for saving google and genius tell stories of creative people and the latest projects around the world. to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions like global ideas the series of global three thousand on t.w. and on line. hello and a very warm welcome to a brand new episode of eco africa stay tuned to find out why erosion isn't just a problem in africa but is also affecting europe and how entire alpine landscapes a changing because of climate change my name is from east enders b. and i'm presenting the show from joburg in south africa i'm joined from nigeria by

my wonderful colleague hi until i fully shun hello everyone my name is nail me i bring you greetings from lagos nigeria we put together about how from the. i was show full of a mental story that i've very exciting well here's a line up that we have for you today. how you can use when to make shoe polish. and how solar taxes are changing public transport in cote d'ivoire. and then our project in south africa is teaching tories the valuable knowledge of indigenous people. would you take a right by the sun in the coastal town of job building code of law so the talk shows are beginning to replace the conventional bush ones three wheels on a panel it's a pretty simple concept and with zero emissions it's good for the environmentalists

but now let's go take a ride and see what all the hype is about. people like sophie really in the republic of it's hard to get from a to b. public transportation is virtually non-existent. when you go to the market and have finished your shopping and start looking for a taxi it can be had to find one available. all it takes time and you have to wait it's probably all. over the last eight months the situation has improved taxis that run on solar energy have come to this city for sophie it's a relief. i've never had one of these taxes because its battery was in chad but that does happen with vehicles that run for oil then you have to get out and wait

for another taxi. models of taxes have been designed and put into service in several places around the world these three will be. read by knotting they're parked in the workshop this is also where they assemble before they hit the road was in the room i discovered that this is a solar taxes in china i was there with a friend from togo we both twenty vehicles and realise they were very good that's how it ended up in the solar taxi business. to start to do the pilot program. here in the coastal city the sun shines almost year round that makes it a good place to introduce the solar try cycles the taxes do have a solar panel on their roofs but that provides a range of just thirty kilometers to travel further than that the other batteries need to be recharged regularly but they're still less expensive to put in they're not regular vehicle and better for the environment every day the batteries are

charged here and the tax is given a once over. if you force a monk who when their tax is parked i check this to tell when they get shown and see how many votes are chad it takes about five to six hours to get fully charged each vehicle has ten batteries. the drivers head out with the five and when they're empty the tax is brought back and the batteries are replaced with five fully chalons. very very standard rolls and when the battery the batteries are charged using image here to. rethink what this panel generates twenty five kilowatts per hour this is where the energy is stored and i see that with the three wheelers can be rich and here at night when they are packed . this solar taxes have even created jobs

eleven people work for the company and that's not all the solar taxes are an environmental borne. the motors don't emit carbon dioxide there's one environmental aspect of course and they don't make any noise the motors a vision quiet compared to the conventional engines we normally use in the ivory coast so our vehicles meet environmental standards they make a very positive contribution to the interaction of people and the environment it is important. the company hopes to introduce a similar taxes to other cities like it was. by some. but the success of real's pilot program had an unintended side effect with just six equal taxes demand outstrips supply but it's a start in just vehicles believed to become i'm wonderful green transportation.

if one of these solar charger goes thousand kilometers so you'll have a definition of our next trip was watching which means what a hole in the law would have been to do a simple. quote true is also the name of a new cultural center which opened a couple of months ago so what's so special about the santa lucia n.t. you might not have such an ancient culture in your country though we have the oldest son cave paintings of adam old and hunches date back twenty six thousand years the sand people have a tremendous knowledge about nature and plot life and they're sharing it with visitors in the cultural sense. africa took a tour. de lint antelopes are shy creatures. but much knows how to get up close slowly and steadily and from down when. his people the sun hunts the animals but she says only checking up on the herd

humans have special significance for the sun. if you look at the animal itself. and can provide a lot of it it can provide a lot of in the same terms a blanket blanket and that is also offset they use it for cooking they use it for they use it for cleaning themselves. doctors they use it also for another purpose and this is why i say. with an animal. my teoh's works as a guide at the quantity sun culture and education center in terms of fun time near cape town it's the first center dedicated to sun culture in south africa. the sonne are also known as bushman. the traditional hunters and gatherers are an indigenous people in southern africa their

ancestors lived here when the dutch reached the shores over three hundred years ago the rock art they left behind emphasizes the songs deep connection to nature the dominance of the european colonialists massive land loss and assimilation have marginalized the group today there are only about one hundred fifty thousand people in southern africa who identify as sun working at the center as colleague dymo has learned to appreciate the beliefs and traditions of her people. well it's . it is. it is the way. that i learned so that you can keep your child so that you can live with so that the one thing you can tell. from that community. not far from the museum materials

continues its trek across the shrub land the south africans call fine by us it's out in nature that he can best illustrates his son's immense knowledge of medicinal plants like congo bus cancer bush and wild mint. he explains to the group how an infusion made from the leaves can be used as a remedy to treat a cold the flu and a host of other elements. as proud of the knowledge gathered by his ancestors much of it is now of great interest to the pharmaceuticals industry the guide and his colleagues have been working for years during naturalize the nine hundred hectare site improving conditions for native medicinal plants like wild garlic and wild cannabis around to. today native animal species like zebras springboks and leopard tortoises graze on

fields that in the one nine hundred ninety s. were dominated by monocultures mountains of deadwood illustrate another we naturalists zation measure invasive species like the port jackson a tree brought here from australia are being removed to reclaim the space for native plants. it will take some time before this natural biosphere is back in balance but materials and his colleagues have already achieved a lot his message about the environment is clear here is it sustainable or keep it for the next generation this is what we want to lead and. sustainability and environmental protection a message that has been passed down by the sun for generations. can you imagine harvesting polish it sounds crazy but that's exactly what university lecturer paid to from kenya. he's even been awarded

a paid sent to transform the blackjack weave into organic through polish it's how he does his bit for the environment. it's not every day you see a university lecturer and shining a student shoes. but a kenyan biochemist peter t. it's a perfect opportunity to test his ineffective products an eco friendly shoe polish . black jack wheat is considered a nuisance by farmers and gardeners the fro gati and a group of students it's a freely available role material. in the lab the we just draw it and pull her honest. about it and extract the substance he uses as the base for his own comic she polish the blanks and if you buy yourself and serve them out at. the time they named the product by

a shoe polish and was granted a patent for it. the shoeshine scientist to seeking funding to back production because he says his plant based polish is nontoxic and gives low life to life. if you can. tell us about it. on websites. stories. where i'm very me who are not aware of the impact of the activity on the environment and the. that is in spite of the efforts to push this kind of information. michael the budget it thinks it should not be so that shouldn't have a university of legal decided to do something about it besides use the creative art

poetry here and his colleagues of the parliament of course are trying to do what they catch and even includes teaching the younger generation about me environment and what they can do to protect when i ponder in each of those. green teas i am ball by your creation and a marvelous you'll love with michael is reading from one of his many poems they're all about nature and environmental protections. these nature. to express his creative ideas through them. beautifies. it's a significant part of a society of the physical society so eve i am a poets who aspires to be no less legislators for the world and there's a kind of poetry that focuses on nature and gives pride of place don't go

stops me from kind of put to you like. two years ago. three times each semester to present. it's part of the efforts to help protect the environment. all of this is working making a difference literally this is we're talking about things i'm not i this is not what you bring up strikes me anything of the artistic puts mind this is poetry the accumulation which everyone contributes i think the terms actually bring in portree closest society still party now is not the it's making us see that something nature called the kids to be environmentalists we keeping our environments clean and telling us that support tree is not something that says that it's abstract suppose

or that she loved the old beginning ways say to preserve entirely more and then to preserve good accreted. i appreciate i really liked because they issued an opposition to do that you need to get killed need to do is to do with what is possible as opposed to us humans plushy old making it worse each day. michael budget and his friends take environmental problem seriously because nigeria has a very environmental issues there are many problems such as any to the environment which occurs here in the. this also untreated garbage and shoots landfills. the group doesn't just recites the importance to each other they also go to the secondary schools and to teach school kids about the importance of environmental stewardship. ports not just occupying a space in the society they have

a rule missing and the way it is to transform it and yes the site. of parliament of ports teach students and teaches how to write your own poems to raise awareness for nigeria some viral mental problems. but the interest that. i call. and nature and it. was undefeated. lame. and i'll just take teach. i can and this i wish of its. moods you. know it's destroying teams of nature. the group has only fista two schools so far but they hope to inspire more people to protect the environment with pointers like this one climate change. quakes already keane's global warming nuclear war by always human with depletion and in the

e.t.c. e.t.c. . when you think of austria you tend to think of towering mountains and went to sports it might look identical but locals are only so aware that in some places this pristine alpine world is under threat from climate change global warming is causing the alps to slowly crumble. it's been months since it happened but rudolph got remembers as if it were yesterday. has gone more than half. only a small section of it is left with no. use to stretch from the woods over there along the bushes all the way to the next neighbors. in a matter of seconds one hundred fifteen thousand cubic meters of rubble thundered down into the valley the rock slide came to a stop just twenty meters from his house in a small to rolly in village in the files valley. that considers it nothing short of

a miracle that he and his family can sit at this table today no one came to harm they got family breed cattle the animals in the summer months high up on the mountain pass just that says the curls are his pride and joy his family have been farmers for generations and intends to continue the tradition. it's been a long long time. nothing but farming since the area was settled. as if there are no winds no ski lifts none of that just farming. situated in the mountains this part of the bowels valley is still largely untouched by terrorism it's a picture rest landscape of meadows woods rushing mountain streams and a few farms but the

a deal it seemed can change at any moment geologists going to high school knows from experience that nature is and always will be unpredictable part of his job is to monitor danger zones from the air there are plenty of them into role and scientists predict that climate change will create many more is just a couple of minutes flight to an in scotland four hundred meters above the valley right now it looks stable. if the amount of precipitation increases and indications are it will then we'll have to expect more events of this kind. when we measure the slopes we find that nearly all of them are shifting it's not possible to monitor all of the slopes until or even just those above settled areas. steen. but the geologist do the best that they current they have equipment that measures the direction and distances between reflect is that they've set up on the rock

faces in landslide danger zones. once a month they also use a high precision laser scanner when construction begins on a new road a geologist will observe every movement on the slopes above and beyond work cease if need be. so now rudolph is more concerned about the damage from the last rock slide than those that might occur in the future much of his posture is gone since the landslide he set up a protective barrier outside his house it may hold back falling boulders but it also renders his posture useless. actions like that are necessary to make it safe otherwise he no longer be allowed to live here he was. neither rudolf nor his neighbors have any intention of leaving their farms not even after their houses

when the only flattened. store just have to keep calm that's the best thing you can do with. these farmers seem to have a will that stronger in the mountains. we've already shown you how to make things like friendly to and bags out of all tires but today we showcase a very special initiative and present in cameroon inmates are making flip flops out of recycled. and they are being so the across the country it's a practical idea because africa imports more use cause than any of the continent and of course many of these end up on the scrap heap but the question is would you wear sandals made from tarps when beetroot to make up your mind here. the war notes and discarded car tires they litter the environment and can release

toxic chemicals into the water. but they cameroon's capital there's no public refuse service that officially takes care of recycling. where other people see problems civil society activists christian solutions he has local youths collect the old tires providing a purposeful activity for the young people because the scrap tires are considered all material for new products. a lot of people culturally believe just. so we are also using these. days that we can. which will be more durable which would not affect. the tires are transported to a business partner about twenty miles outside your own day. it's a prison here in mates who refer to themselves as prison for new oars produce

sandals out of the old tires it takes about four hours to make one pair and seven flip flops can be made out of a normal size tire we're not allowed to interview the prisoners but the project is seen as an opportunity for readability. nation and it's helping solve an environmental problem at the same time you know engagement in prisons we saw the process of transforming tires firstly as an effort to protect the environment as an effort to support you know the global conversation on climate change and we saw the inmates in prison as the first community we can talk because a lot of people abandon them but they have time they need people to give them an opportunity to transform. eventually the rubber tires become fashionable professional looking products christian helps to market them under the prison brand creative skills for peace a project for young violent offenders they're sold internationally for around thirty five euros a pair the inmates receive more than fifty percent of the profit the rest is

divided between the prison and the state. who want to build a big market because it is part of the called the brand which is the branding of the products that we produce from prisons and we are hoping that you know nationalities acclaimed we are hoping that this young people in prison is able to be financially empowered and how they need to be able to you know make a life out of these. the send those are also available here in cameroon of course for somewhat less than on the international market christian making it personally seeks out customers slowly the locals are buying the idea of eco friendly items made by prisoners. it's a bone of a production i love it and equate it to prison for because like i had. in the prison business meetings so you know we used to push them to tell them that we have the police and. the tires to

sandals project was driven by a passion for his dedication and efforts christian nikki made the twenty seventeen africa youth awards list of the one hundred most influential young africans and to . when he eighteen he was named the luxembourg peace prize as outstanding youth peacemaker. wow what nice and colorful shoes i really like them it was such a pleasure to present this week's edition of eco africa based on the next three for near a pause featuring fresh ecological ideas from all over the continent for now though it's time to say goodbye from johannesburg thank you for the show and if you like to find out more about the topics on the show just visit our website you can check us out on our social media platforms as well looking forward to hearing from you until next time it's goodbye from vegas i do.

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