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the process. instead of importing them. to create a more environmentally friendly indian wedding. she's a significant shift in what couples now want on. so i have been doing this for

about 6 years now when i started this i have always been conscious of the choices that we are making so we have tried to implemented here in there and sometimes clients didn't know or we and we did inform them that by going to choose something different so i would say probably about 30 percent of the 6 years ago probably less i guess 20 percent wanted something eco friendly but now i'm surprised myself to see so many people coming forward saying that they want eco friendly so i would see probably like about 70 to 75 percent people are kind of conscious and want to perfect the things. traditionally indian families celebrate marriage with and show . a wedding is a display of wealth and tradition. while there is an encouraging green trend among urban indians the leap and says it comes with a lot of challenges. people always thing that an eco friendly wedding is equal to being cheap so that has been

a challenge trying to get people away from that concept of eco friendly being cheap so there are many different aspects for an eco friendly wedding it can be a simple thing as having people or see people or going to distil invite for the in ways that you give your guests even as a simple thing like having chalkboard for your site and then getting a flex printed which is again a one time use in terms of your trousseau as well i would recommend probably using for one event at least your grandmother's are your mother's wedding sobbing probably be some jewelry as well. said months who is another green entrepreneur and . she founded bennis s a t's 0 with shop. she says that is trendy but it isn't a new concept in the country. we used to live in a very easy to list in india and i think in a lot of. whores who is narrative that's honestly don't even buy

a western rhetoric that we're trying to reclaim and i think essentially it's going to be used to do with it's not that normal and so i think it is can be very accessible it can be very are my be very average indian. so i think it can be for everyone and it's just about making these small little micro life choices and then it just adds up. runs workshops on the weekends to improve accessibility and get the community being and thinking about reducing waste. she also publishes a d.i.y. ideas online with the idea that small changes can drive a big movement. i think sometimes gets a bad rep about being too expensive or inaccessible and that's why we do all of the stuff and workshops so honestly we. just need a kitchen or your backyard and you can mostly make a lot of these products within like 20 rupees. but the idea is essentially you know

to make it just even accessible so that are very transparent about it recipes at all on our website so if you want to make yourself toward you go for it because the ultimate aim is just for less waste to be held up in a landfill or knowledge i'm optimistic that it's going to really change automation to could waste. and sustainability for the better. eco friendly living is often seen as a privilege of the rich but with. the leap on championing small steps and improving people's access to green ideas indian consumers have increasing opportunities on their doorstep. let's take the example of rising energy needs. as an emerging nation with the world's 2nd largest population the soaring demand for energy in ever to build in india most of this demand is met by burning fossil fuels to be who the government is pushing more and more people to buy into

the promise of valuable energy like solar power the actual switch is a very tedious process. building contractors are hard work has paid off in 2015 he bought a house where his family of 4. it's a big house complete with modern kitchen and air conditioning. the electricity bill is around $10000.00 rupees a month over $100.00 euros. to save money he decided to make the switch to renewables. he knew he had heard of the government's solar dog and he wanted to contribute also i saw my neighbor mr go had also installed a roof top solar system and. that's where i got the idea of installing one in my house system and. his 200 square meter roof was ideal so she'll share my installed a rooftop solar system in 2018 it meets the household entire energy needs.

india is home to a growing urban middle class experts say that of the trend continues the country's birth capita energy consumption is set to quadruple. in yeah. you know 6 forcing a lot of lawyers frame. all. of this energy comes from you know also 70 percent of initially. and i. just. saw in this is to remain in the future. energy mining it also means that oracle amount of energy coming from. this means that. greenhouse gas emissions. officially the government is backing an energy transition it has set a target of 100 gigawatt installed capacity of solar energy by 2022 operator 40 got

what will come from rooftop solar systems that's the equivalent output of 10 large school fire power plants but so far it's achieved only a fraction of this target the fears of you know that it was it indoors and though it was russian companies are using their. grounds. as you say. you know if you use process or a rationing so that when it comes to violence there is also lower level of. segment . and the banks earlier in. the company my son specializes in rooftop solar panel systems it also helps clients navigate the people work involved. the indian state subsidies the installation but the country is still a long way from reaching its clean energy targets. the

real revolution of solar we only come when people like you and i are businesses are those buildings industrious corporates hotels everyone starts using solar because everyone has roof i mean. so you have millions of buildings. over you have buildings you have potentially a space for solar setting up a solar power project for so she'll share mine the investment was worth it in the last 2 years his 7 kilowatt solar panel system has produced 22000 units of electricity. well most of the biggest benefit for me was that of the cost of a piece $4.00 and a half lug i was able to pay in installments of a piece. sometimes my legacy bill would be worth more than that i didn't have to pay anything extra and made this shift for free. as india's middle class continues to grow the country's energy demand is soaring especially in the cities but if more families which to renewables as a share must have done india's growth want to be of the expense of the environment

. a great idea often needs the right time to come to fruition for bicycle enthusiastic london time proved to be the onset of the pandemic the don't know why this crisis has meant fewer cars and unlocked more bikes on the city's streets and this could help make a big policy pushed once turning into a bicycle friendly city. to cyclists and wanted us to be quite comfortable. with the road what days they were competent cyclist is not really much of a problem but you have to be going that more or less the speed of the traffic a new presence on the road has to be quite strong for. philip jones and writes his bike everywhere he cycle some 20000 kilometers e.-m. . texan excellence and his family are pleased that more and more london as are

discovering the joys of cycling. there will be cycling enthusiastic from the time when young children grow that bikes to school. that's still something of an. event that could soon change. into. people cycling. the next generation i think the definitely be more comforting than that on the buy i personally think they should just go ahead and close 50 percent. side streets just. to cause don't need to go on 50 percent so give us access to everybody. cause as much as possible. those kinds of demands get london's taxi driver has the riled up the city's cabbies are among cyclists the racist critics. who don't get rid of old and. they would and then uses the

traffic at the moment is terrible. row. so whatever michael moore sorcha license is just going to make the traffic even worse sty joyous because half the people who saw it took a moment to highlight cars on the small percentage or do not highlight charge. so there should be some sort of a test for cyclists and yes london's in a city is currently swarming with bicycles. as the qur'an crisis ushered in a new age of mentality. cyclists now have some powerful supporters behind them there will be a huge amount of planning going into helping people to get to work other than by mass transit and this will be i hope i never but my right of free will as a former secretary of transport i would agree this is what should be a new golden age for psychic but they must act fast when commuters return on mass and won't be enough buses or trains to accommodate them and take it to social

distancing missions if even a small percentage of these commute to start using cars instead london will be fixed with 10 children. the temptation to get into medical will be very very strong and understandable so i think we've got a short window of time to reach out to both the politicians and to the public a large to say there is a better way of to fish. than is the city none dence financial district is leading the way. i am joined the death access is restricted to passes and bikes only. and sidewalks are being widened to give pedestrians small room. and in some residential districts the streets are being close to 3 traffic drivers a having to find other bricks 1. oh well. this just in these few weeks there is an amazing opportunity to connect. a lot of

the unconnected parts to get the local councils on board to get the local roads placing those who are cycling do to stop this trip luna rossa. during the corona crisis london feels a bit more like bike friendly amsterdam. philip johnson and his family hope it will stay that way. they say this new golden age for cycling seemed almost too good to be true. when the cycle i'm fine struck eastern india in me 2020 the world heritage site of the sunderbans wasn't spared located in the bay of bengal it constitutes the largest mango for this on earth and is at the receiving end of many in bad mental calamities local communities are now putting their heads together to find long term sustainable solutions to improve the living conditions

in the place they call home. like the plan had barely come and gone when help arrived in the sunderbans. volunteers from the quarantine students network set up pumps to expel the salt water that had collected in the fish ponds. the immediate aim of the emergency assistance was to enable locals to return to fish farming and also prevent an outbreak of disease. public. health and hygiene are seriously destructive here and need to be restored stagnant water is dangerous as it can lead to gastro intestinal diseases as well as skin conditions and then there is the often ignored issue of snakebite by. this fish farmer however no longer sees a future here for herself and her family. and what can we do we are dependent on relief now once

a lockdown is lifted we will have to leave this in their bones to find there is nothing left here. this in advance is home to 4000000 people it's located in the delta formed by the confluence of the brahmaputra ganges and magna rivers and has a unique ecosystem but the region is frequently hit by storms it took years for the residents to recover from cyclon iowa in 2009 before being devastated again in may of this year. and neil is at least relieved that this time his home was not destroyed by supercycle and his family also survived and hers. were given to the family lives in a part of the same divans where large section of protective levees has been erected . our we've. already been built inside poorly these areas have traditionally face tremendous damage due to. the will surprisingly this time they were saved because. next to our village and rang

a bell. which used to suffer a lot because of the storms but this time the concrete embankments have saved the day. it's been 11 years since the indian government decided to build the cinder vans and bank mints but just 5 kilometers have been completed to date that section withstood the recent storms and also proved useful for transporting emergency aid so people here now have construction will continue at a faster pace the to go society for rural development is an ngo that's been helping local residents since the 1970 s. . mama said you will not go on in. the lives of the people in this delta are always hanging on a thread. so. he knows what danger awaits them and they're just. predictable and they will get worse we need to be properly prepared by quins our best bet.

but the embankment still can't stop the salt water from getting into the fields fallen ill knows he has to adapt by farming his land differently. in some of his fields has now planted more durable plants. well good luck out there you are going to an organization based in delhi helps us with farming certain pulses can grow even in storm prone areas where salt water frequently enters not want to what good is it going i was not going to last 5 years we've been growing a range of lentils and pulses across 200 hectares a lot because this can prove to be more sustainable for cycling prone regions like ours. the future of the people living in the center buns will depend on how quickly they can change which crops they plant and how and how soon the embankments can be

completed because the cyclons will return with growing frequency and intensity. when faced with a natural calamity not only humans but animals need support to survive 2 female orangutans for example breed slowly and produce only $45.00 offspring stored in their lifetime when the mother of a younger offspring they link to. the wife and animal welfare project in sumatra even during the pandemic is teaching these. towns to do just that. humans have to keep their distance from a ring of things to even at lunch time. because both species are at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. these are rang a tang's are under lockdown and have had to stay in their cages for months.

this in general is close you can train them to 5 and introduce them to get them for it so we bring in the forest for them so it's like. right then and there are much less and all this for us. so they can learn that yes their meals are delivered wrapped in leaves so they have to figure out how to get the food useful practice for when they're later released into the wild. cages or disinfected twice a day for hygiene is of crucial importance to the teams who care for the animals rotate every 3 weeks before they start work staff have their temperature taken another coronavirus precaution they shot the video for this report themselves we talked to the head of the project by video call. or we're going. to argue with.

our long time d.n.a. is 97 percent identical to the out of humans so they're extremely susceptible to all our diseases especially those affecting the risperidone tract. you know that's the main reason why we've imposed such a strict quarantine to make sure there's no transmission of a virus replicating in humans to a population in the wild. it would probably have no immunity atoll to such a virus. the effects could be devastating. don't have ela has been reporting on this project for years through the aim is to prepare a ragged tank for survival in their natural jungle habitat in the book pollute rain forest in central sumatra. many were rescued as orphans often held captive as pets under terrible conditions they had forgotten or had never learned

how to move through the tree tops forage for food and build nests their keepers at the jungle school teach them all these skills usually out in the forest itself. i rang a tings enjoy piggyback rides many of them don't like to walk much this was before the coronavirus pandemic. so no exercises in the forest for now even though they have so much to learn things. probably the most important item on the curriculum of jungle school is learning about fruit trees what they look like and when they bear fruit. and which seems the norm which few years. you can order to survive every rung aton has to develop a 4 dimensional map in their head covering space and time it takes time to learn all the but we've had to suspend a learning process where the trees and when do they bear fruit as the iraqi towns

have to stay in their cages. the lockdown can only be relaxed once the pandemic has been contained this is not good for the animals their fitness deteriorates and they become bored even the not the best preconditions for release and survival in the wild. those that have already been set free currently lead better lives keepers go on patrol to check on them and provide extra food if need be. here to social distancing applies. our work. yes for sure. the school is located in the book rain forest and releases its graduates there it's

a very remote location. so should any around it tanks here catch the coronavirus they won't pass it on to other ones in the wild. what's more they tend to be naturally self isolating creatures anyway and don't hang out in big groups. the team faces the challenge of protecting their wards from possible infection while also training them for release. this video was shot a couple of years ago there is no guarantee that a self-sustaining population will emerge here again over the past half century 80 percent of the region's rain forests have been cut down to make way for a vast plantations. on our last visit paid to pa to stress the importance of saving the forest and teaching the orangutans survival skills. and you. if the orangutans are able to survive here and all the other animals in the rain

forest animal community will be to the tigers elephants and old the other species that's why it's so important to protect them. the number of covert 1000 cases among humans in indonesia continues to rise. the project has a back up plan if the lockdown goes on for too long it will release its a ragged tang's into the wild before they've completed their schooling but will then provide them with longer term support out in the forest it's that way the panes will be able to settle and have offspring and their numbers can grow until the threat of extinction here is banished. i hope you had many takeaways from to be assured especially that i'm all those aside to you needn't really how to tell me nation to live in environmentally sustainable life i'll see you again next week until then good bye.

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