When you're making cement it produces a huge amount of carbon um and on the other hand there's hemp which is um it sounds like it's actually better than carbon neutral and i'll let you get into that but from a high level um you know from the time the seeds are planted to when the hemp crete is placed what does that process look like it's it's very simple okay and you know what you said about embodied carbon uh we all know you know uh i think it's 39 of the carbon being put out into the atmosphere hemp cream is in construction and concrete steel and aluminum are the biggest.

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Violators if you will uh cotton also you know is very very uh intense for growing hemp is not so the process that you're asking about jackson is basically as you plant it like you would any other plant and i'm going to talk mainly about industrial lab okay the amount of water that's necessary is minimal compared to other crops especially cotton um pesticides are not you know as prevalent you certainly have to you know be careful of watch for bugs and stuff but um once it's grown and remember in some parts of the world you can grow two crops a year okay but here in vermont you know in the northeast and out in the west you know typically it's going to be one one crop you know that crop once it's processed and taken out to market is going to save millions of trees i mean there's there's so many comparisons of everything from paper to toilet paper to building materials how many trees have to come down.

For a two by four you know we have a reoccurring process every year we're growing more and more um compared to a tree that takes 15 20 30 years to grow so that that's the main part of the sustainability issues as well as it by growing locally you know it's part of of what the goal is of leed certification you know try to get everything local so that its transportation costs are out and and by having you know we need millions of acres let's not fool ourselves we need millions of acres of industrial land to grow and um if you have that many acres you're going to have many processing plants so all all that hemp that is being grown in vermont or in new york state will stay within that state because there will be enough processing processors to handle it to distribute within the borders so every aspect of it jackson you know is just fighting that embodied carbon and then as far as the operational carbon um you know the way that hemp buildings control humidity okay um will reduce hvac needs um you it's very very very slow transition that if it's minus five degrees out you can have inside the house you know a comfortable 65 and it it the transition of the cold or opposite the numbing cream heat you know it takes a very very long time if if ever to go to the outside levels so the operational costs are very very minimal a