i asked a little surprised, i was shoving and i'm ready to dive into the hands of gentlemen to you. have you have a one to talk to me before port we've got to the spot and unexpected sides of the roads. that's those had some pretty good ideas and some of them can even help improve people's lives today. welcome to eco africa. i'm chris alarms joining you from lee goes. nigeria. what works best is often a combination of traditional wisdom mixed with cutting h innovations with gold both on stays. still. i m sandra the homes that nobody you

write it in complex, you gunter, it is great to have you with us. here is what we have. i mean that indigenous blinds provide women in united with food and income. why more wind turbines might soon be made of routes and they'll still n y. c shuck, diagnosed the cost of been like well, we start right here in uganda. oh, well me, population goes hunted hunt with the booming construction 6 to and that can take it still on the environment. engine is looking for alternatives to climate demanding materials. and they have come up with some promising ideas. a district dr. pressed and multiply it in a killed the middle sand and a bit of segment and a lot of muscle power and no votes. since there's no killed,

you're going to actually take stephen duco. believe a switch to a tentative construction material is long overdue. when you drive through many forest, then no longer for you, so don't fear that darkness surrounding you. so that problem is that we need to stop fighting bricks to make, to make out how is, is about a quarter of each brick is made out of segment bill and the segments, one of the fracturing produces a lot of c, u 2. but the into looking brakes are easy to assemble, so they need less segment the ranking. the ones to the book that comes out is the intel ok. you to look at the top at the sides and the bottom. so by, that's we, as where we reduce the amount of segments used to be with that structure. and that's where we are reducing the emissions by addressing that segments on the, the amount of cheese that's or vegetation that would have been cut down to,

to, in order to produce a break or to build a house. in uganda, most houses a student made out of killed fired bricks which mostly use firewood. there are thousands of small brick making businesses like these throughout the country. and the ongoing housing shortage means the brakes are in high demand using pressed brakes and states could help save a lot of plywood homes and still look the same as with a home owners. they also offer other benefits constructing. we've, instead of looking groups enabled us to have a lot of buildings in less than or 2 months, it's 15 our budget. and then we also save because of the money that would of use to transport, to my, to yours. the construction industry is a major climate tequila segment. one is lecturing accounts for some 8 percent of

global coupling emissions. that's why engineers us cutting ways to reduce or eliminate segment in brick making, including my view and why have is that she works for echo concrete. a company that's mix simmons using of full kind of cash. traditional segment you've made out of limestone and firing it meets massive amounts of c o 2. when you hit one kilogram of lamps, then you image a bow. it's or 44 percent of it is going dukes, i do a new retain $55.00. so for one ton, when you, within all of the production emissions, you find that for 110, you may download 100 kilograms to come by next to the boat. hopefully it's the engineer has been working with students at martinez a unit above the t income pilot on the new process. volcanic ash is plentiful in

uganda, just like an ordinary segment. the recipe calls for sodium hydroxide, but the mix to doesn't needs to be heated. so the process uses 5 times less energy than limestone base 7th. the result is what's called jew pulled him up segment the test tub shows that this product could capt emissions by 80 percent compared to ports and then segment which is used around the world. one been using it and looks building books and those are done with the absorption this and these materials up prevent to be better then what kinds i meant to engineer on the aspect share a common goal to help make uganda is construction industry more sustainable then missouri took the book into our, which was the, it's how it didn't get to work. but to engineers is different actually have this test to innovate and reduce that. come with news and emissions as someone who's

studied in the building profession architecture. and then we've made colleagues in engineering, we are responsible for many of the design. so that puts it starts with the recommendations it or that specifications or give to our clients was steven duco has been using his bricks for several years. mario new i have is a, is starting pilot production and hope to soon get the green light from looking forward to it's amazing how just one good idea can have such a positive effect on people's lives. and next for pull to stay with the elements and go from water to wind power. we all know wind turbines are great source of clean energy. yes they are, but the actual construction of the still turbines can use a lot of couple in the upside that gold, innovative, and sweet and thinking. what about making them from a different material?

wind power is environmentally friendly, but building the towers isn't the materials have a big carbon footprint, especially when that towers are made of steel as nearly all of them are nowadays. that's why this swedish company moxie has turned to a traditional construction material. what is some of the built out a full modules which are assembled into a tube section to what do you stock them on top of each other? and in the end, you get a total tower for month. fee on the sky is the limit. medical you're going to build up to 214 meters. the 1st commercial turbine is already been erected in scott on the northeast of golf and burke. it's not quite that tall yet, just 105 meters. the towers made of layered laminated woods that's been to the shape of the muscle. i'm assuming what together is much stronger than bolting or

screwing. it must be on says the what is fine sustainably. the 1st commercial tower is equipped with the 2 megawatt turbine. and like steel wood can also with the stand, the harsh conditions of offshore operation in the water and still don't go together, would have more to work right together. so we protect out house with the coach on the outside so they can withstand the climate and see or they can move in 2021. the damage company, best us invested in the might be on scarred up. they also built the turbine in scott off. if the innovative would turbine towers catch on, it could help make wind power even greener solutions like that can really the you mind. for a next report, we stay in contact with you and to head to an island what a body in denmark. the looks beautiful, bought in fox, has almost no marine life left to need. that is because the water is in very poor

health. the, the baltic sea, with its stunning nature, is one of northern us most popular travel destinations. and the coastline along by the field is one of denmark's most expensive residential areas. but it's superficial. beauty is deceptive. he's weekly fishing trips continued to show fish las amigos in how the feud is slowly dying. below the surface, allergies blooming clouding the water and depriving fish and underwater plants the vital life and oxygen. scientists footage shows how the bottom of the fuel it has become nearly devoid of life in waters that once but full of cod flounder and loved fish. it used to be a real fish, as paradise says nicholson. but now there are almost no fish less.

he's been going out to sea for over half a century because then had hoped to continue fishing off to retirement, to supplement his pension. now, taking the boat out is not really worth it anymore. somebody that is a new plan. he makes me both angry and frustrated. nobody is really doing anything special. no it, it seems like those who should be taking action are only trying to shift the blame on the 2 point. oh, excuse me. no, no, no, no, i didn't make a since mine. denmark's farm is to blame. the small country with just under 6000000 inhabitants is home to twice as many cows and pigs. and many farm is used fertilizers on the fields that eventually end up in the sea. fishing on the mountains, finalized only a few kilometers from the field. he says he has already cut the use of nitrates to

the bare minimum. he uses a satellite images to monitor which fields need to be fertilized and which can do without. but he thinks it would be impossible to give up fertilizers altogether. i think it's a good thing that we have reduce the nitrogen, but i don't think we can get any further. i think we are the lowest limit that we can accept as a, from plants need nutrients to grain one grow without them since the pharma and since reducing the use of fertilizes his plan. so already only surviving on what is left in the ground, the mads, she has the christianson is aware of the problem. as a nature manager, he's only saying a project and restoring the ecosystem invite. yes, your, you know, is the hard facts and numbers. at this point, we know for

a fact that the 80 percent of the nutrients emitted to why the fuel it comes from farming. we also have 10 percent today from, from the up in waste water. and maybe 10 percent from from fish farming, but that is the range. and that's uh tell us a little bit about where we need to have the nitrate run off regularly closes out the growth to explode. the balloon covers everything in the field. even killing that you gross due to like the probation that same you grass is one of the most important elements in the ecosystem along the baltic sea coast. it produces oxygen and provide habitat for smaller fish. that's why christianson and his team from the municipality. i've taken to planting you beds of you gross invited your fuel, but the restoration project is complicated. artificial rates are being built and muscle fonts created. these blue muscles filter dirty water,

which in turn allows more light to penetrate deeper fuel gross can return and therefore produce oxygen. but when too many nutrients are flushed into the sea, again, causing the algae to return, the fragile balance is thrown off and the nature manages concerns not restricted to divide. you feud, we have hit this breaking point the, the system has collapsed within the last 56 years. so that's just the beginning. we will see this, this situation is over the baltic. along the coast. the eco system of the inland sea has become disrupted lots and because then sees little other than crowds in the nets. he puts out in the value field of the since they no longer have any natural enemies, they have become a plague. destroying that you gross eating the muscles and killing the young fish.

did code mucus in hopes that everyone in the region would take more responsibility and act to save his fuel . because the problem, denmark is currently looking to solve is already threatening the baltic seas entire coast. that is certainly a warring situation. we all need to take responsibility for the good of a planet and talking of responsibility here in africa it's, we, women will certainly curry and lots of it up to roll. we're still very often the ones who look up to the home and the fun me, including of course, preparing meals and the fresh produce for those meals often come from the markets, which is great, but in the heat, a lot of its full quickly. luckily though, there is a very cool solution that has the pot to make that problem. a scene of the past

on the outskirts of lagos, fruits and vegetables, that'd be gold for the more than 15000000 inhabitants of nigeria largest city. there hasn't been room for that within the city limits for a long time. now wrap it up and growth means it takes long got to get produce from the funds to the customers. that means the harvested vegetables have to be delivered quickly as there was a lack of refrigeration facilities across the country. lots proportion of fresh produce wells. the fluid can be sold. it's something that's frustrated. ramos out loud. okay. ever since you opened up business 13 years ago, this is the time that we try to so you produce before the end of the next day when it's very sunday model because i read. so each one is perfectly clear to say no, the price drops when it's no longer fresh. and i'm before i sold these for almost

10000 now. but now i have to sell them less than 6. so on there. once they've spoiled, we have to, to them out. it's a waste news money. at the same time, many people, the illegals haven't got enough to eat. michael, so the is a found, the biggest food bank that distributes food to those who need it. he says, food waste is increasing a habit and you don't wish to about warner. i need to make you know, grams of foot by year. more than 40 percent of the for the produce is lost across the entire agriculture of value. just the value of food that goes to waste, right? on one is more than several and also about from i don't have that capacity to stuff and for a long fuel sample futures, a lot of food that ends up in launch fuel costs, easy greenhouse gas emissions that affect the climate. there is one solution to the lack of cold storage space. cold tops was developed by my julian starts up financed

by a wide range of international invest that we intend to extend the shift the life of this for this form to, to about 20 to one days. so this cold room has been helping a lot to solve. the problem, of course, have this little face on food with. gold helps now operates in 28 states in nigeria and has over 6000 customers. the walking cold rooms are located next to markets are on farms and cooled and tightly using solar energy. customers like trade, copy rooms to pay the equivalent of $0.20 a day for store trait the vegetables to him. it's worth it now, he can charge higher prices for his produce because it stays fresh for much longer without of course to one when they keys i c, n, k i n one. now, before we used to buy small quantities, the just enough to that show would sell out the same day, okay? cuz then you wouldn't do that, but now do we have the cold room?

i mean, we've been buying a bulk installed in without any problems at any time that kinda can meet the customer's needs. and by simply setting what the us for, for the toner and sort of asking them to come back the next day for them is that can you can because you can see it on my side. but i thought it did kind of see me if that was the it would be so many trait is how is it cold? storage remains a dream home. the shoes like gold, top steel, is very limited, and there's a numerous demand. some 220000000 people living in nigeria. and the population is going faster than almost any other country in africa. we're staying with the topic of food in the next report. in many rural communities and so hill bridge and women are re discovering in fiji. those plans start to grow wild, which will once unimportant parts of the around says those diets in terms of climate change. these have many benefits. the women of scale,

that plucking the leaves off the twisted branches of good trees as a village of dun boot, uh they are in demand. the women can harvest the leaves all year round using them to cook to sell at the market in the nearby town. those in the and that when i bought it in, before we used to go into the bush, the cost would double could sell to buy food. and then one day i went to zing the for from there all my relatives took me to so harass, so helpful in the neighborhood and told me that the by i do have thoughts, does that dates. so i started selling these to them. the plot to him laughed at me with any one, but i do it for me. it's but dental to others. drawing to me, you know, for 2 women do it sooner than those that get to harvested market and native wild plants came from joseph. gotta be, it grew up in a j and a long been thinking about the benefits of reviving native trutland trees,

such as the wild tons of species. and they used to have hands out. they used to eat tons of it only in times of hardships. so when we started working that with them, we started buying their hands at 1st, they were reluctant, they didn't think we were serious, but they realized that we were actually serious. we were actually buying it. and they got involved in harvesting lots of homes and delivering to us. and they became very happy from the extra income they could make. but we weren't quite satisfied because they were harvesting in order to sell us. but they were still considering it something that they'd rather not eat themselves. now this thought to, to change their minds as a social enterprise. so how does to help foods raise as a way that's in local communities about native trees that can provide nutritious leaves fruits and seats. and they've learned to appreciate them. new years ago, we had the special ed training program and we were showing them different recipes, different ways of preparing hands up and making a nice, vicious,

nice news from it. and that really is the struck on. so the year after they said that they had very little homes up to sell us. and the reason they said was, that's well basically, you know, they were eating the hands of themselves. so instead of selling it to us, they'd rather keep it for their own needs. exactly the result he'd wanted. so herself food says with activities in the region says 2014 and these days works with 1500 small farmers and 80 villages because they supplied. there was fruits and meetings from over 20 local 10 species which are then used to produce oil, jam, spices and face street. 60 products are now sold around these. you have some of them. i also export it, but i never have up until today. many people thought that these 2 students are just local stuff and don't have any particular value. they so most about them because they just grow wild in the bush. but now people have begun to understand the

product. so useful. for example, adult to is it sunday and national hospital prescribed foods for my show, such as hands up courage, which helps diabetics kind of guide you to how does that, how foods could 3 causes of popular today instruct uh how well i have booth is showing the women, what they can do with hundreds of fruit. it has a high protein content. the well that's why i was, i would. why do we have taught them a lot of things such as how to cancer we saw was made from home for to tooth, which didn't new tons of power rich, which did you didn't know either on 22 bayport's biscuits and them basically would tell them a lot of recipes, homeless, available. why do i can i'm go what i'm going joseph got if you learned

a lot for me is no region father on a gobby was a young man when he immigrated to initiate with his wife. he began collecting seeds from indigenous plants and re sewing them using a direct feeding method side as to how food successful they. we planted 160 local varieties in this way. the farm was followed suit here, the commune of dog. oh, but in fact allow me to as drums into many of the trees were planted by the farmers themselves. the whole idea of diag sitting is that you can teach it to the farmers and the farmers can teach each other. and um, and then once you get the at the, what we call the v c. economy established, it will have its own momentum. and i would like to inspire people not only here, but all over the world to use their indigenous perennials.

just to have god, you also teach at the university of the into your works together with dr. i do not do the topic of local while sands is also on his curriculum. and it's already been sending students to train with enterprise since 2018 the domain desired us. i had a good the so her, so her food side has become a training ground for our students and was the to deal. it's where they go to learn about the plans that are most often found in average, in semi arid zones here in new charities and see me, i need to see when is yeah. after 10 years and the vendor region, gabby's project is flourishing. many spoke to the farming families on the x that's on various local t variety and how to care for them and not passing the insights onto their children . because i see, you know, a child, well what you from a very young age, right? yeah. my thoughts on the sense that it's with the income from these efforts that

will buy them certain items. so she follows you know, full steps, and that's why from time to time, she feels trees to mean that you still have the regular income. i can feed her family well. she's even being able to build her own house that the small seeds have borne fruit. so there is still a lot of work to be done. well, we blonde and load again this week. we hope you've enjoyed the show as much as we did. i m sandra holmes, that we never knew signing of from complex. right to you got the and i am chris 11 . see an idea. thanks so much for joining us. and don't forget to head to equal oper go online for more insights and stories and drop off a line at ego dw dot com. so you again, next week the

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