and the rule to place in modern culture. for more than 2 years, the founder of the label off white had been suffering from an aggressive form of cancer. despite his illness, he kept active. earlier this month he traveled, took a tours capital for his 1st museum exhibit in the middle east titled figures of speech. he leaves a legacy that influenced fashion and managed to inspire the world of art and culture. virgil ablow was 41. 0, i'm on the inside with the headlines on al jazeera, south africa's president has criticized border closures falling the discovery of new strain of the current of ours. describing it as completely unjustified cyril rom of hers also says there's been a rise in coven 19 cases since omicron was identified. we are deeply

disappointed by the decision of several countries to prohibit travel from a member of sodom, african countries including our own following the identification of the army corn variant. this is a clear and completely unjustified departure from the commitment that many of these countries made at the meeting of the g. 20 countries in rome last month. cases have now been found in more than 10 countries and the number i have added travel restrictions, all foreigners and now bod, from entering israel for 2 weeks. morocco has also holds at all incoming flights. a mass vaccination drop is underway in the philippines, where only 40 percent of the population has been fully inoculated. so vol, early results from honduras, a giving left his opposition candidate a lead off to sunday's presidential election. if you'll morrow,

castro wins. she'll become the country's fussed female leader, but it has happened choosing a success to president juan orlando hernandez. frances minister overseas territories is visiting the french caribbean island of guadalupe where he's insisted that compulsory vaccinations for health work as will happen. eventually, hundreds of people rallied against the government's plans on sunday, but protests have moved into a launch of movement against high poverty levels. to placate people, paris now says it is open to discussing more autonomy for god to look from says and won't be held hostage by the u. k. domestic politics on migration. european lead is attended an emergency summit on the issue in the french port city of cali. or the british when invited. okay. as are you headlights as if america held up a mirror to itself? what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america. what's working and what's not?

what people are only talking about that it wasn't at the top of the agenda if america can't handle multiple challenges on multiple fronts. we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera, ah, people move to the cities because that's where the jokes, the money and other opportunities are. but the planets metropolis is being stretched to that in more than half the world's population live in cities. by 2015, this figure will rise to 2 thirds. that's more than 6000000000 people. over the next 40 years, cities who cover up natural habitat,

the area covered by the triples, will people means more transport, more buildings, more waste, more pollution. as muslim, with many of those made into cities of rural pool, they joined the 1600000000 people living without adequate shelter. it's vital to define sustainable ways to deal with this rapid avenue, zation. am julianna, the columbia, where plastic waste it for instructing you home for the, for in the vulnerable and i'm russell beard and singapore where one metropolis is striving for environmental sustainability in the face of rugged urbanized asian, p. as grassy as in over $300000000.00 tons of plastic produce each year with only a fraction of it being recycle. much of it ends up in lamp alluding, urban, living environment. waterways in ocean in columbia. tons of classic waste is being diverted into the building blocks of

a new environmental housing pollution. a columbia's capital city of bova is home to 8000000 people. and it is estimated that 650 tons of plastic is thrown away every single day. i have come to meet us for amanda, an architect and founder of a new enterprise for environmental change called from this class because he has brought me to an informal housing settlement on the outskirts of town to show me 1st hand the problems faced here and across latin america, we'll get we'll be lucky, geisha fall. okay? oregon ways, where is plastic or yahoo dot com. but those channels opinion does onions. 75 percent of glass sticking packaging is single use. when you see all of this plastic on the ground, you see potential. yes, a lot of potential weekend plus farm all dish plastic. in order for oscar's enterprise to succeed though, he's going to need a lot of plastic wholesale,

informal recycling has been a long standing trade in columbia with 40000 trucks on the street to bogota, collecting conventional useful waste with the scrap metal and plastic bottles. so we're in a book bag, all right, now where the recycle is come to bring their plastics and other recyclable products and they weigh them here so that they can then be paid. ready for looking for poll . you know, he's the lead recycler. he's organized all of the was like was in this area over recent years. government support has allowed people like paulina the opportunity to upscale and legitimize the industry. creating recycling centers like this one all over the city. on video, the emotional sync one is a glass based on that. again, he's always cookies. i see lucy glenda plus god is a gravity. does his whole rules as far as he the ongoing challenge to paulina and his team is getting the word out

blowing to one on the other. gomez is the day and when will it be gone? did begin boys in those about a by the police. yeah. a way of knowing people and so they was like, oh a yeah, let me stand with it given was you. i don't me. i'm being a celebrity middle that is like i was like in the job. she did the thing that a good as you on the almost somebody else gets almost like on the display.

ready plastic was is awesome, and as a new venture, which is making good use of this waste plastic head to the company headquarters to meet up with. welcome to a prospective saying here. this is where we take all the plastic from paulina and made it that information. over the past few years, oscar and his team had been refining this waste to make durable building blocks different types of plastic or 1st ground separately. household, plastic waste, battery packaging and electrical ways such as old computers and t, v. 's. so you could feel like you've come straight from the, the battery, but these haven't even been used. it's like a giant lender. what would happen to this packaging if you aren't recycling it, it's all the packaging for the consumer. for sure, it's going to london. now we've got all the ingredients. now the chef will go to work. dan put it together. he, he's the chair. oh, he has, oh sorry, that is

a chef. they won't tell us exactly the proportions cuz it's a secret wrap. the piece, the ground plastic are mixed together. heated and then compressed into brick shaped moulds. tell me a little bit about the temperature. what, how hot are the plastic? we just go to menu point events of the muse depends on the blood between longer, longer, 40 degrees is very important that the temperature is kept melting point, so as not to burn the plastic and the least toxic gases. well, let's take this out, let's look at it. it looks like not as happy, but i wonder what that was for that or that boundary of telephone numbers. we have a on number 51 number for. so now that we have all of these breaks, what kind of uses do you have for them?

we made you were, you can made the same being with this kind of went through. and where are these going? this rigs are going to gully you. is he? what we're going to do is recognize globally as the world capital for salsa dancing . a city of cali, 400 kilometers west of all the thought is one of great social divide with 6 percent of the land area occupied by slums housing, 40000 people, a frequency in by gather a neighborhood in east of paling. one of the cities most deprived areas. oh yeah. oh phone. yes. i do. gotta remember them ill from your leaders upstairs to catch up with oscar and his bricks. wow. oh my goodness. the bricks, me just thought in the factory there actually constructing into an house for

someone who was here in the community. i feel as i thought you were in bogota as a plan. we're building these things now are here and building. it's amazing. tell me a little bit about what stage you're at. right now. we are in the kitchen. aha, where many meals will be cooked them? sure. yeah, this is the bedroom. mm hm. this house cost $5000.00 and has been micro financed by the community for elf them yet. whose son lives in the apartment below where myanmar didn't, you know, not be as honest um with our and we're not going this unit. uh huh. see, get that little i can fix young because as far feel ways to staple star seed. oh no, you're so fussy, leap away. no, it's literally like lifesize lego oscars hope is that this project will generate interest in the community and encourage future collaborations. meta is that most comes through the in the natasha into the law that he just keystone into the

plastic or the cloud that rocha looks like rock to them. a government with a story about, i mean, i mean i don't understand this . i just can't get over the holes for the electrical outlet to the plumbing wire, the cable down in ohio electricity. so pick it out. it's actually a room now at the kitchen. but he's telling me this is where the closet is going to be here. no less, i'm with the television on top. if you can imagine at the all we've got left is the roof and some doors. so we're pretty close. how much plastic is in this house? this house we use is 5 pounds. teen compact thought as a plastic or where do i say to my son? was it the minute continental that would encompass a little bit. okay. okay. i do just let because when that

report in just under today's the house is almost complete. the plan is that a family of 4 will be able to put together their own home in less than 5 days. time . look up. as i look on his daughter into mrs. imposes is working with william was on me concept as last because have already helped to house 42 families displaced by conflict in the town of guar pie recycling 120 tons of plastic in the process. tell me a little bit about the magnitude of impact that this project can have if we use just to present their waste blast and the war. we can change life of millions of people . we can finish their house in short vision, looking america in just 10 years. that's an enormous number and a huge impact. we have to start, we have to step by step ah, in what additive sustainable building

materials are being developed globally. bamboo is being treated and use for construction in countries including ethiopia, indonesia, and here in the poll with many strains, 10 times stronger than steel, and a rapid growth cycle of 4 to 5 years. monday is one of the most eco friendly building materials on the planet. in the middle east to engineering graduates and gaza have created an environmentally friendly break called green take. this uses coal and would i, she's a filler, instead of sand making use of waste that would otherwise be buried in the grounds. and in guatemala, one nonprofit to spill to school using natural resources and rubbish that would normally pile in landfills. the reservations made the system out o tires capable of holding thousands of gallons of rainbow materials like these and not only paving the way for green urban sprawl. that redefining the space is green habits. ah,

singapore is a low lying island in city state. 80 percent of its population live in high rise public housing, resulting in one of the highest population densities in the world. challenges for rapid organization, sea level rise and increasingly chaotic climate is forcing plan as an architect and policy makers to respond to critical questions about how cities in the future will cope with growing demand. despite the growing pressure on space, singapore has been doug h is cleanest city, so i've come here to meet some of the people who are helping it earn that title. my 1st stop is the park royal hotel, which bowes, 15000 square meters of greenery and was completed in 2013 by award winning architect, which had hassle the earth now in almost every way as being formed by human activity. though for us as architects, we feel like it's something within our control to the jeff wise. that building

projects can also play a much stronger role in this stewardship of the when you look at like google earth or images from spike cities or really desert, you know, you see a very bright white, shiny area surrounded by documentation. if people build buildings like this, you would no longer say that you would say the vegetation layer covering the city as well. the singapore in government avoided park loyal. it's coveted, platinum, green mark, the nation's highest environmental satilla cation is part of a white, a scheme to promote environmentally friendly buildings and investment into green city solutions. to understand more about why the cities, the greenest in asia, i want to see what's happening at the grass roots heard about a non profit close time this providing employment and supporting accruing community of come to be the funder light hawk. man. i came here trying to get people to go back to basic, and i thought as

a result that we've overnighted asia and globalization and digitalization that we come disconnect. so i was trying to create, using a space to connect back people and to bring by the spirit of the community. and it's very strange for our country. let things fall with us. we are so top down. and that's why my name is called ground up initiated the ground up initiative started in 2009 and secured a piece of land to provide environmental education for people of all ages and several workshops and seminars. building a community of environmental, engage citizen i guess if you for a moment, forgot that we're in the middle of a just knocking down your door. and in fact, we want to build on this land that to and i told the government to give me a chance to prove that. i think singapore needs a different cannot space 50 percent of the world population now leave in cities and we 70 percent will leave out of 9300000000 or 9.5000000030 years time. what.

what do you think will become where so for coming from who wants to work on the land? who will clean the rubbish for you? all the same by malaysia in the ground up initiative gardens or meet choice fan and cow we volunteers have come along to get their hands there. why see yourself doing farming in a way? i get me more connected with what we are actually doing every day because whether it food we know exactly where they come from and hissing up. i realize also people don't appreciate food because on maybe to the kids they have never seen this. how different is grown? maybe they thought it just from a supermarket. places like this is very good because it makes us go back to the basics. what keeps us surviving? what makes us try and if not really about having money, it's not really about having all the tech stuff, but really been able to, to understand that you are just big, what

a part of this legal ecosystem thing. how things are grown. for example, it makes me start to ask a lot of other questions like how, where things come from. so if i use a paypal, i start to think so way that from and if i troy away, is it going curve? we're committed to reducing are ways to almost 0. we go back to reflect to see if she's getting oh, this is the last place that you would expect to see a little permaculture garden going on in somebody's front room. i just thought it this journey barely a year ago. so a lot of things are to me, are experiments. you are here on your new experiment with all this. how do you, are you kind of creating a network? yes. because you can't be the only person to st paul into it. yeah, i on, when i saw that a group on facebook, it was sometimes frustrating because i seem to be the only person who keep posting . but now i think it's at least 523000 or 500. and it's quite surprising, i think when we see individual taking just

a small action to me is very encouraging because they start to take this morning. we and the journey to 0 waste community still have a long way to go. last year, singapore is 5500000 population. ditched over $7500000.00 tons of waste plus one half tons per person. momentum is building and similar dress which projects are sprouting up throughout the city. i changed them earlier at the ground up initiative and she's invited us to come across turn and have a look at her own community. good. how are you? so this is your projects? yes, my neighbors will come and spend time here in the garden actually doing stuff. the ad directors, i am c o lawyers, is that, is that a demand? me is that so i never seen soybeans group before. i feel that a lot of this, a bunch faces in thing up bar should not be hot the couch or landscape. it should

be footsteps. and how can mean, surely me sing up or maybe a, a city in a foot godaddy? why does it need to just be a small one in one day only serves a few people in the community. why not? the larger community, over 80 percent of the food consumed in singapore is imported. so the ministry of national development is investing heavily in boosting food production on the island . i've arranged to meet jack in an engineer turn food producer, who's taking commercial skill urban farming to the next level. i can serve nervous uniform like this before. i yes, we are fuzzy. know, 1st in the washer for someone that's never heard of a vertical form. how would you describe something? a single boy landscape, so we don't have much our land thought of what he was the best give us think about and we stay in the history. the fact is, is that because he look at why rest,

they were agriculture, can i go by the 30 candy? our system is using the hydraulics are using wiper, make it this power or they thing. so fun can go up, get a not fun. i cannot get a new trans in what so and the what the is a similar though make it look, they thing is a sim also give us build a plan and the what i will be get one at least like i use it so far. we not change oh at that at all. so far you've not changed it at all. weiss, that's quite something given that this farms been operating for 3 years. these rotating shelves effectively increased the land surface area by a factor of 10, meaning this vertical farm can produce 2 tons of vegetables in a single day. meat pie play king of the veggies. it's a beauty, is it all? it is a weed. as the 1st we'd have seen in the, in the entire place, this is to attract a pair, is that yeah. and then they, they're stunned on these buys and then, but there's none in there. i mean me,

there isn't a path managed, managed word, and even a path up though it catch em. we are picked law fish. this is really to where to this is floating. this is, this is yes, company put a completely floating jack way be created, a po and reno's in upon. we knew pon took it what the far west they were. so i do, if you look back upon as a less it here for our system. so i do, can we build upon and assume that we had a plan? so i would consider is that is the sim area. we have 2 products and one harvest of fish for every 6 harvest of vegetables, calais, the fish are feeding the vegetables. yes. and the best of those are in a sense be raisin philip fish. yeah. so that, that the trimmings from the vegetables are actually going to feed it. and using is the sim, size of the land but has to pull out yet being located within the city. these high density aquatic setups are also saving energy on transportation and storage. so

it's little wonder this guy greens have garnered widespread interest, ro asia, as well as with the singapore in government. continue to support the development of the technology of come back to the woo. how offices to learn more about their living buildings? what lies ahead for ages? greenest city? this project, for instance, when it's fully grown, we'll have 11 times aside area as green area. so why go to all this extra effort to, to swadell you buildings in plants, a huge one in hot climate like singapore is that plants are the only thing that when the sunlight falls on it don't heat up. they actually take that energy and use it for the chemical processes of building carbohydrates and thanks. so the calculation for singapore, for instance, is that before the city was built, singapore was 5 degrees cooler. and all that heat ends up being converted into fossil fuel use as people use air conditioners to cool the spice,

and throw even more heat out into the city. if substantial plant covered even reducing a pull by 2 or 3 degrees celsius, the energy saving for the entire country would be, you know, in the billions of dollars of use. a lot of the argument, you have the also much of the cities do you know it doesn't matter. one or 2 buildings? what difference can i? but if one building can compensate for 10 other sites, not having any grain, you can see that just by doing selective injection of these kind of buildings for the city, you can already create a statistically significant amount of green in the city. can you see it potentially in the future where you could actually see some of this area providing a food supplement because we know that singapore is several relying on food input. yeah, we've sort of done generation one which is providing a lot of planting and achieving these plot right shows, i think generation to is. so i can now we have this. what can we do with it?

and as for i think there's anything you do on land, on the ground, you can start thinking, does it make sense to do that apply on a building so, you know, food. oh, we're also very interested in ecosystems. you know, can, we might have, not just decorative, but can we make it very biologically productive weekend, like in a lifetime, how many buildings can we build? this is something that needs lots of people doing it and it needs rethinking at the urban planning level. and that whole city visioning so we come up to the sky vill dawson, which is one of rich, it's public housing projects. and it does feel great. i mean the, the planting design in this shady canopy of solar panels, heels lovely. but i mean, looking out at the view is pretty terrifying, is not just the density, but is the number of housing and, and building development projects. and is this kind of a model of oil tankers and shipping containers that stretches to the horizon in

almost every direction. but when you start to look at that horizon through riches eyes and you see the potential for a rooftop back upon excel, vertical for it's, you know, you start to have hope. but for us to make that future a reality. and it means getting the grass roots in gaze, it means the choice. and can we and all those guys get things going from the ground up. and it means them meeting the plan as of the policy makers half way. if we're going to see the, is there truly sustainable as a metropolis is continue to expand, we're being pushed to explore more radical solutions to the environmental costs to see living in ty, one, a french architecture firm is constructing a garden tower, which will absorb a $130.00 tons of carbon dioxide each year. while local government in washington, d. c, is utilizing the high foothold in the city center to generate energy kinetically for lighting, using a technology called paycheck. and to south korea,

soto has been up the smarter city on the planets. developing a built the wealth, largest pneumatic waste collection system, city wide recycling is protected to reach 76 percent by 2020 innovations with an if the was supporting funding to adopt them widely as a chance the wells much openness is could become sustainable. and with so many of us living in cities, the environmental impact could be huge. ah, whether it's cute and totally in australia, wild and ferocious in bangladesh, birth rise redress is the balance between endangered wild life and then noisy neighbors. and about forest right there. and there's nothing between the how you have, i'm a human habitat learning to live together on al jazeera, how many people here have seen a tiger like they had to, oh, really,

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