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Hempcrete provides an increasingly popular, low-carbon option for home building. Discover its unique benefits over traditional building materials.

Friends and enemies in the animal world tend to be pretty clear-cut. But as these unlikely pairs show, even Mother Nature doesn't set things in stone.

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