that's a. funny. tragic reality behind. the exploitation. starts july 24th. the 1st. hello welcome to a brand new episode of india a sustainability magazine bevvy introduce you to change me cuts people like you and i were finding solutions to some of the most pressing problems in the world to be. coming to you from mumbai in india. this week let's look at how when organization in cancun is up cycling used to lot was for the chemicals. farmers in vietnam are

coping with extreme breakdowns. and how design knows not being short of the clan will win but not a season is not out of the box. first let's look at the story of the people who are tackling river pollution in india. fly was it a staple offering it temples and mosques around the country but they often end up in rivers considered holy and india to maintain their sanctity take for example the ganga flora of bees reportedly accounts for 16 percent of the total b.s. that ends up in what is considered india's when you strip up to young entrepreneurs and conquer have found in the ingenious solution to the seemingly complex problem.

i got that cheese all incense sticks have always been an intrinsic part of religious functions in india. best swelling smoke rings emblematic of hope spreads and deference. but these activities made right here on the banks of the river ganges perhaps will special. they recycled from the waste of flowers offered it temples every morning as they burn to the ground they take a substantial portion of potential river pollutants with them. right this way the place was generally going to 15 of the asserting there's a chick friend who had come to visit me in concord so and we're sitting here. is

a festival which marks the ending of the windowsill listers and welcoming of summer so people celebrated by digging a dip in the ground is this concert is very horny. so we said here for about an hour and we saw that more than $150.00 people came and lived in their grand is and they were bringing the war door there was a person selling plastic containers just saw that people could buy the containers and from that back home the water was sordo deeds weekly now and we are thinking why and we started talking why is the war when you would. spoke about. issues because of the computer we spoke about the issues of the band that 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 boy from one nearby village came and dumped all the flowers that was the point i realized. no one has ever done anything we almost always.

in a patient needs it led both ago while uncaring rest stalky 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 we started no one believed in us to be on this every day and because they knew that the good news for 5 years only in your un that started about when you come in to something something in the new or when we were going for it with an open movement over this 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 yes something they are.

around the industrial town of can pour in which have heard the ganges 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.

africa practice of the floods from the temperature in the concourse of the people got drugs which have a different route the optimism for that time is less. than the ones that got in there we need and then they're distributed good opinion then they have to say good. bye to the thread the blast board and the ideas. then we separate them into 3 parts one is used for incense sticks and the others use what we can both now and the 3rd what we have created is the product on time of war which is the voice for the bio degradable come aboard. then these are men. by the flies and sense of the force.

sticks in india. chemicals like also making lead a removed during the process. we've been able to flog more than 7000 pounds of flour and buried means that we've been able. to. help us green currently employs about 79 work is predominantly women from marginalized communities many of whom used to work scavengers. going to them. everyone appreciates my work an asset. because of the work i was doing no one. spec 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 and. i had to believe that i had to do something new for the savior for the community for the world with a mouse governs a community so for us the basic needs are food clothing and before them with 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. my hope and dream is that i establish this facility at every corner of the city and the country so that nothing goes waste and we provide more and more than you and make us. 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 rooted regions a particularly hard hit leaving local farm was struggling to protect their crops the coastal province of kwang been which is regularly hit by storms is setting an example by trying something different let's take a look. at the country that had most of this and as she has impacts economy especially in the effect that this. fall 2017 in vietnam we have to see things come to that country.

am come from local that's what i understand the walking and happy life of people we saw. in a specially with the poor people that dispenses group i think that that's the group they need to support. the people who live in this they have and their income mainly depends a lot on only can division and some fishing. and they have a small garden but the women they also lack of knowledge as cues that knowledge and skews on the other even that's why we support their women.

thanks to the project i've learned a lot about taking care of fish like what kind of food they need to feed the baby and what to feed the adults and i've got 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 them. we're friendly and open. we stick together and we help each other.

oh villages hit 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 storms of life he wins was even more problems than in the coastline is receding a senior swallowing up our land some land same time sand invades our homes and the fields where we grow our food. will be then you. will know you have a. very good view 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 a matic buffer. serves as

a break and stops the soil from drying out. the trees help clean. and reduce greenhouse gases. during the typhoon season the forest helps prevent the sun 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. there all of the communities in the. forests the climate change response and they understand about the eco system services that they will get from.

a perfect. country. given the costs. in fresh chapter and also. the ma nature. will be protected. and people can also live very friendly with the environment and for the local people to have a better life have a good income. and . a large part of india's workforce works and be susceptible to extreme weather conditions like excessive heat 2017 was the hottest. recorded in india's history the 4th straight year that the record has been broken in such

a situation constantly hydrated 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 like nasser rajan has been on a mission to make sure no one in his neighborhood goes thirsty. i start my. 5 o'clock meaning to deliver the 1st round of water for the market and then i come back. and he. he starts delivering water much here's rounded earthen pot 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 fills them 3 to 4

times a day everybody is more concerned about the b.m.w. and the most of them that i. know when you don't really need to. make sure that your garden is velcro. cyclists security guards daily wage labor is rickshaw polos and pedestrians 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 keep some water for the public also. and it's a lame excuse thing. people encourage all kinds of people all kinds of people make

the community nothing really belongs to us. everything belongs to the community. and whatever you do is good sincerely. let's not shift focus to look at a problem affecting one of the largest investor stores of carbon. more or less of crucial significance west to interact 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 in 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 up rooting 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 moral and 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 illegally yes i was one off because i would go to places in africa for example about 20 percent of my land in kenya an idea has been protect we culturally he is making it

a source of greenhouse gases. in indonesia and southeast asia there's a rapid deterioration as being converted into palm oil plantations under. peat has been harvested here for 200 years today it's mainly used as potting soil. andriy data and doris planter of nabu are hoping to restore more lands currently being used for industrial purposes. they. need peat moss in order for the peak to develop and kate moss is the most important plant when it comes to replenishing the moral and. when asked if you are as peaches removed barren areas are 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 the 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 that is aboard 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 saudi a 6 yard wonder government has been in sync with gold and silver trade but how do

we bring the standing in to a dying art as we were increasingly turn to mechanized. done now to large quantities of synthetic and cheaper saudis now some indian designers have stepped in to save the iconic saudi and keep the craft alive. but. to wash away the sins in the river got some come here to die and be complete it. but it isn't just the city thank god. it's all to famous. with silk and gold. with a distinctive look and feel. it's. a must to stylish indeed with. the fabrics. operated by a string of punch cards the determine the design for the week. the looms.

the physically demanding work is mostly. 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 around involved and skills were passed on from generation to generation until this happened. in the last decade to see the arrival of machines churning out cheap. and wiping out the handle and just. made the switch. 15 handle and invested in.

many artisans. in other sectors. 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 during the day as well as at night and i make. much more money. but there is a solution to save the handel industry. just in the 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 was a good time in channel times have changed there isn't much of

a market left in india for pure hand i'm sorry's. 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. but the weavers here own between $120.00 to $250.00 a month depending on the work and the skill. it's really 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 involves an 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 life. the case for not only that but change seems inevitable and the future remains uncertain. 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 there won't be the artisans left at all and in this industry. if one of the seas remaining hand looms but to fall completely silent. it would mark the disappearance not just across. the way of life. i hope to be a stories inspired you to be the change you want to see in the world we'll be back next week with more salt stories each one taking us one step closer to a sustainable future good bye and have

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