If Eugene City Council becomes interested in architects leading the edge by designing a lightweight composite hempcrete parking garage and/or City Hall, other city building or even a homeless shelter, I will donate 75,000 air miles* to help an architect fly to The 6th Intl. Hemp Bldg. Symposium in Verona, Italy 10/11-12/16. 

Per organizer Steve Allin, several presentations about projects in quake zones could be relevant. 

(Funny..or synchronistic? trivia: when I sent my letter to RG regarding the idea of building City Hall with hemp July 4th, they removed the question mark from my suggested headline turning it into a declaration! 

Build New City Hall with Hemp (published online 7.5, paper 7.6.16).

Historians and industrial hemp aficionados may want to read _Hemp Husbandry_ that quotes early US farmers including many of our founding fathers (and mothers?) who grew INDUSTRIAL hemp. Could the Anonymous Hemp Farmer from Annapolis be a woman?

* miles on my existing airline account