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someone in the good incentive goals such a unique bias of why the number of cobble a bikes on the streets of germany is set to grow and how a phone go. we point should 5, even less the plant inc. king i pulse for full takes us through africa's west coast funding to save that every year gotten a generates a sad green $1100000.00 tons of plastic waste, but only 5 percent of that is collected and recycled. that's a pretty shocking fee. go. well, there is hope, a number of grassroots organizations coming together to see how they can make a difference. let's take a look of the beach clean up is going to be back breaking work similarly and list and future. well, this is a mission with

a difference. these volunteers on from, from beach east of gun as capital across, and not just collecting old waste. this group called plastic punch have a plan this salting, measuring and pencil, looking all the items as a weapon to find back against the scourge. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these cleanups often with volunteers from nearby communities. so when volunteers come around, community members speak to shoes. if you have any issues. if applicant, plastics expect quality plastics. if you are picking up to face you frequently to face this, we are able to separate the reset cloud, both from the non reset levels because we want to the most states and department and see that they can be some value from these things. we're not done. finding them, you know what that weighs, what it weighs, such as a cross call a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps. we're the only a tiny fraction of the cities trash being properly collected and recycled. besides, poisoning the land, the deputies flushed into the ocean,

breaking down into micro plastics, getting into the food chain and destroying the aquatic echo systems. and its from places like cold and i grew up with that a big deal of the trash wash is down to print from beach with plastic punches working as they see the data collection a form of citizen science as a way out of the mess we uh when does between us? hello not the solution for the plastic pollution minutes because this i funding this high side, they'll be more trucks coming in. higher buy stuff, that's a very good activity to collect relevant data. and once we have well situated onto the is to understand what the police on what this for you thing. and also which brian, this which campaign yourself, what you would say by collecting these dates that we are able to understand by analyzing what the surface of this 40 pounds could be. where we on the cell where the surface would be. and that is where we have an attack called direct our

awareness accidents and also solution finding f, 100. the data quite whose team can begin the crucial next phase. helping the local authorities to understand the ways flows and to figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we are able to tell where the waste is coming from and the type of ways that is coming into the show. and then the one is that there is a couple and then the ones that i know we say couple. so this informed as, as the assembly, how to plan for the management of the waste issue. the citizen science is also a key part of a much bigger puzzle. ocean conservation is one of the united nations, 17 sustainable development goals. but efforts to come back moraine plastic pollution had been held back by lack of reliable data from from beach and gun. as

a microcosm of world wide problem, it's been estimated that we have dumped up to 200000000 tons of trash into the sea . most of its indestructible plastic, some estimates say the rate of increase the triple in the coming decades. the human environment programs as the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic. he thinks of groups like plastic bunch done. i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density, according to you what guidelines the data loaded onto a un platform containing the world's largest citizen science data said. and let's the officials of governance, the technical service set again for this very useful then when you're cleaning the, the beach, they also compiling data that would lift policy, make us appreciate the value of the activity one to also

appreciate what we are doing to ourselves in terms of nick for individuals to the extent that one it doesn't think coverage. tar isn't too. um. it's affects aquatic. life being able to present for steam beaches is of course also find sold a gun, a $1000000000.00 tory sector. meanwhile, full citizens, scientists like richmond and kennedy, quite group. the hard work is only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change. no, no, we understand the problem to solve it. so we need so new stance. we need political will. we need investments. 2 it's a waste management system, it's what they need to package and we need lots of how when this we are listening to the science, we are listening to the same and what the results uh given us when we make sense and we need to act now and for us and the citizen sciences have cleaned the stretch of pump from beach and the trash date. so it has been long. their hope is that if

we overly understand what happens to the plastic, we use a discount that we can truly begin to free the oceans of our trash again. well, it seems pretty clear that shifting to clean the fuel is key to toppling pollution . what, how easy, easy to make the seats? one label who's in london, i've demonstrated a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right trees. no local residents proved last. we vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources and in a way that benefits a lot of households. that's was the, the new solar panels. the printer is yeah, i'm assuming the street will be producing its very own power. residents in east london lin much road spends more than 2 years working for this moment and convincing the neighbors to get on board to day. that dream is becoming reality.

the pressure of saying something's going to happen and having that power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing it come to reality is, is kind of a relief. it's joyful. we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels that was go. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult actually to, to even persuade any one of us to henry, poland. done the 80, steam came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street linked into a grid. but some of the roofs are suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households on limits, roads are on board. however, i think across britain there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. you can offer at the direct action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created here. then it kind of floats quite well with the general public. given me economic crisis in the country,

not everyone can afford to sign up. that's why the 2 artists launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a $100000.00 pounds the even spend several weeks during the winter and living on their roof and found it as a crowd fund. wanted to make the streets as the low cost of a story. but it also is a kind of experiment, prototype test pilot thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say that government should support invitations, ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis, we need lots of parts of money which make it really upset the easy for people to get much funding or took it properly subsidized to,

to ton that buildings the houses or the businesses into power stations. honeywell, the home, is that the, even by the way, when i hillary power and then it'll stain of filming the installation of the solar panels, the 1st step on the pump to us, so low road, the neva engine hoops the solar panels will help slusher energy bills the dependents under roof, it's going to be much better for the panels if we can, if they keep going and the chief and i'm, once people say this happened, you know, some of you started it. they were, it is really on the stocks and of course, cheaper bills. so now the, so the power to miss austin la, rarity has that partner a major british energy company. since that pioneer is here in the okay,

we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it pink time. so let's say 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in, is there's about a few 100 different generate to is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this horrible kind of pollution. and of course it's really expensive on sunny days. and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it, plus energy that can be fed into the grades, instead of sorry for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves controls of greed and create that flexibility heavy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. ste. yeah. when the rest of the street see this less, 1020 houses getting the solar panels and i see that you know, that it's, it's

a viable idea and that it's not have, right. and then just a couple of off this coming up with a totally pine. this guy did hopefully, more people want to do it and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved. hilary palin down 8 of the homes. that will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city what's on is power initiative for a next revolt we as thing in europe bought, heading over to germany, where online shopping is a booming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bots in munich, more and more parcels and now being delivered by a bike. this is why the city has set up a logistics hub because a bikes on this week's doing a beat. we find out how it is going the

electric to go bike can transport as much as a small truck. then not only is flexible and a nation free means of transport. they're often actually faster than the delivery trucks. that's woke up many streets in downtown munich, put them in certain ones, the guns. see that given the amount of commercial traffic. and the fact that we see a lot of potential in a switch to sustainable electric cargo bikes. we're making this a key factor in our overall mobility strategy. instead of 5 companies of warehouses in the call, gigabytes, logistics hub, they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into can provide law, small delivery. it says the corporate bikes with, well, how much is that is the subsystem minute we have so the stops that's manageable,

it's all default. our drivers are paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies when they're a $120.00 parcels and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day in the world. korea is kind of actually enjoyed the journey. arkansas and sort of thing is replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes. has major environmental benefit, initial estimates suggested the finds delivery companies alone could save 6 tons of c o 2 per year. and this is just the 1st step of an initiative that goes beyond manic. either cost at the cities have similar projects. we're all still figuring it out. i think it's important that we share our experience and learn the right lessons from it. so we're in discussion with other cities. we'll also work together to consolidate our projects. i look forward on climbing a box to us. we can no end of very different topic blonde till all too often chemicals i used to get the range of diseases and improve use both these kind

of bodily damage to the environment. the alternatives on the age of kenya's only surviving. so people read for us a phone, but we phone a guest, we is being developed in us type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers grow well and can you to well in fact strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crumbs it viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvest as agronomist adult cars can boil, explain if that part of c take, when i know it's kind of caused some damage to a planted pass in, in the fall. as you can see, this move, it is tented by the time you have seen, i've tried the m, i z, the destruction you've already done, because the say the cd on the ground. the parasitic plot attaches itself to the

roots of crops and then extracts nutrients from them at their expense they start to wield while the wheat flourishes. margaret keesa knows the problem all too well, which we regularly decimate her mace and milledgeville for y'all's high ongoing measure to some well, we've been struggling with the problem of which we had for many yes. why weeks on crops, but the yield was a no good school follow? well, we trying to stop it spreading by sweeping. i'm desperate and the animal waste pullman and distributing it in the field, but it doesn't make any difference. we're go go myself and season. i've gone to the whole lake open, i will go forward to so that from this i only have a state one bag of ways that can in the but that doesn't even leave enough for me to rebut them. does the monday it would be michael now but to us and canyon scientists have identified a fungus that kills the parasite. it's highly effective,

even in tiny amounts, such as might fit on a tooth pick. this discovery lead to the toothpick of project dorcas kimball. you manage the projects tooth, pick a company for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills the strike a plot. i don't see within the research on the bile controls and started going into say, i'm looks as far as this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's try. goliad and h was growing to make the mal control technician on is contrary to what we do in this knob is multiply the fung us as much as we can. so that is can 25 to a must that's can solve the form of integrate capacity is for the last 5 years. ken boy has traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product. it costs about 30 year rose to treat a one acre field until now farmers have been uprooting the destructive plot to

prevent its seats from spreading further. because once they're in the soil, they stay there for years. chemical pesticides haven't proved effective and farmers are left with field harvests. that's why the tooth pick project is supported by a number of n g o's focused on food security database. brittany effect of climate change. the i've is one me before it was one me and we a seems dry the also moving event to some width as owns and to also some of course, that region if that these, experiencing a high production, 80 ascending means the food in security also is except it becomes much more kenya, isn't the only country with a strike. a problem. according to the un, 14 african nations are infested with the weed. this makes the project all the more important is successful. it could be introduced in other countries to. so dorcas can, boy, is working with 85 most to help produce more fund going up to them. they can show

acute that's can be produced to add our laboratory, you know, to now, to solve from us. i prove that this event, counties, we all pirating. so that is the reason why we were in gauging village, you know, clump produced stuff and they really never opened had class pretty put the final product production itself is relatively straightforward. the phone goes just needs to grow. 20 key, those of rice are cooked, and a small amount of fungus is added. then left for $3.00 to $5.00 days to incubate the resulting 40 kilos. a fungus enriched rice are enough for one, a couple of crop land. the research has found at that farm as needed to treat the fields for 2 years. that's full crops, owings that was enough to banish the strike. and restore crop yields for small hold is especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves. and we end the program, well we begun the west coast of africa and we to migratory,

bought folk to send a go and a movie. tanya, on the m, is when they click on now for stick to it will visit the lagoon they simona and set a goal on a real natural beauty on their birth conservation area. to see what the protection meshes i've achieved so far, the bank growth part of the simone nature reserve or i haven't touched, was foster rate of species. the lagoons mix of fresh and salt water creates a breakfast environment and a rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's home or it's ad birds of prey. it's a natural paradise but low fishermen on not to have negative effect in the leg into that. but if we're not allowed to fish in

the lagoon, then we don't really have any of the options available. coming in, some fishermen have decided to go out to sea instead of i thought, i think i'm bothering it and the good because then i think i didn't want to do a lot of times they kept something, but there is no in yes, any fish or as in the nature religion, thank you. so it's hard for us now. plus i go like an be more up again. you brian fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the edge of the nature. reserve it during october and november, then not allowed to push. yeah, so the face on and the lagoon kind of recover. so cold eco got make sure the rules are obeyed. they also ensure they are enough arresting places for the areas main bird species such as purchase. but last spring, a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the luxury that they play the probably 2 lagoon used to have a lot of 9 golf course. so, but mangrove would isn't huge to bond,

but it's often thought of as probably what it was, but the people here mainly use it as a full construction of what because they know it's much more to apply to resistance . and then in other words, so there is a lot of do far as a sort of is typical piece of data mit. so that example i can, the way it is and as the man grows disappeared, the fish populations decline to be. the largest bodies shown they put the audio the e called costs have been working here for 10 years. they were employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a live, a lot of a growing number of the shipment have started finding voices to compensate for the period when they're not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors discovering the inspect, texting the bio diversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists or lucky enough the spots in a spring a. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit every month

at the locals with a guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income or not miserable if i'm to open them. you know, 20 percent of the revenue goes to the women who do reforestation work for me and then the 2 communities that live around the lagoon get 10 percent each. another 20 percent goes to the eco gasket. are they all 13 of them? and they come from the villages to help us if you don't remember that this is all very poor song organizations such as bird life international are also active in the nature of the lagoon is facing a range of environmental challenges. elaborately finding menache repair. she lives on the backs of the lagoon. the main threats which i'll climate change related are erosion. and suiting the local us can see what's happening. we conducted studies in

aust, them what they've observed soon. the data i have it on for you on it, the specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger that they consistently presented your call. you may say they've noticed before, that has become sandia and has the highest self conscious send me the results. fabulous. the organization. studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost of these problems push down the d. guess go see when we ask them what, what solutions they would recommend, what practices they've noticed that seem to accelerate the problems and that should therefore be stopped. they themselves said that it's due to intensive fishing and harvesting, show fish in ways that damage the bankruptcy. if the fuzzy did, i thought that and then what's going on is that, you know, cause traditionally a harvested muscles and oysters from the shoreline, st. bankruptcy, damaging them in the process to date. the oysters are cultivated just about the

water line, and so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is not rushing in the symbol of who, but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains of protect area for the time is flown by. i'm afraid we've come to the end of the show for this week. we hope you enjoyed the program before i say good by. i'd like to wish you all a happy only day. enjoy the time with family and friends. see you next time. same you three's merry christmas and puffy, 22 people. thank you so much for the opposite engagement with the problem. we hope to see you soon for now do take care and see you soon. i the the

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