lem's clearance there's an abundance of my mobile material once again get. going. because of the world on fire starts august 12th on. our every day life has so many little things we hardly booker's the make sure that we can bore about our lives seamlessly from one thoughts to the other it could be a coffee cup or a stapler or a paper towel every day going to want to think about how environmentally friendly these things are if not these episodes will help with think about that because after all small changes to our everyday habits wouldn't have

a big effect on the and bob between living alone welcome to equal india somebody who coming to you from my home in. plastic a bit but a such a ubiquitous spotify life we now know that 8000000 tonnes of plastic makes it into the ocean every year and i'm green guilt often pushes us towards using people but research suggests of the making of the people bad for example results in 50 times more water pollutants than a plastic bag a mumbai based company is experimented with the sustainable or turn the tip for the wrong materials used in other beauty products. that movie grows wild in india and its large plantations also make it the world's 2nd largest producer. yet it accounts for only 4 percent of global bamboo

trade. a national battle mission has been set up to promote growth in the sector. one aim is to contribute to a more eco friendly economy and another is to promote economic growth and enhance farmers' incomes. or. in urban india some startups are attempting to bring back into the mainstream as a raw material for a range of household products. the 3 founders who wouldn't be equal in mumbai spend a year and a half doing research and developing this. it began when they were appalled by the amount of plastic trash in the city one of the sundays when i was a father to my brother. which looked quite fresh and. i looked into it and if according to going to ask my father what have you seen this before and he said it's

actually over chocolate which was discontinued in the 1990 s. so the fact that the sets away for so long. plastic and people are still the main materials used in india's packaging industry despite the known negative impacts on the environment. plastic pollution is a massive problem as one can see on streets and beaches across the country. less than a quarter of solid wish generated in india is formally collected and processed. the big industry also contributes to large scale deforestation. it's estimated that as much as a thought of india's land is degraded. the soil urgently needs plants that will help restore it and this is where bamboo could be an important role. a productive 100 percent green product. manufacturing is completely green that is nor sense of.

substance that is used in the environment. close to 9000000 people in india depend on bamboo for some part of their livelihood. like these women who use bamboo poles to build their oyster farm. if bamboo that is grown domestically is sold and used within the country and its carbon footprint could be kept considerably. in 2018 the government provided $2000000.00 to the bamboo industry to help it grow . the farm a store in mumbai it sells organic and fairly sourced product as awareness of the issues grow so does demand definitely the. use of

greener products yes the problem is a little bit about the price but i think people need to understand that it is better and better for. the health of the plant. sales i'd be cool have risen by 20 percent in recent months. its founders hope that more initiatives like this will find support and acceptance. that it always has to be a cooperative or environment special you know country like india where we feel that companies as well as individuals as well as the government have. to bring about change. source locally and ethically bamboo could carve a much bigger nice for itself in a carbon neutral future. a modern society is geared for more and more consumption consumption patterns result

of decades of. that sustainability chance well that's what. this concept of behavioral economics describes incentives that lead consumers to make sort of decisions let's take a look at some examples of this life. form and if you walk through here and then you have to turn towards this it will be better if you could walk straight to it. and it should be at an angle. is advised in the manager of this supermarket in ways to draw shoppers attention to regional organic products. this is a bit better so you come along here and see it immediately and now if we just had something like. something from brandenburg from the countryside perhaps a piece of wood. or. the manager is

not yet convinced. still wants to try out various things regional organic products also tend to be more eco friendly europeans buy lots of imported goods bananas coffee chocolate with a much larger c o 2 footprint. many people know that regional products are more sustainable but that doesn't necessarily lead to a change in the way they shop. wants to suddenly encourage consumers to think twice the approach she deploys is known as not. basically it's about positioning products in the way that people will be more likely to pick them up. who studied social sciences wrote the 1st academic paper in germany. could it be considered manipulation. that's a charge that one often hears but the difference between nudging and manipulation is that nudging is used for positive purposes because if you would. take

meat consumption for example an ecological terms it's much too high what kind of notes might make a difference here placing vegetarian sausages right next to meeting ones. people who are already environmentally conscious go looking for products that are organic and regional and they'll buy them anyway nudging is meant to reach those who don't pay attention to those kinds of things. now shoppers here will come face to face with vegetarian alternatives to meet this is an easy nudge it's evidently hard to redirect attention to an entire display is looking for some good props i think we're not going to have those i'd like it to be larger more eye catching so you get the message at once organic and regional. they explore the store room but don't find anything particularly appealing to use as decoration. talk of what else could we do. these are heads out doors to

scavenge branches will certainly evolve nature even in a supermarket he says there are many ways to nudge people to act in a more eco friendly way. for example if you could see how much water you use when you take a shower and how many daily rations of water that amounts to 4 people affected by drought it would be pretty shocking but that's an extreme example but the idea is to grab your attention and make you think about doing things differently. chris has come up with another way to not shoppers at the supermarket to consider eco friendly products. system for a floor hours of birdsong. this doesn't have an immediate effect the customers just walk by. cranes are knows all too well that a good know is not something you can pull out of thin air. in many

parts of the wood the pandemic has made the supply of water more difficult this is the spotlight moment for the local food network's a pot of gold hopes biggest urban farm opened and badness free simply it may not completely replace traditional agriculture but it could prove to be an important step forward sustainable living in metropolis. this rooftop in the south of paris with a year of spigots urban farm the aim is to bring about a new era of increased sustainable agriculture and the covert $1000.00 crisis has even more made the case for such a model. in our project incarnates what we in france call the word of tomorrow it stands for urban resilience new kind of city with more solidarity and proximity and local food networks of high quality. you know.

the plants are attached to vertical pillars or held in horizontal container as a 3rd of the farm is opening now with the whole project launching in 2022 half of the 400000 euros for the project were raised in a crowdfunding campaign. we are using so called hydroponics and our opponents methods they are based on a closed circuit where water and nutrients are being channeled to the plants and that allows us to use 90 percent less water than in traditional agriculture but this expert says that even during biggest urban farm has its limits likely urban farms will never be able to field and the city we also need traditional agriculture and yet the developer say the urban farm has another function apart from just producing fruits and vegetables such as strawberries and salad for sale parisians can rent $135.00 little vegetable patches for $320.00 euros

a year continetti dawning on the. national is that. many people in big cities don't have access to vegetable patches here at night ben they can reconnect with earth and literally go back to the roots dr levy. for now the developers are only farming on french troops but success here could take the model beyond france. flower was being followed and freshness and wildlife's in the us temples flour was offered to the gods as all of us but really a geeky they're often discarded by the temple authorities as we assist and end up in rivers where you think that because of the best decides the cabbie a couple based company lets these discarded flowers and those that insist it sticks .

i got batteries or incense sticks have always been an intrinsic part of religious functions in india. they're swirling smoke rings emblematic of hopes pres and deference. but these are aca but he's made right here on the banks of the river ganges or perhaps small special. they recycled from the waste of flowers offered it temples every morning as they burn to the ground they take a substantial portion of potential river pollutants with them. right this very place and user goes generally when 15 of us are going on there's a chick friend who had come to visit me in concord and we started talking wise the

war when you were. spoke about. issues because of the company responsible the issues of the band that we spoke about the c.v. and so on and then we saw a lot of people coming in and throwing the religious wisdom and then there was a small boy from one nearby temple which came and dumped all the flowers that was the point i realized. no one has ever done anything. in a pitch that led both. and karen cantore residents who grew up in this town along the ganges to develop an idea that is today a successful and sustainable business model. help us green works towards upcycling temple waste going by conservative estimates about $8000000.00 tons of flowers a dumped into the river every year. flowers

are thought to be completely biodegradable but the sheer volume combined with pesticides and insecticides leads to toxic waters one of the primary causes of hepatitis cholera and diarrhea. africa of the flags from oil that embers in the converse of that there are people that have a different route the optimizer that. is less. than their read and then they're distributed to different women now then they have. the thread the blackboard and then these women. and the 1st child sticks in their. chemicals like also a can lead

a removed during the process. we've been able to fly more than 7000 pounds over. and that means that we've been able to save 7 big. from getting it to go to work this. through. help us green currently employs about 79 workers predominantly women from marginalized communities many of whom used to work scavengers. who am i going with them but now i'm working here everyone appreciates my work and effort earlier because of the work i was doing no one respected me no one ever wanted to drop in at my home. but now everyone comes over whether i'm home or not i always have guests over.

care and your study and kit i've got a while and now determine to extend the flower cycle entrepreneurship model to other industries facilitating the employment of 5000 people by the year 2020. my hope and dream is that i start this this facility at every corner of the city and the country so that nothing goes we provide more and more than burma that you. are on them it's a big what i. avoiding plastic in every day life is not easy the plastic food a kitchen essentially it's hygenic and keeps food fish but of course this used plastic ends up in the garbage bin and can only be recycled with great difficulty if at all a joke on startup has now developed a force to build and innovative idea that's waiting to be implemented on the larger

scheme. 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 katia and spend savers. the trick of for that work is the amount of trash that they themselves produce. when. 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. 415 yeah

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 6. divisions and that's even though we're very careful this is from everyday food items cooked meats cheese coffee and tea it all has to be packaged apartment there's a 1st started producing composite of all film impacts 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 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 also striving to find a solution to the problem of how these materials can be recognized in sorting plants so that they can be turned into compost in germany to. another challenge

is coming up with packaging that seals in a roma spend save as has been working on a multi-layered composite of all coffee packets just like a plastic packet coated without a minyan it protects the right and keeps the coffee from going stale. well you know . 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 but the savers have already won over many customers for their single layer cellulose foam for example vegetable supply is like sun mom where possible 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 will fail 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 on it at times at times but. the vegetable delivery firm would also like to avoid using conventional plastic for their potted herbst 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 than the original cellulose film so it can come into contact with soil or 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 and box. electronic devices all around us today often extensions of fiber but a lot of these products die too and end up in the garbage bin i've had back afi wants to convince consumers to repair things instead of dumping them. i repair cafe in the middle of burlington laura got wrongs he has brought a broken waffle iron and wants to repair it volunteer michelle fish might be able to help he's a hardware developer and skilled at repairing electronic devices. used to do is one ohm is the electrical resistance when you apply one volt one amp throws now you will ask what's a volt i know what have pulled is nothing but good and small batteries have 1.5 volts the more volts the more it hurts. so you for some reason

it doesn't work anymore one time i had it switched on for quite a long time about a half an hour and then all of a sudden it was broken and. the 1st repair café was opened in the netherlands in 2009 the idea is simple you can bring broken electrical devices even clothes and furniture and on site volunteers will help you fix them the most important thing donations are appreciated but the help is for free. it's an idea that at least to go to gosh immediately fell in love with she's a villain based artist this is her studio where she hosted villains 1st repair café . then we've been very nice but you know they're. more like it. yeah. yeah you could both use like with the famous leg. listens more and more. like so i'm very 3 create tricks so that we won't buy

more stuff and then pick up a something where you can do something against that. in most western societies professional repair shops are expensive that's why many people tend to throw away broken items and buy new products instead rather than get them fixed this results in a massive amount of waste some 1200000 tons of electric devices are thrown away in germany every year like at this recycling center in berlin a lot of trash could be actually fixed quite easily. and now with there we have to. try in something. try to make a base cycle of these objects longer we use them like this use less resources.

at least to get autographs is convinced that repair cafes have huge potential she's even considering teaming up with the 3 d. printing movement then the volunteers could print plastic parts needed for repairing broken devices she says half of the broken electrical devices that people bring to the repair cafés are repaired successfully michelle 1st and laura got on z have figured out what's wrong with the waffle iron a fuse has to be replaced laura will have to buy a new one and come back some other day and then chances are they'll be able to bring her waffle line back to life. many of us want to know how to make sustainable choices but we may not always know where to start i hope to this episode has done to dig deeper into the worked on attempts of valuable to you in your neighborhood in your city is a leader with that court and see you again next week until then good bye.

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