well you. know much of it. linked to news from africa and the world story link to exceptional stories and discussions from the news a visit and i would say debbie to come snatched up to join us on facebook doubling up for a guy. playing. the . the environmental movement has plenty of heroes here in eco africa we'll introduce you to some of our favorites hello and welcome to this special edition of i'm very mentally magazine show. in johannesburg south africa and as always i'm joined by mike charmaine colleague n.t. the n.t. hello 0. of the fossil park in lagos nigeria and i'm looking forward to the show

this week we celebrate some people who deserve to be celebrated ordinary citizens who through the actions do the a bit to protect the environment so let's take a look. a young inventor from tanzania shows how renewable energy and change village life for the better. nigerian activists demonstrates that art and the environment good. i mean south africa ellens are being moved back into their natural habitat to the benefit of the enviro. hazy do you know that almost half of all the plastic produced in the world is used just once and then thrown away that's an alarming fact and we need to find solutions fast before the world drowns in plush ticks and not only that empty experts say plastic also contributes to global warming from the production to their disposal they are

responsible for the emission of huge amounts of greenhouse gases and that is keeping us from achieving global climate goals so it's good that there are people like james like t.v.'s from kenya eco africa mix up with environmental activists his message is clear make kenya plastic free as soon as possible. for many years he has been focusing his lens on plastic wished jumps what could be of the photographer from the cool kenya with over 17000 followers on twitter he is one of the most pronounced environment activists in the country using twitter he kicked off a social media campaign to fight plastic pollution. my social media campaign. happened this week so for example. if i was in the streets and i would see a plastic bag. in the roads i would see

a plastic bus or later in the environment i'll take pictures. one is a took the pictures i would come and teach them and share them with the hash tag bomb plastic state until august 27th when most people in kenya used plastic bags to carrying goods from shops. that resulted in plastic winced all over the country. then the government issued a rigorous. anyone violating its 1st is a penalty of up 232000 euros a jail term of up to 4 years. a number of manufacturers and target is have been arrested and fined. while there has been quite a big big change you know. then vironment has benefited. all

a lot from the plastic but even if you look at the my background business now got in. on deeds duty free clean you know it's it's it's it's green there are no plastic bags you know plastic water all industries to the streets are crazy and then drains once. plastic bags. even the local dumpsite and is more at ease because of the decline in plastic waste but plastic bottles remain a challenge jim so i could be and fellow activists i know pushing the manufacturers to aren't. i've always. believed that those people who make. income over profits from plastic bottles they should ensure this some kind of deposit scheme where consumers. of their products return those borders to some kind of

a center where they are given some reward from here shillings. for each plastic bottle they take and then those voters are take it for recycling. jumps what could be a wants to continue with his calls on people to practice a responsible use of prostate for him with the ban on plastic bags the 1st step has been met although there is still a long way to go chalice flying in from the national environmental management authority kenya agrees. when this came into being as levels were not uniform across the country there were some areas where the glance went very fast where harry s. where it went also a little bit slower. for jim so it could be that his hometown is leading by example people here by my expenses bags at the markets or use their own coffee about. you know that absolutely nothing can grow without one crucial substance

that is essential to all life here on our planet what's up but considering that is all around us in every living thing the fact that hundreds of millions of people around the globe have no access to clean water is simply shocking that's why it's good to hear that a team of engineers and brylin have come up with a solution that could drastically improve lives all over the world. around 1200000000 people live in africa but millions and so. africa have no access to clean water. drinking and bathing in contaminated water is very dangerous. engineers in berlin developed what they call a was a kiosk. the system was designed by alley al hakim and how mad. it

desalinate filters and decontaminate water so it's possible. thousands of liters of water per hour. there is old is virtually germ free. and it's tasty. the process is powered by a solar energy system attached to each. 10 kiosks are in operation in kenya somalia and yemen. in kenya 20 liters sell for around $0.40 that's a 10th of the usual price. it's not only supplying clean water but also free wi-fi access and outlets to recharge smartphones and they provide job opportunities for local residents. how about you. if you're also doing your.

doing your. story. now another. introduced. so i don't know his world will. stop the desert it's a year old from fossil began experimenting with planting techniques back in the late 1970 s. in that rehabilitating eroded sore so our dog row has grown an entire forest on barren using the natural. like the zeiss system he says is work as a legacy for future generations and a way of fighting the effects of climate change and africa because africa went to meet with him in booking our fossil. fuel group of. cool these patched us assume

supports trees when yacoob us our don't go fast say that in the lead 970 is following a long drought everyone said he was crazy since then his woodlands have grown to over 40 hit as bringing global fame to his home village of coca in north and book in a fossil will get the poor who. would design methods you dig a hole right where the rainwater would simple where you use after to prevent the water from draining out of the hole and put dried leaves in it the leaves rot to become composed and nourish the tree and exists water can escape at the site. where you. worked under your government during the freshly planted trees get further nutrition from compost which you could muscle a double mix on the site with his sons using a very simple technique quicky god and we mainly pull to dried leaves into this

compost or then we add a little ready made compost an ash tamp it down family after a couple of weeks it starts steaming and then we know the compost is finished no. proper behavior. here work our. job though we were here because of. the trees have been just far too lies to the soil the also attracted insects including bees so a dog was set up some hives for them there one is become another source of income for his extended family. you're cool but so our dog has been experimenting for years now he wants to pass his knowledge on not only to he's 27 children the neighbors and friends but will now much larger scale. on the part of. town that we are about summers and look at this forest this is where we'll build our training center to benefits nature and the animals and the people if the

present getting comes with money for it to go towards the center for sharing got a program need to know when afford to go to where good. and trainee one be limited to the ira for restriction techniques so i don't go once more. coral there are roughly 90 different tree types 60 of them growing in this forest humble i've brought all kinds of seeds back from my travels which of planted here and using traditional medicine without plants there's no medication and if you don't know what to do with the plant maybe someone will come along and show you one day so a dog or swears by natural medicine he knows me chilling oils leach medication can be extracted from the fruits backs and roots his reputation draws and well people

to him every day whom he and his children treat in these hearts. when i built these houses truck more deaths the sick here they can recover and one of the hudson is my store for dried leaves and 3 bags that i need to treat people we've. got going to really want to put back the. healing with nature while nature heals us our dog was pham has spread he's now probably known as the man who stopped the dessert on top of that the water table has risen a whole 5 meters then tire region has become more fire tale. well that's all i don't know has been awarded the alternative nobel prize for his life's work and he's already making sure his ideas live on long after he's gone. what an amazing man a true inspiration now let's head over to tanzania to see how ideas that make

environmental sense can also make economic sense. right empty now what people in rural areas need most is reliable energy supply and clean water in tanzania only 10 percent of the population is connected to the grid terminal conformable is a young innovator who is solving that problem with renewables and the help of some soft tort engineers let's see what they're up to. tommy mckee fungo is a man with a mission they engineered has already built 10 wind generators with his partners 2 years ago they founded the company team success at the beginning they started welding for other companies but soon realized that they could build windmills themselves most of the staff comes from remote regions in terms anea electricity and water i had to come by not even a flood of concern ians have access to electrical power. to see by local

time on a child a mortal or 2 but you have you seen as young people in our villages we faced the challenge of drilling and getting water out of the bore holes by the sierra and especially pumping water out of feet was the main challenge. the thought of finding an alternative way of solving the problem in the area a mile it all and we started thinking of how the problem could come to an end at k.d. and there was a. new field day. today i went by needs to be repaired the company owners are fixing it themselves a small windmill costs between 3000. $505500.00 euros more than half of the windmill sold run water pumps as well as produce electricity. this is a windmill driven water pump project that the system uses wind power to pump water from the source be to river and lake. this one is for. and it

is used to pump water to households. less for the farmers he has gotten easier previously unless he bore mary had to fetch water far away in the wetlands now thanks to the pump the water flows all the way directly to the farm as long as the wind is blowing this plenty of water. to work on with this project has been on for a year in the half we have seen changes in running our businesses because i work t.v. does need a lot of water and now we have plenty the farmer raises chickens and grows vegetables he's had the windmill for one and a half years now it makes his work easier and allows him to make important investments with the extra water he can plant more crops and purchase more animals . at the company's headquarters in derry salaam tommy mckee

phone who also the team of 20 patton has none have ever worked in the field before and only 4 of them are trained ingenious they all learned how to build wind generators on the job using you tube to turtles when they started later they had the idea of connecting them to water pumps which turned out to be their most important innovation to date. whether we want to take his father to be able to distribute water in most of the villages so even the government can come in and help in distributing water to other areas especially past released and farmers the same thing again. i really wish to get to the point of helping the entire community. or you know i don't understand i'll think about god why. did i get. the government has been planning a major wind power for years but it is a long way from being finished meanwhile local solutions like to mimic the phone

was providing water and electricity at least to some villages. and from one kind of creativity to another now i'm standing on nato is an arts graduate based here in lagos was decided to use his creative skills to remind humanity to care for the environment with music poetry photography and painting he speaks to the younger generation in a long way to they can relate to and proves that the art of powerful medium for conveying the message that mother earth needs to be cared for. by. his a singer you really need to listen to mind your own artist stanley and there too has written songs and poems to encourage more people to look after the environment it is. his son's focus on water and drought the felling of trees and pollution

and the loss of africa's animal population. climate change environment protection. you know all those things into things well celebrity here because the average person in this part of the ward it's more interested in solving. the n f n animals catch with a reflective pen when it comes to environmental protection stanley sets an example his way. instead of brushes he uses different colored light bulbs. lights out and the magic begins. earth's transition from green and healthy to the alarming state that it's in today captured through the lens of a camera. usually a painting done with oil or acrylic on canvas to take

a couple of hours to a few days depending on the size and they'll be considerable waste this is done in just a few minutes and there's no waste. when you use things like or you can't just expose it to either end of the day and up in the environment so this helps us mileage are pretty tools which are out in our environment it's you that's the case of the appeal that we expect to get from us. this isn't how stanley used to work a graduate a fine and applied arts he painted like regular artist with oil or acrylic on canvas is made over 300 pieces using this new method and now sells multiple copies of each piece around the world. that you go with abusing me so much. i mean i'm very. nature. to be. the oldest.

sibling in the family and it's only once the rest of the world to pay more attention to the environment he believes in the power of music to bring about change the tree. the tree. the tree if you don't think. some people listen to my music. listen to what. capsulated. over. you know. you just have to listen to. and get the message stanley anatole was recording new songs audiences love his music and he gets a lot of radio and t.v. airplay maybe one day people will just listen we'll take action to. the around cape town and south africa activists have already taken action in the

last few decades the low line cape flats have been taken over by widespread urbanization and the encroachments of bushland now herbivore is helping restore biodiversity to the area that he learned and has a taste for the invasive prawns species that are endangering the floor of the remaining low lands a project is reset playing the creatures in the area where they once lived 200 years ago let's take a look. at the scene cherries and. area around cape town. time tng and opening station have caused a happy event to shrink drama. and once they had. some plant species started pulling. out a unique scrabulous. june's trend failed. and her team came up with

a clever idea to restore biodiversity in this area the project to bring back. here to comet to open and just to break up the wood a component to give space for growth and hopes to grow. at the start for 2 years they've been browsing away opening poll and we seem to be getting there most of. the kept flats junes trying valid currently occupies around 15 percent of its historic area conserving the endangered fugitive is important to be lazy. means beach scrub africans in addition it supports a very high bio mass browsing. the project also employs youth. to care for the in the a progress in the field. with.

much of the area directly surrounding the. drugs as. who lives here knows. the what he does we also have to get the local community. the type of. people with 3 anymore. there with animals and there with. each other so for me it's actually important that we. change these people and that they can actually see that. comes from with. leadership program rivaldo has increased awareness of the need to protect the

environment introducing the project to school is his way of giving something back for the opportunity he was given. because. i could have been doing different things. actually now that it made me important at all to so that i can show people that we can make the change in nature. in part by the local government and also. seems to be one of the investment let me seeing you said the zealander actually becoming ambassador not just for the species but. a lot of people. unfelt but now we bring these magnificent animals back and the local community can really interact and and actually see the benefits of conserving. in the team will not

expand the project to other greeted around cape town they want to introduce some of the have any most to nearby reserves to give the camp flood juice tranfield and even a greater chance to try once again. that was a round up of some of our favorite eco heroes who prove that protecting the environment is an exciting business i hope the got you thinking about what you can do to stop climate change and preserve our beautiful planet thanks for watching it's goodbye from me here in johannesburg south africa see you next week. all right it's been fun learning about these initiatives and seeing vision great guys doing their thing z. but if you are viewer want to find out more about them and our other stories check out our social media platforms or visit our website on till next week it's by by phone the fossil park in lagos nigeria.

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