or visit our web site dot com. our energy needs are shooting up every day heat electricity and water are all things we can brag about at home but producing these utilities emits carbon dioxide and contributes greatly to each of our carbon footprints over our lifetime what can be done to reduce our emissions and make our homes more sustainable that's what we'll explore to be hello welcome to equal india. coming to you from mumbai over the last century rapid industrialization and urbanization made sure our whom listen less in sync with the natural environment we live in many of our building practices used over time harmed me instead of helping you try for an architect we met in

delhi is favoring the path to make our homes eco friendly again. the new delhi skyline is a mixture of modern skyscrapers and energy intensive poorly designed constructions . carbon emissions from buildings are often neglected from the climate debate but in india buildings alone are said to contribute to 40 percent of energy related carbon emissions. has been designing sustainable functional buildings for over 20 years. he says the need is now urgent. but there are still a lot of misconceptions about what green building design really means. the biggest myth is that people believe that it in home is one that a lot of green plants you put in a lot of plans you know lawn and glass it becomes pretty which is not so and again

willing it's actually green because it respects nature and it. kind of uses the replenishable sources resources and reduces various stages of uses consumption and we recycled a lot of materials. one of the valves designs in new delhi is famous for being india's 1st 5 star rated green home called green one. the home has been certified by research and policy organization the energy and resources institute. the large windows provide lots of not to the light while double glazing adela to be a new feature in india insulates the building keeping it cool in india's hot summer has. no valid work with green one or no pressure. to make his home sustainable. one important factor for going green

was sourcing local materials. next door there are other identical people out there. same size and those houses have cost war they're much more than my house why because they have us and on a lot more expensive things they have for example italian model of a baby or fittings are getting very very expensive finishing so actually down outlet my house less than those poles. the house also generates renewable energy and harvest rain water. today. it is able to capture 75 percent of its water demand and can also save up to 40 percent of its power. but what explains that these features be off over time. i think it is still worth it if you spend 10

percent more or 15 percent more and after 5 years it pays for itself and then after that it runs virtually free of cost and you are giving back to the future generations you're giving back to the environment we're now coming into the concept of you know 0 carbon exit or buildings which are going to you know give back more than they consume i think that the needs of the are right now. not at the moment india has around $1400000.00 modern homes that are built with the green concept which constitutes less than 5 percent of all residential properties. the indian green building council hopes to take this number up to 10 percent by 2022 and some states have already begun giving more incentives to green certified constructions. however this statistic excludes the countless temporally homes and those built by hand in rural india to dish will homes that often green in their own

right. be. inspired by or instructors that history has to be studied because historically what people have been naturally it is known that they are the best structures and that what we do is we condemn. a bit so that we can use the same materials but in a more contemporary we're using modern technology so that it is of value and so that it's easier to maintain it to be. more vulgar innovated his own house in the year 2000 he was inspired by the traditional methods of reducing and building based on the environment are you. all the broken barriers that came out from toilets so all that were broken and used in the form of a pack and since a lot of them were light reflects a lot of heat as well. more people can now afford the initial investment and more

indians are getting conscious about the impact of their choices on the environment . they strongly feel that just in ability has to start from home and you have to adopt a sustainable lifestyle before you want a sustainable and green building so i think their consciousness has come in and pandemic or not this really pick up but i am sure that this. situation we have been receiving a lot of calls from clients saying that does simply fire homes letters keep more open areas let's reduce the built up area let's go in for more green measures let's go in plant more trees because they help in you know taking care of pollution as well. as the link between personal choice and the environment becomes clearer architects like this need will only continue to grow.

now like we just saw using solar panels. but installation can be costly and panels are not all these efficient in converting sunlight into electricity what if we could use that in building facade to generate electricity a university in germany is looking at ways to do just that. photosynthesis on our planet dates back almost 3000000000 years today's plants harvest the energy of the sun with the help of a green pigment cond chlorophyll and there it absorbs sunlight to produce chemical energy which enables the plant to grow. this energy is truly green. at the university of consul scientists are trying to use the same principle to generate energy a team of architects artists scientists and designers are working on

a building material that will transform sunlight into electricity like a solar cell. the basis of the system is just ordinary concrete 2 the researchers mix it with graphite to make it electrically conductive when it has hardened it can take on various electronic functions acting as a light switch for instance. if i could as an artist tossed into an architect they came up with the idea of using conductive concrete to generate solar power it seems like you have missed many of these what you see here looks like ordinary concrete but what's special about it is that it's sensitive to the touch as you can see and that's because we've made this concrete capable of conducting unlike tricity and this conductive concrete is the basis for our solar concrete. to give the concrete the desired characteristics the scientists

spray on various layers of colored liquid the result is a sensitized solar cell that produces electricity through a kind of artificial photosynthesis the order in which the wafer thin layers of color our plight is crucial. if you combine the layers correctly you end up with something that functions like a photovoltaic. one layer contains dye pigments when the sunlight strikes them electrons to released and current starts to flow. to improve their di sensitize solar cells the research is conducted long term measurements in the lab a single solar cell provides just a few volts of electricity if you cover it with your hand. the current fall sharply and rises again when mike hits the solar cells. the cells current efficiency is 5 percent that's twice as high as it was when the research started.

solar concrete are discrete is so interesting because it's really easy to produce it's environmentally friendly and can be used on large surfaces and maybe one day in the future all the smooth flat surfaces in the city could be used to produce electricity. couldn't the more cells that are a fixed onto a building's wall the more electricity it can produce to do this the individual cells need to be interconnected under ideal conditions a surface area of one square meter could generate 20 watts of power. now the researchers want to take the concept to another level they have developed prototypes of façade robots that could in the future scale the outside of buildings and print solar cells on them in 5 years they hope to roll out their solar concrete so it can be used to construct new buildings and upgrade existing facades.

that's inspiring. like me i'm sure many of you have wondered what do you do about all the plastic use and dispose on a daily basis we've all seen the headlines that tell us how it $1000000.00 of plastic makes it into the ocean every year but is that an eco friendly returning to the plastic available to us a scientist in indonesia may have the question. plastic waste as far as the eye can see here north of jakarta a grim normality in indonesia as much as 3000000 tonnes end up in the ocean every here. and that's why nobody more your know wants to change her aim keeping the seas clean his solution see wheat. the green weeds not only filter the water of unwanted talks and encourage biodiversity

. they also are an alternative to plastic packaging. how can we solve it if we do not have something to replace this plastic because of course we cannot go back to. our eggs him. or live without plastic as a picketing so we have to think about this in fundamentally friendly picketing. like the one she has come up with. the sheet here is a result of 10 years of research as a food scientist financed by institutions and grants it's her pride and joy she uses a red algae that has a special polymer that makes products make from it very pliable the foil can be kept for 2 years and it even dissolves in hot water practical for popular products like instant coffee over 200 companies worldwide are testing the foil and though

it's edible you don't have to eat it. everywhere on the garden and it will be fabulous and for plants or death this story is. there and it is not popular with the street. not remotely honest atlantic beach there are plenty of sea weed farms in her country indonesia is one of the world's biggest producers of seaweed around 200000 farmers work under and above water like up to seclude. he cultivates 300 lines in pang gang one of his clients is no more ya know. in the past he was financially unstable. but now his take home pay is much more secure. but i want this thing and i mean yeah. he said it's silly the family is full of promise we hope it will

enable us to pay for the best possible education for our children. later but i want to much more profitable than working as a fisherman specializing in. we hope that see we will always flourish here and that we can maintain its quality here this seaweed business here is often a family affair the women tie the seedlings to the lines and to take care of the finances not the more you're not teaches them the business side of things to gain independence. and meanwhile the men are responsible for the cultivation and harvest around 2000 families supply for millionaires by a plastic she regularly meets with the heads of communities to exchange the latest production numbers to pay fair wages she cuts out middlemen.

the most important things that. drive me to. this is about. so they have access their basic needs so some of them also have the 5th of human trafficking so i think it's fair. to help them to improve. when the pandemic has eased not the more your know will need more suppliers to scale up production farmers like. pits primarily big food chains and cosmetics distributors who want to see their products wrapped up in seaweed demand for plastic repackaging is growing and she's using a raw material with massive future potential. it's not just

the energy. inside our homes that have an impact on the what we use to build our houses and apartments we take support but there are alternatives that are more environmentally friendly than others we visited a home in england made entirely out of a material that many of us commonly associate with why. you can use cork for wine bottles or to build an entire house this one in eastern england is actually made completely of cork and it's entirely sustainable i've always been slightly dissatisfied with things that we typically build with especially in housing concrete blocks based mortar plastic foam insulation the whole collection of things which and up. quite so the negative impacts on resources to. helen thomas team experimented for almost 20 years cutting interlocking cork blocks

until they found the best structural solution $1268.00 blocks are slotted together mortaring. alone holds them together and no additional insulation is needed. that does have a smell all of its own a bit like inside a cigar box. 44 square metres of comfort and security modern in a cave could once rather like in an ancient mayan temple. has long been news and building facades. this holiday home was built in 2007 in northern portugal the habitat of the cork oak. time has left its mark on this house. course and chilling with the environment moves in changes color that's exactly what she likes about it. as it's rained. and it's wet here and this

one is behaving just as we expected so these chalk one brown color it's the color of the reaction to the. wetness of the atmosphere it's very sensual material it follows the seasons it changes through and through and through the year. a tribute to portugal's national pride. it has the world's largest korku forest it's a paradise of biodiversity and a boon to the climates. what is going to lose because cork has a unique system for each dawn of course we retain $73.00. to and is that 3 species that we don't cut we just feel the bark of the tree. the trees can be up to 200 years old

the core can be harvested every 9 years when the bark grows thick enough to be carefully cut. bottle coarser increasingly replaced by metal and plastic stoppers the oak is in decline. so the rediscovery of cork as a building material is welcome. its look is also in line with current trends. you don't get to put something on the outside of your house if you don't like so people 1st have a visual and this big satisfaction with the product it is at the same time a roost the contemporary visual. now hundreds of constructions using cork have been built private homes doctors practices schools. but there's never been a building made exclusively of cork like the house in eaton. matthew helen is pleased with the result and given the almost 0 carbon footprint he'll certainly be

able to sleep with a clear conscience. one of the go to options across the world today when it comes to building faster affordable homes is shipping containers they've been used to build hostels hotels restaurants and even makeshift schools but skeptics have sometimes questioned their feasibility as a sustainable building block a design a dual employee seems to be finding solutions to tackle the skepticism by providing a more eco friendly otoh native. not long ago this daycare center urgently needed to extend the building and decided to try something different opting to use discarded shipping containers not do the stealing boxes how's the playroom for children we have to learn my geography and incidentally also about how to live sustainably.

i was searching for something that can be quickly constructed and if at all in future we want to change something then that option is there because it's a mobile you kind of construction. and doc about run the company that provided the containers. defended the studio alternatives in 2016 to design and build homes work in space and just about anything that can be contained within full bore all using discarded shipping containers. the motivation that we have to work behind this is also a big environmental factor where we feel that nothing should go waste and we should be able to work with all kinds of material that we have around us so as humans we

have created so many complex. 20 to us and that we ourselves don't know what to do with and it is just ending in life and. since 1956 shipping containers have been the standard rail forwarding freight built with corrosion resistant steel they're used for crossposting before about the years after disputed the sit in junk yards waiting to be melted but melting shipping containers uses $8000.00 the globe what our finance repurposing them into buildings requires just 5 percent of the vote. if you like to say you're following the guiding principle of creative reuse the partners with keen to show you what's possible. so the design and build a home for don and a family made and die early out of scrap and 3 discarded shipping containers.

so the entrance door is made with all the windows and. when ones who enter this house is made of it. the 25th the day known as converted into a 2 bedroom house as a kitchen sink cum wash basin so with the distinctions of keeping the plumbing in one a good thing you know. the effect of come up with the wash basin something made out of all these bad lead water can be used even of the size. of the blue house at a cost of 17 block rupees or 22000 euros has served as a show to convince new buyers for an attractive yet cost effective and environmentally free living space. shipping container it can be up to me does the it needs to be created to eliminate exposure to toxic chemicals and

also to prevent trust the studio all done to spokeo the containers locally from a boat in mumbai each one costing up 200000 rupees $1300.00 euros a typical container home takes about 3 to 6 months to make and can subsequently be transported to any part of the world. that has a much lower carbon footprint than homes built with cement for example which is one of the biggest producers of carbon dioxide worldwide. but as yet these homes made from discarded containers on a still something of an experiment rather than a go to housing solution. this becomes mainstream in terms of acceptance that people think that reuse is not because i can't afford it but because it's making us to take an environmental sense so to be achieved that probably you know it's just in the in that zone where we're

trying it out. the designers have built 16 container homes so far and saved close $220.00 tons of steel. and perhaps even more important that is spreading the word of rio de lys dition and eco friendly constructions amongst the youngest in society. i hope to visit the thought has given you a sense of how people around the world are making sustainable choices when it comes to been living spaces and i hope you had many takeaways from it we'll see you again next week until then stay safe to good care of your loved ones and yourselves in the box to.

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