play god. and certainly if you can cast trust said the sheik you are right knowledge and share if we could. all move the source of in so far in this magnificent nonstate a chronicle of the revolution and its aspirations through the prism of its architecture cuba's unfinished spaces on al-jazeera. but. since the industrial revolution human sources of polluting gases have been growing . because machines food production construction these and more all contribute to the high concentrations of pollutants

in the atmosphere including carbon and other greenhouse gases which are the biggest drivers of climate change. with our choices people can make to help drive emissions down. a muscle read in denmark to mirror community and very thing in their own green society and i'm going to trigger within india where a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more and my mentee a friend. green energy is total is future if we want to stop global warming but pledging a commitment to renewable energy is one thing and doing it is another. just over there on the horizon it sounds so they are officially one hundred percent renewable that will figure all of the energy for you all source it's going to go with the

community i think. i've heard that the system the islanders have set up this sort of fission that it produces more power than they need not only does this enable them to be carbon negative but also to make a profit by selling energy to the danish mainland. i meeting soren hermanson who heads up to some suit energy an environmental organization. saw and finally did and i learned the rest of the year russell yaks with the sea with the clear for their. electric car. accident. he's taken me on a private tour of the island. so when they say it's one hundred percent renewable i mean is that true like one hundred percent i mean we still have some fossil fuel consumption. tractors are driving we have combustion engine cars also still we export about eighty thousand megawatt hours every year while you know that's

incredible. there are four thousand people on the island over the past twenty years they've moved from a reliance on fossil fuels to wind solar and biomass technologies. from window loan they produce enough energy for themselves and the usage of twenty thousand other homes. so why why was it and why here are some so. that the beginning of it was very interesting because it was a top. around decision we had a very ambitious minister of the environment and he announced that then mike would cut down twenty one percent of the of the presidency which were mission once was really interesting because i was the first person that was hired to do this project i remember the feeling that i was sitting down and having the office and i plugged in the telephone and the cost of an hour we consider. the

community here have come a long way and now boast a carbon footprint of negative twelve tons per person per year to get into this state was an easy. people were concerned about the impact of all these big and installations on this little island and to convince people that this was good. we started thinking about using the old corporates of ownership model where people can buy and they buy a share. biggest depending on how much money they have and thereby invite them to participate in the ownership so that you feel that i'm part owner of the winter bunch so therefore is it because for me it's there. is no if you get so close to these things. imposing i place it no spinning all this one is there's a service on it. and you know you can really you want to go yes.

right. you are. in the bowels of a battleship and what they don't tell you when you're on the ground this is the series a little bit this is a little bit. and you know your fifteen years have been there. and then or. where they are. ok that's. ok. oh my. god.

i mean look. the team are about to check the generator. look when speed. limits the interest of ok. oh my goodness sake. ah look at that this is that's the energy right generated so you get. there up here i'm claiming it's my fair advice. and this is a. victory for your nice. daughter and five hundred thirty nine. out. when parents particularly productive on some suv because of its location in the cat to get straight their living turbines on land and more and see producing only

islands electricity. oh my goodness. thank you think. but when the project started in one thousand nine hundred seven turbines cost more than one million dollars each so four hundred locals got together most buying five shares costing about two thousand dollars. so it's taking me to meet some of the investors who are. out. i'm sorry so nice to me just to sort of you can you give us a sense i'm just going on here this is big tournaments this is you know how this season starts. there's a month of only the ok so the little red bull is a page to try to get as close as possible come on what. you've. done. for the competition so you know i. i oh

you know. i'm russell can you give us a sense of how the community. have responded to this shift to one hundred percent renewable or really tricked me was the fact that people who didn't really speak to each other before got two girls or. ensues talk to each other and to have a you know or have a common goal. oh what brought you to the island did it have something to do with the whole kind of one hundred percent renewables is that something you're proud of definitely super proud that's great is it your son. russell and so how do you fit in with this kind of energy landscape that we've been learning but i have been. involved and i have spent a lot of money also the first that was going to bank on you know on my farm and

everybody could see that. and so have things progress. and so tree is delayed by a half wind turbines undersea so you know to say the world this is this is business of course it is. strikes me. the everyone here has their own reasons for buying into the project. and ultimately their investment is good for the planet as it is for their wallets. but is their willingness to collaborate on a common goal lead to some ingenious solutions. come to the local biomass heating plant find out more this is no way spectator oh this is the fuel. this plan is one of three on the island only straw here's produced locally and fuels

a heating system. to spend forty percent less on the bills and they used to. modernise loading on these bales of hay each one is about just less than a tonne so they're going on to a conveyor belt at the end and they're getting dragged in and in here they're getting stranded up and then fed into a blast furnace. so i can you tell us is it efficient. out of the indeed or do you really. i mean i think. green but first i'm sure grouping in presumptious it is a little more. standard and. we do have a shortage of high but even cuter make one it will reappear. when the worse it is that that. water is surrounded yeah. the water heated

here circulates via a network of underground pipes connecting to radiate is in individual homes in the surrounding area opposite to this with the by putting this ice. free for a sense. our stuff. for the micronutrients and apply. need to survive maisie it's really a much more efficient system than is practically carbon neutral as well because the emissions that are created on burning are about the same as the emissions as the carbon is sucked out the atmosphere when it grows in the first place so it's a pretty neat system. so i lynn success in creating not only a green society but a green economy hasn't been lost on the rest of the world. and these days they receive five thousand and eighty two is per year so many that they set up.

and so what is the big idea that draws people from all over the world. i think everybody has some kind of intuition that this is the way to go this is where we want to be in the future but a lot of places they don't know how to handle this how do we do that how do we how do we get started in the meaning here is kind of confirming that this is possible we can do this. since the project started soren and his colleagues have advice twenty nine countries. alexis to project managers invited me to sit in on a call to a community organizer in hawaii. and i asked what's the most important thing that you can. communicating with the residents here and some so i think the most important thing. is inspiration support and. that is the future. and that's all we're doing here so that's the idea

to help communities realize their potential and their options and. life. i mean it's really quite simple when you think about it you know these guys don't have access to something that the rest of us don't. it's just the fact that they've managed to get everybody together sit down in a circle listen to each other just make it happen. around the world the red vital regions like oceans and dense forests where the earth naturally absorbs and stores carbon. but many of these are under threat drastically reducing the amount of c o two they can sequester. forest for example

being lost due to logging land clearances and pollution an area around half the size of england vanishes each year. in southern quebec such as the monitoring the woodlands to learn how forest destruction is impacting carbon storage so trees through photosynthesis take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn them into biomass into wood where they're stored as carbon the more carbon that we have stored in biomass in the forests the less carbon dioxide we have in the atmosphere contributing climate change. this research can help guide local conservation strategies and influence town planning to mitigate impact on fikile arians.

the thousands of years hindus have been performing the last few hundred rights according to specific religious guidelines including burning the day cremation is the traditional method of disposing of the deceased. but with eight point five million hindus dying each year funeral pyres exact a huge environmental. failing over fifty million trees emitting eight million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air and adding to india's already critical air pollution problem. but here in delhi a team often mind mentally conscious engineers has adapted this is your tradition of. imation to today's needs to protect the environment. thank. you ms the oldest and most sacred of dailies three hundred seventy five open air cremation sites or cox it's also the busiest cremating about seventy bodies

pretty. it's sinking in now looking at all these burning bodies and immediately reminded of my own grandmother's passing last year brings up a lot of raw emotions that go with the passing of a love that is a difficult time for families and not particularly a moment when the environment is of primary concern but an organization called mocks the is trying to change all that. you must be untrue yeah i go call uncial guard is an executive officer of the ngo one day mission is about to start and they have just done. the initial late in the book and how long does it keep it it takes about a minimum five to six hours five to six hours i can see your eyes are watering yeah because of the the foundation and you can see it's stored in

a dark small yeah really dark so this is the actual value then i see there is a little bit more activity now see now. more not all the sun he will do the most important part of the commission process and he will take this bamboo and he will hear the head of. their discord cabal korea to give salvation to the deceased person. everything is part of this time honored tradition. the gods in the open air the mourners gathered around the body. even the use of wood is significant but it's also a major contributor to the in mind mental problem. all of this is the word that they've gathered here which gets chopped up into smaller pieces as the day goes on

and as they get orders and as bodies start coming in they have this massive warehouse here which is full of wood is covered. now getting charged. a family just arrived with the deceased and i'm told they purchased a cart load of wood which was four hundred four hundred is here and then this is the change. the didn't make it to interfere. with. our own two hundred quintals which is twenty thousand kilos of wood go through this area. i just cannot begin to imagine the magnitude of the problem facing us when you extrapolate this to the rest of india no wonder our forests are disappearing. as early as the one nine hundred sixty s. the indian government recognized the environmental impact of cremation and they try

to address the problem by introducing an alternative method so this is your gas base crematorium gas based imperium. least afford the body and say this type of cremation only cost ten dollars which is less than half the cost of a traditional one even still need a few takers. the main problem is the people cannot go from the beach was there is no use of board and once the bodies sank in saying you can't do anything you just have to sit like this and after two of us all three of us you can be the ashes and then you can go back i mean i have to say this pleased looks really grim and industrial. there's nothing absolutely nothing traditional about this. even with the best government subsidized intentions gas and other forms of more environmentally friendly methods of cremation haven't caught on. doctor

very thing a social it just a few in every rituals has some thoughts on the subject why is cremation such an important element in hindu tradition it comes from the scriptures one of the most important and sent to sort of think of cremation is to begin to think about the dead person himself or herself participating individually as a sacrifice we've seen with being used in the cremation at this site is that an important and integral part of commission as well in the hindu kush yes so would join the victory is very significant the fire is aesthetic that is seen with a certain degree of grace so that would explain the reluctance that hindus exhibit in trying and adopting alternate ways of cremating i would think it is part of a certain kind of order to frack see you what are you have been doing and

this is very difficult to shed in case of the university. indians might be resistant to change when it comes to saying goodbye to loved ones . but the environmental impact of cremation can no longer be ignored. as india's population approaches a staggering one point three billion more dates and more cremations only spell further than mine mental problems for the living. this is why. and shoes organization has come up with the more you can logically friendly system which balances the environment with tradition so what's going on here is the feeling by a part of the mission to start. talking but i forgot about using any one fifty

two hundred fifty or one question instead of four hundred kids in the commission just. using less would also means this system costs less than a traditional cremation this method a low for the traditional rituals to be performed the same way as a conventional fire might just definitely. and this system we are using only on board and what they would things people generally use in the financial system when you get so there is no davey send in the details which we follow. now that the body is in there and they have to know about. your book on basic principles of fighting we increase the combustion efficiency by providing for all but if that is true the chip and the board. then more of season

is coming in the combustion efficiency in green this certainly is going to heat energy in this the emission process gets over than what was most the system has been around for fifteen years a tiny amount of time when it comes to taking on a centuries old tradition but more news on now beginning to consider that seriously . promote as just cremated his father you do you have to have him watch the car doing is setting. up a listen don getting this is about the person i want to get when they figure out if i expected a child with a list of everybody consumers of this there need to be a chance to. talk to. your sig. vos is out there you better have a postman look i'm not here. for doing this i'm going to say that it is sort of equal cremation pies currently host up to seven cremations a d. at this site it's still much less than the traditional one but i'm sure plans to

open sixty more sites in ten in the incident. it's really brought it home to me that the balance between sensitivity to death loss from tradition and the immediacy for the need to protect the environment is a rather delicate one as someone who cares about the in my mind deeply myself i know we have a long way to go however it also heartens me to find groups such as. finding alternatives that are starting to have a real impact. the . better choices hold the key to reducing global emissions. and spain as a company helping the owners of cars buses and lorries to cancel out their emissions

by growing gardens on the top of that vehicles. and to know that holland's a pilot project to time seventy metres of bike paths into solar runs is creating enough and it just to power three households to one year. projects like these. the different options that individuals and communities can reduce the impact of human activity on our planet. the world's pollinate says are in decline. in this episode of arthritis we meet entomologists on opposite sides of the planet protecting insects of all sizes crucial to preserving food chains. i've come to the u.k. to see how old industrial sites are being turned into bug reserves in an attempt to reverse this worrying trend. fighting insect to get on on al-jazeera.

it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in due time tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brits unease happiness is what we ensure it's if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy time has done what no other country has. for some it's murder. for others it's a way of life. a battle is raging between the whaling industry and conservationists

as the future of whaling in iceland the quarters is decided. people in power killing whales. i wrote about this in doha the top stories on al-jazeera indian pilots taken captive by pakistan has been released in what islamabad is calling a gesture of peace wing commander i mean and on votes the man was welcomed at the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region on a few of us olympians are happy to have him back so was he to be back on his country you're going to hear. other countries custody and he comes back into his country you're going to i think he was one of them by.