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thrice sent you. thanks a lot, bye for now. 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 a lot of 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 and since the industrial revolution, humans so says of polluting gases have been growing cause machines, feed, production construction. these and mold all contribute to the high concentrations

of pollutants in the atmosphere. including hob and, and other greenhouse gases, which are the biggest drivers of climate change. but there are choices people can make to help drive emissions down. i'm going to read in denmark to meet a community and birth thing 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 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. 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, 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 for an electric car accident. he's taken 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 costs also still, but we export about $80000.00 mayer but also 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 active 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 carbon footprint of negative 12 tons per person per year. the getting to this stage wasn't easy. ah, 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 can buy in. they buy a she 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 there's a service on it to legal off and yeah, you can really, you want to go at. yes. of course. right.

ah gosh. they've been in the both of a battleship and what they don't tell you when you're on the ground is actually stories a little bit too, which is a little bit. and when you know, interesting is open. yeah. hello. oh yeah. hey, i'm good mazda me. ok. those days. okay. mm mm wow. oh, oh my gosh. this is in laser. i get a warning. how war? ah, i mean, look,

the team are about to check the generator. look the wind speed. okay. and like interest, oh, okay. oh my goodness. wow. you can that, so this is end as the entity right generated. so you can see there, there are, here i'm climbing is, can plaster faster off. oh or 9. 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 to 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. ah, so it's taking me to meet some of the invest a oh i see i'm russell, i'm soren. so nicely they're medium to sort of give us a sense. i'm going on here a big tournament. so this is a, you know, how the season starts. i'm in there. yes ma'am. okay, so a little red ball is a pig to try and get as close as possible and come on with go on

a for competition. i oh, no, i didn't hire now, i'm russell. can you give us a sense of how the community and 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 so talk to each other early to 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. and so now and so tree is laid i by a half wind turbines, under sea. 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 as 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 selected at, 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 their bills than the used to. the bottom floating on is playing bales of hay. each one is about just less than a tongue. 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 like say 10 green or the 1st of february pain presumption, it is a long oil for a standard of 0 alicia bowl. if not, we do have a short ohio or diva 2 to make one off in order here where the water is it that they were brought 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 get route 3 percent home. bernie, they carry the michael nutrients to the plants. 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 from 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. so many that the set up an energy

accounting. 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 to get started? and 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. huh. 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 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. 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 oh, a round the world. there were 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 forest destruction is impacting cop and storage. so trees through photosynthesis takes 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 or such can help guide local conservation strategies and influence town planning to mitigate impact on vital areas ah,

for thousands of years, hindus are being 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 problems. but here in delhi, a team of environmentally conscious engineers has at, after this age, old tradition of cremation, to today is needs to protect the environment. ah, 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 am 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 monster is trying to change all that you must be unco. yeah, i go co until gog is an executive officer at the n g o. so one for my son is about to sar. they have just then and will cleaning 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 volition and you can see it stored li dogs smoke. yeah. really ducks

. 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, destroyed cabal, korea to give salvation with a deceased person. every thing is part of this time on a tradition to god cindy open air. the 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 or

does as body start coming in, they have this massive weyerhaeuser which will avoid normal is carried here. the charge is okay, do you have a family just that i had with the deceased and i'm told they purchased the car load full of wood, which was $400.00 cases. 400 is here, and then this is the change i didn't make. if i let me jot down for who don't put it in. moody board is also done a down to 100 quintiles, which is $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 forests 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 the c and d, or gas based against mr. williams. this is for leads to port the body and say, this type of cremation only cost $10.00, which is less than half the cost of a traditional $1.00. even still, there are few takers. the main problem is the people you cannot perform the ritual . 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 big, the asha them, 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 him to for this? 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 a ways of okay, maybe 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 said in case of dead spirituals university indians might be resistant to change when it comes to saying good bye to loved ones. but the environmental impact of 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. ah, 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,

or without the use only one feet of $200.00 videos for one reason. instead of 400 gauges in the garden. another 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 in this system, we are using only more and whatever things people generally use in a vanessa 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 know 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 oxygen is coming in,

the combustion efficiency increases in glee, go to heat energy in this defamation process. so well 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. but mourners are now beginning to consider it seriously . promot has just cremated his father. you do. you have to have no walks duck or if a thing has a year offer, but they are getting up elephant on to it when you pay the highest buddy at your value with our job. so to, to end up calling our key. yeah, thank you. i fellow okay, ross, is that a you better a closer look critical to upload this a federal state that he doesn't have equal cremation pies currently host up to 70 masons a day at this site. it's still much less than the traditional ones,

but until lance, 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 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 choices hold the key to reducing global emissions in spain as a company. how can the own as a cause,

buses and learning to cancel out their admissions by growing garden on the top of that vehicle. and in northern hollands pilots, project time, 70 meters of bike paths into solar roads is creating enough activity to power 3 households for one year to purchase light. these offer different options so that individuals and communities can reduce the impact of human activity on our planet. in the next episode, thrice next, talk to into greenpeace crew on a voyage through the widdle. see to highlight the importance of protecting this fragile antarctic ecosystem against an expanding list of manmade threats beneath the surface, with magnificent desolation, is just tv with live releases. so the remote is wilson until it take sanctuary

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