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i had to show our refugee women and danny are working towards creating a plastic green what. 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 booms 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 within this up last. night in. the desert but beamish the on 30 the up already on their way to work.

the 2 women are of gone refugees. rhenish arrived in the indian capital in 5 years ago with her husband unfortunately her husband is unemployed she is the breadwinner it's a job to produce at a booth got marie. one faceted we live in. happy lives in afghanistan. until broke out there and bombs were falling. the other way my husband and children's lives were in danger. that's when they decided to come here. british works for the project. the students from delhi's korea said the delicious the

help of the u. . the united nations refugee agency. is basically an amalgamation of 2 sons script would spot through and. basically means your pencils and something that you can eat 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 boy's eye when we met with axis and geo and got in touch with the un at c.r. india gondor a few. many of gone refugees live in the book district of southern delhi including british she earns about $1500.00 rupees a month roughly equivalent to going to do us dollars. this work is you. don't know about the concept of edible cutlery yet.

that's why even though i have been working here for the last 3 years the money is not graft we get paid only even gets told to be fair it's good that we are doing because we are trying to replace plastic. eating from plastic utensils which can cause a lot of. very depletes that we both made of for example it is a great thing. not just for people. but also for the environment. the basic recipe includes white flour rice and of a protein some of the bones i'm in flip off the production the kitchen has to be used within 15 days what isn't used can be bad to add to bill utensils decompose within just 2 weeks. can you make it in 1st remake they 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 very 1st. experienced groups have been developing the formula. the food safety of the project has been all officially approved by indian the told us. the biggest principle that it's trying to work on this eradicating the use a single use plastic and it is an avid in fact that plastic is taking a world of oil and it's high time that you stop talking and start doing and then when you're going to go out in the market and then most and the. placement of plastic what do you say so. a lot of potential in that idea so we've been pursuing that since. the world beers to be drowning in plastic waste in india online delivery services also generate $22000.00 tonnes of it every single month.

the students have enlisted professional help from the food industry to ensure they can compete with conventional packaging. then usually 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 miscreation seminars in the teaching our people like to be this event in various qualities we were. good. the sustainable demand for the product. those dual language barriers interest had to grow to burnish and asean have already achieved a lot after learning to manufacture the your pencils then turning to sales. in. we have also gone to stones a couple of times to settle before. the team makes all the arrangements and we had

. one ball fetches us one rupee but we also get a share of profits then they are so it. 5 be. 10 minutes india than women was one of the most challenging aspect we face with project it was difficult for them to open up was because they're in a completely different war they're completely different countries with no identity but then with various sessions with the community where we taught them their language highly fun learning their languages and with the exchange of cultures you finally able to do. among projects 1st customers this discovery and greater noida daughters 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 plastic 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. a few border delivery for today that might reach you with a non edible staple disposable plastic spoons. an estimated 79 percent of single use items designed for immediate disposal accumulate in landfills for our left as litter around us. to. dan 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 to 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 there a way to avoid plastic use all together one of my tools friends or try to replace plastic day to day life tells me they are just possible but not easy to design as in general seem to have found the solution after much trial and error they have bio plastic sheets and bags made of said you know 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. for 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 apartment 2 years ago there's

a vis started producing compatible film and bags made from cellulose from which 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 been. indicted and 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 used 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 other men yet it protects aroma and keeps the coffee from going stale the new product is currently undergoing laboratory testing.

well you know if not every foodstuff comes with its own challenges not serfaty cheeses bioactive coffee is aroma 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 quite possible to be ok. but the savers have already won over many customers for the single last cellulose phone for example vegetable supply is like sun mom. 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 to 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 on what's on it just have them sit with. the vegetable delivery from 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 in 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 for the for the me monk about people here property family name and land boss is down from the mother to the daughter just like in matriarchal communities in care law for example hakim visited vesta on sumatra with 4200000 mean and continue to live in practice the centuries old tradition. she's the boss. so is she. and so is she. among the mean people of sumatra the women are in charge. about women are strong because they're not tradition and culture they hold a strategic position where the leaders the moral guardians that the pillars on the

foundation on the women have authority. 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 my sons inherit from their fathers here it all goes to the women from bournemouth are there. it's the woman who i miss everything. she owns the house the property the fish poems the rice fields. everything like. advise me to sit on my thumb at the bottom one. is one of 2 men on half 1000000 mean women and she lives on the island of sumatra where she produces the most expensive coffee in the world. most of it coffee beans come from coffee cherries that have been eaten in definition by the asian palm civet it's a highly specialized product and popular all over the world. so i asked about

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 civic coffee business to this day. business. it's typically dominated by men. who 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 herself passed down from one generation of women to the next the 1st highlander western sumatra has been

a source of wealth of the people for centuries. young. men hold. i think there's a lot to learn from our women. from their self-reliance. from their respect for other women. and from their 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 and on the village an opinion about inheritance is divided. and the honestly i haven't really thought about marriage yet. that's still a long way off from a good many. of them and it's

a might. i think we should respect the traditions inheritance should go to the daughter of one. as educated 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 trying to be the. religion says it should be the men who lead because women need to be protected that's their privilege actually and i think the market is the law that's the way it should be i'm not the only person with this opinion you can satisfy now. as i am. through getting gutfeld. i often get into conflict about this with my family.

we're going to do your own there's a woman in my family who says men have no rights. it's not that i have no rights we have duties but in the moments just the inheritance that only goes to the woman. certainly safe from the threat of male dominance the women are in control they have economic power and authority because of what they own. every man on what about a person 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 in the country climate change is not

a myth anymore and is not exclusive to only some parts of the planet dick athens for example the city has to deal with drastic shifts between extreme droughts and gave us the new idea stablished office for resilience and sustainability is style script 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 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 with 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 a 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 area's 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 false fires the deforestation of the slopes of mount like a bit of has disrupted the area's microclimate as well the downpours of recent years turned roads into want 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 a channel's 5000000 tonnes of water a year which until now simply drained. unused into the at and soo is we tried 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 are good 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

of the 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 since 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 trees in street lines and we want to have for each one of them date their regarding their health their height and what kind of eco systemic services it gives to the city syntagma square with the greek parliament sits is the beginning of one of athens main shopping therof in water will also play a key role in combating heat linea mira valley is having 16 water fountains installed. you need shade you need a areas to give them protection then you need water right then you need to have public water fountain. so that people can drink water. water and woodlands to cool baking cities in athens and around the world.

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