and up handed over a police station counter. this is a fraction of what confiscated every month found, an elijah say they barely scratched the surface. here's the hardware and it needs pocket al jazeera, london with less than 2 weeks to go until christmas. hundreds of people in greece are getting into the festive spirit, taking part in the annual charity santa ron is to kilometer race social's the cities olympic park. there's no need for any rain. dear old plays though, on a sunny day in the capital athens. ah, i'm a dime with a look at the headlines here now. jesse are now search teams is still trying to find survivors. after dozens of tornadoes struck 6 states late on friday night, officials expect the death toll of more than 50 people in kentucky alone. many

a still missing across the state. tens of thousands, all without electricity. kentucky is governor says the tornadoes destroyed everything in their path. we've now been granted the immediate federal state of emergency. it is rare. it was granted incredibly quickly and we are grateful to homeland security to fema and the president by himself. the national guard has been deployed. we have over 300 guardsmen that are active. they are out in our communities. they are doing everything from going door to door though many of these communities will have doors anymore. there go and rebel to rebel searching, hopefully for survivors, but otherwise to at least have certainty for families that we can advise them of their law. u. k. prime minister barak johnson, his warning of a coming tidal wave of the on the kron variant. the government has raised the

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there have been informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people. that is one of the most of the things that come out of this critical debate. do you think that they should be facilitated? not sure. okay. it's a great. it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a top swans that inside story on al jazeera. ah, now, since the industrial revolution, humans so says of polluting gases have been growing cause machines, food production, construction, these and mold all contribute to the high concentrations of pollutants in the

atmosphere. including hobbin and other greenhouse gases, which are the biggest drivers of climate change with the are choices people can make to help drive emissions down. i'm going to read in denmark to me or community and birth thing in their own green society. and i'm going to took her within india, where a new method of cremation is helping him, good tradition become more and line mentally friendly. ah, green energy is touted as the future if we want to stop global warming, but pledging a commitment to renewable energy is one thing and doing it is another to just over there on the horizon south. so island, now they are officially 100 percent renewable, that we forget all of their energy for renewable sources. so we're going to go over there and meet the community, find out how they did it. i've heard that the system,

the island is, is set up be so efficient 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'm meeting saw in hermanson who heads up the sam. so energy and environmental organization i saw. and finally i learn local the rosalia with was nice to their view it electric car accident. he's taking me in a private to the island. so when they say it's a 100 percent renewable, i mean, is that true? like 100 percent by me, we still have some fossil fuel consumption, tractors are driving. we have combustion engine cas also still, but we export about $80000.00 megabyte outside every year. well,

now that's incredible. there are 4000 people on the island. over the past 20 years, they've moved from a reliance on fossil fuels, to wind solar and bio mass technologies. from wind alone, they produce enough energy for themselves and the usage of 20000 other homes. ah, so why, why was it set up and why here on some so i didn't know that the beginning of it was very interesting because it was a top own decision. we had a very ambitious minister of the environment and he announced that they would cut down 21 percent of the of the present c o 2 emission, which was really interesting because i was the 1st person know what hired to do this project. i remember the feeling that i was sitting down and having the, obviously, and i plus in the telephone and said, how, how are we all the community here had come

a long way and no boast a carbon footprint of negative 12 tons per person per year. getting to this stage wasn't easy, people were concerned about the impact of all these biggest installations on this little island and to convince people that this was good. we started thinking about using the old, her corporate have ownership model where people combine, they buy a sheer, a small chair or a lot of biggest. yeah. depending on how much money they have. and thereby invite them to participate in the ownership so that you feel like i'm, i'm, i'm the proud owner of the wind turbine. so therefore, it is because of me, it's death guys. now if you get so close to these things are quite imposing. i boys it know, spinning all this one, is this the service on it? can we go up and yeah, you can really, you want to go at. yes. of course. right.

ah gosh. i've been in the both of a battleship and what they don't tell you when you're on the ground. this actually stories a little bit too, which is a little bit and when you know you 15 is open. yeah. hello. oh hey, i renewed my 3. okay. those days. okay. mm mm wow. oh oh my gosh. it says in laser eye care when i was i mean look the team are about to check

the generator. look the wind speed. okay, 9 pm in the interim. okay. oh my goodness. wow, exactly. so this is end as the entity right generated. so you get a b, m climbing this can plaster faster off and go 3. 09. a. wow. wind power is particularly productive on some so because of its location in the car to get straight up there. 11 turbines on land and more on sea producing all the

islands, electricity needs. oh my goodness. i think her little when the project started in 1997 turbines cost more than $1000000.00 each. so $400.00 locals got together most buying 5 shares costing about $2000.00. so it's taking me to meet some of the invest in time. oh i see, i'm russell, i'm soren. so nicely. isn't that? sorry. can you give us a sense? i'm going on here? what is the big tournaments on this is you know how the season starts? i'm in there. yes, ma'am. okay, so a little red ball as a pig to try and get as close as possible and come on with go on

a more competition. i oh, no, i didn't hire now, i'm russell. can you give us a sense of how the community i have responded to this shift, to 100 percent renewable really quick me was the fact that people who didn't really speak to each other before i got together or anger office and chose talk to each other early to have her have a common goal. oh oh, what brought you to the island? did it have something to do with the whole kind of 100 percent renewables? is that something you're proud of? definitely super proud. that's great. is it yearn? yes. hi, i'm russell. and so how do you fit in with this kind of energy landscape that we've been learning about? i have been way parts in involved, and i've spent a lot of money also. the 1st that was

a wind turbine on my farm. and everybody could see that was a good business. and so how things progresses. so now and so tree as late i via half wind turbines, under sea. so you know how to save the world. this is a, as a business guy forces, i mean, frustrates me is that everyone here has their own reasons for buying into the project. oh, and ultimately their investment is as good for the planet as it is for their wallets. but as their willingness to collaborate on, a common goal is led to some ingenious solutions come to the local biomass heating, trying to find out more. this is donna wise, victor. oh, this is the fuel. this plan is one of 3 on the island. all astro hears produce locally and fuels

a heating system that allows locals to spend 40 percent less on their bills than they used to build them are in floating on is playing bales of hay. each one is about just less than a ton. so they're going on to the conveyor belt at the end, and they're getting dragged in and in here the gang shredded up and then fed into a blast furnace. so can you tell us? is it efficient? showerhead kill how the in the lower really i mean, what makes it n green. mcpherson chevry pain presumption, it is a really long oil for a standard of 0 alicia, for all if we deal with a short ohio or diva to, to make wine off in order here. where the water is it? yeah. it. laura, it's around in the water heated here,

circulates via a network of underground pipes connecting to radiate is in india, ju homes in the surrounding area. happens to this is if i put this, i get route 3 burleson home and a carry the michael newton, the plans need this, the right. maybe it's really a much more efficient system than is practically carbon neutral as well. because the mentions that are created on burning, but the same as the emission that says the carbon is the atmosphere when it grows in the 1st place. so it's a pretty neat co system. ready ready ready ready some so island success are creating not only a green society, but green economy hasn't be lost on the rest of the world. and these days they receive $5000.00 energy to us per year. ready so many that the set up an energy

accountant. and so what is the big idea that draws people from all over the world? yeah, i think everybody has some kind of intuition that this is the way to go. this is where we want to be at. 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 meeting here is kind of confirming that this is possible. we can do this since the project started soren and his colleagues have advised 29 countries. alexis, the project manager, has invited me to sit in on a call to a community organizer in l y. i can i ask, what's the most important thing that you get out of communicating with the residents, you and some so i think the most important thing is inspiration support and to hope for something better for the future is saying it's all we're doing. yeah.

so that's the idea to help communities and realize their potential and their options and slight ah, 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 around in a circle, listen to each other, just make it happen. mm oh, a round the world. there were a vital regions like oceans and dense forests, where the earth naturally absorbs and stole was coppin. but many of these are under threats drastically reducing the amount of c o 2. they can sequester forests,

for example, a being loss due to looking land clearances and pollution. an area around half the sides of england vanishes each year. in southern quebec, research is monitoring the woodlands to learn how forest destruction is impacting cobb and storage. so trees through photosynthesis take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn them into bio mass 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 to climate change. this were such can help guide local conservation strategies and influence town planning to mitigate impact on vital areas. ah,

for thousands of years, hindus have been performing the last funeral rights according to specific religious guidelines. including burning the dead cremation is the traditional method of disposing of the disease. but with $8500000.00 hindus dying each year. funeral pyres exact a huge and mine mental tone failing over 50000000 trees, emitting 8000000 tons of carbon dioxide into the air. and adding to india's already critical air pollution problem. but here in delhi, a team of environmentally conscious engineers has had, after this age, old tradition of cremation, to today is needs to protect the environment. nigga booth crematorium is the oldest and most sacred of day least 375 open air cremation sites or got it's also the busiest cremating about 70 bodies,

but it did it. sinking him now, looking at all these burning bodies em immediately reminded of for my own grandmother's passing last year, brings up a lot of roy motions that go with the busing of a little bit is a difficult time for families and not particularly a moment in the environment is of primary concern, but an organization called mazda is trying to change all that you must be unco. yeah. i, i go co until god is an executive officer at the in geo. so one to my son is about to sark. they have just then and we'll tugging the initial lighting up of the buyer . and how long does it keep? ah, it takes about a minimum 5 to 6 hours, 5 to 6 hours. i can see your eyes are watering. yeah, because of the pollution. and you can see it stored li dogs smoke. yeah. really

docs. and so this is the actual pollard and i see that is a little bit more activity now. see now the chief more mad. the son, he will do the most important part of the commission process. he will take this bamboo and he will hit the head of the dead person there despite cabal korea to give salvation with a deceased person. every thing is part of this time on a tradition, the got cindy open air to mourners gathered around the body. even the use of wood is significant, but it's also a major contributor to the environmental problem. all of this is the wood that they've gathered here, which gets chopped up into smaller pieces as the day goes on and as they get orders

and as body start coming in, they have this massive weyerhaeuser which is one of which is carried yeah. the charges. okay. do you have a family just that i had with the deceased and i'm told they purchased the car load full afford which was 400 k for 400 is here and then this is the change order. yeah. but then make it philippi. just hang on for who would've been moody body's not still doesn't leave orders around 200 quintal, switches, 20000 kilos of would goes through this area. i just cannot begin to imagine the magnitude of the problem facing us. then extrapolate this for the rest of india. no wonder forests had disappeared. as early as the 1960s, the indian government recognized the environmental impact of cremation. and they

tried to address the problem by introducing an alternative method. so this is misty angio gas based remembering against mr. william. this charlie is to put the body inside this type of cremation only cost $10.00, which is less than half the cost of a traditional $1.00. even still that a few takers. the main problem is the people you cannot perform the read to us. there is no use on board. and once the bodies inside you can do anything, you would just have to sit like this. and after 2 hours or 3 hours, you've been dig the ash and then then you can go back. i mean i have to say this place looks really grim and industrial. there's nothing absolutely nothing traditional about this. even with the best government subsidized intentions, guess and other forms of more environmentally friendly methods of cremation. haven't caught on dr. harvey sing?

a sociologist of funerary rituals has some thoughts on the subject. very, why is cremation such an important element in hindu tradition? it comes from the scriptures, ah, one of the most important and central ways to sort of think of cremation, is to begin to think about the dead person himself or herself participating individual, as our sacrifice we've seen would being used in the cremation at this site is that an important an integral part of commission as well in the end. yes, up. so would john, vicky is very significant to fire, ease and aesthetic that is seen with a certain degree of grace. so that would explain the reluctance that hindus exhibit in trying and adopting alternate to ways of acclimating. i would think that it is part of a certain kind of artifacts. feet that you,

you do what you have been doing. and this is very difficult to shed. in case of dead search was, university indians might be resistant to change when it comes to saying good bye to loved ones. but the environmental impact cremation can no longer be ignored. as india's population approaches a staggering 1300000000 more debts and more commissions, only spelled further and learn mental problems for the living. this is why most are unsure, organization has come up with a more ecological friendly system, which balances the environment with tradition. so what's going on here are they're preparing a fire for, misunderstand about the use only one feet of $200.00

videos. for one reason, instead of $400.00 gauges in the garden, was using less would also means this system cost less than a traditional cremation. this method allow for the traditional rituals to be performed the same way as a conventional fire, right? yes, definitely with you guys. and this system we are using only more and whatever things people generally use in the system only. so there is no deviation in that. it was which we follow now that the body is in there, and they have covered that ah, it work on the 2 basic principles of science. we have increased the combustion efficiency by providing proper here that is through the, to me and the hood. for when more off season is coming in,

the combustion efficiency increases. food in green go to heat energy in this defamation process. get so within 2 hours. most of system has been around for 15 years, a tiny amount of time when it comes to taking on a centuries old tradition. what mourners are now beginning to considered seriously, some old has just cremated his father. you do. you have to have no more duck or if a thing has a year offer, but they are getting up elephant done to it when, if i, if buddy at your home with our church, so to, to end up calling our key. yeah, thank you. i fellow okay. was there they are, both of those men left click on upload. this of federal say 30. this will equal cremation pies currently host up to 70 cremation. the day at this site, it's still much less than the traditional ones,

but unsure plans to open 60 more sites in 10 indian city. it's really brought it home to me that the balance between sensitivity to death, loss and tradition and the immediacy for the need to protect the environment is a rather delicate one. as someone who cares about the environment deeply myself, i know we have a long way to go. however, it also hardens me to find groups such as much that we're finding alternatives that are starting to have a real impact. now she, that's a choice is hold the key to reducing global emissions in spain as the company. how can the own as a cause,

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