Hemp Lime

Parsons Healthy Materials Lab’s is drawing from its community-based collaborative projects, and working with local women and Winona LaDuke’s Honor the Earth organization to develop new housing on the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota.

Together, we will propose designs for new homes that celebrate the long lives of the women, enhance their current work, build places of sanctuary for themselves, their grandchildren, and future generations on their own land. Instead of being beholden to others, the nation will chart its own future through innovative local construction. The first homes will be constructed of hemp combined with local lime to create new models of sustainable, healthy homes deeply rooted in the local context. We will test new construction systems and propose training programs that will create new local jobs. Through this process we will create models of prototypical housing for the future: healthy homes for all people.

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