how old welcome to. your destination for solutions for cleaner greener and a more sustainable to model every week we introduce you to change makers people like you and i while making a significant impact to change out environment for the better songs that are coming to you from mumbai in india. ahead of the show let's look at how a nonprofit in delhi heading green action among the city's residents if a poor game can get you to be more involved mentally cautious and how a journey animal welfare charity attempting to change age old mindset in tribal tradition. first let's head to delhi a city which has become synonymous with toxic air pollution the capital cities green cover however is only increasing even if it's only the open forest capital of forests with a less dense canopy this means delhi continues to be home to would reach

biodiversity or flora and fauna one nonprofit organization in the city is making sure its residents are well acquainted with the natural treasures that he holds. the. belize colorful and. around 19000000 people live here he stops to give me 1000 more people who come here every day from all over the world delhi has the highest proportion of migrants of all indian cities but the sense of you see issues and connection to one's new in one seems to grow slowly. that is something the team behind the internet blog means knows all too well the good hardly any supporters for the environment campaign for the young. so the. to

come of the solution according to delhi greenspan and go with saying. new life the city doesn't have a state or you know and then is missing an urban state for the places and law for a lot of discussions we. put together a company project actually called the urban eco tourism project and the object of this when you go to the project is to take people who are living in l.a. for 203040 years and then they wonder when you could do them experience showed them the very systems i was in that supported them and convert them and transform them into. the human of biodiversity park is one of the biggest attractions of delhi's i could to approach it in compass is about 10000 hectares. for young. scientist supply why does the fall when he started his work here in the land along the banks was bad. he simply somebody asked me that why during election and actually in many fist oh no political party has put

the environment as a priority you have asked broader or your boss hospital you have asked metro government has given you everything but you have not miller ever asked that you need blue water you need the dolphin should be jumping you need a very bad there are 72 fifths of doctors you need to even be a lot of migratory birds you never asked so this part is a please with it people leg open brings a lot of students and other people from the society and they get to learn how to be squeezed how to frame questions how to design a question because question becomes very important your life and in the scientific world also when you design an experiment you raise many many questions and write it down. to delhi greens organization was founded going to be years ago it all started with the blog to this day go in single right and whenever he comes across.

environmental problem. in the 1st blog post published in march 2007 and then it will be published on interesting stories you know the momentum and 6 i remember there was a. segment that had been spotted in january so there was a friend of ours who spotted it then a senior professor and he shared the photograph about somebody and then immediately asked permission and posted in the blog saying look a common palm civet spotted and and then went on by and i was going to for ask what sort of picked up a snake and he shared this information in for you know the fact that you know how the park was being really showed the photograph in us and we immediately took it the mission and then publish it on the blog saying this is what it's all about it's not just you know and it's also about is by them it's not just people it's all to having biodiversity and i. love to become a campaign but for an environmental action the reason. some things on this one that he did not like it on. one fine day we were walking back to university from

the field and we found that all the trees in the university that had been numbered and the limit also numbered in any brutal manner and so this marking old box had been scraped off and a number had been written on all the trees each tree had a unique number of cars so we went to various offices of the industry to find out what's happening and then somebody said we don't know who's done this but. it is a given knowledge the number of trees that we probably fell a minute or so then we figured that you know they'd probably be fair and then even to find out that which is the biggest number in front of 1000 so it's a shock there's a probably 1000 things that about me in a university call on. the blog about the inappropriate making of the trees and the plans to cut them down around the people's interest that's how the universities management found out and halted the plans to cut down the trees. greens and one. the luck the brits have now made

a name for themselves as experts today they visit a garbage dump in about an drive over from the city center residents complained to the organization about the down. it suspected that the dump is illegal and that the people who live in the neighborhood at risk of developing health problems. trying to recycle. the problem but we would be really concerned about is the. amount of dust that is there. for the people who are living in the. ditch. and why the vet's such an information channel about environmental issues like delhi greens has read as throughout india. already about 1200 people have taken part in.

the delhi you comment on climate change and the campaign to promote segregation in projects. as you know was called and used like the one oriental apartments in north west delhi's is broken you just break when you roll materials are created from recycled waste. are always on the lookout for those initiatives which work for effect or mismanagement and once i finish it in the phone. to the woman we heard that there was this one company which i said to me and is now on it. and has. oriental apartments like music from. delhi greens is a nonprofit organization financed by donations and that they have been used from its workshops. with the funding the and my mental activists tried to make a little. more livable. now regularly go systems like the ones in the

biodiversity park has a word writing of plants and animals take for example the red crest to the large dog breeds in southern europe and central asia and makes its way all the way to delhi for the winter but what makes the wetlands saw attractive this experience will help you once or that question. spread over a combined area of 12100000 square kilometers from the far north to the far south there is an ecosystem that is richer than even rain forests wetlands. they support at least 100000 species of animal. what makes wetlands the most productive among all the ecosystems on the planet. to appreciate why that is it's important to 1st understand what makes a wetland. firstly continuous saturation by surface or ground

water for most of the year secondly characteristic vegetation with a quite it plants thirdly a unique type of substrate known as heidrick soil. it is the sponge like ability of the wetland to withstand different levels of water that makes it more productive than other ecosystems the physical properties of heidrick soil enable it to absorb a higher proportion of nutrients that makes wetlands home to many rare and endangered species of terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals that are found in no other ecosystem. there is also a natural flow through and filtration system of nutrients a characteristic unique to wetlands it's these properties that help called grass in a salt marsh for instance to produce more plant material and store more energy per acre than any agricultural crops. healthy wetlands are crucial to all

wildlife and humans throughout the world many birds use wetlands as a pit stop in their long distance migration many animals there to reproduce wetlands provide great volumes of food especially the species that form the base of the food where acting as natural water purifiers they absorb many pollutants in surface waters their ability to trap and retain water protects land against floods and the impact of storms of the 600000000 people are dependent on wetlands for fisheries and farming rice which is grown in wetland patties is the staple diet of nearly 3000000000 people what is worrying is that the world may have lost as much as 87 percent of its wetland since the years 1703 times the rate at which natural forests have been lost not only a wetlands a vital source of biodiversity they are also a source of livelihood for one out of 7 people on earth that means protecting all

regions worldwide where water meets land brings benefits for all for the environment and the economy. now what if of your life situation gave you the option to save or to take any of that environmentally conscious decision various lobbies are working against you to prevent that from happening well a fascinating can give you that experience keep cool as its core challenge to strike a balance between protecting the environment and. interests. this game is about climate change and the politics involved players build factories or eco friendly green ones one roll of the dice can ruin a player's economy it all depends on a car and the natural disaster it represents. it was important for us to designs of games that you are doing and socially best thing we wanted to

reproduce the real world tension so when you have the oil industry card in the beginning you need to play for the oil industry to win while if you have so green growth card you need to produce green growth. where germany's climate politics are played out and where german scientists are continuing to develop the game keep cool to give players a peek into the world of climate policy. close eyes america is an expert on the economics of climate change and one of the brains behind. the i was always a game into the just so i could see swings to bring it in if you look in the real world climate change policy is what's going on it's like a game. and as in the real world this game pits different players against each other. and changes and serious issue but being afraid of it it's not the solution we need to creativity to solve the problems we have and the game is one way. that

can games really help us to combat issues like climate change and industry lobby d.n.c. on their studies the science behind toys and games. he doesn't need your dame all the noise games are a medium that allows us to learn about new subjects. in the learning in part is in direct because the point is also to have fun. when we look at these games and play them there's an emotional involvement. so it's possible that we take that experience with us into the real world. the humbled university is one of countless bad news hosting berlin's on your science institute open night and events where researches present their work new technologies experiments and games. there's also a mobile version of keep cool. students here play with climate enthusiasm from all

over the world in english or in other languages. the mobile phone gives you control over how to develop your city. i think it's a great simulation and it really shows you all the intricacies of different interest. standing in the way of climate change this is just. so maybe there is very different things in reality players also have to factor in rising temperatures just like in reality green factories are black the choice is that and our climate change is one of the big threats we have in the 21st century and b every huge urgency to deal with this problem and we have lost too much time already but i think we need to get the message that we need to do stuff individually that we need to change all behavior but it's the same time that we also need to have political change going on we need to engage and cooperate globally to class and his

team have funding to take their game to the next level they just hope it can inspire players globally to make a change in the real world. shifting focus now poverty. lack of a venice and an absence of better notice services for farmers in india's eastern state of the shop at end of the animal it's wonderful to various feed to the seasons the farmers often rely on priests and looking quacks of the wish to kill their animals and german animal welfare charity w p g is trying to bring a shift in the mindset of the tribal areas of the state where the community managed program for long term improvement of the health of the animals. farm is worried about one of our cows it is sick and these animals are central to her family's livelihood fortunately a team of mobile rates has come to. the lymph nodes are stored and probably because

of an infection so that is given an antibody conjecture. leave it is nagin says came to our rescue they treated our sick animals. there's no other animal clinic here. they've treated my sick go give the animal medicine and now all is that well or the mobile rates are funded by. a german and my vote for and you get things travelled to places where there is no where the story of red really care or where it is too expensive places like some of the village in the east and in the in the state of. news that means are i will have the spring. farmers be a small fee for treatment this can busies is better sites a common sometimes the animals need surgery the rigs gets this farm

a spray that can create life over. in the decent 80 percent of rural households own livestock for many families livestock on an important supplementary income source it's a poor region malnutrition means animals are vulnerable to disease preventive measures against diseases such as food and mouth disease which is widespread here are. very good if. they keep livestock at home we had 2222 cattle washed away by the recent cycle and. we needed treatment for the remaining animals today i got mates in for my animals. a few kilometers away in my part here the rexall training farm how to keep their animals healthy. the w p g is active in around 70 locations in odessa partnering with the local animal welfare organization. for.

the poor country poorest areas of india so in this way or that we are providing right now to talk based on a modern serious ones. he will if yards away out of. danger. here in this bone the training has led to changes that used to be that mosquitoes and flies made animals restless and carry disease. today mosquito nets keep the best out. i used to have cars and fields for farming but they were badly affected by that cycle. not. because money and other sources was dying i had problems my 25 guards died. but the remaining animals are all healthy today. animal health one fears like

google money better are trained and provide medical care the veterinarian saigon the volunteers are given the basic kit with medications. and bandages. obligated then if any cows or sheep have any kind of problem their owners call me and i reach out to them immediately and provide medicines that. the w.b. g. has trained more than 40 of these animal health while in tears over the past year in india. nearly 4000 farmers have taken part in the training courses dealing with animal new aggression and care like. this with a new knowledge they'll be able to ensure the valve for of the livestock and their own livelihood as with. getting music and care to help bring about

change we traveled to the couple of us to d.j. in the south of me children here are helping their parents often farmers to raise that awareness about a new avenue cultural methods with the help of songs and one piece and the results seem encouraging take a look. just a few more stitches and this hand puppet will be ready. to start a play these children are putting on tomorrow and they have to be sure they know their lines. the play was written by participants in a workshop on sustainable farming and the children contributed some ideas of their own. that we don't. we have to protect the forest they say by growing plants that are good for the soil and then we cause less damage. than you want to. an hour's drive away in the mountains the scene of a landslide one of many there's widespread deforestation here there aren't enough

trees left to stabilise the soil with their roots they've been replaced by corn to grow corn you have to plow the fields but that loosens the soil which can then easily slip downhill. the nearest large town to just rami is top of us to siddhartha gautama grew up nearby he later became known as the border the enlightened one he taught that people are responsible for themselves now you are allowed to ask for help. so what is diffusion of innovation tell. the american n.-g. o. rare organizes workshops for farmers and local politicians on sustainable farming methods. that cover the ins and outs of organic farming and how to market the new products. the aim is to restructure farming here. is where the young property is have a part to play. when they talk about think that this is meant for the

children but when it is parents and they. love. this is a very powerful and long it's a very a cause. and. i think it would do a lot. back in the mountains my abound judie is the mother of garnish one of the young property is his at school right now while his father sprays his corn with insecticide he knows it's highly toxic but says he has no alternative. we know it's bad for nature and for our health but we can only harvest enough corn if we use the insecticide. we need new people you know so you know. it is. you

know produce. more and his wife likes me to such champions they now make an organic pesticide with cows urine leaves and herbes it's a natural way of protecting their crops from a range of pests and diseases like. if. they're still growing corn but now they also grow spices like ginger which don't require plowing that reduces the risk of soil erosion. the seeds are planted on the surface and covered with a little hay being ginger the farmers hope to earn good money with their new crops one advantage is that these plants should be able to withstand the expected changes to the climate. we can see that the climate is changing the rain has become less reliable. but ginger yams and tamarack grow even when

there's not much rain where. the big day has arrived for our young property is. first more talks about what he learned at the workshop. tells the audience how the new kinds of plants can help prevent landslides. at least half the village has come for the event including my about johnny. carson ganesh introduces the puppet play. the monkey complains about the destruction of the forest and the young girl and the cow explain how women can protect the soil with sustainable farming. a serious message. conveyed. i didn't know you could.

and neighbor now has more about it. perhaps we'll try. the workshop participants sing a song they wrote themselves to inspire enthusiasm to pursue the changes that are so urgently needed to ensure that people can live here in safety. i hope you enjoyed that story we had a national debate and we'll be back with many more stories next week until that the .

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