hello welcome to a brand new episode of india a sustainability magazine vivi introduce you to change makers people like you and i were finding solutions to some of the most pressing problems in the world today. coming to you from mumbai in india. this week let's look at how when organization in kabul is like being used a lot was for the chemicals. farmers in vietnam are coping with extreme rigor. and how design knows not need shorty the moment but not a season is not thought of the boxed. first let's look at the story of the people who are tackling river pollution in india. flour was at a staple offering at temples and mosques around the country but they often end up in rivers considered holy of india to maintain their sanctity for example the ganga

floral bees reportedly accounts for 16 percent of the total b.s. that ends up in what is considered india's. do young entrepreneurs and con who have found an ingenious solution to the seemingly complex problem. of. oh. i got back cheese or incense sticks have always been an intrinsic part of religious functions in india. who. smoke rings emblematic of hope spreads and deference. but these are made. right here on the banks of the river ganges perhaps most

special. they recycled from the waste to flowers offered it temples every morning as they burn to the ground they take a substantial portion of potential river pollutants with them. at this very place generally 2015. there's a check friend who had come to visit me in concord 2 and we're sitting here. he's a festival which marks the ending of the winter solstice and welcoming of summer so people celebrated by taking a dip in the ground this is considered is very horny. so we said here for about an hour and we saw that more than $150.00 people came in like bill who could be. bringing the war there was a person selling plastic containers just so that people could buy the containers and fill that back on the water or sordo deeds weekly now and we thinking why

and we started talking why is the war w. spoke about. issues because of the temple we spoke about the issues of the panel we spoke about the c.v. and so on and then we saw a lot of people coming in and throwing the religious wisdom and then there was a small airport from a nearby temple which came and dumped all the flowers that was the point i realized . no one has ever done anything realist. and appear phonies that led both go wall and karen restore cantore residents who grew up in this town along the ganges to develop an idea that is today a successful and sustainable business model. help us green works towards upcycling temple waste its most successful ventures so far has been flour recycling. the conversion of used flowers collected from temples into

charcoal and chemical free agora bodies. when you thought in no one believed in us on everything because they knew that this 15 years old in your un that started about when you come in to something something in the news or when we lose our contact with an open movement operation and make them believe it was a hard task but the river once we showed them the actual product and the actual impact that we're making then they believe that something they are obviously going . around the industrial town of can pour in have protests again geez the most revered

of rivers in india is at its dirtiest going by conservative estimates about $8000000.00 tons of flowers a dumped into the river every year. flowers are thought to be completely biodegradable but the sheer volume combined with pesticides and insecticides leads to toxic waters. one of the primary causes of hepatitis cholera and diarrhea. topic of traffic of the floods from the temperature in the concourse of the people of drugs which have a different route the optimism so that the pain is less. than the ones the florida brought in their weed and then they're distributed to different women now then they have to say good. bye to the thread the blackboard

and the ideas. then separate them into 3 parts one is used for incense sticks the others use what we can both now the 3rd what we have created is the product on top of one which is the voice for the bio degradable come aboard. then these women manufacture. the force. sticks in india. chemicals like also making lead a removed during the process. we've been able to fly more than 7000 pounds. and that means that we've been able. to start from getting into that it will.

help us green currently employs about 79 work is predominantly women from marginalized communities many of whom used to work scavenge is a. young lady going to some working everyone appreciates my work and. because of the work i was doing no one. spect to me no one ever wanted to drop in at my home. but now everyone comes over whether i'm home or not i always have guests over when. you. and i have to believe that i had to do something new for the city or for the community of the world with a mouse governs a community so for us the basic needs food clothing and before them a self-respect. care and your study and. now determine to

extend the flower cycle entrepreneurship model to other industries facilitating the employment of 5000 people by the year 2020. mile hope and dream is that i started this facility at every corner of the city and the country so that nothing goes be more and more than you make. out on them it's a big move for us. now from india let's head southeast. the country is experiencing frequent bouts of extreme flooding storms heat waves and cold snaps ruled regions are particularly hard hit leaving local farm was struggling to protect their crops the cost to province of being which is regularly hit by storms is setting an example but trying something different let's take

a look. at the little one a country that holds most news in the sheerest impacts of climate change especially the effect that this. fall 2017 in vietnam we have to see things come to that country. am come from local area that's what i understand. walking and happy life people. especially with the poor people that dispenses group i think that that's the group they need to support. the people who live in this day and their income mainly be planes

a lot on the rise can division and some fishing. and they have a cabin but the women they also lack of knowledge and skews that knowledge and skews. the big that's why we support the women. thanks to the project i've learned a lot about taking care of my fish like what kind of food they need to feed the baby and what to feed the adults and i've also learned how to keep them healthy and i have to treat illnesses this project helps create jobs are also my fish at the market and that means income for my family while.

i was born and grew up in the village. for me the most important thing here is the people and i'm really committed to. that. we're friendly and open. we stick together and we help each other. oh villages him by natural disasters every year we reckon with one or 2 typhoons every season as well as one or 2 major floods with all the strains of that he wins was even more problematic than in the coastline is receding a scene of swallowing up our land some land same time sand invades our homes in the fields where we grow our food. in.

the middle of a. very good we're planting lots more tree we're restoring the forests to try to mitigate the impact of climate change. where. the forest creates shade and. it serves as a wind break and stops the soil from drying out. the trees help clean. and reduce greenhouse gases. during the typhoon season but the forest helps prevent this from drifting in from the coast to the village. a little from the fury of the storms.

this really is a. model of. vietnam as well because in these you see. the role of the communities in the. climate change respond and they understand about the eco system so that they will get from. you. a perfect. costs. in fresh chapter and also. be ma nature. will be protected. and people can

also live very friendly with the environment the local people. have a good income. but. a large part of india's workforce works and is susceptible to extreme weather conditions like excessive heat 2017 was the horta. recorded in india's history the 4th straight year of the record has been broken in such a situation constantly becomes a necessity one man in delhi is making sure every person in his neighborhood has access to clean water. for the last 4 years 69 year old alike nasser rajan has been on a mission to make sure no one in his neighborhood goes thirsty. i start my.

5 o'clock moving to deliver the 1st round of water for the market and then i come back from 9 o'clock. and he takes over he starts delivering water. and rounded bethen parts commonly used across india to store water and keep it cool natarajan is popularly called the much command because he's installed nearly 100 water pots in his neighborhood for public use even shows them 3 to 4 times a day everybody is more concerned about the b.m.w. and. you know when you don't really need to. make sure that your guard is. cyclists security guards daily wage labor is rickshaw pullers and protests koreans greatly benefit

from the service he provides a staggering 163000000 people in india don't have access to safe water. it's initiatives like nutter rajan's that help improve the situation i think the principle people should get some water for the public also. and it's a limited thing. people encourage all kinds of people all the people make the community nothing really belongs to us everything belongs to the community. and whatever you do. good sincerely. let's now shift focus to look at a problem affecting one of the largest industrial stores of carbon on earth more lands of crucial significance intact these natural habitats can store 10 times more

carbon dioxide than any other ecosystem on average. let's now shift focus to look at a problem affecting one of the largest stores of carbon on earth more lands of crucial significance intact these natural habitats can store 10 times more carbon dioxide than any other ecosystem on average changes in land use practices and climate operating them. but a nature conservation project in germany has found a way to restore. these conservationists want to save the more land near give horne in northern germany their most important work right now is uprooting young trees from areas that are too dry andre data of the nature and biodiversity conservation union has been working here for many years and leads the restoration project.

we're removing trees to keep their moreland open because it's so dry the trees will otherwise keep growing and create a forest. up rooting the trees also helps protect the climate the more land stores considerably more carbon than forests. too many trees would dry out the more and slowly destroy it. 98 percent of the more lands in germany have already been destroyed through peat harvesting logging agriculture. teaches at the university of sustainable development and near berlin she's very familiar with the global threat to more lands believing yes i was going off because it was going to place in africa for example about 20 percent of my land in kenya and nigeria has been protect the cultural use making a dismissive greenhouse gases. in indonesia and southeast asia there's a rep a deterioration as being converted into palm oil plantations.

peat has been harvested here for 200 years today it's mainly used as potting soil andre data and doris planter of nabu are hoping to restore more lands currently being used for industrial purposes. they have. more lens need peat moss in order for the peat to develop and kate moss is the most important plant when it comes to replenishing the moylan's. when was that if you as peaches removed barren areas being created it could be replanted so we're trying to grow as much peat moss as possible so that we can plant it on those narrow areas. that will help the more lands to recover and. to grow peat moss on a large scale water needs to be returned to the more land 1st. to soak the area

we release the water there's a board here and when we remove it the water flows through and fills the area. as the more land revives it slowly recovers its former biodiversity many insect species can only survive on more land. peat moss also begins to grow again. the peat soil here will accumulate at the rate of about one millimeter per year so it's a job that requires a lot of patience and it'll take about 6000 years for the more land there get horn to fully recover for years now and indeed right through school was incomplete without a been out of. a 6 yard wonder government suit with gold and silver thread but how do we bring you standing into a dying art as we was increasingly done to mechanize was done now to large

quantities of synthetic and. now some indian designers have stepped in to save the iconic sorry and keep the craft alive. but. to wash away the sins in that if. someone comes here to die and be committed. but it isn't just. the one. it's also famous. with silk and gold. with a distinctive look and feel. it's. a must have to stay in. the fabrics. operated by spring punch cards to determine the designs to. the looms of. the physically demanding work. so. it can take weeks to

make a single. but seems like this increasing. the centuries old artistic tradition . in the past there would have been a wooden handle in every home. entire families in these villages. involved and skills were passed on from generation to generation until this happened. in the last decade has seen the arrival of machines churning out sheets. and wiping out the handle and just. made the switch. and invested in. many artisans. in this. makes me

very sad. but i have to embrace new technology in order to make production is now much faster i don't have to do backbreaking work anymore. unlike these machines can run as well as at night and i make. much more money. but there is a solution to save the handel industry. or just into kamar is a designer in about an assay he draws on the skills of the city's bieber's to produce contemporary handcrafted fabrics for luxury fashion houses in the u.s. and in europe. they end up as design aware on catwalks. prices can be as high as $400.00 a metre those are trying to change times have changed there isn't much of a market left in india for people handled saris. the industry needs to reinvent itself. to go with international buyers because they really value craftsmanship and

handmade products and they're willing to pay much higher prices. back in the village that is allowed to employ $32.00 families on a regular basis. the weavers here own between $120.00 to $250.00 a month depending on the work and the scheme. it's one way about the marketplace. the hope is that it will encourage artisans to stay true to their unique craft. making a single piece of hand-woven fabric. and entire chain of artisans specialized in different skills. up to 16 different workers a part of the process. initiatives like helping to sustain the artisans and keep the craft a life. of peace but not on the family but change seems inevitable and the

future remains uncertain. i would love that you can see there aren't any young people it's a huge problem young people nowadays want to study the more aspirational they don't want to get into this kind of work. that's the biggest challenge. if we don't do something in another decade they won't be the artisans left at all and in this industry. if one of the c's remaining hand looms what a ford completely silent. it would mock the disappearance not just of a profit. but the way of life. i hope to be a stories inspired you to be the change you want to save the world will be back next week with more salt stories each one taking us one step closer to a sustainable future good bye and have a wonderful week. good

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