FOR THOSE IN THE HEMP INDUSTRY, FIBER APPEARS ABOUT TO SURGE ON A GLOBAL SCALE. WISCONSIN PAPER AND BATTERY INDUSTRIES COULD BE THE FIRST TO SHOW WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
WHEN a new industry emerges, usually we know about it when the corporate interests come out with PR campaigns. Personal computers, for example. IBM had the money to drive the public narrative, Apple did not. Eventually Microsoft had money and could steer the PC narrative away from IBM, while in the 90s Apple was faltering. Then Steve Jobs came back and started to "Think Different." The money drives the narrative, and the hemp industry does not have a corporate marketing budget. Why? Because it's a plant, a natural resource, not a patented technology, The narrative about hemp for years has been grass roots, or driven by the ignorance of the media, politicians and pot heads about marijuana and CBD. Hemp fiber is what's now emerging, and it's exciting to be part of the story.
Other than corporations, academia is also a big part of the emergence of new industries. But universities follow the money just like everyone else, and there is no Google of hemp providing $100 million for an awesome new building (e.g. Georgia Tech) for research to develop new hemp innovations. There should be, but there is not that kind of money in hemp fiber. It's up to people on the ground, many of whom we know, who stick to it with deep anxiety and patience, the true believers, because hemp fiber is not a myth and, from a spiritual perspective, is actually an amazing gift that might at least offer a straw of hope for sustainable industry and economy.
This blog represents a crossroads of these normally divergent factions of eco-visionaries, engineers, entrepreneurs and now finance, venture capital and banks, who are coming together to increase confidence in hemp fiber.
Now that we have 100% hemp paper in hand, and a million pounds in an upstate New York warehouse, it's time for Wisconsin to take hemp fiber seriously. The Apple Computer motto "Think different" is appropriate, especially now that Wisconsin Battery Company has broken ground in Portage, actually making world history with a new alternative to lithium ion batteries. But unlike FoxConn, there is no corporate PR and discussion of razing a small town (Pleasant Prairie) to supposedly make way for thousands of crap manufacturing jobs to produce mind-numbing TV screens, and then the company backs out. So we keep going with grass roots, and that proves this is real.
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