{"id":121,"date":"2018-07-27T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/?p=121"},"modified":"2018-07-27T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T10:37:34","slug":"bikes-out-trees-in-hanoi-tackles-air-pollution-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/2018\/07\/27\/bikes-out-trees-in-hanoi-tackles-air-pollution-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes out, trees in: Hanoi tackles air pollution woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-vietnam-pollution\/bikes-out-trees-in-hanoi-tackles-air-pollution-woes-idUSKBN1KD14T\">An article by Mai Nguyen for Reuters<\/a> has highlighted the Vietnamese Government&#8217;s intention to get rid of motorbikes in the city by 2030, and to increase greenery to tackle air pollution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/06\/20180601115728-envi2-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/06\/20180601115728-envi2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/06\/20180601115728-envi2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mai States that &#8220;Pollution is a political risk for Communist-ruled Vietnam, which has witnessed environmental protests to save trees or demonstrate against a steel firm accused of polluting the sea.&#8221; She writes that\u00a0\u201cI usually joke with my friends, the more polluted the air is, the more prosperous I get,\u201d said Cao Xuan Trung, a Hanoi dealer in air purifiers, who expects monthly revenue to double by 2020, from 3 billion dong ($131,199) now, a value that is already 75 times higher than when he started in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Mai Nguyen for Reuters has highlighted the Vietnamese Government&#8217;s intention to get rid of motorbikes in the city by 2030, and to increase greenery to tackle air pollution. Mai States that &#8220;Pollution is a political risk for Communist-ruled Vietnam, which has witnessed environmental protests to save trees or demonstrate against a steel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/2018\/07\/27\/bikes-out-trees-in-hanoi-tackles-air-pollution-woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bikes out, trees in: Hanoi tackles air pollution woes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}