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is. the word salad with one of the biggest composers of all time i can't begin to imagine a world class horn player centralist on a musical journey of discovery. without. a start september 16th on t.w. . around half of all textiles are made from cotton and although it's a natural product the wasps gala which we call it the a level some also water it needs often means that it's environmentally unsustainable and yet we need to cotton at least we think we do and are the unsustainable textiles too so how do you make them better for the environment
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that's what we discussed today hello welcome to equal india. coming to you from my neighborhood by india is a main thing. 60 years ago the dalai lama set up government in exile. in the state of hear much information but globalization had the same effect as in the rest of a sustainable fashion beeban is now working to everybody a lot to mollenhauer new ones that reflect the mix of cultural skills and creative talents of both tibbett and india. designer tenzin and. share their love for traditional local and indigenous textiles . tenzin is visiting his weaving workshop makes a traditional fabric but it's slowly disappearing and then seen one story vibrant
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i'm so. interested about. all this and now when you go out you don't see this. and. an ideologue. no more you i mean you don't get in the market you know scene was 5 years as he was shuffled into a large group of tibetans heading towards india he was part of the 2nd wave of tibetan refugees fleeing chinese persecution. his parents a stayed behind while he was scattered across the himalayas. arrived and loaded guns down on the indian border with the debate and reaching led by the law and then buddhists were granted political asylum here in 1959. gunge became their largest settlement in india. grew up he watched the town cross for style's began flooding the market at that time you know the new good. the whole street is like
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a very interesting every shop is different they have a wood and cross they have. like so many hand. things happening here and now if you go up. you see all this things that we import from china. everything is chinese now. to bring back the mcclure guns or the childhood benzine found it shot a shop selling sustainable i mean loads they use only locally so roma did award environmental pollution and promote traditional graft and design the company employs mostly indian artists from the surrounding lawn tennis region. should she come out as a cutter who works at shop and is from the community a nomadic story tribe native to her much of predation state. the
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goodies the struggle against radio will ability of cheaper sympathetic alternatives in a fast region. that are very difficult in need of a harley or god these red entirely dependent on dad herds for their livelihood including my own grandparents but it is much less now. in ordinary times the god the community into livestock they wore clothes made out of their sheep so this fabric was god but. kumar says integrating with typical and other minorities has deepened his connection with his own and other cultures and their leisure. to millo getting 0. and i started interacting with there but i did not know much about them their culture and traditions. but now i feel like we are like
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a family that works together. but we have slowly started to learn more about each other's lives. to this brown says he has learned lessons not just about the n one mental benefit of going to look but the social and cultural benefits too. in the beginning i thought it difficult because different language to open but i do . i mean it's nice to having a different background different culture. is. created more. you know will and bloom and to the local people and really said his factory. as well as. don't depend on the big companies. in hopes that more people will eventually move
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away from cheap imports and learn to appreciate clothes made locally that bring together cultures and how many across india. drive cv fish skills and assad can you imagine using these peoples. well a designer in london and his joy just that and he's not the only one looking for inspiration in nature to make unique creations but also has to be about. there's something of the sea in the air these lampshades are made of dried seed stretched over the wire frames. and fish scales have been worked into the top of this small table. people think it might smell but it doesn't because the ones. just look like fish scale
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london based designer near me use sand for his desert storm lamp red cabbage for the intricate veins of his wife and seaweed for the marine light lamp shade. the native israeli has been experimenting with natural materials for years to find some of his materials at the produce market in 2010 year by year he started his design studio in london area he sells his pieces and limited editions to private clients around the world. created the marine life by. stretching with seaweed over the shades wireframe. being prepared more willing to accept the fact that you can have like lamps or other products made of this kind of material we think what's happening in this world is making people understand that we need to start using this kind of material
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instead of artificial material plastics i hope so that these kinds of materials can become something very common as other materials that are not very much benefit to the environment. designers the world over experiment with natural materials berlin designer. uses birch bark familiar from her native siberia for her creations traditionally the bark's outer layer is harvested once a year this way the trees don't have to be felled and they're left on harm. waste products from industrial soft wood production become raw materials in the hands of latvian designer tomorrow. she turns into old walleye fabric to create stools and products. from ukraine draws upon the fabrics of her homeland for her furniture pieces she's been revitalising and be
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interpreting the traditional handicraft technique since 2014. her furniture line system is coated with clay. to stabilize the clay furniture the metal frame as wrapped in organic cellulose and flax that makes the tables and chairs durable and suitable for daily use both inside and out. me. the source used in religious construction of simple household. and just use the chair is recycled. in the ground. in several year. contribute to the development of a uniquely ukrainian design it becomes just as recognizable scandinavian for japanese creation. and london seals and sea weed lampshades with
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a protective coating made of especially garnish. and the. feel of underwater seaweed forests kind of like very. beautiful light. living in harmony with nature and a respect for ecological cycles the sources of creative and sustainable design ideas are by no means exhausted and. now did you know that around 60 percent of globally are made from trades that come from plastics these clothes when washed. but some companies are looking for natural . business in indonesia. yarn made from recycled wood and used to make clothes. idea was michelle tros 1st step toward sustainable production projects all company uses tensile type of
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rail and fiber made of beach or eucalyptus would she even uses it for indonesia's popular but chic textiles which are normally only fashioned from cotton or silk. and so it's actually showing us from our shine which actually intermissions like more information is. how we can be more sustainable. the wood comes from sustainable forestry to create a fine thread from the hard material is 1st turned into chips. they are then mixed with an organic solvent finally the resulting pulp is turned into long strands of fiber. this requires just a fraction of the 2700 liters of water needed to make a cotton t. shirt. 10 years ago a more sustainable production branch was on think about that down there as the
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textile company in central java was on the brink of collapse the company belonged to michelle chalk such a boutros father after his death she took over the reins she was still only in her mid twenty's and inexperienced that nearest was. that get situations because something might be a crisis so i had to find my local fire it was still in the house like a bat that situation so it means that we couldn't pay to. install windows fans we call it can't agree 5 minutes in smoke liquid it was challenging and but it also set the course off my journey. young businesswoman took decisive action she took on loans and invested in modern technology significantly increasing the factories efficiency i'm reducing its impact on the environment. i think will be
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partly responsible for what happened with you know climate change and all the ways that me at least from my part how can i be more sustainable. she has also made changes in the company's culture and production all of the material waste is now repurposed being turned into everything from baskets to furniture the up cycling is done by older members of the community as well as disabled people from the region. it enables them to supplement their income. john there are some ploys about $8000.00 workers they work about 40 hours a week get overtime pay and health insurance which is far from standard practice in indonesia. show talk wants to motivate people and provide new impetus a businesswoman who takes an active interest in the wellbeing of her stuff including training and career opportunities. 35 year old who nami has been working here for 7 years she performs quality control. this isn't the company has
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supported me. they've been really helpful. to finance my studies at university. and the pain here is better than at other similar companies that. before i started working here i had a job somewhere else. that's how i can appreciate the difference. to me because i'm the fruit of. the still a long road ahead to achieve completely sustainable production but the boss is confident that she can succeed. with chains. but the people are still. out there is how we do things the onset of the corona virus has also led to changes that down there the company is now making protective masks from production waste even in
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a pandemic sustainability remains an important issue. now we turn to highland where like in india farmers often bundle lift all was still from the harvest billows of smoke since gobbling dioxide and other chemicals into the atmosphere contributing to the greenhouse gases wasn't climate change but one young woman has had an enterprising. idea about how to make that practice go up in smoke. after every harvest thailand's rice farmers burn off the remaining rice straw and stubble to clear the land. the acrid smoke carries far and wide on the wind. in the northern province of lump the harvest is underway since early in the morning women have been out in the fields cutting the sheaves with their sickles.
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for. if there's a lot of straw left on the field typically a kilogram a kilogram of rice if it's left to rot it will release me face a potent greenhouse gas but burning the straw emits c o 2 and creates fine particulate matter that's harmful to people and the environment. yeah one come one wants to change things after completing her studies in bangkok she decided to return to her home village and develop an alternative meaning. i mean if we're going to. get patients it's very hard to. grow rice and. it's a so long time and after the. saw it's been very nice that when i come to my hometown i don't share that they will rise much i find solutions far off for food for the entrepreneur rice troy's not waste to be disposed of
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but a valuable resource and i want she pays the farmers the equivalent of $0.03 a kilo. the golden stalks are brought by the truckload to hunted by factory. here the straw is. chopped up because the air is full of fine straw particles everyone has to wear a facemask. them a small pieces of straw a mixed with hot water no chemicals are added but the mixture has to boil for 4 hours. that produces a pulpy mess which is then cleaned and dried. on the factory floor we meet up again with the farmers from the rice field.
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beacon yes this is a very good thing. it used to be that we had no work after the rice harvest. but with this factory job i can improve my income whether you want to even go to. the pope is used to make biodegradable paper and packaging but machines to process the pulp are expensive so the entrepreneur exports the raw material to india we have the customer because. that ason logic off morning and to. us and then less off. and contact us and they add very interesting you know our product because. of our product and the special feature of the table way is a fin coating of rice starch which helps the product resist grease heat and liquids in a 2 hour test with a salad the dish stayed leakproof. the
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next day she pays a visit to the city of chiang mai the economic and cultural heart of northern thailand. at chiang mai university they also conduct research into rice the auditorium is designed to resemble a grain of rice. here scientists support thai startups with their expertise. the other one coming one would like to manufacture takeaway food packaging made of rice straw in her own factory she hopes it will become financially feasible but she's especially interested in the research is work on improving the rice starch film say that it takes longer to dissolve. but do people here actually need tableware made of rice straw. as in most cities in thailand life here is largely outdoors but hundreds of street vendors and food
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stands all use disposable containers. if you want to start up your own production one vendor says and pay attention to the sizes of the bulbs shouldn't be too large or the customers will think the portions are too small and the price is important one bought a piece would be ok. but up to one baht is the equivalent of $0.03. on top shelf concepts about being antisocial these are so high speed of light at 40 feet up it's mastrangelo asked to us at the encourage. the rest. of the small restaurants. but if they make it to. the back of her home village yellow one coming one is visiting her grandparents. and that then yes. this is where she started her business
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a few years ago. she carried out of 1st experiments with rice straw pulp and have. my mother's cooking pots. at 1st her grandparents were far from thrilled is this why they had sent my grandchild to study at great expense in the capital i don't know i did hear talk but meanwhile they have ample reason to be proud of her. and that's the saying goes the rice farmers of lum punk have loved how to turn straw into gold. because burning it would be a terrible waste. now millions of children are employed in the textile sector in india this is just one of the many sick with the means to work in legally to help sustain their families for one day the mixed among profit organization in mumbai is making sure some of the city's
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poorest children have the right and the chance to play and not to get what are you about the realities of life. the palette of it is not is not just didn't let it simulating the mind but it's also very powerful in a way that it's breaking so many that you know is that a comedian and kids are allowed to be kings again just plain simple enjoy their childhood. i just believe that working with these kids and you know what the. it truly needed it's not about dissolved the truly needed is again shin. i very young ages you likely you can mourn them we keep dreaming about why the world
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is such a bad season is filled with such bad elements in it a why is somebody a criminal and all of that in this world but if you trace it back it always goes back to their childhood. with kindness and love and empathy i think we can review each change the way this whole world functions. and. it became more challenging for us still people about. the power to believe what is right to play what's meant to evade being a child who levels all of these things are very. good people here and because there are still many other problems also it's still is i do you ever and i mean who would talk about believe in a child is going on the soul is became it becomes even now for us to articulate this but having said that i mean hunger of the mind is even worse if you ask me
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because it can be good of adolphe says. the cycle enriching is right you can't see it but it's happening all around us mental health and mental well being is very similar people can see it so if you don't see it you don't think it's a problem if you suddenly want to in a bad mood who fought with your husband mother or father whatever whatever and all you pretty much in a bad mood a rest of the b. just imagine that day is your life many of these kids have had a back stop to life and it just goes on for the rest of their lives. and then rebel in my life and. i don't believe in the mention of you. things that are people believe in is just full of belief systems so. it wasn't that how lucky for me they allowed me to be you i am as long as i was financially independent.
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judging only when you realize that you don't have any money because you are almost broke nobody finds organisations like oz. is a very easy. that's the one where you gotta step is one even pieces so it becomes a big game and it becomes very challenging for us. we walk with almost 55000 good devotee i'm listening to these kids are mentally not. even to understand was right from wrong by themselves. and nothing is going to be cheap. that's inspiring i hope to this episode has encouraged you to examine your choices when it comes to your belongings of all the clothes you wear at home on the floor in a chair you bite on leave you with a pause and see you next week until then stay safe and good care of yourself and your loved ones go by.
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