However if hemp is good enough to be used throughout the iconic Lotus Elite, there must be something about the material that’s worth looking into.

Lotus Eco-Elise

While the website mentioned in the video has a comprehensive comparison of several beers- right down to alcohol percentage and their impressions of the taste- that we think is worth checking out, none of the beers are hemp-based.

Some purists argue that the traditional recipes for beer have been tried and true for centuries, so they aren’t in need of any updating. Others say that making beer from more novel ingredients like hemp can only make a good thing even better. Here are three hemp-based beers that I’ll be checking out soon before I side with beer purists or beer progressives. I’ll be reporting on these brands, and any others I might come across, as soon as they’re sampled.

• Cool Beer’s Millienium Buzz. (Looks like your average “hockey beer”, so I’ll try it but won’t expect anything special.)
• Hemp Nigata beer- profiled on Beer Advocate,
• Dieu du Ciel’s Fumisterie Hemp Beer.

¿C’est What?’s Hemp Ale almost made the list because it’s brewed by a small Canadian craft brewer, but was vetoed by its Toronto-area-only availability. Another beer geography is keeping me from trying is Adnam’s. Not quite hemp beer (at all), but I think it’s still worth a mention

If anyone has tried these brands, or has any suggestions for me to try, I’ll be checking the forum for your comments.

The hemp industry had a resurgence in the mid 90’s and hasn’t made it fully into the mainstream yet. Most mainstream sources that offer solutions to climate change and the depletion of petroleum resources look elsewhere than hemp.

However, since 1994, Stemergy (www.stemergy.com) has used technology to find ways to use hemp fibers instead of petroleum based fibers in a range of applications. “We are in a new environmental and economic paradigm and renewable materials will continue to replace non-renewable resources in wide ranging applications.” stated company President Geofrey Kime, P.Eng.

Stemology could be one of the Canadian companies that takes advantage of hemp’s many benefits for economic and environmental gain.

first, we want to share an article about how earth day started with a few tips to lessen your environmental impact.

back to our main topic, hemp for food and fuel covers a bit of hemp history and shows a few related videos. for those of you seeking alternatives to animal-tested, chemical-filled skin-care products, beauty tyrant may offer some relief.

finally, this article shows of some pretty clever bags that are part retro, part sci-fi. i can’t count the number of times i’ve wished i’d had a portable power source on my back.

that’s it for today’s earth day link roundup. there’s got to be LOTS more stuff we’ve missed- let us know about some highlights in the forum.

Could North Dakota be on the leading edge of this shift? It looks like some of their farmers could be the ones to bring about some long-overdue change.

Let us know what you think in the forum.

Hemp, like Senator John Edwards, continues to be ignored…

Visit the world-famous Museum of Hemp in Berlin.

Home of the Field Festival held in a hemp field every summer, Craik, Saskatchewan is also getting a hemp factory. The factory CEO is a former head of Adidas North America.