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the tween over you. right to come play you going to it is great to have you with us . here is what we have. i mean, indigenous blonds provide women in united with food and income. why more wind turbines might soon be made of route and not still n y c shuck diagnosed to the cost of denmark, but we installed right here in uganda. oh, well me, population goes hunting hunt with a blooming construction sick to and that can take it stored on the environment engine is looking for or the tennessee used to climate demanding materials. and they have come up with some promising ideas. the district dr. pressed and multiply it in a cube, the middle sand and up until 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 materials is long overdue. when you drive through many forest, then the 40, so don't feel that darkness surrounding you. so the problem is that we need to stop fighting bricks to make, to make our house is about a quarter of each week is made us will segment bill and the simon trying to fracturing produces a lot of the youtube. but the into looking brakes are easy to assemble, full, they need less them into the ranking. the ones to the book that comes out is the intel ok. it looks at the top at the sides and the bottom. so by that's we, as where we reduce the amount of st. menches to deal with that structure. and that's where we are reducing the emissions by addressing the segments and the, the amount of cheese, that's all vegetation that would have been cut down to,

to know that to produce a break or to build the house. in uganda. most houses us to be made out of q and 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, the brakes and states could help save a lot of plywood. the homes are still look the same as for the home owners. they also offer other benefits constructing. we've, instead of looking groups enabled us to have our buildings in less than for 2 months. it's 15 our budget and then we also save because of the money that would the views 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 what i 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 good bundle cuz i do under 18. 55. so for one time, when you, within oh, as a production emissions, you find that for one time, you're in meet downloads and 100 kilograms to come by next i to the about how for the it's the engineer has been working with students at martinez, a university income pilot on the new process. volcanic ash is plentiful in uganda,

just like an ordinary segment. there is that the calls for sodium hydroxide, but the mixed it doesn't needs to be heated. so the process uses 5 times less energy than limestone. base 7th result is what's called g, a, pull him up segment. that test tub shows that this product could cut emissions by 80 percent compared to portland segment, which is used around the world. we've been using it and looks building books. and those are done with the absorption, this and this material is up prevent to be better then we're clients and meant the engineer and the aspect share a common goal to help make uganda is construction industry more sustainable. the missouri took the book into our, which was the, it's how they get to work. but to engineers is different actually have this test to innovate and reduce that come windows and emissions as someone who started in the

building profession, i could dig to. and then we made colleagues in engineering were responsible for many of the design. so that 1st it's tough with us. that'd be commendations or big or the specifications or give to our plan. was steven zucker has been using his bricks for several years. my view on a new i have is a, is a starting pilot production, and hope to soon get the green light from local authority to it's amazing how just one good idea. it 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 oxide 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 we dish company moxie has to turn to a traditional construction material. quote, if someone says that i move the built out a full modules which are assembled into a tube section, so we stuck them on top of each other. and in the end, you get a total tower for month fee on the sky limit. man, because you're going to build up to 214 meters. the 1st commercial turbine has already been erected in scott on northeast of golf and burke. it's not quite that tall yet, just 105 meters. the towers made of layered laminated wood vets bent into shape.

and the most, 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 a little more to and still don't go together, would have more to work great together. we protect out house with the code to you on the outside so they can withstand the climate and see or they can move in 2021. the danish company invest us invested in the might be on start 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 lower your mind. for our next report, we stay in contact with you and to head to an island. what a body in denmark, the looks beautiful, but in fact has almost no married life left to need. that is because the water is

in very poor health. the baltic sea, with its stunting 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. and how the fuel 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 with 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. nicholson had hoped to continue fishing off to retirement, to supplement his pension. now taking the boat out is not really worth it anymore. for my that is and then it 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 of the 2 point. oh excuse me. no, no, not enough. in nicholson's mind, 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 and the mentions from lies 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. photo lies is 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 got 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 fertilizers, his plans are 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 and 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 of 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 new beds of new grass, invite your fuel. but the restoration project is complicated. artificial rates being built and muscle fonts created these blue muscles filter dirty water,

which in turn allows mold 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 the 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 all over the baltic. along the coast. the eco system of the inland sea has become disrupted lots and because since these 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 voltage sees entire coast that is certainly a warring situation. we all need to take responsibility for the good of a planet and talking of responsibility. few 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 family, including of course, preparing meals and the fresh produce for those meals often come from the markets, which is great. but in the heat to low fee, it's full quickly. luckily though, there is a very cool solution that has the pot to make the problem a scene of the past. on the outskirts of lagos,

fruits and vegetables that'd be going for the more than $15000000.00 inhabitants of nigeria is largest city. that 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 farms to the customers. that means the harvested vegetables have to be delivered quickly as there was a lack of refrigeration facilities across the country. a large proportion of fresh produce wells before we can be sold. it's something that's frustrated. ramos out loud. okay, ever since you opened up business, 13 years ago the my thought is that we tried to sell new produce before the end of the next day. and when it's very sunny model we call batteries. so it's going to click, let's say, you know, the price drops when it's no longer fresh, but i'm before i sold these for almost 10000 now,

but now i have to sell them for less than 6000 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. mack of somebody that is a found, the biggest food bank that distributes food to those who need it. he says, food waste is increasing. i have written down was talking 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 quarter of volume. if i knew a food that goes to waste, right on one julia is more than several and also about from i don't have that capacity to stuff with for a long funeral differential futures, a lot of food are into open lance. 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 investors. we intend to extend the shift life of this for this form to, to about 20 to one days. so this schedule 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 i cooled entirely using solar energy. customers like trade copy rooms to pay the equivalent of $0.20 a day for us to attract the vegetables to him. it's worth it now. he can charge higher prices for his produce because it stays fresh for much longer. when i do close to one, when they keys, i see and tie in one, i'm not the full. we used to buy small quantities 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 kind of meet the customer's needs. and by simply setting what the us for, from the toner and sort of asking them to come back the next day. and the guy for them is that can you can as you can see it on my side, i thought it did kind to me it. 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 hilde rate and women are re discovering in pictures plants that grew 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,

the plucking the leaves of the twisted branches of g, get trees and the village of dun buddha. there in demand. the women can harvest the leaves all year round, using them to cook or to sell at the market in the nearby town. those in the and that when i've had it in, before we used to go into the bush to customer would double, could sell to buy food. and then one day i went to sing the for a foreigner, all my relatives took me to sahara. so helpful in the neighborhood and told me that the by i do have thoughts, does updates. so i started selling these to them just because there's people out to him left to me with any one by i do a fruits but dental to others. drawing to me, you know, for to women, do we get to harvested market native? well plants came from joseph. gotta be he grew up in the j at long been thinking about the benefits of reviving native trutland trees such as the wild tons of

species. and they used to have hands that they used to eat tons of it only in times of hardship. so when we started working that with them, we started buying their hands. at 1st, they were reluctance, 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 delivered 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 is something that they'd rather not eat themselves. now this started 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 that 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 it nice, vicious,

nice news from it. and that's really is the struck on. so the year after they said that they had very little heads up to sell us. and the reason they said was, that's well basically, now 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 how does that help 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 fruit send me some over 20 local 10 species, which i then used to produce oil jam, spices and pastry. 60 products are now sold around this year, and some of them also exported a net by as up until today, many people thought that these, the students are just local stuff and don't have any particular value. they. so those 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 or national hospital prescribe foods for my show, such as hands up courage which helps diabetics product that you want. so how does that, how foods could 3 close is a popular today instruct uh how 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 put cancer with souls made from home for to tooth. which to new tons of power rich, which did he didn't know either on to do bayport biscuits and basically we thought them a lot of recipes is available. why do i tell them what, what i'm going joseph got. if you learned a lot somebody is no region father. on

a gobby was a young man when he immigrated to initiate with his wife to begin collecting seeds from indigenous plants and re sewing them using a direct feeding method side as to how food successfully we planted 160 local varieties in this way. the farmer's fathered suit, care of the communal dog. oh, the 5 kilometers 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 have god the also teaches at the university of linda. he works together with dr. i do not do the topic of local while sans is also on his curriculum. and it's already been sending students to train with enterprise since 2018 dement decide as to how to read this a her, a saw her food site 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 the arid and semi arid zones here in new jerry's and see me, i need to see when is yet after 10 years of agenda region, gabby's project is flourishing. many small world of farming families and extracts and various local key varieties and how to care for them and not passing the insights onto the 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 and the small seeds have borne fruit. so there is still a lot of work to be done. well, we've learned unload again this week. we hope you've enjoyed the show as much as we did. i m sandra holmes, that we nobody is signing off from complex. right to you got to. and i am chris 11 . see an idea. thanks so much for joining us. and don't forget to head to e co op or go online for more insight to stories and drop off a line at eco dw dot com. so you again, next week the

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