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 make us who are making this possible i'm sunk that i'm home coming to you from mumbai india so i had a little refugee women in delhi are working towards creating a plastic screen but it is a peek into a matriarchal community in indonesia sumatra. and how the city of activists 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 can even do any project but the idea is not only giving these women a source of livelihood but also helping create a society with less aplastic. in. the desert but beamish the on 30 the old lady on their way to work. the 2 women are of gone refugees. rhenish arrived in the indian capital is barely 5 years ago with her husband unfortunately her husband is unemployed she is the breadwinner it's a job to produce edible got to marry. you have time i was headed we lived.

happy life in afghanistan. until war broke out there and bombs were falling. my husband and children's lives were in danger. that's when they decided to come here. british works for the drug project. the students from belize curious college set of the initiative with the help of the you see the united nations refugee agency. is basically an amalgamation of 2 suns geared towards through and through basically means your pencils and something that you can eat being at will your dances so when restarted are the project we would looking for all communities who require that intervention are socially as well as economy. and really really hit the bull's eye

when we met with axis and geo and got in touch with the un at sea island the of gondor. many of gun refugees live in the district of southern delhi including binge she owns about $1500.00 rupees a month roughly equivalent to going to do u.s. 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. the get paid only even i get sent to the fair it's good that we're doing because we're trying to replace plastic. heating and eating from plastic utensils can cause a lot of. you then replace that with both made up for example it is a great thing. not just a pig. 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 buried to add the bill utensils decompose within just 2 weeks. time you may get him 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 made very forcibly. experienced groups have had a hand in developing the formula for. the food safety of the project has been all fishley approved by in the in the cold case. biggest principle that it's trying to work on is that i do catering the was a single use plastic and it is an avid in fact that plastic is taking away 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. placement of plastic what do you think so. a lot of potential in that idea so we've been pursuing that. the world for years to be drowning in plastic waste in india online delivery services also generate $22000.00 tonnes of it every single month. the students of the list of professional help from the food industry to ensure they can compete with conventional packaging. 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. people like to be this event in various qualities we were. good. a sustainable

demand for the product. at 1st there were language barriers interest had to grow to be an issue in asean have already achieved a lot of them learning to manufacture the your pencils then doning their hand to sales. booking. we have also gone to store this couple of times to settle before. the team makes all the arrangements and we head. one ball for each of the last one. we also get a share of profits then they are sought. by the big. 10 mins india vandeman was one of the most challenging aspect. it was difficult for them to open up was because they're in a completely different world they're completely different country with no identity but then with o.e. various sessions with the community where we've taught them dead language how

little fun knowing their language is 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're mainly used to serve ice cream it is a stock. now we've all seen that heart wrenching image of marine conservation is pulling out lumps of floss to bags from the sea to but have you wondered what happens to heavier plastics like spoons for example so they end up in a landfill let's find out. if you porter delivering food today might reach you with a non edible staple disposable plastic spoon. an estimated 79 percent of single use items designed for immediate disposal accumulate in landfills or are left as litter around us. 200. stand the environmental impact of the single use

plastic spoons we need to examine their journey from design to dispose old. 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 ships 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 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 are just possible but not easy to

designers in general seem to have found the solution after much trial and error they have bio plastic sheets and bags made of said you will see which can be put into a compost heap once you're done with it and that's it well let's take a. 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. even though we're very careful this is. i'm 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 bin indictment of my 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 reconciled 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 multi-layered composite of all coffee packets. just like a plastic packet coated with our menu it protects aroma and keeps the coffee from going stale the new product is currently undergoing laboratory testing. of us 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 right course material. but the savers have already won over many customers for the single last

cellulose phone 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 monika's some months which the box made of composite of all phelim 6 months ago as the german waste disposal system doesn't cater for them some mom has come up with an interim solution. to the. 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 compost wanted us to have some of. 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 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 largest me think of the mean unc about people here property family name and land boss is down from the mother to the daughter just like in matriarchal communities in kid in law for example hakim visited vest on sumatra with 4200000 minnows continue to live in practice a 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. what. about women are strong because in our tradition and culture they hold a strategic position but now one of the leaders the moral guardians that the pillars on the foundation for the women have thora to. 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 were born. it's the woman who owns everything. she owns the house the property the fish

poems the rice fields. every segment of it really advise me to sit on my stomach one. is one of 2 and a half 1000000 women she lives on the island of sumatra where she produces the most expensive coffee in the world cup you also had coffee beans come from coffee cherries that have been eaten indefinitely to buy 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 lax above the. law. 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 farmers from all over the region and determines the prices herself 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. this. really i've. talked to my whole lot younger so i think there's a lot to learn from 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 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 from a. couple of minutes said michael. i think we should respect the traditions inheritance should go to the daughter of 1 . 1000 iraqi 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. religion says it should be the men who lead because women need to be

protected you know that's their privilege actually and. that's the way it should be i'm not the only person with this opinion you can satisfy now when i'm back down and have a. good getting. i often get into conflict about this with my family. you're going to be our 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 in the moments just the inheritance that only goes to the woman what. they mean 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 us and dreams of having a daughter when. i gave birth to 3 sons are. now in india extreme heatwaves during the summer months have huge trip with cautions there's a loss of life in many of the genes in the country climate change is not to me 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 drought and it's the new idea stablished office for resilience and sustainability is stoss quick 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 villages 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 leaves 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 fast fires the deforestation of the slopes of mount lack of better has disrupted the area's microclimate as well the downpours of recent years turned roads he 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 year 125 a channel's 5000000 tonnes of water a year which until now simply drained. unused into the at and sue 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 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 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 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 will 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 the city syntagma square with the greek parliament sits is the beginning of one of athens main shopping for affairs

warshel will also play a key role in combating he linea meter village is having 16 water fountains installed. you need say you need room 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. i hope you had many day careers from today is sure we'll be back next week with many more sub stories to help you make an informed choice for a sustainable future until then good bye.

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