{"id":24123,"date":"2017-11-07T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24123"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:31:50","slug":"enviro-10th-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24123","title":{"rendered":"Enviro &#8211; 10th November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&#038;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fenviro-10th-november-2017%2F\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe>On this Edition of Enviro the Team discuss<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Hemp<\/u><u> and its uses<\/u><\/strong><u> <\/u>\u00a0The first part of the Enviro program contained an interview with Brian Houlihan\u00a0 who curates the Dublin Hemp Museum located at the Hemp Store 165 Capel Street Dublin. John introduced him and\u00a0 outlined some aspects and issues its history and uses, including:\u00a0 rope making how it has influenced language, the fact that\u00a0 Henry Ford manufactured a \u00a0hemp car in 1941.\n<ul>\n<li>Uses of hemp\u00a0 include \u00a0building construction, clothes, paper, food, medicinal etc.\u00a0 John asked \u00a0why the growing of hemp is restricted.\u00a0 Brian pointed out that \u00a0\u00a0hemp can be grown on any kind of land? \u00a0\u00a0Blockages to the growing of hemp were discussed. John posed the question as to whether hemp could save the rainforests as it was a perfect substitute for wood. Is the fact that hemp leaves look identical to cannabis a problem in its promotion? Is it possible to discuss hemp without discussing cannabis and medical cannabis and its curative powers. Why is cannabis a class one and so the most restrictive class of\u00a0 drug in the US? What has the pharmaceutical industry got to do in the debate about hemp and cannabis? Brian referred to the hemp shop\u2019s \u00a0website, facebook, and blog and referred to some useful videos showing hemp cultivation in parts of Ireland. \u00a0There followed a discussion with Joe Dunne, Robert Navan and Yuta Celemare with regard to \u00a0public awareness of the issues involved and the need for more understanding on the subject \u00a0and the need to counteract \u00a0inaccurate information. Brian is\u00a0 researching the history of hemp in Ireland for future publication and mentioned that he also works \u00a0with some of Ireland&#8217;s current hemp farmers, of which there are 16 at present ,who are \u00a0licensed to grow\u00a0a total of 76.45 hectares (188.9 acres).\n<ul>\n<li>Interview with Tony Lowes Representing the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org\/climate-case\">Friends of the Irish Enviroment<\/a>&#8220;<strong>.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> It was stated that \u201c<u> the March to a sustainable low-carbon economy is now well under way and that <\/u><\/strong>\u00a0regardless of how much progress is made at the COP 23 talks on the subject of climate change in Bonn Germany next week \u00a0a sustainable low-carbon economy is inevitable with or without the US <strong> An organisation called\u00a0 Nation Ireland is active making Ireland as a hub for sustainable business and<\/strong> investment and \u00a0last month signed the \u2018Casablanca Declaration\u2019- an important UN Environmental Program initiative which aligns major financial centres including Dublin as key hubs for green money and investment. The present CO2 levels are at the highest \u00a0since 5 million years ago (World Meteorological Organisation) and in the year 2016 the rate of CO2 emissions was 403 parts per billion, \u00a045% higher than before the Industrial Revolution.\u00a0 The World Meteorological Organisation has pointed out that \u201cthe abrupt changes in the atmosphere in the past 70 years are without precedent\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Tony Lowes pointed out that two weeks ago, the state dismissed a case taken by The Friends of the Irish Environment on the climate impact of a new runaway at Dublin airport. This case raised \u00a0the issue of the \u00a0consequent exponential aviation emissions \u00a0which in the opinion of the Friends of the Irish Environment would seriously exacerbate Ireland\u2019s \u00a0climate conditions. Tony explained the importance of taking legal cases to do with the failures of the authorities to deal with the issues associated with climate change and the government\u2019s failure to implement its own \u2018National Mitigation Plan\u2019. \u00a0Friends of the Irish Environment \u00a0have a campaign to Boycott Farmed Salmon at Christmas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Tony Lowes referred also to the Friends of the Irish Environment\u2019s video on the Irish Climate Case which it\u00a0 recently\u00a0 published and is available on You Tube, and also a video on Donald Trump\u2019s Dunbeg golf course and the issues involved therein . Presenter John Haughton, panellists Joe Dunne and Robert Navan and guest \u00a0Yuta \u00a0Celmare took part in a discussion on the matters and issues involved. Tony referred to his organisation\u2019s \u00a0website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org\/climate-case\"><strong>www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org\/climate-case<\/strong><\/a> and mention was made to some of the recommendations of \u00a0the Citizen\u2019s Assembly which was set up to ascertain public opinion\u00a0\u00a0 on the subject matter under discussion and make recommendations to the Government.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Presenter\/Producer John Haughton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Panellists Joe Dunne, Robert Navan, \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Studio guest: Juta Celmare<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Edition of Enviro the Team discuss Hemp and its uses \u00a0The first part of the Enviro program contained an interview with Brian Houlihan\u00a0 who curates the Dublin Hemp Museum located at the Hemp Store 165 Capel Street Dublin. John introduced him and\u00a0 outlined some aspects and issues its history and uses, including:\u00a0 rope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[8478,8477,4412,1723,8476,5467],"class_list":["post-24123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-friends-of-the-irish-enviroment","tag-hemp-and-its-uses","tag-joe-dunne","tag-john-haughton","tag-juta-celmare","tag-robert-navan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123","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=24123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26587,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123\/revisions\/26587"}],"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=24123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}