non toxic housing that can be quickly constructed with strong, durable hemp products.
When the problem is a shortage of food. The solution is to provide an abundance of food, i.e. hemp foods that can be grown quickly in many climates, including indoors.
Hemp For Victory. Now if we could just find a way to get out leadership to say Hemp Biofuel as a solution. In these times, anything good is possible.
For more information about how to use hemp to help us solve our problems and improve our lives, visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator. Read More »
Right now the strategy of using food for fuel is stupid.
Here's the wise next step. Hemp is a biomass champion that is an excellent, non toxic, four times more efficient than corn renewable biofuel. Hemp grows 4 crops a year in the right climate, which can include indoor growing powered by hemp biofuel. Hemp foods can help with the current and future food crisis by providing a delicious, nutritious food source for breads, cakes, butter, salads, snacks, cereals, vegetarian main dishes and cooking oil.
There are 50,000 plus uses for the remaining parts of the hemp plant after excess CO2 removal as it grows and oil for gas to power everything from motor bikes, to rockets, to making electricity.
We must change from toxic to non toxic building materials, which is an aftermarket for the industrial hemp plant. All laws must be altered to allow wholesale hemp growing now. A government coordinated project manager type assistance could use this resource to create family farms of abundance and wealth for all people.
Hemp can help rebuild devastated areas quickly from restoring burnt soil with its up to six foot root system, to being able to pour "hempcrete" (hemp cement) housing for people suffering from a loss of their homes, especially due to global warming and other environmental crisis.
So, when the problem is an excess of CO2, the solution is to remove the excess CO2. Hemp does that like a champ.
When the problem is dislocated populations due to environmental crisis, the solution is to provide non toxic housing that can be quickly constructed with strong, durable hemp products.
When the problem is a shortage of food. The solution is to provide an abundance of food, i.e. hemp foods that can be grown quickly in many climates, including indoors.
Hemp For Victory. Now if we could just find a way to get out leadership to say Hemp Biofuel as a solution. In these times, anything good is possible.
For more information about how to use hemp to help us solve our problems and improve our lives, visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator. Read More »
Another historic night in the solving of Global warming.
Al Gore announced his support for Barack Obama today, and a tear fell from my eyes.
Senator Obama has proposed solutions that will work. His early sponsorship of an Industrial Hemp act would help pull the excess CO2 from the atmosphere at it grows. For more information on how hemp can help us heal ourselves and our planet visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org.
I urge all environmentalists to support Barack Obama.
He is our best hope for positive, constructive change.
We are the United States of America, and it's our responsibility to work with the rest of the world to make this planet a better, safer and more blessed planet than we've been in the past.
Yes we can!!! Read More »
Al Gore announced his support for Barack Obama today, and a tear fell from my eyes.
Senator Obama has proposed solutions that will work. His early sponsorship of an Industrial Hemp act would help pull the excess CO2 from the atmosphere at it grows. For more information on how hemp can help us heal ourselves and our planet visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org.
I urge all environmentalists to support Barack Obama.
He is our best hope for positive, constructive change.
We are the United States of America, and it's our responsibility to work with the rest of the world to make this planet a better, safer and more blessed planet than we've been in the past.
Yes we can!!! Read More »
Senator John Kerry and Newt Gingrich are having a Virtual Energy Forum today and tomorrow on line at:
www.virtualenergyforum.com
Of course a search for the word hemp at the forum came up wanting. Though they ignore hemp as a solution, they have a lot of main stream alternative energy information up.
It's worth checking out.
Hemp is a biomass champion whose biofuel is 4 times more efficient than corn as energy and does not need toxic chemicals that kill life in the rivers and ocean.
For more information on hemp as alternative energy visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org. The biofuels's room is located at http://www.hempmuseum.org/ROOMS/ARM%20BIO-FUELS.htm
The truth that hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows and burns clean as biofuel can free us from the horrors of global warming and its accompanying woes. Yet those in charge still want to pretend not to know what hemp can do.
We can solve it now. Start with truth. Read More »
www.virtualenergyforum.com
Of course a search for the word hemp at the forum came up wanting. Though they ignore hemp as a solution, they have a lot of main stream alternative energy information up.
It's worth checking out.
Hemp is a biomass champion whose biofuel is 4 times more efficient than corn as energy and does not need toxic chemicals that kill life in the rivers and ocean.
For more information on hemp as alternative energy visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org. The biofuels's room is located at http://www.hempmuseum.org/ROOMS/ARM%20BIO-FUELS.htm
The truth that hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows and burns clean as biofuel can free us from the horrors of global warming and its accompanying woes. Yet those in charge still want to pretend not to know what hemp can do.
We can solve it now. Start with truth. Read More »
Bill Richardson brings some powerful qualifications to the race for sanity in the White house. An Obama/Richardson ticket would open the doors wide to solving the problem of global warming.
Both men have a history of standing for clean alternative energy.
Bill Richardson as Vice President offers a wide range of skills and wisdom.
Richardson's United Nations experience will help him work for World Peace as someone known as a friend.
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/about_bill?id=0007
His energy experience has him deeply prepared to institute an intelligent energy policy based on what's best for the earth.
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/about_bill?id=0008
He has done an outstanding job as governor of New Mexico
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/about_bill?id=0009
Governor Richardson's progressive views on how hemp can help us solve our problems,
http://h4v.blogspot.com/2008/01/presidential-candidate-bill-richardson.html
along with those expressed by Senator Obama
http://h4v.blogspot.com/2008/01/barack-obama-on-hemp-marijuana.html
give us a unique opportunity to use hemp to solve our problems now, an opportunity to throw off the chains of stupidity and focus on what works to remove the excess CO2 from the air, the cause of global warming. It's a simple cause and effect thing.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our problems, visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing.
The museum was founded and is run by Richard M. Davis, a multi decade hempologist who is the author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. The free ebook edition is still posted http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf Read More »
Both men have a history of standing for clean alternative energy.
Bill Richardson as Vice President offers a wide range of skills and wisdom.
Richardson's United Nations experience will help him work for World Peace as someone known as a friend.
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/about_bill?id=0007
His energy experience has him deeply prepared to institute an intelligent energy policy based on what's best for the earth.
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/about_bill?id=0008
He has done an outstanding job as governor of New Mexico
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/about_bill?id=0009
Governor Richardson's progressive views on how hemp can help us solve our problems,
http://h4v.blogspot.com/2008/01/presidential-candidate-bill-richardson.html
along with those expressed by Senator Obama
http://h4v.blogspot.com/2008/01/barack-obama-on-hemp-marijuana.html
give us a unique opportunity to use hemp to solve our problems now, an opportunity to throw off the chains of stupidity and focus on what works to remove the excess CO2 from the air, the cause of global warming. It's a simple cause and effect thing.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our problems, visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing.
The museum was founded and is run by Richard M. Davis, a multi decade hempologist who is the author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. The free ebook edition is still posted http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf Read More »
Though people are trying to save themselves by voting hemp legal, like in presidential elections, the will of the people is not the deciding factor. The state of Vermont pased Industrial Hemp and the governor is not going to stand in the way. The problem is the federal government whose legislated us to death. By making nature illegal, we have the problems of pollution, global warming and other environmental disasters on our hands. We are changing this now and thanks to the great people in Vermont, we are one step closer to saving ourselves. Below is the report from the Associated Press on Vermont's Industrial hemp bill. I am confident that soon folks will realize that medicine, leisure and religion are industries too. http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=8403843 Douglas to allow hemp bill to become law without signing it Associated Press - May 30, 2008 7:15 PM ET MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Gov. Jim Douglas will allow a bill that would remove the state law barring the raising of industrial hemp to become law without his signature. Douglas spokesman Jason Gibbs says the governor regards the bill as "a do-nothing bill" and insignificant, because federal law will continue to prohibit the cultivation of hemp. Hemp is of the same species as marijuana, but comes from a different part of the plant and the plants are cultivated differently. Law enforcement officials had objected to the bill, while backers praised hemp as the source of a food additive, an oil used in beauty products, and fiber used in textiles, building materials and fuel. The governor can allow a bill to become law by forwarding it to the secretary of state without his signature. End Article WCAX by the Associated Press www.ap.org For more information on the many uses for the hemp plant and how it can help us save ourselves,please visit the USA Hemp Museum, Richard M. Davis, founder and curator at www.hempmuseum.org, Read More »
Hemp is a peaceful solution to the problems of global warming and other environmental issues. The great humanitarian, hero, activist, educator and artist Willie Nelson is one of the wisest people in our society. Nelson has a saying about biofuel, NO WAR REQUIRED. His A PEACEFUL SOLUTION project www.willienelsonpri.com is a collection of ideas about how to solve our problems. At the site you'll find many good ideas for solving our problems. Willie Nelson's biofuel company, when it can run on hemp oil from the plant's seeds, can lead the world in our journey to saving ourselves. Willie Nelson and his daughter wrote the song A PEACEFUL SOLUTION THERE'S A PEACEFUL SOLUTION CALLED A PEACE REVOLUTION NOW LET'S TAKE BACK AMERICA THERE'S A WAR AND WE'RE IN IT AND I KNOW WE CAN WIN IT NOW LET'S TAKE BACK AMERICA..... (the full lyrics are posted on their site www.willienelsonpri.com) One step is to change our course now from corn based biofuel to hemp based biofuel. This can be accomplished within a year if we coordinate via a Microsoft Project Manager run out of the Depts. of Agriculture and Energy. Allow family farmers qualified to grow a portion of unused federal land. Crop revenues can not only cover expenses, but create a substantial tax revenue to solve many more social and environmental problems. We can save ourselves. NO WAR REQUIRED. For more information about hemp, visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org Read More »
America should join the hemp evolution to help solve our problems.
Here'a an article we found from the BBC on how folks are growing industrial hemp and loving the experience.
We are hempin' now, as long as the word we means any one of everyone in the universe.
Visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, for more information on how to use hemp to help us solve our problems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7409103.stm
Hemp catching on with NW farmers
Forget potatoes, wheat or barley... hemp is the newest crop gracing the fields of the north west.
Hemp can be used to make building blocks, plaster or insulation
Forget potatoes, wheat or barley... hemp is the newest crop gracing the fields of the north west.
About a dozen farmers in County Londonderry have started to grow the plant - a variety of cannabis - for its non-intoxicating uses.
The material is primarily used in the building industry, but can be found in everything from pharmaceuticals to food.
Robert Moore grows 300 acres of hemp at his farm at Ballougry outside Derry.
"I'm licenced from the department of health and from the police, and before anybody starts coming up to pinch some, you could smoke it from now to Christmas and it wouldn't give you any sort of charge.
"There is no drug value in it all," he said.
Mr Moore said that hemp as a crop has "huge potential".
You could smoke it from now to Christmas and it wouldn't give you any sort of charge
Robert Moore
"You can use the fibre as roof insulation or wall insulation, and it's a very environmentally-friendly product.
"I think there are over 2,000 different uses - I even saw hemp oil when I was at the Balmoral Show last week."
Marcus McCabe is from Hempire Building Materials in Limavady.
His company has spent the last few years experimenting with ways of processing hemp, including mixing it with lime to create plaster.
"We certainly have enough hemp to plaster 4,000 houses between now and next year.
"When we need is to get architects involved, councils involved, even individuals involved.
"Anybody who is building, we need them to think about these sustainable materials," he said.
Derry farmer John Gilliland specialises in sustainable crops.
He said hemp is a great crop for the environment.
"It locks up the carbon dioxide in the hemp itself, so it's a very useful tool to both provide a fibre and help the environment."
Robert Moore is convinced the crop has huge potential.
"I would love to see 3,000 acres of it rather than 300, because it works for us and it has the environmentally-friendly aspect as well," he said.
End Article Read More »
Here'a an article we found from the BBC on how folks are growing industrial hemp and loving the experience.
We are hempin' now, as long as the word we means any one of everyone in the universe.
Visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, for more information on how to use hemp to help us solve our problems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7409103.stm
Hemp catching on with NW farmers
Forget potatoes, wheat or barley... hemp is the newest crop gracing the fields of the north west.
Hemp can be used to make building blocks, plaster or insulation
Forget potatoes, wheat or barley... hemp is the newest crop gracing the fields of the north west.
About a dozen farmers in County Londonderry have started to grow the plant - a variety of cannabis - for its non-intoxicating uses.
The material is primarily used in the building industry, but can be found in everything from pharmaceuticals to food.
Robert Moore grows 300 acres of hemp at his farm at Ballougry outside Derry.
"I'm licenced from the department of health and from the police, and before anybody starts coming up to pinch some, you could smoke it from now to Christmas and it wouldn't give you any sort of charge.
"There is no drug value in it all," he said.
Mr Moore said that hemp as a crop has "huge potential".
You could smoke it from now to Christmas and it wouldn't give you any sort of charge
Robert Moore
"You can use the fibre as roof insulation or wall insulation, and it's a very environmentally-friendly product.
"I think there are over 2,000 different uses - I even saw hemp oil when I was at the Balmoral Show last week."
Marcus McCabe is from Hempire Building Materials in Limavady.
His company has spent the last few years experimenting with ways of processing hemp, including mixing it with lime to create plaster.
"We certainly have enough hemp to plaster 4,000 houses between now and next year.
"When we need is to get architects involved, councils involved, even individuals involved.
"Anybody who is building, we need them to think about these sustainable materials," he said.
Derry farmer John Gilliland specialises in sustainable crops.
He said hemp is a great crop for the environment.
"It locks up the carbon dioxide in the hemp itself, so it's a very useful tool to both provide a fibre and help the environment."
Robert Moore is convinced the crop has huge potential.
"I would love to see 3,000 acres of it rather than 300, because it works for us and it has the environmentally-friendly aspect as well," he said.
End Article Read More »
Al Gore is right. We can solve the problem of global warming.
Hemp can remove the excess CO2 we have in the atmosphere that is at cause for a big part of global warming. We still need to address methane, but hemp can have a powerful impact on removing the excess CO2.
This article is an echo from a great page we found on the We Can Solve It site, with a few thoughts added. The USA Hemp Museum has added a group there called HEMP FOR VICTORY to begin an international conversation on how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming. Please come by and share what you know.
We've made nature illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment. The world has lost it's mind and the planet is telling us it's time to restore sanity.
Hemp is a sane choice to quickly solve the problem of global warming.
Simply stated, when the problem is too much CO2 in the atmosphere, the solution is to remove the excess CO2 to safe levels.
Hemp is a biomass champion that breathes in the excess CO2 as it grows and creates products that improve the quality of life.
In this forum there will be a lot of conversation of using hemp to scrub the air of excess CO2 as it grows. A question may arise about why this is important, with hemp being illegal and all. Why should we change the law to save ourselves?
The Problem as defined on another page on the site We Can Solve It:
"The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now 380 parts-per-million (ppm), 100 ppm higher than at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But we can look back even further. By drilling into the deepest glacial ice we can measure CO2 deep into time. And this ice library shows more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than at any time in last 650,000 years.
"HEMP TO THE RESCUE - WITH A LOT OF HELP FROM HER FRIENDS
The Solution:
We're talking problem solving at the level of cause and effect.
The way to solve the excess CO2 portion of the global warming problem is to restore CO2 to safe levels with wide spread hemp growth, internationally, to remove the excess from the atmosphere.
Let the United Nations coordinate the wide scale growing. In addition to each nation participating, both the UN and nations can receive reasonable by the standards of the public, tax income from the new markets to sustain themselves. We anticipate the hemp trade boom will be a substantially needed boost to the world's economy.
Independently earned funding for the UN should help build the organization's independence in deciding the highest good for all concerned. Toxic energy should be illegal, unnecessary toxic activities stopped now. Shift to hemp biofuel and other non toxic, clean and/or free energy sources like hydro, wind, magnetic, solar, etc. to empower our world and enhance our environment.
For more information on the subject "What Is Global Warming?" visit WECANSOLVEIT.ORG
Thanks to whoever wrote that article. Here's an except:
"What is global warming?
The science behind global warming is often portrayed as enormously complex, but some of it is quite simple. It begins with a ray of light, shot through space from the staggering inferno of our sun. That sunbeam delivers energy to earth, giving us light and warmth and life. As some of this energy radiates back toward space as heat, a portion is absorbed by a delicate balance of heat-trapping (or "greenhouse") gases in the atmosphere that create an insulating layer. Without the temperature control of this greenhouse effect, the Earth's average surface temperature would be 0°F (-18°C), a temperature so low that the Earth would be frozen and could not sustain human life as we know it. The most abundant of the greenhouse gases is water vapor. In addition, there are other powerful greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide.
Each of these is a natural part of the never-ending cycle of life, death, and decomposition on Earth. But since the onset of the Industrial Revolution humans have been pumping out more and more of these and other greenhouse gases. Scientists are clear: human activities are contributing to global warming by adding large amounts of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Our fossil fuel use is the main source of these gases. Every time we drive a car, use electricity from coal-fired power plants, or heat our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the air.
The second most important addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere is related to deforestation, mainly in the tropics, as well as other land-use changes.
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now 380 parts-per-million (ppm), 100 ppm higher than at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But we can look back even further. By drilling into the deepest glacial ice we can measure CO2 deep into time. And this ice library shows more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than at any time in last 650,000 years.
As a result of the build up of gases, the temperature is beginning to rise. Adults today have already felt the average global temperature rise more than a full degree Fahrenheit (0.8°C) during our lifetimes. We expect another degree F by 2020 due to past emissions. Based on modeling by an international body of experts studying the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the temperature could increase by more than 7°F (4°C) by the end of the century in the absence of meaningful efforts to rein in global warming pollution. What happens when the global temperature rises?
For a global system that is delicately balanced, the rise in temperatures will pose serious threats: Rising sea levels, leading to more coastal erosion, flooding during storms, and permanent inundation Increased drought and increased incidence of wildfires Severe stress on many forests, wetlands, alpine regions, and other natural ecosystems Impacts on human health as mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects and rodents spread diseases over larger geographical regions Disruption of agriculture in some parts of the world due to increased temperature, water stress, and sea-level rise in low-lying areas such as Bangladesh or the Mississippi River delta.
Other projected impacts include increased intensity of hurricanes; the long-term destabilization of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, leading to much greater sea level rise; the acidification of the world's oceans; and a vastly increased rate of species extinction. Wonders such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon could collapse under the weight of just a few more degrees. And hundreds of millions of people may be forced from their homelands as the climate shifts, creating increased political and economic instability. "
For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator whose idea to use the old Hemp For Victory program is a smart solution echoed by many. Read More »
We have been legislated to death and unless we take our world back, we won't make it.
Toxic energy, burning food for fuel, various degrees of polluting the environment, they are legal.
There are even ideas that say the rich should be allowed to continue to pollute for a tax/credit system at a high cost if they choose, and only the poor and middle class need to adjust their pollution levels as they get paid for allowing others to pollute.
Like HORTON HEARS A WHO, it's going to take everyone being stewards of our environment to turn this mess around. True success demands we work as one.
By government order, hemp is illegal. Hemp is a biomass champion that scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows, burns clean as biofuel, grows up to 4 crops a year that can be converted into 50,000 plus useful products and services, and has the ability to help restore the economically essential family farm system.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum has a book called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.
(free preview ebook link posted through 5/31/08)
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
In Davis' book, he recommends we use the successful WWII Hemp For Victory program to grow enough hemp to suck the excess CO2, the cause of global warming regardless of the source, from the atmosphere.
Davis explains the who, what, when, where, ware (many websites listed), why and how about applying hemp to help solve the problem of global warming.
Growing hemp on 10-20% of unused federal land would be a good start. Traditional growers can also use existing farm land that has been polluted with decades of toxic fertilizers and grow hemp for a spell.
Hemp's root system grows up to six feet deep and aerates the soil. Hemp is so good at what it does it was reportedly used to clean the soil around Chernobyl.
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/botany/botany_map/articles/article_10.html
Growing hemp indoors in abandoned buildings could help also, turning unused real estate into income producing property, as demonstrated in the great Showtime television series Weeds
http://www.sho.com/weeds
when Conrad grows inside in both commercial and residential buildings.
We must do something now. The failure of congress to pass Ron Paul's Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U0XGGgO9GlQ
was one more death knell in our battle to save ourselves from the results of legal pollution levels and the impact those decisions are having on our world.
We deeply appreciate the efforts of the heroic congress people who at least put the issue on the table again. They are listed in the above Youtube webeo link, a piece the Museum put up in gratitude for their effort.
In case we have not damaged the planet where simple cause and effect cease to work, restoring hemp to nature should do the trick of reducing the excess CO2 at cause for global warming.
But first we must turn away from our stupid energy policy that uses food for fuel, rather than hemp biofuel, which burns four times more efficiently than corn and when in pellet or log forms, can be burned at plants that make electricity or buildings to make heat.
For more information on how hemp is useful for energy, check out another book posted on line for free, HEMP BIOMASS FOR ENERGY by Tim Castleman, Fuel and Fiber Company
http://fuelandfiber.com/Hemp4NRG/Hemp4NRGRV3.htm
We are limited only by our imaginations, which are vast. Read More »
Toxic energy, burning food for fuel, various degrees of polluting the environment, they are legal.
There are even ideas that say the rich should be allowed to continue to pollute for a tax/credit system at a high cost if they choose, and only the poor and middle class need to adjust their pollution levels as they get paid for allowing others to pollute.
Like HORTON HEARS A WHO, it's going to take everyone being stewards of our environment to turn this mess around. True success demands we work as one.
By government order, hemp is illegal. Hemp is a biomass champion that scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows, burns clean as biofuel, grows up to 4 crops a year that can be converted into 50,000 plus useful products and services, and has the ability to help restore the economically essential family farm system.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum has a book called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.
(free preview ebook link posted through 5/31/08)
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
In Davis' book, he recommends we use the successful WWII Hemp For Victory program to grow enough hemp to suck the excess CO2, the cause of global warming regardless of the source, from the atmosphere.
Davis explains the who, what, when, where, ware (many websites listed), why and how about applying hemp to help solve the problem of global warming.
Growing hemp on 10-20% of unused federal land would be a good start. Traditional growers can also use existing farm land that has been polluted with decades of toxic fertilizers and grow hemp for a spell.
Hemp's root system grows up to six feet deep and aerates the soil. Hemp is so good at what it does it was reportedly used to clean the soil around Chernobyl.
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/botany/botany_map/articles/article_10.html
Growing hemp indoors in abandoned buildings could help also, turning unused real estate into income producing property, as demonstrated in the great Showtime television series Weeds
http://www.sho.com/weeds
when Conrad grows inside in both commercial and residential buildings.
We must do something now. The failure of congress to pass Ron Paul's Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U0XGGgO9GlQ
was one more death knell in our battle to save ourselves from the results of legal pollution levels and the impact those decisions are having on our world.
We deeply appreciate the efforts of the heroic congress people who at least put the issue on the table again. They are listed in the above Youtube webeo link, a piece the Museum put up in gratitude for their effort.
In case we have not damaged the planet where simple cause and effect cease to work, restoring hemp to nature should do the trick of reducing the excess CO2 at cause for global warming.
But first we must turn away from our stupid energy policy that uses food for fuel, rather than hemp biofuel, which burns four times more efficiently than corn and when in pellet or log forms, can be burned at plants that make electricity or buildings to make heat.
For more information on how hemp is useful for energy, check out another book posted on line for free, HEMP BIOMASS FOR ENERGY by Tim Castleman, Fuel and Fiber Company
http://fuelandfiber.com/Hemp4NRG/Hemp4NRGRV3.htm
We are limited only by our imaginations, which are vast. Read More »
Like Willie Nelson has taught since the 1950's, hemp is a peaceful solution to many of our problems. www.willienelsonpri.com
The policy of food for energy is stupid and possibly evil, one of those designed to fail moves to keep toxic energy in power.
Hemp (not corn) biofuel is an effective tool that we must start using now to solve the problem of global warming. Hemp is four times more efficient than corn as biofuel.
Hemp is one of the "cellulosic technologies" that those in power are pretending not to know about as we get more talk of safe nuclear, clean coal and evermore expensive oil (use less - spend more) as solutions to our energy problems. They are not. Hemp is an effective solution tool for our energy crisis as an excess CO2 remover, clean burning biofuel, and aerates soil up to six feet deep.
From: Worldwatch Perspective
http://www.enn.com/business/article/36207
"OPINION Biofuels 2.0: It's Time for Congress to Act
Can Biofuels Make or Break Iowa's Future?
Efforts to replace oil with biofuels in the United States are at a critical juncture. Double-digit growth in the production of corn-based ethanol has contributed to a sharp increase in grain and soybean prices while failing to deliver the environmental gains that had been hoped for.
It's time to reduce the incentives for food-based biofuels and accelerate the transition to more sustainable alternatives - the so-called "next-generation" cellulosic technologies, which are expected to become viable in the coming years. "
Earlier this week Congress held hearings on corn based ethanol energy.
What an oxymoron. They made it illegal to grow hemp to be used to remove the cause of global warming, excess CO2, or as clean burning energy. Then they spend money trying to understand why using food for fuel is not a good idea.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5777779.html
"May 13, 2008, 10:48PM
Sow blindness
Farm bill would do little to reduce world hunger and much to aggravate it.
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle - [short quote]
President Bush promises to veto the five-year, $300 billion farm bill before Congress this week. The House and Senate have given him plenty of reasons to do so. The bill is so wrongheaded it's the equivalent of beating swords into plowshares at the outbreak of a war that closely follows a bumper crop.
Even before one gazes upon the merits and demerits of the bill, its cost alone should be seen as prohibitive. With farmers enjoying record high crop prices and income, it is irresponsible to enlarge the federal budget deficit and national debt to pay for crop subsidies."
Congress didn't have to set this up in the first place. Last year's Industrial Hemp Farming Act was lost in committee since 4/20/07. If it had passed, we'd be solving global warming now with large scale hemp growing, like what happened in the old Hemp For Victory program.
Toxic fertilizers are used to grow corn. The Gulf of Mexico has a huge dead zone where the Mississippi dumps in with the toxic run off of the corn fields.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum has a book with an idea of using the old WWII HEMP FOR VICTORY program to solve the problem of global warming. His site is www.hempmuseum.org .
In his book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION he shows how, if we would shift to hemp biofuel, grown by family farmers on unused federal land and large scale burnt areas, we'd be utilizing a biomass champion. Hemp can help solve the problems of global warming and other environmental issues, like water pollution from paper making. The crops available after growth and oil can help heal the housing market with the inexpensive building material Hempstone.
Jack Herer, in his book THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES has a chapter on Energy, Environment and Commerce posted http://www.jackherer.com/chapter09.html
Since hemp is a weed it's easy to grow and modern times have given us good harvest and processing equipment.
Hemp is a wind pollinated plant that can grow up to 4 crops a year. Hemp's large root system aerates soil up to six feet deep, cleaning toxins.
Large amounts of hemp foods can be available on short notice in case the bees don't return, helping avoid starvation dramas.
Hemp is a natural resource material that we can use to boost the economy with small and large business opportunities, restore family farms, and provide many job opportunities.
Given the speed that the ice caps are melting, weather changing, food prices rising, etc., I don't think Mother Earth wants to wait for another election to get started. We need to get hemped now. Please share your ideas on how.
For more information on hemp's possibilities visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org.
Jack Herer's book is posted as web pages, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES is posted at www.jackherer.com .
A book that focuses on hemp and global warming, also posted as a review copy ebook is Richard M. Davis' HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
We must legalize a solution tool to global warming, hemp. As the great writer Peter McWilliams said DO IT! His book DO IT! is also posted on line at http://petermcwilliams.org/mirrors/www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/doit/index9.htm Read More »
The policy of food for energy is stupid and possibly evil, one of those designed to fail moves to keep toxic energy in power.
Hemp (not corn) biofuel is an effective tool that we must start using now to solve the problem of global warming. Hemp is four times more efficient than corn as biofuel.
Hemp is one of the "cellulosic technologies" that those in power are pretending not to know about as we get more talk of safe nuclear, clean coal and evermore expensive oil (use less - spend more) as solutions to our energy problems. They are not. Hemp is an effective solution tool for our energy crisis as an excess CO2 remover, clean burning biofuel, and aerates soil up to six feet deep.
From: Worldwatch Perspective
http://www.enn.com/business/article/36207
"OPINION Biofuels 2.0: It's Time for Congress to Act
Can Biofuels Make or Break Iowa's Future?
Efforts to replace oil with biofuels in the United States are at a critical juncture. Double-digit growth in the production of corn-based ethanol has contributed to a sharp increase in grain and soybean prices while failing to deliver the environmental gains that had been hoped for.
It's time to reduce the incentives for food-based biofuels and accelerate the transition to more sustainable alternatives - the so-called "next-generation" cellulosic technologies, which are expected to become viable in the coming years. "
Earlier this week Congress held hearings on corn based ethanol energy.
What an oxymoron. They made it illegal to grow hemp to be used to remove the cause of global warming, excess CO2, or as clean burning energy. Then they spend money trying to understand why using food for fuel is not a good idea.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5777779.html
"May 13, 2008, 10:48PM
Sow blindness
Farm bill would do little to reduce world hunger and much to aggravate it.
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle - [short quote]
President Bush promises to veto the five-year, $300 billion farm bill before Congress this week. The House and Senate have given him plenty of reasons to do so. The bill is so wrongheaded it's the equivalent of beating swords into plowshares at the outbreak of a war that closely follows a bumper crop.
Even before one gazes upon the merits and demerits of the bill, its cost alone should be seen as prohibitive. With farmers enjoying record high crop prices and income, it is irresponsible to enlarge the federal budget deficit and national debt to pay for crop subsidies."
Congress didn't have to set this up in the first place. Last year's Industrial Hemp Farming Act was lost in committee since 4/20/07. If it had passed, we'd be solving global warming now with large scale hemp growing, like what happened in the old Hemp For Victory program.
Toxic fertilizers are used to grow corn. The Gulf of Mexico has a huge dead zone where the Mississippi dumps in with the toxic run off of the corn fields.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum has a book with an idea of using the old WWII HEMP FOR VICTORY program to solve the problem of global warming. His site is www.hempmuseum.org .
In his book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION he shows how, if we would shift to hemp biofuel, grown by family farmers on unused federal land and large scale burnt areas, we'd be utilizing a biomass champion. Hemp can help solve the problems of global warming and other environmental issues, like water pollution from paper making. The crops available after growth and oil can help heal the housing market with the inexpensive building material Hempstone.
Jack Herer, in his book THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES has a chapter on Energy, Environment and Commerce posted http://www.jackherer.com/chapter09.html
Since hemp is a weed it's easy to grow and modern times have given us good harvest and processing equipment.
Hemp is a wind pollinated plant that can grow up to 4 crops a year. Hemp's large root system aerates soil up to six feet deep, cleaning toxins.
Large amounts of hemp foods can be available on short notice in case the bees don't return, helping avoid starvation dramas.
Hemp is a natural resource material that we can use to boost the economy with small and large business opportunities, restore family farms, and provide many job opportunities.
Given the speed that the ice caps are melting, weather changing, food prices rising, etc., I don't think Mother Earth wants to wait for another election to get started. We need to get hemped now. Please share your ideas on how.
For more information on hemp's possibilities visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org.
Jack Herer's book is posted as web pages, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES is posted at www.jackherer.com .
A book that focuses on hemp and global warming, also posted as a review copy ebook is Richard M. Davis' HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
We must legalize a solution tool to global warming, hemp. As the great writer Peter McWilliams said DO IT! His book DO IT! is also posted on line at http://petermcwilliams.org/mirrors/www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/doit/index9.htm Read More »
Hemp, an effective solution tool for global warming, is illegal.
Does the environmental community have the fortitude to say the truth that hemp can help solve the problem of global warming? I think we do, once folks have the facts.
Richard M. Davis holds a Masters Degree in biology from California State University at Los Angeles and attended the School of Public Health at UCLA for four years under a US Public Health Service Fellowship. Davis is a hempster since the sixties and has collected thousands of hemp related items and articles.
Davis is the founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a massive private museum with a virtual wing located at www.hempmuseum.org .
Davis has agreed to make available an ebook copy of his heroic book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION to activists in an effort to save the earth from destruction, regardless of the cause.
Man made or not, there is too much CO2 in the air and we must lower it now. Hemp is a tool we can use.
Davis' ebook is posted for the month of May '08:
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
In this work Davis proposes we use the successful World War II HEMP FOR VICTORY program to solve the problem of global warming.
If only 10-20% of unused federal land (plus areas where fires have destroyed many trees) were seeded for hemp, the environmental, economic (post harvest business/products/jobs), medical and social benefits would be massive.
In this book he's compiled the information most focused on how hemp removes the excess CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, burns clean as biofuel, and requires no toxic chemicals to grow. You'll see hemp art and activists like the late, great Peter McWilliams. Learn about Presidents Jefferson and Washington as hemp growers. When you finish this book (if not before) you'll understand we have the tools, hemp and human will, to save ourselves.
If you're already a hemp environmentalist, this book is an easy case to pass on for why we should be using hemp now to help solve the problem of global warming both as a plant that breathes in excess CO2 and as clean burning biofuel working in concert with other clean and/or free energies like solar, wind, hydro, magnetic, etc.
We just need the courage to use them instead of toxic energy. The shift could be that simple. Outlaw toxic and replace with clean.
So, back to the original statement. Hemp, an effective solution tool for global warming is illegal. Now what?
HEMP FOR VICTORY Read More »
Does the environmental community have the fortitude to say the truth that hemp can help solve the problem of global warming? I think we do, once folks have the facts.
Richard M. Davis holds a Masters Degree in biology from California State University at Los Angeles and attended the School of Public Health at UCLA for four years under a US Public Health Service Fellowship. Davis is a hempster since the sixties and has collected thousands of hemp related items and articles.
Davis is the founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a massive private museum with a virtual wing located at www.hempmuseum.org .
Davis has agreed to make available an ebook copy of his heroic book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION to activists in an effort to save the earth from destruction, regardless of the cause.
Man made or not, there is too much CO2 in the air and we must lower it now. Hemp is a tool we can use.
Davis' ebook is posted for the month of May '08:
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
In this work Davis proposes we use the successful World War II HEMP FOR VICTORY program to solve the problem of global warming.
If only 10-20% of unused federal land (plus areas where fires have destroyed many trees) were seeded for hemp, the environmental, economic (post harvest business/products/jobs), medical and social benefits would be massive.
In this book he's compiled the information most focused on how hemp removes the excess CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, burns clean as biofuel, and requires no toxic chemicals to grow. You'll see hemp art and activists like the late, great Peter McWilliams. Learn about Presidents Jefferson and Washington as hemp growers. When you finish this book (if not before) you'll understand we have the tools, hemp and human will, to save ourselves.
If you're already a hemp environmentalist, this book is an easy case to pass on for why we should be using hemp now to help solve the problem of global warming both as a plant that breathes in excess CO2 and as clean burning biofuel working in concert with other clean and/or free energies like solar, wind, hydro, magnetic, etc.
We just need the courage to use them instead of toxic energy. The shift could be that simple. Outlaw toxic and replace with clean.
So, back to the original statement. Hemp, an effective solution tool for global warming is illegal. Now what?
HEMP FOR VICTORY Read More »
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