Hempzine | April 2008 | Issue #20 - HEMP, HEMP HOORAY
In this issue:
What's New!
New Products Online |
Community Events
Art Opening and Reception |
Art Opening
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Dilemma in the Marketplace |
What's New! |
New Products Online
Bamboo Socks |
Velvet Groove Pants ON SALE! |
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The Evolution of Sustainable Fashion. Also Shop Online at Shift Natural Fashion |
Community Events |
Art Opening and Reception
Vic West - Hemp & Company, 422 Craigflower Rd, Victoria
Artist - Steve Amsden
Opening Friday, April 4 from 5 to 8 pm. Refreshments will be served. Artist in attendance.
Sustainable Feast
FoodRoots Sustainable Feast
Saturday April 5, 6 PM
BACK AT the Garry Oak Room, Fairfield Community Place, 1330 Fairfield Road, Victoria
Tickets $30 for a four course local meal.
Cash bar features local beer and wine.
Check out our web site for tickets and more information.
*Tickets also sold at H & C and Shift
Shambhala Tickets 2008
Tickets on sale at both Hemp and Company locations.
Check out Shambhala website for more details.
There will be 8500 tickets made available for Shambhala Music Festival Ltd. 2008 on August 6 – 11th at the Salmo River Ranch.
Art Opening |
Artist - Steve Amsden
Vic West - 422 Craigflower Rd, Victoria
throughout April
Vic West - Hemp & Company, 422 Craigflower Rd, Victoria
Artist - Steve Amsden
Steve Amsden, an avid moutain climber for over 50 years, raised his family in the wilds of the Kootenay region of British Columbia until 1990 when moved to the more suburban Vancouver. Between assignments as a Secondary School Science Teacher in northern BC communities, he made his living as a landscape painter. Steve is a 5th generation artist.
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Raft Cove |
Anemone Seed Pods |
Backlit Trees |
Philosophy
A lifetime of hiking the lush valleys and meadows and climbing some of the most magnificent peaks in North America from Southern Washington to Northern British Columiba is represented in most of Steve's work. Influenced by other vanishing landscape artists such as Lawren Harris, Emily Carr and Les Weisbrich, he is driven by colour to produce dramatic, bold imagery befittin the spectacular vistas that very few of us get to gaze upon.
Articles |
Dilemma in the Marketplace?
by Bill Finley
The article, Dilemma in the Marketplace 
, was first written in 2005 to address concerns from clients who, because of Chinese politics, are loath to support Chinese made goods. Hemp & Company in 2008 still strives to source local products and abide by environmental standards.
Since I wrote this article, we have collected names on a petition to the Federal Government asking that our politicians support the building of a factory which to make hemp textiles. Such a factory would aid both Canadian farmers and manufacturers. Victoria MP Denise Savoie has kindly offered to present our petition in the House of Commons in the near future. Sourcing Canadian made textiles would bring our clothing industry closer to home, and alleviate the need to buy our fabrics from China.
I would also like to mention the following local manufacturers of goods which H&C sells.
Body Care Products: The Hempest, HempenStuff, our own H&C soaps, and O'My lubricants are all made in Canada from Canadian grown hemp oil.
Clothing: Hemp & Company shirts, which are 55% hemp and 45% organic cotton, are made in Vancouver, BC
Lillikoi, Devil May Wear, Tola, Nektar, Shiznit and Maha Devi are all young Canadian design studios from the Kootenays, Vancouver, or Victoria who make their clothing locally.
Mountains of the Moon, Sweetgrass and Blue Canoe are US companies who sew their goods in their country.
Efforts and Nomads are both Canadian companies who manufacture their clothing in China, but each have assured us of the ethics available in the process.
Nomads Manufacturing Information.
Efforts manufacturing information.
Zee Spot and L'il Inkers create 100% organic cotton baby and children's clothing which are made in India.
Food: We sell healthy hemp seeds (high in protein and full of essential omega oils) from three Canadian farm sources. Rocky Mountain Grain from Lethbridge Alberta, Manitoba Harvest, and The Good Seed Company which grows Certified Organic hemp seeds in Saskatchewan.
Packaging: Our shopping bags are made in Greater Vancouver of 100% biodegradable plastic which decompose to nothing after two years in a landfill.
Robert Bateman - Not a Pretty Picture
Robert Bateman – Not a Pretty Picture is a moving portrayal of the lengths Canada’s pre-eminent wildlife artist is willing to go to in order to protect our precious coast from the threat of oil spills.
Spurred by recent news of proposed oil pipelines and a supertanker port on the central coast of BC and released just before the 19th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Robert Bateman takes a stand. The two and a half minute video highlights the richness of BC’s coast and gives us a graphic example of exactly what is at stake. Bateman surprises us with a simple yet poignant act to save the coast. “If we allow tanker traffic there is going to be an oil spill. One accident is too many.”
View the video at www.notankers.ca and sign the petition to keep BC’s north coast oil tanker free.
For over 35 years the coastal waters of BC have been protected from oil tanker traffic. This ban on tankers is now under threat. Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in Kitimat by Enbridge are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian governments. But there is still time to save our coast.
Join the successive generations that have kept oil tankers out of BC waters for over thirty years.
In The News
An Environmental Secret
The Toronto Star - Editorial
Whatever you do, don't let the public know about hemp. If farmers worldwide grew hemp instead of corn, we wouldn't be in this mess, and if the public ever found out ...
Hemp, Hemp Hooray!
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
In April, North Dakota became the first state since 1937 to legalize and set production guidelines for growing industrial hemp, despite a longstanding ban ...
IT’SA GRAY AREA: Let’s revitalize the hemp industry!
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
By JAMES P. GRAY “Hemp” is the name that is commonly used for the industrial (non-drug) usage of the cannabis plant, otherwise known as marijuana. ...
Marguerite Kahrl, Homeland Insecurity
Art Cal - NY,USA
Homeland Insecurity is an installation work consisting of three artificial industrial hemp plants with an accompanying soundtrack which refers to the ...
Munchies from milk?
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
Living Harvest buys hemp nuts from Canada because cultivation is illegal in the United States. Industrial hemp is grown legally in 30 countries. ...
UK Hemp & Hydro Expo 2008 Comes Back to London
PR CannaZine (press release) - South Wales,UK
Hemp has been in the news recently as the country's largest producer of industrial hemp, (Hemcore Ltd ) recently announced major expansion plans, ...
The Return of Sail, and Hemp?
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Industrial hemp, with concentrations of THC lower than 0.3 percent, can be grown in Canada and many other countries, but not in the United States. ...
Another salvo in the 'War on Drugs'
Plenty Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Now before you mistake my support of the legalization of hemp as some secret soft spot for pot, don't bother. I don't have one. Industrial-grade hemp has no ...
... and while we're on the topic of green intoxicants
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Unlike petrochemical feedstocks, industrial hemp production offsets carbon dioxide emissions, helping to close the carbon cycle. China, Russia, Hungary and ...
Eco-Living: Spliff competition
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
According to the North American Industrial Hemp Council, "If one tried to ingest enough industrial hemp to get 'a buzz', it would be the equivalent of ...
Hemp manufacturer secures Hong Kong contract
ABC Online - Australia
The company is behind plans to set up Australia's first industrial hemp farm and eventually wants to create hemp paper and packaging. ...
The Fiber of Our Being
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
Industrial hemp typically contains 0.3 percent or less of this active ingredient -- as a result, it has no value as a drug." Comments: There are no comments ...
Author : Vote Hemp
Earthtimes - London,UK
North Dakota is the only state to implement rules for farmers to grow industrial hemp; however, those farmers are still threatened with federal prosecution ...
Glenwood textile company weaves way to success with hemp
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
Hemp, also referred to as industrial hemp, is a low-THC variety of Cannabis that is grown for its seeds and fiber. Hemp is grown legally in just about every ...
Former CIA Director Woolsey weaves case for legalizing hemp
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Today's meeting is expected to draw about three dozen supporters of industrial hemp, including farmers and representatives from Colorado legislators. ...
Hemp: Licensing Bill Passes Minnesota House, Would Require Federal ...
Drug War Chronicle - Washington,DC,USA
A bill that would take Minnesota a step down the path toward the legalization of industrial hemp farming has now passed two House committee votes in two ...
Finding opportunity in environmentalism; Climate change will force ...
St. Catharines Standard - St. Catharines,Ontario,Canada
Bamboo and industrial hemp - Not widely grown here, yet - are easily raised in poor soils with little-to-no fertilizer. Fuel for increased market diversity, ...
Not just another brick in the wall
Northern Rivers Echo - Lismore,New South Wales,Australia
Although industrial hemp is used widely in Europe for building, it has never been commercially viable in Australia until now. She has developed several ways ...
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