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i see a sure i see this already i feel sure. but how would the world sat with the biggest composer of all time i can't even begin to imagine. a world class one player sam willis was basically a journey of discovery. and. 2 world without retelling starts september 16th i want to tell you. i don't half of all that stuff is a made from cotton and although it's a natural product the wasps gala which we call it in the us i'm also watered it needs often means that it's in bad mentally unsustainable and yet we need to cotton
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at least we think we do and unsustainable textiles too so how do you make them better for the bottom and that's what we discussed to be hello welcome to equal india but i'm coming to you from my neighborhood by india is a main thing. 60 years ago the dalai lama set up the bits of government in exile. in the state of him for the bush but globalization had the same effect as in the rest of the india a sustainable fashion veblen is now working to everybody a lot to mollenhauer new ones that reflect the mix of cultural skills and creative talents of both tibbett. designer tenzin and viva share their love for traditional local and indigenous stock studs their. gene is visiting adult workshop makes
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a traditional fabric but it's slowly disappearing and unseen wants to revive it i'm small. interested about text. all these fiber and you know all this and now when you go out you don't see this get in and an ideologue such a nice normal you want i mean you don't get into my good. scene was 5 years old 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 the stayed behind while he was scattered across the himalayas. arrived and mag loaded guns down on the indian border with the debate in the region led by the debate on buddhists were granted political asylum here in 1959. gunge became their largest settlement in
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india. he watched down cross for a stoop that styles began flooding the market at that time you know when you go to make. whole street is like a very interesting every shop is different they have a wood and cross they have. like so many hand and things happening here and now if you go up. you see all these things that we import from china clothes everything is chinese now. to bring back the mcclure guns with his childhood guns and found a chart a shop selling sustainable handmade loads. they used only locally sold roma did award environmental pollution and promote conditional craft and design the company employs mostly indian artists from the surrounding montana's region. shashikumar is
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a god who works. and is from the community a nomadic best total tribe native to the predations state. the good deeds the struggle against radio will ability of cheaper synthetic alternatives in a fast greater. need of a higher layer the got these mad entirely dependent on dad herds for their livelihood including my own grandparents but it is much less now. in ordinary times the god community would do livestock they wore clothes made out of their sheep so this fabric was god but. says integrating with typical and other minorities has deepened his connection with his own and other cultures in the region. to me logan is you know. and i
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started interacting with there but i did not know much about them or their culture and traditions. but now i feel like we are like a family that works together. we have slowly started to learn more about each other's lives. through 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 a little bit different because different language toobin but i do. i mean it's nice to have an interesting background to. create more. you know will and bloom into the local people and smear dissatisfactory. as well as.
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depends on the big companies. hopes that more people will eventually move away from cheap imports and learn to appreciate clothes made locally that bring together cultures and. across india. drive cv fish skills. can you imagine using these materials in your flitter well a designer in london and he's doing just that and he's not the only one looking for inspiration in nature to make unique creations that also has to be about let's take it. 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. think it
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might smell but it doesn't because once it's dry so it loses all the tests look like fish scales london based designer nearly getting use sand for his desert storm lamp red cabbage for the intricate veins of his bench of white 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 trendy soho area he sells his pieces and limited editions to private clients around the world. and. 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
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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 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 unharmed. waste products from industrial soft wood production become raw materials in the hands of latvian designer tomorrow. she turns her tree needles into
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a wall my fabric to create and products. from ukraine draws upon the fabrics of her homeland for her furniture pieces she's been revitalising and interpret in the traditional handicraft technique since 2014. her furniture lines the stuff 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. says to me. stores used in religious in construction of simple household. and just use the chair is recyclable. in the wrong. in several year. hopes her designs will help contribute to the development of a uniquely ukrainian design it becomes just as recognizable scandinavian for
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japanese creations. back with near miami and london he seals and sea weed lampshades with a protective coating made of especially mixed varnish. and the. feel of underwater sea seaweed forests kind of like a 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. now did you know that on 60 percent of globally a meaningful threads that come from plastics used clothes when washed. but some companies are looking for natural. business in indonesia.
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yarn made from recycled wood and used to make clothes. that idea was michelle putra as a 1st step toward sustainable production per textile company uses tensile type of rail in 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 more shine which actually indonesians like more. 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 poll. has turned into long strands of fiber. this requires just
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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 textile company in central java was on the brink of collapse the company belonged to michelle chalk such a boot rose father after his death she took over the reins she was still only in her mid twenty's and experienced that nearest. that get situations because something might be a crime says so but by my local fire it was still in the house like a bat that's the place and so it was that we could and paying. install windows fans we call it category 5 winds in smoke liquid it was challenging and but it also set the course of my journey. young businesswoman took decisive action took on loans and invested in modern technology significantly increasing the
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factories efficiency i'm reducing its impact on the environment. i think will be partly responsible for what happened with you know climate change and all the ways that. at least for my part how can i be more sustainable. she has also made changes in the company's cutting 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 that enables them to supplement their income. 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. to show. wants to motivate people and provide new impetus a businesswoman who takes an active interest in the wellbeing of her stuff
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including training and career opportunities. 25 year old me has been working here for 7 years she performs quality control. this isn't the company has supported me. they've been really helpful. they finance my studies at university. and the pain here is better than at other similar companies. that before i started working here i had to jump somewhere else. that's how i can appreciate the difference. for the some of the fruits of. the still a long road ahead to achieve completely sustainable production but the boss is confident that she can succeed. change. but the people are still. out there is how we do things the onset
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of the corona virus has also led to changes that down there the company is now making protective masks from production waste even in a pandemic sustainability remains an important issue. now we turn to pile and when like in india farmers often blame the lift the will still from the harvest billows of smoke since gobbling dioxide and other chemicals into the atmosphere contributing to the greenhouse gases causing 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 acrid. carries far and wide on the wind. in the northern province of lampung the harvest is underway since early in the morning
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women have been out in the fields cutting the sheaves with that sickles flow. for. 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 fame a potent greenhouse gas but burning the straw emits a 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 very hard when i grow rice and 2 days it takes a long time and after the. saw each bun it's very nice that when i come to my home
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town i don't share that life will rise but i find solutions far off for food for the entrepreneur rice troy's not waste to be disposed of but a valuable resource. on she pays the farmers the equivalent of $0.03 a kilo. the golden stalks abroad by the truckload to honey or buy 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.
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on the factory floor we meet up again with the farmers from the rice field. this is a very good thing that i salute it used to be that we had no work after the rice harvest. but with this factory job i can improve my income but hey you want to even go. 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 a customer because. that ass and watch off. and. and they let us off the raw material and contact us and they add very interesting you know our product because. our product and the special feature of the table way is a fin coating of rice starch which helps the product resist greased heat and liquids
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in a 2 hour test with a salad the dish stayed leakproof. the 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 was work on improving the rice starch film so that it takes longer to dissolve. but do people here actually need tableware made of rice straw. as in most cities in
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thailand life here is largely outdoors the hundreds of street vendors and food stands all use disposable containers. if you want to start up your own production one vendor says and pay attention to the size of the rolls shouldn't be too large for the customers will think the portions are too small and the price is important one baht per piece would be ok but. that up to one baht is the equivalent of $0.03. that has a lot of. concepts about being antisocial are high speed of light at 40 feet up it's mastrangelo and asked to us after being encouraged by. the response. small restaurants list. if it's. in the back of her home village yellow one coming one is visiting her
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grandparents. and that then yes. this is where she started her business a few years ago. she carried out of 1st experiments with why 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. oh no i did get her off but meanwhile they have ample reason to be proud of her. and that's the saying goes the rice farmers of lump of love 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
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many sick would be made to work immediately to help sustain their families from one day to the next a month profit organization in mumbai is making sure some of the city's 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 the 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 baddiel is that a need and and kids are allowed to be kids again just plain simple enjoy their childhood. i do believe that working with these kids and you know what the. it truly needed it's not dissolved he truly needed this again shin. to play i
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very young ages you can mourn them we keep dreaming about why the world is such a bad season is filled with such bad elements and you know 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 guy nice in love and empathy i think he can relieve the change the way this whole world functions. want to. begin more challenging for us still people about. the power to believe what is right to play what's meant to invade being a child who's never had all of these things of any concepts to do people heal and because there are still many other problems also it's still. had
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a huge level and i mean who would talk about believe in a child is going on leave it became it becomes even ol lady challenging for us to articulate this but having said that i mean hunger of the mind is even worse if you ask me because it can be good of a dolphin he says. it's like climate change are you going to 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 you fight with your husband mother or father whatever whether at home you pretty much in a bad mood the rest of the d. 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 you bellow in my life and. i don't believe in the mention those he. things that are people believe in and they are just full of belief systems so. it wasn't
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that how lucky for me they allowed me to be you i am as long as i was financially independent. game only when we realise that we don't have any money because you are a nobody finds all new he. is a very easy. that's the one where you gotta step is what even says so it becomes a game and it becomes very challenging for us. we walk with almost 55000 good devotee and listen on to these kids are mentally not. even to understand was right from wrong by themselves. and nothing is going to the energy. that's inspiring us and i hope to be as episode has encouraged you to examine your choices when it comes to your belongings and all the clothes you wear at home on the floor in a chair you buy a review with a porter and see you next week until then stay safe and good care of yourself and
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w. dot com for the megacity the making just. click the target. a meal i'm good looking for the 2nd season. it's the back environment still about society it's still about us but all the planets on the brink response to some legal experts i'm afraid. just a couple of examples the folks above. the some are going by keep to seek for food. police to prevent cuts.
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separate draw and cook foods to avoid cross contamination. cooks thoroughly to kill microorganisms. keep food it safe temperatures cold to prevent bacterial growth. gives safe water and safe well materials to avoid content. food producers are the ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food. but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases and all by plying the 5 keys to sea for food use them you also have a role to play. this
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