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ah, now since the industrial revolution, human sources 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. but there are choices people can

make to help drive emissions down. and also read and denmark to meet a community and bring in their own green society. and i'm go constructor within india where a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more environmentally 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 suggest over there on the horizon. so, so i like that they are officially 100 percent renewable. that we forget all of the 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 have 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 model the russell. yeah. with was nice to the view it electric car accident. he's taking me on 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 megawatt hours i ever yeah. 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 9 plus in the telephone and said, how, how are we all the community here had come a long way. and no booster 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 big and 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 kind of buying, they buy a she a small chair or allowed biggest yeah. depending on how much money they have. and thereby invite them to participate in the ownership so that you feel that 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 them 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. in the both of a battleship and what they don't tell you when you're in the and they say i see stories a little bit too, which is a little bit. and when you know interesting is how can i know oh hey, i'm good. may 3. ok. those days. okay. mm mm wow. oh oh my gosh. it's is in laser eye care when. no, no, i mean look the team are about to check the generator.

look the wind speed. okay. 9 pm and like interest. okay. oh my goodness. good. wow, exactly. so this is n as the energy right generated. so you get a p, m climbing is can plaster faster than the power? 09. a 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 and see producing all the islands electricity needs. oh my goodness. i think heard of

when the project started in 1997 turbines cost more than $1000000.00 each to $400.00 locals got together most buying 5 shares costing about $2000.00. ah, so it's taken me to meet some of the investors. i see, i'm russell, i'm soren. so nicely attention to sorry. can you give us a sense high school in a big tournament? tell them this is a, you know how the season starts. i'm in there. yes, ma'am. okay, so a little red ball is a paper trying to get as close as possible and come on with go on a, on a higher number. i'm russell. can you give us

a sense of how the community and i have responded to this shift, to 100 percent renewable or really trick me was the fact that people who didn't really speak to each other before i got to go to her office and chose to talk to each other and to have her have a common goal it. oh. 2 what brought it to the island? did it have something to do with the top kind of 400 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 would be awesome. and so how things progresses. and so now and so tree is laid, i via half wind turbines,

undersea. so you know how to save the world. this is a, is this business guy forces in 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 is their willingness to collaborate on a common goal is led to some ingenious solutions ah, come to the local biomass heating, trying to find out more. this is not why specter, oh, this is the fuel. this plan is one of 3 on the island. all the straw he is produced locally and fuels a heating system that allows locals to spend 40 percent less on her bills than the used to. the bottom is loading on every 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? so a hercule hello lee, and in order really a wow. i mean all they say n green versus fibro pain. presumption, it is a really long oil for standard of 0. alicia foley, not with the with a short ohio or even to, to make one off in order here where the water is it? yeah, yeah. florida, 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 a byproduct this, i did route 3 pro, sent home, and a carry the michael nutrients to the plants need to survive. and they did this really a much more efficient system than is practically carbon neutral as well because the emissions that are created on burning, but the same as the emission that says the carbon is that the atmosphere when it grows in the 1st place. so it's a pretty neat, consistently. ready ready ready ready samsung island success are creating not only a green society, but green economy hasn't be lost on the rest of the world. ready and these days they receive $5000.00 energy to us per year, so many that the set up an energy academy. 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 hawaii. i can i ask, what's the most important thing that you get 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, yeah, that'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. is 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 ah, around the world there are a vital regions like oceans and dense forests, where the earth naturally absorbs and store was carbon. which 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 far is destruction is impacting cop 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 managing this research can help guide local conservation strategies and influence town planning to mitigate impact on vital areas. ah, the thousands of years hindus are been performing the last funeral rights according to specific religious guidelines, including burning the dead. see mation is the traditional method of disposing of

the disease. but with $8500000.00 hindus dying each year. funeral pyres exact, a huge environmental tool. felling over 50000000 trees, emitting 8000000 tons of carbon dioxide into the air. and adding to india's already critical air pollution problems. but here in delhi, a team of environmentally conscious engineers has adapted this age old tradition of cremation to today's needs to protect the environment. ah, nigga booth crematorium is the oldest and most sacred of daily's. 375 open, i have cremation sites or got. it's also the busiest cremating about 70 bodies per day. it's sinking him now. looking at all these burning bodies am immediately reminded of for my own grandmother's passing last year,

brings up a lot of roy. emotions that go with the passing of a little bit is a difficult time for families, and not particularly a moment in the environment is a primary concern. but an organization called mazda is trying to change all that you must be unco. yeah, i go co until god is an executive officer at the n g o one. actually my son is about bizarre. they have just then and we'll try winning the initial lighting above 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 our eyes are watering. yeah. because of the volition and you can see it stored li dogs smoke. yeah. really docs. and so this is the actual volume and i see that is a little bit more activity now. see now the chief more not the son. he will do

the most important part of the emission 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. everything is part of this time on a tradition. to 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 bodies start coming in, they have this massive weyerhaeuser which is full of when it's going to get a good job. so could you have

a family just that i had with the deceased and i'm told they purchase the cartload full of wood, which was $400.00 kids. the 400 is here and then this is the change. i didn't make it fallacy dot diane, who don't put it in moody bodies are through them. now listen, i don't do 100 quintal switches. $20000.00 kilo's of would goes through this area. i just cannot begin to imagine the magnitude of the problem facing us. then extrapolate this to the rest of india. no wonder forest disappeared. as early as the 1960 s, 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, i'm renovating against mr. williams. this charlies,

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 of board. and one of the boards inside you can do anything. you just have to say like this. and after 2 hours or 3 hours, you've been big the ashes and 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, gas 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, a priori. why exclamation 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 and integral part of commission as well in the end of this? yes, up. so would john, vicky is very significant to fire is an aesthetic that is seen with a certain degree of grace. so that would explain the reluctance that hindus exhibit in trying and adopting alternator ways of agreement. i would think that it is part of a certain kind of artifacts feed that you, you do what you have been doing. and this is very difficult to shed. in case of death 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 cremation only spell further and learn mental problems for the living. ah, this is why most and shows organization has come up with a more ecological friendly system, which balances the environment with tradition. so what's going on here are preparing for misunderstood. what about the 150 to 200 videos? for one reason. instead of $400.00 k d, the number one,

using less would also means this system cost less than a traditional cremation. does this method allow for the traditional rituals to be performed the same way as a conventional fire might? and yes, definitely with w w god. and this system we're using on the board and what they were things people generally using venmo says it's ammonia. so there is no deviation in that it was which we follow now that the bodies in there, and they have no way that it work on know basic principles of science. we have increase the cumbersome efficiency by providing prob, but in that is through the, to me and the hood. for when more oxygen is coming in, the combustion efficiency increases. food in green go to heat energy in this amazing 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 consider that seriously? promot has just cremated his father. oh, you have to have them walk. stucco. yes. the thing has a year off from there. yeah. okay, up elephant. i'm thinking about it when you pay the highest buddy. a travel with archer. so to toronto, color lucky, you want us to locate rosters or the you better english men left click on view or upload the there's no federal say 30. this was equal commission pious, currently host up to 70 cremation. today at this site, it's still much less than the traditional one, but until lance, to open 60 more sites in 10 indian. so

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. bmw . she, that's a choices hold the key to reducing global emissions in spain as a company. how can the owners of cause passes and learning to cancel out their emissions by growing gardens on the top of that vehicle? and to know that holland's a pilot project to $1070.00 metres of bike paths into solar roads is creating

enough electricity to power 3 households for one year. projects like these offered different options so that individuals in community is, can reduce the impact of human activity on our planet ah. in the next episode of earth rise next, talk to into greenpeace room on a voyage through the widow. see, to highlight the importance of protecting this fragile antarctic ecosystem against an expanding list of manmade threats beneath the surface of his leg. never some desolation is just tv with live releases. so the remote is water and salt, tick century on al jazeera ah

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