earth a home for saving googling dia's tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas that protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global india's beaten by a series of global 3000 on d w and on mine. and brahmans up protection is good for all including the business sector if you want to know why our state to this special edition of. our melts i agree in lagos nigeria welcome to the show and hello from me. here in kampala yes indeed grim business is growing not just in africa but in europe too protecting our planet is

necessary to secure our future but it also makes good economic sense here's a quick look at what will be coming up shortly. how old bus are being used to make standby generators and we also show you how traditional recipes are driving business. and why equal to or is it could be a role model for green business in africa. we begin with a clever idea from ghana this west african country takes in the most he would for. one month wondering if something productive could be met and it should be lucky enough to buy cheese and soon enough he's green business idea was full. of. between 208000 batteries go into each power tube made by mark and his

team the batteries are themselves recycled from old laptops we test and every one of them the same us to go vote for the good ones growing and get there with her to work with them to. mark what tends to be a regular job is a lecturer at the university of energy in the true resources in the in west i'm gonna he set up this was 2 years ago he designed the housing for the battery on his laptop and recently began using a 3 d. printer for the high precision. once competed the pilots you can be hooked up to an invite to chad which then solves as an emergency backup generator that's having targets are and they were. ours for this or partial hers for her so this may scare the horses from letting it through power of. the power tubes have an

operating life of between 2110 years depending on the condition of the batteries then you just replace them with the used batteries. for me right from the cold which to my feelings and try to give them a 2nd chance of course the person i am wearing means so we go around scopes in school and these were a few city and there who are from a system called one however most of the ness of them are scarps and our star. capital accra has a thriving used electronics market but in other cities too such as. any people do a lot of take recycling. mark has found suppliers to view spread trees across the country and send the acco from started repairing electronics goods 13 years ago. he still has also become an employee of used batteries which he now sells to and

his team but. to me when i went with them i saw right away that this was a good business opportunity they only scale in time and what they want. we try to hold onto our ally in the 20 question they want especially here and no longer gives them to the scrum to cry not for. 10 power tubes have been sold so far they don't come cheap they can cost between 871500 euros. their customers include both private individuals and public sector institutions such as this health care center if this power outage they just turn on the power tube. we've been using power to for several years now in fact it wasn't big enough a tremendous benefit because there's

a power fluctuation in crimea especially in the house so since we stopped it it's given as a more powerful. want to cover and that's a cost thanks. to my sins in his quest to provide viable solutions to power shortages. all mistakes the environment into consideration but he's here and they were things we keep them well kind of work and it's we saw recycling them for their good works will bark to put the environment. the power to invent and he steam and need more financing in order to increase production finding old batteries will be no problem here. time for doing your bit this week in the suburbs of nigeria's capital abuja who just to be precise some women were brought together off cycle waste plastic bags what are they doing with them turning them

into beautiful handbags hand-woven and then machine so well guess what they've also turned it into a business owner living for their good and for the good of the environment. why are these women carrying loons through nigeria's capital abouta. tell used them to recycle the plastic trash that clutters the city and contaminates the soil. the easy way your organization supposed both environmental protection and female empowerment. they wanted to empower women to be independent how to take care of themselves without is dependent on the old ones. cleaned and disinfected plastic bags are cut into strips which are very woven into durable fabric to produce a range of

a tractor vitamins. the 1st batch what the fits in on with things they felt they needed little bats buses so. the idea was well a carry this thing this is like it's. a piece of old then it means used to embellish this box. the products sell for between one and a half and 4 euros. the money earned by the women enables them to support their families while also doing their bit for the environment. and how about you. if you are also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your bit. we share your story.

and what a wonderful idea plastic waste is a cost all around the world here in africa it's certainly. in degrading victoria in kenya the millions of people leaving victoria's show is a drastic impact only the environment is indeed sondra and waste is not the only problem overfishing has left more than 3 quarters of the fish species unique to africa's largest in one body of water under threat of extinction or new kinds of fish farms who helped on the situation. this vision took took is arriving in nairobi with the fish delicacy that was never so freshly available here . it's brought a load of to lobby 400 kilometers from lake victoria and. a new type of cooling box in the cargo hold makes it possible.

for what we had. used the basket kind of basket you would carry sometimes i would get punished and then again we have to look at not great maybe can be free and i guess i am a match for you only rushing because you want to get. pregnant if we can reflect. the pressure to lafayette comes from these fish cages in lake victoria. 5 years ago just off the island of them fung gano brother and sister team gilbert and michelle began to farm fish. they were the 1st to implement cage aqua culture here now they're harvesting some 200 tons of fish annually which is put directly on ice. we want to make sure that less species listed as that right now almost 60

percent to 40 to 60 percent of the fish that is quote. lost because of so what we're doing is we're creating new coaching for fish and on broken cold chain stretching all the way from boat to consumer rights that. this way it's it's good it's good. lakeview fisheries uses the latest technology. like this transportable cooler made by a finnish startup. it has a cooling mechanism which is patented we're using our technology. that keeps the box cool. up to 7 days. this sense is that able to detect when the box is opened and when it's closed and send messages to us and it isn't all the time to send the bulk of the whole time so at any time very aware of the freshness of the fish. the to lobby our hatched and grown in ponds on functional

island before being transferred to their floating cages. most of the people on am funk are no rely on fishing for their livelihood. yet. during the 1980 s. lake victoria perch exports were booming. sustainability wasn't a widely known concept back then and the lake was fished clean. michelle and gilbert and bayeux turn a profit with their farms and want to expand their operation. with support from germany's g.r.i.z. development agency they're building a new sustainably operating refrigerated warehouse to freeze their fish and. the sun is very abundant over here so what really makes sense is to be able to power the cauldron using using the sun and so we do not be affected by the politicians so

quite excited that mean you will be able to buy good solar and we're not too dependent on the unknown great electricity. the embryos want to turn their fish farm into africa's biggest and they're hoping to win the people of ghana over to fish farming. the next report is about a young entrepreneur who established a business when she was still a teenager rafael one produces not to also be a camel discover it's all young she uses a recipe handed down from a grandmother but how business model is anything but old fashioned she sells all going to production online and he's already looking for ways to expand humbug. every morning rafael in goal one goes out to collect leaves from the. o.b. to live plant commonly known as indoor leg here in cameroon. believes are

a basic ingredient in her 100 percent natural cosmetic products received over a file's business idea was planted by her grandmother and is widely used in cameroon in cooking but the elder generation also uses it to make so. everything began with my maternal grandmother who passed almost. everything. to my mother she was then pasta. in addition to running her business which she started at the age of 19 the young entrepreneur who is studying management an accountant at university she began the project with technical help from a startup academy. of course you do for you understand once you've collected out plans like that believes the next thing we did is waltz them and then leave them to moderate us you don't really see here after susie the little sis the muscle ration

is then must say the plug can be easily said into the tray some mixture. refined older sister michelle shares her passion for plants and helps out with the business so how do they know when the soap trace is ready and very soon the quest just a full moon duce you assume forms on top of the put a lot next to one a lot of them falls on top because that's when you know it's ready for the modes us to do that but. after being poured into the molds the bottles are left to cure for 3 weeks but if a lot of orders need to be filled refrigeration can help celebrates the process a bar of the organic soap cost the equivalent of one euro 50. for the time being rafael in go and takes the soap home where she markets and sells

the items through an online platform the 2 sisters also deliver their products to some of their clients themselves. today they have an appointment with a regular customer who owns a beauty parlor. in the east. it's very. well it's one. it's a 100. or a filing go and has partnered with the association of ingenious of africa a spot of a scheme to promote sustainable business in cameroon. she and her family hope that before too long they will be able to open a shop and in the long run their product internationally. every flush of a toilet in any of these homes behind me uses an average of 6 liters of water i

mean many cases that's water that could be used for drinking or washing up is said it's quite literally going down the drain 2 sisters in the german city of frankfurt thought that was a waste so they decided to develop portable toilets function without chemicals oist single drop of water it's a business model that could be of interest elsewhere in the world like many of africa's big cities. they're loading portable toilets onto trailers for each it's hard work. they're not standard sanitary facilities these are compost or no water toilets novato for short and that's the name of this company that's based in frankfurt germany and the only water needed is for washing your hands. we're preparing for a corporate event tomorrow friday night they need 3 wash basins

a toilets and 3 or and also. sisters 17 and elizabeth felt set up novato 8 years ago they're both former i t professionals who are looking for a career change. we wanted to do something that involves natural cycles and isn't too monotonous. we decided to give it a go so we built our 1st toilet we took them to music festivals to see if this was what we really wanted to be doing. stuff the answer turned out to be yes and the company is still going strong one of their clients is a camp for school students. the whole idea behind the campus to be climate neutral and eco friendly so of course we wanted eco friendly toilets meaning ones that don't use water if possible. and these ones don't use any atoll and no chemicals either what remains is biomass that's in no way harmful. and with

mr watson. for big events and long term rentals the company stops by regularly to maintain the toilets exchanging the containers and cleaning the surfaces the company also sells its toilets to homeowners and somewhat larger models for public spaces to local authorities. the principle is always the same. if you have been doing those things here we have the container there's a layer of wood shavings in the toilet already well after each use you throw your paper into the toilet. it's also can possible it contains organic material. so that goes in. and then you take some more shavings and throw them in. as you know that's how it looks clean and that binds the odor so it doesn't smell or rather it smells like wood shavings. and that's it.

look at she never runs a cafe in frankfurt. a compost trial it was the answer to all his problems because the cafe isn't connected to the sewage system he's been renting a toilet for 18 months. we once saw one at a festival in downtown frankfurt and thought that could be really useful under certain conditions interesting approach to waste management it's great and people seem to like it and. what they retrieved from the various rental toilets and up in a big container on the company premises which is taking to the composting plant every 2 weeks 17 says this system makes much more sense than flush toilets. the problem with flush toilets is that they use water to transport the waste that's a very bad idea the water becomes permanently polluted and the treatment plants can't fully purify it again that's why the. novato still operates on

a small scale compost trial that's in other water free alternatives don't get work in dense urban settings 17 thanks and that's very unfortunate. well mournin really got hormones and drug residues end up in our rivers and lakes along with plant nutrients that's a problem because resources like phosphates are needed for agriculture. even if all that goes into the sewage plants and the residue gets burned it's gone forever. it's expensive to recover phosphates from waste water in sewage treatment plants novato is one of several small companies in germany that manufacture compost troilus they might not yet be able to compete with conventional toilets but 17 feds is certain that we won't be able to use drinking water to flush toilets forever. now let's head to the job a national park in northern botswana also known as the land of the giants it's home

to the largest elephant populations in africa but that's just one reason why it's extremely popular to the taurus that's right and unloads in the park once visitors jumps up and waves life in oz not sure a city now it's possible that is why it's become something of a pioneer in a move bt hopes this could be a role model for businesses across africa. that show be river in northern botswana forms the country's natural border with namibia while fishing and agriculture dominate on the namibian side botswana has put its side of the river under protection but it was 50 years ago and my chilled me botswana's 1st national park early morning is perfect for watching wildlife. that might live in the sky beautiful. 70000 jobs in botswana depend on the

tourists to visit the country's wildlife reserves but for goby much easy working as a park ranger is much more than just a way to earn money. their nation together with the i'm in los means everything in means everything to what some of us tourism is so close that mission is the most important thing we have to level and the most we have to protect the environment and i'm happy to be one of those people that do that in our country. the high pitched whine of an electric motor this game here is one of the 1st electric safari vehicles on the african continent and besides e-cards cho became large also boasts a fleet of silent solar powered boats and besides that it's also managed to cut down on 95 percent of its waste and garbage. running if you're tourism and focusing on it. is going to be paramount you're traveling these days

are becoming also more responsible and they would like to make sure that if they do go on holiday that they do support sustainable holiday destinations and operators. with $2000000.00 visitors every year botswana's tourist industry ranks 2nd after diamond mining conservationists around the world commend its completion ban on hunting and fierce stance against poaching across africa hunting and the growing human population by forcing wildlife out of their natural habitats many of the most fabled species have been driven to the brink of extinction. conservationist robert sutcliffe who collaborates with the chubby game large is worried. even in botswana road construction poses a serious threat to wildlife. one of the main

reasons is habitat loss. of elements around whether there is being. an. area there for farming development like this and cosigning the question these animals out of the area have. been 2012 chhobi river and its national park became the center of the curve and go some b.c. trans from t. a conservation area this is the home of one quarter of the global population of endangered african wild dogs. it's africa's largest reserve and spans 5 countries. the aim to enable animals to migrate naturally and freely. if it is paid off while giraffe numbers are dwindling in other parts of africa here but still numerous. that it's so important that we work to try to conserve

this population that this could be as a stronghold for for tara and it's a lazing to see them moving into zimbabwe moving back into good soil. there's no barrier to that to consider which is wonderful to see. but roughly 5 percent of g.d.p. eco tourism is still in its early stages in botswana but the sector is growing fast providing a steadily increasing contribution to the wellbeing of the country and its people. but when a new mall is on the environment unprotected and a bit of money can be made on the site that's all for these special edition of offical on green business is time for me to sign off one else from kampala in uganda. and buy a buy from me to here in lagos nigeria i do have you join us again next week so dan stay well and be sure to write to was on our social media platforms see you sit

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