he does on policies and development to put the spotlight on issues that matter most . to security question marcia nice person. or not has been achieved so much more needs to be john and i feel people have to be an absolute truth my name is a mccutcheon and i work for d w. hello welcome to eco india a sustainability magazine that trains the spotlight and solutions to some of the most pressing problems in the world today and introduces you to change makers who are making this possible i'm sunk that i'm home coming to you from mumbai india so

little ahead of the show our refugee women and demi are working towards creating a lasting free world with a peek into a matriarchal community in indonesia sumatra. and how the city of athens is preparing itself against the impact of climate change. first a heartwarming story a group of undergraduate students in delhi is working with of gandhi women who are refugees in india to make meets pools and boards and to but most of the 11000 of gandhi refugees in india live in delhi project but the idea is not only giving these women a source of livelihood but also helping create a society with less up lost. in. the desert but beamish the on 30 they are already on their way to work.

the 2 women are of gone refugees. rhenish arrived in the indian capital 5 years ago with her husband and. her husband is unemployed she is the breadwinner it's a job to produce at the very. time. we live happy lives in afghanistan. until broke out there and bombs were falling up any event. my husband and children's lives were in danger. that spencer decided to come here. british works for the project. the students from delhi's kirori college set up the initiative for the help of the you see on the united nations refugee agency.

is basically an amalgamation of 2 sons geared towards through and. basically means their pencils and something that you can eat being edible your dances so when restarted are the project we would looking for all communities who require that invention are socially as well as economy backwards and really really had the boys i've met with access and you and got in touch with the un at sea island they have gone to a few g.'s. many of gone refugees live in the district of southern daily including banish she owns about $1500.00 rupees a month roughly equivalent to going to do us don't. make. this work is you. don't know about the concept of edible cutlery yet. that's why even though i haven't. working here for the last 3 years

the money is not great we get paid only when i was boys get sold that would be fair it's good that we are doing because we are trying to replace plastic. he hadn't been eating from plastic utensils can cause a lot of the shots. then we did place that we both made up for example it is a great thing. not just for people but also for the environment. the base aggressively includes white flour rice and of a protein some of the bones are chocolate i'm in flip off the production the kitchen has to be used within 15 days what isn't used can be bad the advil utensils decompose within just 2 weeks. to make him 1st we make the do and put it into the machine then we ship it and put it into the oven to be baked finally we clean it properly before it's meat waiting for some.

experienced groups have had a hand in developing the formulas. the food safety of the project has been off the should be approved by indian the tortoise. biggest principle that it's trying to work on is that i did catering there was a single use plastic and it was an average in fact that plastic is taking over the void and it's high time that you stop talking and start doing and when you're going to go out in the market and then mostly in the. placement of plastic what do you say so. a lot of potential in that idea so you've been pursuing that since. the world beers to be drowning in plastic waste in india online delivery services also generate $22000.00 pounds of it every single month. the students. enlisted professional help from the food industry to ensure they can

compete with conventional packages. initially when we started out we had a little problems going out there because it was a very new concept to the people but often successful of a miscreation 7 hours a week eating out to people like reduced events and in various qualities we were able to create a sustainable demand for the product. first there were language barriers interest had to grow to be an issue in asean have already achieved a lot of learning to manufacture the utensils then turning their hand to sales. growth in. we have also gone to stones a couple of times to sell before. the team makes all the arrangements and we had. one ball fetches the last one rupee. we also get

a share of profits then there so it. gave. 10 minutes india vandeman was one of the most challenging aspect we face with projects it was difficult for them to open up was because they're in a completely different world completely different country with no identity but then with various sessions with the community where we taught them their language had a little fun learning their languages and with the exchange of cultures you finally able to do work. on projects 1st customers is discovery greater noida it orders between $250.00 to $300.00 bowls every month they are mainly used to serve ice cream it is a stock. now we've all seen that heart wrenching image of marine conservationist pulling out lumps of floss to bags from the sea to but have you wondered what happens to. heavier plastics like spoons for

example but they end up in a landfill let's find out. if you order delivery for today it might reach you with a non edible staple disposable plastic spoons. an estimated 79 percent of single use items designed for immediate disposal to accumulate in landfills for are left as litter around us. to understand the environmental impact of these single use plastic spoons we need to examine their journey from design to disposal . what does the lifecycle of a plastic spoon look like fossil fuels are extracted with drilling rigs then refined often causing pollution and harming local communities and biodiversity. these materials are then transported to a factory where they go through a chemical process known as polymerization producing small pellets of plastic called nergal's. the pellets are then shipped to another factory where the spoons

are manufactured after which they're shipped off once again this time to distribution centers where consumers purchase them. but even before it's been used the spoon has already done irreparable damage to the environment spills and negligent transportation lead to nergal's ending up at sea and eventually in the food on our plates at the same time inefficient supply chain management means more fossil fuels are burned and more carbon dioxide finds its way into the atmosphere and that's not all just 9 percent of all the plastic that's been produced since 950 has been recycled. consumers typically only use plastic spoons once. after that they become a solid waste that finds its way to landfills oceans or incinerators. since the plastic isn't biodegradable it can remain in the environment for hundreds

of years we need to avoid plastic waste in the 1st place and improve the recycling system. having seen that the 1st question that pops in my head is is that a way to avoid plastic use altogether one of my close friends who tried to replace plastic in her day to day life tells me they're just possible but not easy to design as in germany you seem to have found the solution after much trial and error they have bio plastic sheets and bags made of save you which can be put into a compost heap once you have done with it and that's it well let's take the. packaging that decomposes after it's used. it disappears without causing any damage to the environment. researchers and designers around the world are trying to

realize this vision. among them a product designers katya instance ava's. the trigger for that work is the amount of trash that they themselves produce. with. the couple have long been aware of the issue. but despite their best efforts they're aware that avoiding packaging altogether is still extremely tricky. if the neon about 15 years ago we were standing in our pantry wondering why a 3 person household generates a bag full of plastic waste each week. and that's even though we're very careful this is. every day food items cooked meats cheese coffee and tea it all has to be packaged about 2 years ago there's a vast started producing composite of all film impacts made from cellulose from

what waste which decompose when they come into contact with bacteria in the soil in france italy and switzerland you can put them in the organic waste bin. indictment of in germany this isn't possible at the moment we're working to provide evidence that our film decomposes brilliantly in industrial composting facilities and together with waste management companies we're also striving to find a solution to the problem of how these materials can be recognized in sorting plants so that they can be turned into compost in germany too. another challenge is coming up with packaging that seals in a roma for half a year now spend savers has been working on a multilayered composite of all coffee packets. just like a plastic packet coated with alum in your it protects aroma and keeps the coffee from going stale. the new product is currently undergoing laboratory testing.

of you just. every foodstuff comes with its own challenges not serfaty cheeses bioactive coffee is a roma sensitive so every product has its own characteristics and they have to be tested i can't make any assumptions that's the challenge you have to try everything out and that takes time and it takes money because it's like course material could . but the savers have already won over many customers for their single layer cellulose foam for example vegetable supply is like sun mom when the organic farm packs its way as an open crates the heads of lettuce and other salad greens will to if they aren't covered monica some months which the box made of composite a bill from 6 months ago as the german waste disposal system doesn't cater for them some mom has come up with an interim solution. that customers can definitely return these bags to us and we'll compost them not all of our customers have compost heaps or

a composting bin but they can bring them back to us from positron it often seems like. the vegetable delivery fam would also like to avoid using conventional plastic for their potted halves but because the thin film used for the leafy greens would come into contact with soil and the pots it would start decomposing too quickly causing it to rip too easily. xavier's have developed a new film for the application it takes twice as long to come past due the new film decomposes in $12.00 to $15.00 weeks in industrial facilities in natural conditions it takes longer to break down the new original cellulose film so it can come into contact with soil a moisture we can package plants with it without it breaking down straight away. avoiding packaging altogether is unrealistic in today's global food industry but there are more and more alternatives to conventional petroleum based plastic film. box. shifting focus now indonesia is home to the voice of the

largest matriarchy from the to the mean unc about people here property families mean mainland boss is down from the mother to the daughter just like in matriarchal communities in care law for example hakim visited based on sumatra with 4200000 minnows continue to live in practice their centuries old tradition. she's the boss. so is she. and so is she. among the mean and care about people of sumatra the women are in charge. of our women are strong because in our tradition and culture they hold a strategic position where the leaders the moral guardians they're the pillars on the foundation for the women have all thora taken the ground with or what makes

this matriarchy even more unusual is that it's in a country where the majority of the population is muslim and the power the women hold isn't just symbolic unlike most traditional communities around the world by sons and heritage from their fathers here it all goes to the women are born. it's the woman who owns everything. she owns the house the property the fish poems the rice fields. everything to. advise me to sit on my stomach one. is one of 2 and a half 1000000 mean women she lives on the island of sumatra where she produces the most expensive coffee in the world. all civic coffee beans come from coffee cherries that have been eaten and definitely aged by the asian palm civet it's a highly specialized product and popular all over the world. so i also bought another yeah i actually started this business on my own without help from anyone

not the government or anybody else so. i started my separate coffee production from 0. to accept of the. i just thought if other people can do it why can't i. that's my motto that's why i've survived in the civet coffee business to this day. business. it's typically dominated by men. is the only daughter in the family so she inherited the house and fields she employs foremost from all over the region and determines the prices has self passed down from one generation of women to the next the 1st land of western sumatra has been a source of wealth for the people for centuries. young

people i. saw my whole lot younger so i think there's a lot to learn from me about women. from their self-reliance. from the respect for other women. and from their independence of independence. when mean and care about couples marry the man moves into the wife's house and what's in her fields most men come from other families in other villages opinion about inheritance is divided. from the guy at the embassy for i haven't really thought about marriage yet. that's still a long way off for maybe 20. minutes michael would have to go i think we should respect the traditions inheritance should go to

the daughter i'm. making as are you taking men should be leaders they should be a man. but in our culture it's the women who have the privilege and that's not right to. keep it like an icky religion says it should be the men who lead because women need to be protected that's their privilege and hate them of anything not that's the way it should be i'm not the only person with this opinion you can see now. through getting gutfeld. i often get into conflict about this with my family.

we're going to do our own there's a woman in my family who says men have no rights. young it's not that i have no rights we have duties to my mother it's just the inheritance that only goes to the woman what. i mean i certainly say from the threat of male dominance that women are in control they have economic power and authority because of what they own. every man on what about the house and dreams of having a daughter. and i gave birth to 3 sons are. now in india extreme heatwaves during the summer months have huge ship with cautions there's a loss of life in many of the genes of the country climate change is not a myth anymore and is not exclusive to only some parts of the planet big atoms for

example the city has to be with drastic shifts between extreme droughts and gave us the new idea stablished office for resilience and sustainability is stasis with looking out for nature based solutions to make athens climate resilient let's take a look at how it's going so far. the renowned athens acropolis seen from the top of nearby mount like a better us for athenians like a better us is even more important nowadays because it still has traces of woodland 80 percent of the metropolis is a densely built cauldron of cement where summer temperatures easily hit 38 degrees celsius climate change is also aggravating conditions in the drought plagued arid landscape linear mirah valleys had enough their rising heat and the long period of heatwave creates drought and we have problems because also we do have. a different type of rains these days also due to climate change we have shorter

periods of time that we have enormous amount of water coming down in a very short period of time so this creates flooding and flooding creates erosion so we have this double phenomenon of dryness and a lot of water which also. the land and creates land there over 3 years ago 40 percent of the areas annual rainfall gushed down here in only 5 hours and washed away most of the topsoil. athens is one of the european cities most at risk from drought and farce fires the deforestation of the slopes of mount like a bit as has disrupted the area's microclimate as well the downpours of recent years turned roads into white water tarrance now athens is responding we're replacing all the asphalt of the road that goes up and down the hill which is a proximately 3 kilometers taking it off and putting a special type of material that is what the permeable water is

a key element when it comes to cooling athens down that's why the head of the city's water works is showing a linear average antiquity the final stretch of a fully functional aqueduct dating back to the you 125 it channels 5000000 tonnes of water a year which until now simply drained. unused into the at and su is we tried it up to use it in the 80s but the quality of the water then was not that great so now that we have a very good serious system we can speak again about using the water of the hydrants architect not for drinking but for other non-portable uses like for example watering plants irrigation also washing roads or washing. waste bins so these are things that we right now often use drink

a ball water to do things that is actually a great waste the aqueduct is still intact here because it runs underground for 20 kilometers it's unique in europe groundwater trickles into it along its entire length which can be accessed at over $200.00 locations downstream the national gardens in athens is not only in a way says of retreat from the hot city's bustle it's also important for the local climate the aqueduct is already irrigating the gardens that in turn cools the surrounding area. the national garden has just launched a project aimed at cataloguing its entire inventory all 7000 trees and 5000 bushes with photos latin names and trunk sizes. sensors will also record temperature and humidity. the project's findings will be transposed across all of athens. it'll help to improve care of watering of trees pruning and to replace city

plant stocks we have about $90000.00 trees in street lines and we want to have for each one of them they there regarding their health their height and what kind of ed courses they mix or is it gives the city syntagma square with the greek parliament sits is the beginning of one of athens main shopping foreign affairs warshel will also play a key role in combating he linea mira valley is having 16 water fountains installed . you need say you need room areas to give them protection then you need water then you need to have public water fountains. so that people can drink water. water and woodlands to cool baking cities in athens and around the world.

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