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team has around 20 delivery rides we follow one of them on his shift. this busy customer has asked 19 year old took his easy causa to buy groceries and a cell phone cover for her. i'm working from home ploy it's very convenient for me because i don't have time to actually go to the store and i have to make it as long . and took as easy cause is heading to the supermarket the customers pay $9.00 rand to pay a delivery roughly the equivalent of $50.00 u.s. sends the delivery rider gets 3 rand per delivery the remaining 6 rand goes to the company. youth unemployment in south africa is extremely high and the pandemic has only made things worse on top of the sickos that just finished school he wants to continue his studies one day but for now he's happy working as a delivery driver carl levin much of it was great. help people around the. nation isha. back at the headquarters the calls us still
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coming in every cyclist does $45.00 deliveries per day with many people forced to stay at home during the lockdown cloudy deliveries is finding a huge gap in the township and the township residents like the unusual news service . they do get feedback from across the. sea to flow into. the. common causes next goal is to expand his fleet and to open his own online shop to benefit the environment he plans to use only paper for packaging to set an example that he hopes other companies will follow. our way of doing things is reaching its limits. and that's something we often hear
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in our days when it comes to the stewardship of natural resources it is certainly the case and the radical rethink is needed we have to protect its forest rivers. and plants but it will require coming up with ways of making i'm using things without creating which here are some impressive examples. of minutia astrid boots in spends much of her free time thinking about wild plants. you protect what you know and she's on a mission to get people to know the wild plants around them better. than the life that's why she created the game not to a memo a memory game that you teaches people of all ages about plant life. began a bit fancy i would really like wild plants to be part of our lives again i think
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in fact i'll even go one step further i'd also like to see them on our menus because while plants contain so many important nutrients that are often missing from the culture of vegetables we eat nowadays. she made sure not to a memo was produced to a standard called cradle to cradle. but the cradle to cradle standard means more than just come possible it also means that during decomposition little to nothing is released that could harm the environment printouts loci is the 1st in germany that prints to this standard. inherited the company from his father and has transformed it into a fully green operation. basically i think it's the responsibility of a company to make sure that its products don't harm the environment. we need to make a profit so that both our staff and. company can make
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a living. but we're not looking to make a profit at the expense of people and nature. of course. this means making every step of the process to sustainable the printing machines provide climate control for the building which uses a water every secular nation system the machines are also c o 2 neutral and the paper and printing colors based carry cradle to cradle set to vacation making the change from a conventional printing house to a sustainable one was an easy decision fellow kite. it's not $100.00 mentally much more expensive. but you do need to be willing to reorganize things. course when you rethink production. a lot of things need to be completely overhauled you need a whole new approach. this is the challenge facing the entire printing
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industry more than half of the paper thrown out 12 wide ends up in landfills and more paper is produced every year paper can take up to 20 years to break down and that process releases c o 2 and me fame into the atmosphere alcohol and other chemicals from the printing process also see from the paper into the environment a catapult magazine founded binyamin free to speak and printing on a different sort of paper to save trees. this is the magazine issue where we changed over from normal paper to recycled paper. here i calculated how many trees were filled with normal and on the back with recycled paper if publishers would simply switch from normal paper to recycled paper it would be a huge step. sure it would be so much less damaging to the environment. it's a viable solution for big publishers the same. simple and catapult says it costs
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them less than one percent more to use recycled paper and if people opted for the same high standards as asked him completely sustainable printed products could become as common as weil's prompts. our next report takes us to senegal many of the country's 15000000 inhabitants live beside the atlantic ocean where the sea level rise caused by climate change is making the existing problem of costly russian worse 4 decades ago a forest was planted in the northwest of the country to combat the problem of shoreline retreat. that is right near to and changed the lives of farmers and fishermen there but now population growth and other is a putting a strain on the forest communities are now walking together in order to maintain or given improve the forest hill. a bone to fall harvest of all
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plans that's not something that farmer so takes for granted here's one of over 20000 farmers living in the near hughes region of northwestern senegal many live close to the closed and so potentially faces threats of erosion and sandstorms but a belt of trees is helping to protect them. almost 200 kilometers long it's 500 metres wide at its narrowest point. the forest was planted 40 years ago as a shield against wind and coastal erosion. from city of ramadi new suburb. was once nothing but it was and near is is known for his living in before this trees were planted up there we did with a cause like that they call that much learning disease in here in the uk to produce
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. a team that is they've made it possible for the foremost to succeed here. to day 6 of the sons of senegalese vegetable production comes from the news region . an estimated 225000 tons of produce here on early. it has become the country's food basket and it was a pine trees that allowed farmers like a small to say to create their fields. if you really want to because we were going with this was only after the trees were planted that we were able to live and work the land. at 1st you could only put up temporary shelters because everything in this part things are pine trees asunder stable and because of that we have a fertile forest and we've built homes i can cultivate vegetables want to. talk not
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a model. it's a delicate balance though the farmers need the trees for protection but a growing population means the demand for timber for feel and fulfilled in fairness is also growing and. the solution the forest has been divided up into some $200.00 plus mohnish by different i would cultural and forestry groups. each group decides which trees can be felled according to strict school says. some planes up to replace and each reset a shutdown of this and there's reason even some planes to fund those all over the coast. but hardly booklet anything. as you can see it's because of the abundance of pine trees that we have for thailand so maintaining the forests essential to the work of our association. in
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order to do the washing we have to plant and replenish trees point before it's crucial to sustainable development when it can but i begin to doubt what the young trees are wanted in their plastic chutes to ensure the absorb as much moisture spots that will then the plastic is cut to way to let the tree take root over $50000.00 trees and planted each year and hopefully those are what sets future generations informants from inclusion send and rise in sea levels. it is good to be reminded of that and looking after the environment can really play all that is only half way today thank you for joining us it is a goodbye from me 3 nobody here in comp until next find feasted by neil to by phone alan saunders it was a pleasure co-hosting the show with you and to our viewers out there every member you can find out more about environmental protection on sustainability on our
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in on a personal appeal to you. a fire in the league very simply lay a feeling that i'm getting the last hour will climate change affect us and our children laugh. at g.w. dot com slash water. the story of prejudice and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards born after the 1st world war the money was an illegitimate child there were many of them even from. their mothers or germans living in the occupied rhineland their fathers soldiers from the french colonies. up close and please afro german children had a hard time and because they were reminder of the german defeat. they grew up in a climate of wounded national pride and racism. for the european population felt
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that it was important to be white and to stay right by satellite. exclusion and contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis for. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence we call them the children. storage january 11th on d w. this is news and these are top stories. france has lifted its coronavirus blockade and will now allow truck drivers stranded in southern england to cross into the country but they have to 1st test negative for covert 19 france is also allowing passengers from u. countries to travel from britain transport links to and from the u.k.
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