constantly buying food clothes cars plane tickets you name it the internet has only boiled stored this trend human consumption is at its highest ever but what we often forget is that this indiscriminate consumption has a huge impact on the environment we live in is it a possibility to strike a balance i'm a consumption sustainable we'll explore that over the next 30 minutes hello welcome this is equal india and on some of that our. fuel is a basic needs today we need energy for cooking lighting on her house watching t.v. charging up by 4 and among so many other things we have little influence over how energy is produced but we can try to be mindful about how much effect reducing it's

a win win for climate change as well as the household budget we've been in the low income community in the city of recognized this and are now the drivers of change. vision of any other is on her regular morning rounds through low income settlements north of. the way now so that's not the i mean all i'm from my leslie my trust i'd like a few moments of your time these are all. make i mean. she is on a mission to talk to as many residents as she can about what she now knows about running a household more effort. meant she started making her both not

a visit. things were quite different around here ok yeah yeah yeah but in those days around 10 of the 216 houses in this neighborhood had metered like the city connections each of these houses was shedding electricity with at least 10 other houses and we were not so well informed it would put up $100.00 watt bulb even in the toilet because it costs just $10.00 rupees but the bus did not come with any reality it would soon stop working and we would go and buy another one for 10 to be she. took it upon herself to learn what could be done better she now works with a local organization that trained her how to conduct full scale energy audits to help enable other marginalized women make their households as efficient as possible . in 2016 india became the code largest consumer of electricity in the world behind the u.s.

and china the lack of access to information specifically about the effects of overconsumption is a contributing factor to this jarring statistic. cover new people didn't realize by their environment for changes they thought that the effects of climate change were actually acts of god. but i asked them if they felt this heart 10 years ago though they'd say no let us bellick a seat by the city this was just so i would then ask for the advice has it become so hot now you are big the. krishna ban explains water efficient lights and the effects of energy based in simple terms a survey showed that since 2010 the person page of the women here who actually viewed as rising temperatures and poor living conditions to natural changes or unexplained phenomena fell from 26 percent to 9 percent.

joerg not banned but it's one of krishna bans gunboats a family of 5 used to deceive a monthly electricity bill of $5000.00 rupees out of around $63.00 euros that's a 6th of their income. since the audit showed number one has to wish to 7 what a 26 want to be like and a one watt feeling found regulator bringing down her bill to 2000 rupees or 25 years old. apart from audit krishna ban and could be just families in the neighborhood to install a very right green energy products like sustainable model and natural ventilator thanks. and other who has benefited from fish not been advice is me not being a dealer who walked in the sweltering heat inside her home in. bonus like heat for years. we used to feel

extremely hot and i was restless all the time as it is a i just want to stay indoors i used to run outside to get some white paint has brought peace into my life now when i switch on the fan it doesn't feel that hard. painting the roof by with a suggestion made by krishna being the bright painter flecked up to 90 percent of the sunlight that would otherwise be trapped as heat it had a positive effect on the electricity bill to. ban and mean that bans families are among the hows and households who have made changes to their homes to improve energy efficiency since 2010. in dawdled they see if close to 5 could order a year that's almost $600000.00 euros. number. one of the biggest changes though

has been in the role of bimini in the community almost 80 percent of newly installed electric meter out in the name of the the man of the house which is often the 1st legal document some of the women have ever received. but i used to depend on my husband for money to run the household but now i have become financially independent and live off my own and it's i can decide myself then and how much to spend i no longer have to worry or depend on anyone doing that but. the amount of give us impressive drivers of change in their own life as well as in their community. sustainable consumption sounds difficult but it isn't we often have the opportunity to consume sustainably informing yourself about better alternatives and then

looking for them in your supermarket i would be a good start here a few good ideas to help you but that. worldwide c o 2 emissions reach new heights in 2019. over 40000000000 tons of carbon dioxide released into the air. transportation accounts for around one quarter of the emissions. biking instead of driving by train instead of by plane these are ways for everyone to reduce c o 2 emissions a 1000 kilometer journey by train releases 36 kilos of c o 2 the same distance by plane releases almost 6 times that amount. most energy is produced by burning fossil fuels and every year more energy is needed the prognosis is that the world will need 50 percent more energy by the year 2050. that means more air conditioners

lighting and computers for a growing world population. by using moderate temperature energy saving technology everyone can reduce their carbon footprint. every 2nd an area the size of a football pitch is cut down by cutting down trees and using slash and burn farming made for food production. but also the feed those animals need like soy and corn. buying plant based products in the supermarket is more environmentally friendly because they need less resources than meat products. that means more of the forest can be left to store c o 2 it's. a huge consequence. but doesn't have to be a problem and environmental engineer and

a citizen activist have come to the neighborhood and provides a symbiote connection between. energy production and excessive consumption. in the heart of. festering everywhere this neighborhood is literally drowning in it . illegal dumping sites are more than just an eyesore residents complain of a fellow. several cases of dengue have been reported in the area. bank and only mr pattiz he has hired so-called marshals to crack down on those littering or dumping trash the motional makes the offender pick up the bag he just threw away. this guy is throwing his weight here he hasn't separated it this is in the ground the garbage truck went to his house but he missed because

he woke up too late. to find. these. $200.00 rupees just under 3 euros for dumping household trash. city's infrastructure is failing to cope with the unchecked development and growth once known as the garden city bangalore now has a new nickname garbage city. some have had enough. every morning. inspects the trash pick up in the neighborhood of koramangala. residents are meant to put their kitchen waste in the green been without linus it's the end directly into the truck. but a chemistry teacher takes it upon himself to educate residents. get it they are. good at. it but. not.

so that is the only problem i feel. if i lie i need to be. you know. not. to have. it just because it along with food and then. not everyone follows the rules here all the trash has gone into one bin boy's my blood because. we have been and it's not. just separated and how hard is that. entrepreneur. encounters new dumping science daily. making but then again in. the environmental engineer has come up with his own solution to reduce the city's waste he's joined forces with. to set up

a bio gas facility. gannett waste from. the neighborhood which would normally go to a landfill is instead brought here as a rule material. the trash has to come in well suited otherwise it means high operational costs and less bio gas. today if it's payoff it wasn't as good. this is nearly 100 percent right there is about 5 percent but needs to strip the floor was an all learned with which are very high living in content but i would read this extremely good i mean this is now good enough for by i guess. the facility process is about 600 kilograms of local kitchen waste a day turning it into slurry. the actual plant is further away built in refurbished shipping containers on land provided by the local authorities. there is also

a business model. the bow by a gas is purified here and then stored in a tank. the resulting gas brand named carbon lights is sold. what we're producing of the name product is about 90 to 94 percent of meet him which means it's much better than. it can displace any fossil fuel. from abuse and so at the end of the day we're creating a clean clean renewable energy right here and. the biggest guy is a neighboring restaurant the gas is piped in from just 200 meters away. the restaurant is hugely popular the kitchen uses about 70 kilograms of bio gas a day which is also cheaper than conventional cooking gas. there are no official dumps within the city anymore for the $5000.00 tons of garbage bangalore generates

every single day. even designated landfills like this one on a major has it. attracts. the pollution creates metered again which is. some not a on has scaled up his operations to help keep more waste out of landfills and make his business. about 13 tons of food waste arrive at this plant north of every day from i.t. parks and corporate campuses. about 7000 jobs have been created here by a gas plant. unlike the facility in the city it also compresses the gas it's then bottled into senate is that can be shipped to customers across bangalore. our

dream is to have this across india with all. this business. it's a win win for the country as well as creating more jobs and creating energy security. so i'm not going on has already expanded into 2 more states he plans to continue growing the waste to fuel business model could be a viable way for far more indian cities to clean up their act. when it comes to food what does sustainable consumption actually yes it would be good to buy you produce food and it might be necessary to eat less meat a german company nor are they we going through this and licorice is supporting startups to come up with this and sustainable food that is. german can be manufactured cartier's that started a venture capital fund in downtown berlin the family owned firm hopes catches green

food will encourage hip sustainable nutrition trends and make money at the same time that's a. great mango coconut milk banana syrup lemon juice or powdered cold pressed not to pasteurize by heating the innovation in the sector is the pressure and so here's the world's 1st getting ready to see. the manager of the fun to spin a vegetarian since childhood funds food projects that she believes are forward looking and environmentally friendly bacon chips without pork or hemp bars and she's prepared to invest between 200002 1000000 euro's and this market may sound but especially for investors from the tech side the taste has to be top class in the food sector if the taste isn't great you won't get customers coming back for more sometimes we get companies with great ideas. the take plant based issues are

meat alternative seriously but then the product doesn't taste good and i. mention it this gets a growing market sales a vegan and vegetarian products are rising significantly in germany and 28000 the market was worth over 1200000000 euros. touches green food has so far invested in 8 startups among the firms they've invested in is the porridge maker. have. actually came across profited by accident they had a pop up store in the main train station and i walked past it on a sunday and tried it and found the taste fantastic i got talking to the founders and learned about their concept but we ended up investing because it was the 1st healthy breakfast to go on the market. because. it marked

in 2014 other schubert opened berlin's 1st part bar with 2 friends they wanted to offer something different from the bakery chains and i thought it's always easier to sell something with meat a breakfast with ham will sell people want that but there are enough existing concepts that offer it already we don't have to. $40000.00 portions of powerage across hoffer counters counters every month odes fruit and nuts are challenging meats dominance. then that's when we started we renovated just small kebab shop that we scraped all the fat off the walls and said let's start our parts business after a few months we took part in an accelerator program run by german rail they were looking for startups to make train stations more appealing it was mostly tech firms with a few food companies we were one of them and they were impressed by our part of their concept is simple take the oats that have been in europe for centuries and add

different toppings and for. just went on a shubert and her co-founders were given the cash injection from catches green food they made the leap to become a chain. were mainly a take away business with years and sustainability and packaging is a bit of a contradiction of pick although you could bring your own container and get it filled with the name of these questions keep coming up and we try to find the right answers and keep on growing. also by that select. vegan food is now a trend in german cities this shows where most begin food stuffs are being rolled out 15 percent of global market launches take place in germany closely followed by the united kingdom and the united states in spain in france it's only 4 percent so a market for wealthy countries but there's more to it if any witnesses i wish there was wider awareness of the relationship between nutrition and the environment for

such an important point and we need to become more aware of it i believe or just at the beginning especially in germany and in the united states people are already 2 years further along in terms of consciousness but. germany may be catching up fast but for the time being sustainable food trends remain a nice market for young and well heeled urban foodies. we all love buying new clothes but. we need to stop doing that. a company has found a week to make chic kilts out of the tongues of textile production india produces let's see how. they have this clothing design studio in southwesterly fabric waste. is seen as

a valuable resource the philosophy is simple we don't need more new clothes that challenges the current fast fashion business model something this label does with pride. the problem in the fashion industry starts from the fact that it's be used on a linear fashion model so today about 73 percent off garment 3 stages go into landfills because there is lack of reserve using the fabrics and the garments that we are working with. because this realisation that led critique and due diligence to other founders to address the problem of textile waste in india and set up a design label committed to making fashionable clothing pieces from textile waste or upcycling discarded items it's a concept that has been gaining in popularity in the textile industry all over

india as awareness rises. there's always a garment that comes out of it. but then i got to process is there's a lot of the jewels that happened so i could all dissolve that on the small scale you know or a lot of that is so much that has been produced and that exists it's about time that we start thinking about using what would i do that. garment waste is not the only problem in india the textile industry is a major polluter in india the 3rd biggest after plastic and paper. for india it's not just the garment with that you have to be concerned about it's the production rates that you have to be concerned about is still one of the largest exporters of both objects and on this in the wood so all of the waste is just as we're going to i think at that level is still something that benoit being able to do with the amount of the reproducing armaments that.

they'd bought a mental implications of watering and the situation is only getting worse by the day due to the surging demand for products use of chemicals the need for landfill space energy and water consumption. in 2015 or you know. in that fashion industry used up about 79000000000 metric yourself so that's that's huge and the single t. shirt is takes up about 2720 liters a flock of which is as much as most adults would drink and c.e.o.'s and that is a single t. shirt. then of course that. in the production. process itself which then impacts the communities around which factories come. due diligence from does used personal funds to set up the company 2012 now they have

nearly 20 employees the seeds of inspiration are saum while the fabric waste is being sorted. once all of the subject comes into this studio we start thinking about what kind of design can bring all of them together we start fixing the fabrics in itself so that they can actually be used for their to create the clothes that we work with. that's not all the all to produce bags and other items and the scraps from their own production going to making other new products as well. in india due diligence considered a somewhat expensive brand with garments costing between 50 to 100 euros. president saying. since it 1st set up shop doodle age has shown a collection every yeah at the lakme fashion week. you know.

the labels products are already available in 50 stores in india and also to some stores but thinks there's still a long way to go. not a fundamental level sustainable consumption means being mindful. with our environment and choosing to preserve that with respect i hope you will give some thought to that we'd be back next week with yet another working episode. in india and germany thank you wait much for watching.

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