stonemasons builders architects compete with each other. this is home massive churches created. a. contest of liquor. stores. on t.w. . welcome to the label 3000. this week we meet ship builders in costa rica who are proving that shipping and sustainability do fit together. we know about a shiny a future for diamonds can love made gems bring an end to the mystery of mining. but 1st another precious commodity more time in the himalayas hydro power stations

are on the rise and they're taking their toll on nature. like elsewhere temperatures are rising in the himalayas iglesias of northern india a melting with devastating consequences in february this year a mudslide into a country buried almost 200 people dozens of them lost their lives climate activists say hydro power stations are to blame their construction involves large scale blasting and tree felling leading to land erosion now local residents a fighting back. and you mean i'm a pre-term singh is angry with the government and its promise of environmentally friendly energy he lives on the st river a small tributary in the marshall predations state within 20 years the state built over $800.00 hydroelectric power stations 2 of them on the same age. could wash out . to begin with we thought this project would greatly benefit and develop the area

but when the work was underway it didn't turn out the way they play and. there's no water in the entire area. roads our environment our homes our land everything has been destroyed we've been left with nothing. we. got. the same valley residents say they were promised compensation and jobs instead they lost their entire livelihood which were traditionally based on agriculture. now with the 2 hydroelectric plants on the same river there's nowhere near enough water for the farmer's fields. and 2 more power plants are under construction there. as an environmentally friendly power source hydroelectric plants have become an important generator of electricity around the world in 3rd place behind coal and gas. and that also makes them

a lucrative source of income. in the macho predation the state government rakes in over 9000000000 rupees that's 100000000 euros in electricity revenues annually. environmental activists now regard the hydropower boom with skepticism. thing research as the effects it's had on biodiversity and people's lives in the region. yet these mega projects have a negative impact on the environment around them when the land has been expropriated it's then submerged in water that means sources of livelihood like agriculture are completely destroyed. there's large scale deforestation construction and influx of people and that all leads to further environmental imbalances imbalance bottom make you get body you get something. on top of that the region is prone to earthquakes dam breaches avalanches and landslides

would be catastrophic for the people living here there was a landslide recently in the neighboring state of iraq and. the river teatime lies only 40 kilometers away from the same valley. another small tributary but it flows through untouched nature. it's one of the few in the region with no hydro electric plant. that's things to run jeev bartie in 2002 a number of hydroelectric power stations along the river were given planning permission. marty teamed up with other villagers and went to court. everybody was on the project all the oil you could shoot. and all the bureaucracy all right would see everybody if they did and most you accept defeat you thought you know ben you preach comes to the little couldn't even buy you any it was

a lot of private investors who would have taken the. electricity for the move and i think we would get all this coverage very much it would indicate. the villagers won their case though it took 3 years. their homeland and livelihoods have been preserved they still live off agriculture and fishing and in recent years they've also established a sustainable tourist industry in their valley inviting travellers to their own homes. the wool base was born state will be the only didn't there's not a lot of you know division that took place and we all this dark people that buddhism is has to be treated as an order to be of income generation. you know and thankfully they're also. you know prove to us that i. now 20000 people

are visiting the teatime valley annually the residents are in much more with tourism than the hydro plant operators. promised them in compensation. anglers hikers bird watchers and study groups mostly from india come to see the myriad species in the environment the villagers defended so well. conflicts a common in mining regions to kobolds platinum and gold and known as rare earths and industry is dependent on them just one cell phone can contain 60 different elements all of which have to be extracted from the ground such mining destroys full staring us of land and natural habitats and countries rich in such precious metals often suffer more than they gain but there could be a light at the end of the tunnel at least when it comes to diamonds.

the lovely a token of love. right anybody ever had a marketing miracle. in industry just for. a diamond is forever ducktown. inspiration for countless song. and movie. but they also cause a brutal civil wars. and environmental destruction. beautiful pure precious diamonds are strangers to the earth's surface their true home is in the hellish foundry of the earth's mantle. more than 150 kilometers deep with temperatures over 800 degrees celsius under conditions impossible to replicate

except that's not quite true. we connect our. scientists can grow giants in the land. are seen as it's my dime and they are getting so much better and faster. that soon enough we might no longer need to mine the. damage. is actually a property to discriminate. this is far imo goo and activists were spent his life exposing crimes in zimbabwe's time into business this made him into a target for corrupt authorities do you actually wanted me executed. the state security did my home i managed to sneak through the window. his reports horrified western consumers we've got

a lot of it is the miners going in there because all that so in the kitchen they don't notice them the custom in the end is sit dogs in their. also beach people also shoot to kill 'd. thanks to his work and that of n.g.o.s like human rights watch and global witness human rights are better protected today but environmental destruction persists diamond mines can cause deforestation respiratory illnesses and polluted water in regions where that's already a scarce resource people used to to fish from that river we cannot do it anymore because of the syndicate coming from the customer because i dying the fish are dying so it's a disaster normally hold them accountable for their crimes but economics could succeed where politics failed the profitability of these mines depends on perceived

rarity and that's starting to crumble. diamonds were never precious on the shans family's been in the diamond business for 3 generations but his company is breaking industry taboos there are very few of diamonds was admitted a myth created by de bears. a company that for a long time controlled the production of most of the world's romans. and which has its one time chairman said to increase their value by making them artificially scarce. since the 1960 s. it's been possible to make tiny grains for industrial applications. for 5 years ago we started to see advancements in technology that allowed for production of general quality diamonds and high enough quality to be used and. here's how it works we take a slice of all to create

a diamond and it's arranged in a proprietary chamber you arrange those seeds almost like a waffle and you close the chamber you raise the temperature inside. it combination of propriety gases when the temperature is in the mid 132-1500 degree centigrade between splits the pure carbon separated starts bonding this bond. starts connecting with this seat that's sitting at the bottom of the chamber and diamond grossly have by later this technology is energy intensive but it's still more sustainable and profitable than traditional mines just a few months ago one of the world's biggest diamond mines closed forever because it was no longer profitable to keep digging the conductivity makes diamonds wonder material for engineers it could also make screens more resistant solar panels more

efficient lasers more powerful hard drives smaller and much much better electronic devices these higher tech. cations represent a very very small part of the industry at this point. we still could be decades away but i think we're going to see time and news and a lot more of the products that we it's on every day basis 2. and let's not forget we're no longer needing to mind. growing diamonds will provide a more sustainable alternative for zimbabwe. 2 the number one that is less human rights abuses number 2 there's the issue of pollution it will be significantly reduced. and then said leak dam aunt maggie is good governance and even military. therefore i

completely support. low pay and dangerous working conditions are common in the ship breaking industry 2600 search the container ships were demolished last year alone the oil and chemicals released in the process pose a huge risk to those people on the planet and frightens a grave polluters over their roughly 30 year life spans to one vessel can use up to 300 tons of heavy fuel oil a day the global shipping industry produces 940000000 tons of c o 2 emissions every year new regulations from 2020 am to read this but can the sec to do without heavy fuels and steel all together one shipyards in costa rica has found a way. when the tree is held in costa rica there needs to be

a good reason. and this is it a traditional tall ship named saber for transporting cargo it's being built with the wood of $400.00 trees but it's carbon neutral we claim to be more than $4000.00 trees so far and we will be creating over 12000 before saving their water. the main office for the day shipyard is in a treehouse. all in keeping with the overall concept of sustainability this is where the ambitious project is managed. what we want to do is using save our flagship sept 4th the for profit company and prove that we can meet the ship being fired. international shipping produces a significant share of global emissions. is designed to change that course by showing that things can work differently inspired by the project dozens of people

have come on board from i'm back from i'm a boat building instructor from holland and from him on a broad scale in the united states the prime. the local football i am from portugal my name's russell i'm from the west coast of canada and i'm support group so i do whatever needs to be done every helping hand is needed the initiators including links from canada want to raise awareness and provide an alternative form of shipping their freighter is to be 100 percent emissions free and that's not all. it's for using sustainable local materials right that are sourced within the region so we also have a clean shipping. business that we're building but we're also also promoting sustainable building as well cargo ship building which is something when you compare it to steel is a lot more environmentally friendly. the ship which is $45.00 metres long is due to

set sail next year powered only by the wind and where necessary solar powered electric motors $250.00 tons of cargo. the vision includes investing in the community by employing and training up local people like you i mean it. she used to live from fishing among the mangroves along the coast. i never dreamed of getting a job like this or i'm learning things to you i love it best i worked on the big ship now i'm on a small accompanying but it's nice to. hear. the workers receive breakfast and lunch here the chefs come from the local town appoint a moralist for jobs a few the food is plentiful and mostly vegetarian the in from self grown produce the shipyard offers both jobs and prospects drawing people like logan mcmanus a poster rican who used to live in florida. but something very humbling and

inspiring. you've been looking at it from a far from social media to just looks like something from a dream and i'm living it. as same but it takes shape manager danielle has been looking for customers interested in using the ship to transport their goods between central and north america. one future contractor is an hour's drive away in the mountains. the organic coffee plantation is small but aims for top quality the farm is relatively new run by people with a vision who don't mind working in the damp humid conditions of the rain forest. they're targeting the u.s. and canadian markets seeking customers who love coffee and care about the environment. small producers or conscious environmentally conscious producers such

as this farm is inherent part of our business model will ship pretty much almost anything but we really want to ship is parked just like this and telling stories like that. as yet only the ship's framework is complete. it's costing 4000000 euros to build more ships are planned financed by investment partly from individuals and small investors who believe in the project. the 3 mass tall ship is due to set sail early next year the team is committed to producing the world's cleanest cargo ship a wooden ship will last 150 years whereas these big steel ships which are a lot bigger impact on the environment they're going to be beached somewhere after 1020 years max and they're going to be scrapped for metal and some 3rd world country that. really doesn't need all of that pollution. another day's work is now over. the i mean that is proud to be employed by the shipyard which is

located in one of the poorest parts of coast rica. she has fixed working hours and good paying. the single mother started out as a cleaner at the shipyard but she received training there in carpentry so that she can work on the ship. i'm so grateful to be part of the save the town and not fishing in the money grubbers. that used to be the only way i could earn money so that my daughter and i could supply. 90 percent of goods worldwide are transported by seen in ships powered mostly by heavy oil saber is designed to show that all the pollution isn't necessary. the company management is appealing to governments worldwide to reduce the emissions from shipping they're convinced it can be done i don't want to sound like a dreamer but yeah i do think so i think they are pretty or have already changed the world we've already invited to speak up 23 in bonn here speaking there few

years ago and we have created a growing attention from large companies from other shipping companies from the united nations. says will be small compared to the giant steel freighters that ply ocean but the company isn't aiming to generate huge profit it just wants to point the way in times of advancing climate change. slowing down climate change that's what our global ideas series is all about this week we had to kenya solar power should perhaps be a given but high costs used to be an issue now though there are some very affordable options. on. sent her love of flowers has brought greece near charlie long way today she's the proud owner of a flower farm in the town of the kenyan capital nairobi it's

a certified fair trade company with more than 500 employees together they grow 20 different fridays a rose. let the song then those symbols say yes i will from us on this is because of my lawful for us long before even but this far in the even if probably someone would say that it is about the business and then for us for me it is very it was very important that i walked with the product that i like to myself i was happy. for nearly 30 hectares of land are covered with greenhouses full of roses all of the flowers are grown without the use of chemicals once harvested the roses are packed and placed in a cold store ready to be sent to europe both the cold store and the artificial lighting use a lot of electricity but the power supply isn't always reliable in kenya and power cuts are frequent. grace neither child has often had to decide whether to keep the

flowers fresh using a diesel generator which is costly or to let the roses die so for years she's looked for alternatives. renewable energy sources like solar power were always very expensive. but last year she got a solar system that offers up to 150 kilowatts of power financed with the help of a german startup called a go diego. they can fossil fuel it would get us about the benefits of. along the way we all saw that it was possible for us to start just a few steps and to get to a place where we have. she now pays around $2400.00 euros a month to the start up it's a lot of money but still around 30 percent less than she used to pay for

electricity after 9 years the system will be paid off and she'll only need to finance the maintenance costs equal egos serves a number of businesses in kenya including another flower company called rift valley roses here they've set up a floating solar system. called leader co-founder martin bond has come from germany to inspect the installation he's worked with solar power for 16 years and swears by it companies that use it to reduce their energy bills are actually saving a lot of money. secondly it's also saving c o 2 emissions and helping us to save the planet. the firm already has rooftop solar panels from a colleague go but more electricity was needed as they had no land free for a 2nd solar system the owners came up with the idea of using their farm reservoir from which they irrigate the roses it's kenya's 1st floating solar system it was

set up by technician. he's installed a number of solar systems for it called the go since the project 1st began in 2017 . but this here was quite different. well the floating system has a lot of different issues compared to a lead mounted system. as you know it has to be a resistance you have to now understand how to move things because you're talking about something that floats and we don't know any of these items so we had to rely . on the technical team at equal legal. the start up now operates in 6 countries has an unusual funding policy to push forward its energy revolution because bank loans are usually slow to come through the company operates only with crowdfunding the money comes directly from private investors individuals or families crowd investing has a few advantages it's flexible it's fast and it helps people to actively do

something against the climate crisis by using that capital for sustainable energy projects like this. especially the fact that it's fast and flexible helps us to use it for these kind of projects. the investment has definitely paid off for grace me a child and it's encouraged her to keep aiming higher and in the future we can only hope that there will be less power cuts but i am myself is that we may get to a place where we were a 100 present like to crowley with. a poll that will be using sora. that would take her one step closer to her own timid goal to sell flowers that are not only fair trade but also grown on a farm that's completely climate neutral. that is all from us at global trace 1000 pixley thanks for joining us we'd love to hear

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