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“H is for Hemp” is a deeply inspiring compilation that captures the contemporary culture of industrial hemp in all of its richness. Through stunning pictures and compelling stories of the innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists and other dreamers leading the modern hemp revolution, photographer and climate impact storyteller Maren Krings illuminates the potential of this miraculous plant to drive economic development while at the same time addressing the critical mission to clean up our planet.
A book to inspire
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happens. The next steps involves the combing, which also brings the loose fibres back into one long flock, which is rolled into artistic circles, enraptured in bins for transportation to the next building within the facto-ry. Everywhere you can find water sprinklers in the air, which keep the air moist and the fine dusty particles from the hemp fibre from flying everywhere.
Now the fibre needs to undergo another process on vibration machines, which do the pre-work to combing the fibre and also helping to loosen it up for full drying. This again is done by hand mostly from women. The sharp metal arms, which vibrate to loosen the fibre can’t be underestimated in strength and thus it is a very demanding work to not get hurt in the process. Now the dried and precombed hemp fibre is packed up to be transported into the next hall of the factory, where the end process of combing and producing the yarn
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The Story
“Through my camera lens, I see our changing climate. Along the way, I also meet unusual suspects who come up with equally unusual solutions, making me reconsider my view on the world, and rethink and help others get rid of all the misconceptions that I, too, once had about hemp.
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A CIRCULAR ECONOMY BASED ON HEMP IN THE ALPINE REGIONS?
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This groundbreaking book lays down a mile marker in the renewal of industrial hemp as a global agricultural crop and this single plant’s promise to change heavily polluting industries while providing healthy goods and products that enrich our lives. “H is for Hemp” is sure to go down as a classic tome in the environmental and hemp genres, enjoy wide distribution both inside and outside the hemp industries, and have a timeless shelf life.
A timeless historical record
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The Story
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“This shift in the labour market needs a just and socially acceptable transition for those who now hold jobs in carbon-intensive and polluting industries.
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As the foundational work for a broader, innovative interactive media project that also includes exhibitions, a film, and audio installations, “H is for Hemp” is an opportunity to underscore your company’s commitment to our industry and to the environment in a lasting way.
Commitment to the environment
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Schönthaler Building materials Company. Eyres, South Tyrol, Italy
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“Now, more than 200 photography projects later, with over 80 interviews with industry experts, and having traveled through 26 countries on four continents, I have a clearer picture on the worldwide rediscovery of hemp and its industrial uses. My own lifestyle and ecological footprint have also changed as a result.
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The different stages of thicknesses of the fibre in the many different steps of combing and making it into the final yarn for weaving at the end of the process which is done here in the factory.
Shanxi Province, Yarn spinning company, China
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Publisher: Maren Krings
Debut: Leipzig Book Fair, March 17-20, 2022 Publication date: April 2022
Printing: Digital printing on Hahnemühle Hemp digital printing paper, the world’s first hybrid printing paper made from hemp fibers, specially designed for high-speed inkjet, analogue offset and other flexible digital printing systems
Specifications: 21 x 15 x 6 cm; 500+ pages; Soft cover (from 280gsm hemp paper) with a belly band
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Dölsach, East Tyrol, Austria
Hemp fields are slowly reintroduced into the agricultural environment of the Alps. Tyrol, as many of the Alpine rural regions is a rather con-servative location. Agricultural practice and animal farming are based on long traditions, which have been adapted to fit the alpine region. The belief that things need to be done the same way they were always done, is predominant. 80 years of hemp prohibition has erased the knowledge about this plant being part of the alpine lifestyle from the minds of people and it is only the very aged people that still remember how they had special houses for the women to break the hemp and flax stems and extract the fibre, as well as how winters were spend in the only heated room of the farm in community and mostly the women were operating the spinning wheels to make hep and flax yarn, while the men were operating the looms to weave cloth. Yet, reintegrating hemp into the alpine regions today bears a big potential for green agriculture, soil health, future building material and the start of circular economies.
Dölsach, East Tyrol, Austria
