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and a cell phone cover for her. i'm working from home so it's very convenient for me because i don't have time to actually go to the store and i have to make it 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. much of the birthday i do eat before i. help him people around. me a shilling which i'm. back at the headquarters the calls us still coming in every cyclist does $45.00 deliveries per day but many people forced to stay at home
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during the lockdown cloudy deliveries is filling a huge gap in the township and the township residents like the unusual news service . you do get feedback from across the. city of. con him cause he's next goal is to expand his fleet and to open his own online shop to benefit the environment he plans to use only paper 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 in our days when it comes to the stewardship of natural resources it is certainly the case other radical rethink is needed we have to protect forest rivers.
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and plants and that will require coming up with ways of making on using things without creating which here are some impressive examples. astrid dude since spends much of her free time thinking about wild plants. her motto is you protect what you know and she's on a mission to get people to know the wild plants around them better. than the lion and that's why she created the game not to a memo a memory game that you teaches people of all ages about plant life. and that's the big fancy going to really like wild plants to be part of our lives again i think in fact i'll even go one step further i'd also like to see them on our menu because wild plants contain so many important nutrients that are often
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missing from the culture of vegetables we eat nowadays owners and 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. recently 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 the company can make a living with. but we're not looking to make a profit at the expense of people and nature. of course.
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this means making every step of the process the stain of all the printing machines provide climate control for the building which uses for water every secular nation system. the machines are also c o 2 neutral and the paper and printing colors both carry cradle to cradle certification making the change from a conventional printing house to a sustainable one was an easy decision fellow chi. it's not going to mentally much more expensive. but you do need to be willing to reorganize things because when you rethink production. a lot of things need to be completely overhauled you need a whole new approach. this is a challenge facing the entire printing 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
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o 2 and me thing into the atmosphere alcohol and other chemicals from the printing process also see from the paper into the environment a catapult magazine founded binyamin freakish began 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. not to. it's a viable solution for big publishers the switch is simple and catapult says it costs them less than one percent more to use recycled paper and if people opted for the same high standards as asked him in completely sustainable printed products it
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become as common as wild clumps. our next report takes us to many of the country's 50. 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 through the forest hill. about to fall harvest of. plants that's not something that pharma smalley so take for granted but. here's one of over 20000 farmers living in the now use region of northwest in
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senegal many live close to the closed and so potentially facing 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 new sabra breaks here when we had no was one snow it seemed that was and is is known for his leaving is a means for these trees we have plenty to interrupt them we did we need a cause erosion like they call that much money disease and he needed to produce a culture a city so they've made it impossible for the foremost to sense and here it was. proved to be this. today 60 percent of senegalese vegetable
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production comes from the news region. an estimated 225000 tons of produce here only. it has become the country's food basket and it was a pine trees that allowed farmers like a smaller circle to create their fields. if you. want to because we were going. after the trees were planted that were able to live work the land. at 1st you could only put up temporary shelters because everything in this. thing sort of pine trees asunder stable and because of that you have a fertile forest and homes i can cultivate vegetables on a public. park not a model. it's a delicate balance though the farmers need the trees for protection but
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a growing population means the demand for timber for feel and for building furniture 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 this fails according to strict school says. something's up chance and to replace and each reason to shut down this there is reason even some planes to find those all over the coast. the holy book plainly. 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 will be in order to do we have to plant and replenish trees point before it's crucial to sustainable development when it jumped up to get one dog
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what the young trees are wanted in their plastic shoots to ensure the absorb as much moisture as possible then the plastic is called away to let the tree take root over $50000.00 trees are planted each year and hopefully they'll also protect future generations informants from encroaching sand and rising sea levels. it is good to be reminded of that and looking after the environment can really pay all that is all the help we need today thank you for joining us it is a goodbye from me about 3 nokia here in complex until next find feasted by neil to by phone alexandra it was a pleasure co-hosting the show with you and to our viewers out there and remember you can find out more about environmental protection on sustainability on our social media platforms but for now i'm now tideway signing off from abuja nigeria see you again.
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story of prejudice and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards. their mothers were germans living in the occupied drying land their father's soldiers from the french colonies enough police after the german children had a hard time and because they were a reminder of the german defeat. they grew up in a climate of national pride and racism the folk the european population felt that
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it was important to be mighty and to stay right by. exclusion and contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary. examines the few traces that remain of their existence. we call them the choke chain stores or 11th on d w. d c or your 5 keys to seek for food. keep clean to prevent contamination. break braun's cook foods to avoid cross contamination. cook thoroughly to kill microorganisms.
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this is d w news live from berkeley germany reports its highest daily death tolls from the corona virus since the start of the pentax and one of the worst affected parts of the country in the eastern state of saxony it's not just hospitals that are working to get past it a primitive koreans are also struggling to keep up with the surging deaths also coming up truck drivers.
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