existed you could do is to. get my know my. family from somalia live around the world to. urgent assistance to. the family starts october on. the words growing population uses more and more resources every day and our lifestyles are becoming costly for the environment we live in what does it mean to live sustainably in such a scenario does that mean living a life of a black hole it's actually quite the opposite of hello welcome to eco india some thoughts are coming to you from mumbai if you live in india you know stranger to

the blistering heat across the country especially in the summer months for many of us turning on an conditioner is the 1st response to tackling this heat but this small action has huge implications on the health of the planet and that he based architectural firm is trying to popularize a new nor energy cost efficient ecan to shrink system let's see why this could be a game changer. night at this spot his village invested revolves around the traditional artifacts of the craft has been passed down for countless generations but things have changed recently as cheap products from china have flooded the market there's much less demand for. the members of the community however a proud of their tradition but it can only survive if they can successfully compete with cheap alternatives. you know was where i was was going with. as.

many people are still professional porters here where i live around 500 families make all different kinds of things or there's a good defender. changes according to the season but whatever people order we can make it. just. as well traditionally he has been used around india for everything from holding drinking water to cooling hopes this heritage and the potential of the urban material are inspiring architects across the country mohnish city put up who runs an studio in new delhi he's going back to the basics on his quest to find cheap and energy efficient solutions for arbonne architecture. as a kid i always used to like breaking things putting them together or trying to make something out of it. that some were translated into even in college.

i was very active member of this installation society would be used to make art installation and then like coming up with. my candidate forms and stuff because apart from architectural problems that need to do so there so it started with my interaction with art in a manner over the last few years money has been working on a sustainable cooling system it's called a beehive huda and runs on minimal energy it doesn't expel heat the way modern air conditioned it's to it was 1st made to help workers in fact priests who were exposed to hot blasts of the air from generator sets there are 600 employees working that area and this is one believes that right in the middle and in some ways it's really impossible to stand in front of it and even work like i mean so when we started working on the project it was speak summers and i could not withstand the heat for even 10 minutes so often when installing the final beehive you manufacture. we left it for like couple of us and then we went back to see it

off to a good amount of time the system was still intact and was working the people were like really happy about it the structure is based on biomimicry with a design inspired by the hexagonal cells of a beehive it is meta for around $800.00 parts recycled water is continuously poured over the structure which evaporates and was the surrounding temperature at the factory where the cooler was 1st installed it helped improve conditions for the workers. packing the view serious cynical that it was earlier the temperature would so high and when people worked there it was so hard that it. was being a start but they do use our parts that have been installed when heat comes out of the generator passes through the partisan. divide regrease cooler temperatures here are outnumbered by degree difference in. the last 15 years have seen some of the

hottest summers the world over and india's capital new delhi is no exception as the city reels under crushing heatwaves every year indians who can afford it are turning to air conditioning and cooling systems. is having to impact on them 1st its increases their electricity bill which is quite substantial and 2nd they hit this condition atos out from the house on to the road stand to into their neighbor's house is making their living more difficult so it might be cooling you down but it's heating up your surroundings and environmental research are of equal schönbrunn she has been studying the short and long term impacts of tarmoh stress in india. so with a hotter it gets more if you lose. more hotter it gets and there is no solution and this is the micro. but if you're talking the scale the energy used to run their

condition is massive and generation of electricity is still mostly driven by cool which is adding to the global warming and climate change. research is around the world are calling for a shift away from coal dependent and energy inefficient ways of cooling city put up once a steam and his clients to be part of the significant change the response was really . interesting for us because the kind of plan to be a working with no other kind of plan to. believe in a different lifestyle all together it's no more about taking cooling as a thing that's. just as a function but the whole notion of this the art of cooling is something that likely in a court of the imagination of certain plants that who like who like to take the stand and actually exploded from dimension. and studio displayed the latest

installation at an exhibition by you n.t.p. which strives to fulfill to modern day requirements the destruction with water cools the air while the vertical garden helps tackle air pollution. for danish kumar and his community the shift towards equal cooling has given them a fresh outlook they hope that the growing popularity of natural materials will boost their earnings and improve their prospects of carrying on the profession of their forefathers. and. i have been looking. for the last few months the team gives me a particular design and checks the quality of the final production in the last 3 to 4 months i must. have made about 101100.

and. you know visions like this may not completely replace air conditioners but death potential to minimise heat and energy knows no way to making cooling greener. now imagine you how do you as income to live on but instead of budgeting you spend it all in just 7 months and now you can only border wall money but i do what he high cost that puts you on your family in danger that's what's happening right now with the resources we have next door he will tell you where we stand when it comes over using them. the amount we humans consume is bad for our planet it's under severe strain in the 1970 s. people started measuring the damage being done to nature on earth overshoot day it

marks the day when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what earth can regenerate per year. it started out slowly during the eighty's we only used a little bit more resources than we had in a year but since 2000 nearly all resources have been used up after only 8 months this year earth overshoot day arrived even earlier and since july this year we humans 7700000000 people are living on borrowed resources for the rest of the year we're using more farmland in pastures forests and fishing grounds than we actually should nature doesn't have time to regenerate we're not only using too many resources we also produce too much harmful c o 2. c o 2 emissions are produced by fossil fuels industry and divorce station.

they've doubled since the eighty's up to nearly $40000000000.00 tons per year. air pollution and plastic pollution haven't been added to the calculation by the global footprint network the list of countries that are using too many resources is growing if we continue living like this how many resources of how many earths would we need. we would need 5 earths if we all consumed like people in the united states. we would eat 3 earths if we wanted to consume like germans and if we lived like indians we would only need 0.7 earths india has a poor standard of living the global footprint network estimates that the whole world population lives as if we have the resources of 1.7 earths at our disposal. but it's not too late just reducing use of fossil fuels by half could push earth

overshoot day back another 3 months. now when i look at that story i wonder is it really a week we could live more sustainably the promise of a good future has more stuff around the world who move to cities but many a time city living is not synonymous with sustainable living there are some amongst those who choose a sustainable life they consume less big who are their own veggies and they keep a tab on their carbon footprint we visited an eco willage. to find out how feasible it is to live like this. is the largest city in germany with a population of 3600000. 1.2000000 can squeeze their way through the hustle and bustle of the capital every day. but peace and quiet can be found a mere 3 hours. no cars are allowed in eco village see bin linden and just 150

people lived here founded 20 years ago it's also a no go area. moved here from hanover. it was the traffic and all the advertising plus the feeling of being hopelessly exposed to everything here we're showing how it's possible to live sustainably in germany and have an enjoyable life we live comfortably here but we consume far less energy than people elsewhere. to save energy the buildings walls are insulated with bales of straw the villages generate most of. which is also used to supply hot water but the village isn't only energy efficient they were also. food they don't use chemical pesticides and they mainly the old fashioned way.

so. it's more ecological to work without machines so it's the logical option and that's why it's better for the soil it means less soil compaction less gasoline less dirt and smell the texting. in the spring and summer you feel connected to all the growth and development and the connected to life as the soviet. most. till the fields and they don't use farm animals if you alpacas here are kept as pets. the daily communal meal contains no meat because it's bad for the environment and because the reagan's in the village incensed around 70 percent of the vegetables eaten by the villages. also grown by them and they're aiming to further increase that figure and

instead of being thrown away the leftovers a recycled is compost. the villagers are happy with the small range of food covering their basic requirements chocolates also stopped by the village store is a luxury. and today as she has nothing against city supermarkets as such. it had all the range could be smaller. of course i really notice the abundance of products and then i have no idea what to buy or what's actually in each item. if the item stopped by the village store all organically sourced and therefore more expensive than the supermarket counterparts but around the corner is a place where people give things away when they no longer need them like loads. most residents have jobs in the village itself as administrative carpenters or

gardens which means the money stains n.z. and linden. but not everybody could afford to opt in to the sustainable lifestyle even people in germany joining the collective costs 12000 euros building and maintaining an eco village doesn't come cheap. so's even linden isn't quite an eco topia it's a compromise solution. from an eco village let's explore the idea of sustainability at a larger scale pritzker prize winner balakrishnan is an eco pioneer he builds buildings to cause the least ecological damage with surroundings his low cost housing project in the central indian city of the 10 year is lauded world over let's take a peek at the life's work of this architect. noria center c.e.p.t. university campus you know i'm deborah. it's

a creative haunt for art students as much as it is for professional artists. it's not far from the gallery. half this gallery structure is below ground level but keeps things cool here even on the hottest days. d.l.r. yosi housing complex is home to a life insurance company's employees they live together with their managers in the same building their children even play together. the brains behind all these projects is 90 year old architect krishna doll she says buildings to be more than merely impressive. i go. for.

the. hairs with the natural bent. how it has a. shadow. is. created . dialogue. with nature. and naturally a leverage. his own studio mirrors that concept it's a mixture of traditional influences and those of his mental french architect. ways. of things. my personal experience in this case when i was there. do you want to appear before. it was a 1st for auto. and i. think

the wired wrong that. i did there were. and i got very good a very nice very. good. over the course of his professional life she has completed over 100 projects mostly situated in his home town. they include housing estates like art here are built for a textile company's employees. the retreat is on museum in southern germantown violent crime recently showcased she's work. amongst the exhibits a model of the iranian housing a state for people on low incomes in the late 1980 s. every resident was given a small plot of land with a toilet the rest they built themselves depending on their needs and using purpose

built modules designed by. now some 80000 people live here. the notion of designing your own home according to your personal needs is more relevant than ever right now in western countries as well almost one that cannot pass the housing shortage cities berlin especially are increasingly having to struggle with rising housing costs and it seems to me that does she has managed to combine a person's apartment with their sense of identity and a highly unique way. it's a meditation on how we want to live in the future how flexible a house or an apartment has to be the whole sign. and daughter cushion of kentucky who've curated the exhibition they selected his most important works together. some of the most important lessons from his architect for many students on.

today's generation is that his approach to participate free and open ended. where there are possibilities to adapt modify. she was awarded the pritzker architecture prize for his life's work his opus includes the institute of indulging as a repository for ancient palm leaf manuscripts it was a major challenge for an architect to ensure it maintains a constant climate within. it was drawing a sketch of the structure created by mr dorsey the special thing about his architecture is that its client responsive functional very simple different and is very attractive sustainable and mindful construction with constant reference to people and constantly changing needs principles which are firmly embodied in both christian and don't she's architecture. even consumption can be sustainable if you

consider buying used. to we went all the way up north. the city has a dedicated secondhand. gadgets. and the swedes are loving it just last year the mall made $1100000.00. tons of items into the last. welcome to the world's most sustainable shopping mall 'd all the items here are 2nd hand that means that also more affordable the new ones. customers at the recycling more have to enjoy it for a while for something that catches their eye. everything here is one of a kind. of. loose for the sound i love that. this is a record book. and you can find things that are not that everybody has some. something unique recycling like recycling you

don't want to buy new new things. i mean i'm just runs the electronic shop like everything in his computers televisions and my friends donations. 3 to no shopping mall in the swedish town of a school to you know is located next to a recycling center. people bring unwanted items of all kinds here anything that can be used overhead goes to the mall. and everyone who comes here they have an object of they come here to serve environment and help others to make some money like the rich want to hear to throw the retail it won't work with dogs without the social standing or like sponsibility. every day brings a new find. this is something life would have to look at. in

the workshop the team brings defective electronics like this television back to life. of the syrian born shop manager his work is about more than just earning money. we have a responsibility toward this environment so if. we get poor so it's not good for my kids and my grandsons and the future. to reach you know a shopping mall has 14 shops each one specializes in different kinds of 2nd time goods like fun books. sustainability is a major topic here more and more sweets want to know where and how the products they use and consume were made but most consumers have still prefer new products to used ones. one of the main focuses in trying to reduce the climate impact is to reduce the level of production. given in things. to sort of be really used in the

psycho rather than being put into a recycling process where they you also need fossil fuels usually to produce new things alex return teaches one of the many workshops organized by the more participants learn upcycling techniques and how to use various waste materials they can also learn about production conditions in other countries and how to consume more sustainably. we're definitely a part in challenging the. concept of what is. also challenging the concept of that even if we do our part even if we're apart in a consumer culture or. what we consume also makes a huge difference and what impact it has on the environment. than a few hours later in the electronics shop the donated television is ready to go on sale. hopes that the idea behind 3 to no shopping

mall will catch on everywhere because. the awareness the will you need to know you can work everyone and as i said i hope that it will spread all over europe the war and when that happens more and more people will start to appreciate the value in things that have been used before. now sweden the home country of climate activism. is definitely by noting the thought of the time to make the start towards sustainability is now i hope today's episode has given you the ideas however small or big to take a step towards a cleaner greener future we'll be back next week with yet another provoking episode until then good bye.

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