{"id":31769,"date":"2019-05-14T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=31769"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:20:40","slug":"enviro-13th-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=31769","title":{"rendered":"Enviro: 13th May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fenviro-13th-may-2019%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On this edition of Enviro:<\/p>\n<p>The program outlined briefly some of the main issues associated with the hemp industry in Ireland and<br \/>\nblockages preventing the logical development of the industry if left unimpeded. . Hemp is a unique fibre,<br \/>\nfuel, food, with important medicinal attributes, an important source of food and one of the world\u2019s most<br \/>\nuseful plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Having set out the context within which the participants believed the industry should be looked at and<br \/>\nexamined, the program went on to talk about The hemp industry in Ireland &#8211; The program explained<br \/>\nthe situation with regard hemp industry research projects in Ireland including Research being<br \/>\ncarried out by Liam Donohoe on the potential role of hemp in industrial and c constructional spheres, insulation and hemp concrete. His Research Aims and Objectives include the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Development of Lime Hempcrete as a Standardised Building Material<br \/>\nWhat steps are needed to develop a common building product?<br \/>\nWhat steps are needed to develop hempcrete as a building product?<br \/>\nWhat characteristics do hempcrete have\/how to measure them?<br \/>\nHow can the measurement techniques be standardised?<\/p>\n<p>Kate &amp; Marcus McCabe spoke about their involvement in the history of the industry<br \/>\nand developments such as the growth in market demand, the economic potentials of the<br \/>\nindustry, the barriers to farmers and processors, environmental<br \/>\nand rural development potentials.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Allen spoke about the Founding of the HFI(Hemp Foundation of Ireland), the position of the Irish industry in the context of EU and global markets. the domestic and international policy environment.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Cambell spoke about the hemp company of Dublin, its history and Jim<br \/>\nMacDonald\u2019s support in the development of the industry. She demonstrated a current range<br \/>\nof hemp products and talked about expanding markets, domestic growth and new products such as food, clothing, health, beauty, cosmetics, CBD. she also spoke about barriers facing retailers, The Public demand for CBD and rising interest among younger people in environmentally friendly hemp clothing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Producer Presenter John Haughton, <\/em><em>Panellist: Joe Dunne<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Participants as above and students Gerti and Laura Forest Friends interns<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of Enviro: The program outlined briefly some of the main issues associated with the hemp industry in Ireland and blockages preventing the logical development of the industry if left unimpeded. . Hemp is a unique fibre, fuel, food, with important medicinal attributes, an important source of food and one of the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14324,14326,14311,14323,14325,14322,14318,14321,1283,14327,1456,10486,14312,14320,14319,4412,1723,14317,14316,14310],"class_list":["post-31769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beauty","tag-cbd","tag-chris-allen","tag-clothing","tag-cosmetics","tag-domestic-growth","tag-evelyn-cambell","tag-expanding-markets","tag-food","tag-gerti-and-laura-forest-friends-interns","tag-health","tag-hemp","tag-hemp-industry-in-ireland","tag-hemp-products","tag-jim-macdonald","tag-joe-dunne","tag-john-haughton","tag-kate-marcus-mccabe","tag-lime-hempcrete","tag-marcus-mccabe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31769","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=31769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31777,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31769\/revisions\/31777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}