How to Use Industrial Hemp to Make Concrete

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If we did use industrial hemp, we grew it and it grows a lot in one year because we have ditchweed around where I live and it grows 10 feet tall. Then you chop it down and turn it into concrete. It changes the rules for all sorts of things. Also if you have a value chain that stretches over a large portion of the country,. If you were able to make everything with a relatively simple technology package that is all local. You're actually talking about something that is biomass to start with. To turn it from biomass into something useful is relatively low key. Yes, it changes the architecture. There's a whole lot of these things that we could do.

In this episode, Simon Michaux returns to discuss his new paper “A Resource Balanced Economy”, which outlines an alternative economic and social system. This conversation builds off of his two previous episodes on The Great Simplification, unpacking the ideas and tools that will be helpful in planning for an unknown future with more energy and material constraints. How can we be more intentional about the design of our technology to make products that are longer lasting and easier to reuse? How can we organize society to create resilient communities based around actual human needs, rather than endless efficiency geared towards growth? Can an ‘Arcadian Blueprint’ emerge, and at what scale, and by whom?

About Simon Michaux:

Dr. Simon Michaux is an Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. He has a PhD in mining engineering. Dr. Michaux’s long-term work is on societal transformation toward a circular economy.

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