Business Sense | Local is the new global in circular economies

Business Sense | Local is the new global in circular economies

Last week, Chrissy Backman (Backman Building Services) and I presented to the Community Economic Resiliency Consortium (CERC) on the Eureka site of Humboldt County’s first approved hempcrete house finished last year. Can we envision a housing industry that is designed, manufactured, and completely locally built? Can we imagine farming hemp, utilizing locals (e.g., College of the Redwoods), manufacturing facility (Hoopa’s Building Lives by Buildi…