{"id":17248,"date":"2016-01-11T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=17248"},"modified":"2016-01-11T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:54:14","slug":"protect-communities-from-increasingly-frequent-high-rainfall-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=17248","title":{"rendered":"Protect Communities From Increasingly Frequent High Rainfall Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THERESA O&#8217;DONOHOE, Convenor of the Climate Change working group of the Environmental Pillar, talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside Today.  She says that the Environmental Pillar is calling on the Government to bring in substantive land use changes to protect communities from increasingly frequent high rainfall events.  The restoration of wetlands, bogs, native woodlands and hedgerows can play a hugely important role in both preventing flooding and dealing with climate change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4746\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4746','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=17248-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 19:51 &#8212; 27.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THERESA O&#8217;DONOHOE, Convenor of the Climate Change working group of the Environmental Pillar, talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside Today. She says that the Environmental Pillar is calling on the Government to bring in substantive land use changes to protect communities from increasingly frequent high rainfall events. The restoration of wetlands, bogs, native woodlands and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4747\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4747','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=17248-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 19:51 &#8212; 27.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[4161,1128,1129,4164,4165,4162,4163],"class_list":["post-17248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-bogs","tag-environment-2","tag-environmental-pillar","tag-flooding","tag-hedgerows","tag-rainfall","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17249,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248\/revisions\/17249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}