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Hemp Bound Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution

Name: Hemp Bound
Author: Doug Fine

Auteur: Doug Fine

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Doug Fine

Engels
Paperback
9781603585439
06 mei 2014
152 pagina's

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Doug Fine

Doug Fine is the author of two previous books, Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man and Farewell, My Subaru (a Boston Globe bestseller). He has reported for The Washington Post, Wired, Salon, High Times, Outside, NPR, and U.S. News & World Report. He currently lives in New Mexico, where he relocated his family to research this book.

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The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United States–even though Betsy Ross wove the nation’s first flag out of hemp fabric, Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence on it, and colonists could pay their taxes with it. But as the prohibition on hemp’s psychoactive cousin winds down, one of humanity’s longest-utilized plants is about to be reincorporated into the American economy. Get ready for the newest billion-dollar industry.

In Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution, bestselling author Doug Fine embarks on a humorous yet rigorous journey to meet the men and women who are testing, researching, and pioneering hemp’s applications for the twenty-first century. From Denver, where Fine hitches a ride in a hemp-powered limo; to Asheville, North Carolina, where carbon-negative hempcrete-insulated houses are sparking a mini housing boom; to Manitoba where he raps his knuckles on the hood of a hemp tractor; and finally to the fields of east Colorado, where practical farmers are looking toward hemp to restore their agricultural economy—Fine learns how eminently possible it is for this misunderstood plant to help us end dependence on fossil fuels, heal farm soils damaged after a century of growing monocultures, and bring even more taxable revenue into the economy than its smokable relative.

Fine’s journey will not only leave you wondering why we ever stopped cultivating this miracle crop, it will fire you up to sow a field of it for yourself, for the nation’s economy, and for the planet.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 mei 2014
Aantal pagina's: 152
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Hoofdauteur: Doug Fine
Hoofduitgeverij: CGRE

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 194 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm
Verpakking lengte: 191 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 238 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Wetenschap & Natuur

Technologie & Bouwkunde

Sociologie

Landbouw & Boerenbedrijf

Biologie

Sociale theorie

Akkerbouw

Planten

Bloemen, Bomen & Planten

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Taal: Engels
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