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each decision has the flippant effect in. some consequences of this. and the above between the. assumptions of. how many of us think about like the rights we have the nature of around us has rights too well this week. alone welcome to equal india involvement magazine stories and not only from india but across asia and europe that i could. report the story of an inspirational comeback history books not just the integral has a troubled past in india that i for which right was a me just source of exploitation in the british raj the colonizers commission on indian. food crops which led to hunger and despair in farm was

a big barrier cultivating ever since but a collective. attempt to a sustainable. crop. perform something magical that describes extracting pigment from an indigo plant the timing and external conditions must be perfect it is the only way to get exactly the right shade of indigo the 42 year old says his own mood is critical. if i'm upset. when we 1st grass green leaves. it when you're citing an.

affinity for indigo today it is hard to imagine that the rich bond and vision and then die. different going to get bought for himself 15 years ago when he completed his master's degree in geography. suddenly changed after his father's untimely death and an opportunity led him to the station of natural dying with. it is a physically strenuous process which requires scientific position and artistic extatic both of which has none and must. just part of a himalayan movement that is binding but a vibe of it's nonpolluting natural diet through a sustainable supply chain that has been built around producers like. albany is a social enterprise that creates commercial opportunities in textiles and die making. it began using him as

a way of connecting the people with the mountain ecosystem years ago. when it was. by the british government that the farmers had to go in to go as a contractor crop a percentage of their crop had to be nickel and they were given seeds on very high interest rates leading to a lot of starvation deaths suicides and so on and so forth looking at that it was it was a tough subject even ventured into the moment that arthur towards indigo i had people just telling me that the hell can i even talk about working with. mahatma gandhi considered the father of modern india was among foment to lead a revolt against forced indigo cultivation in 1917 this war was the 1st of its kind

to provide a clear direction for india's freedom struggle culminating 30 years later. on independence from the british coloniser. today and he hopes to transform the idea of the color indigo as one that resonates with prosperity empowerment and sustainability. 300 who have been creamed and indigo cultivation are growing the die crop and rotation that food crops using organic farming techniques. this not only increases soil fertility because of indigos nitrogen fixing qualities but also provides much needed additional income for the producers. over the last 3 years davy from des goli village has been planting

a small patch of her farmland but indigo together with the crop once a year by 2019 she and $10000.00 rupees the plant also keeps wild animals away. that she knew were bought in i began growing indigo because i might leave it. if some magic farming rice for example meant having to keep on a constant regard for wild pigs monkeys and other pests are damaging to crawl through our neck i've always worried about whether there was anything left for me and then my live but it got me before. compared with the synthetic version of the organic garden is much costly but also more eco friendly. the crop cycle last about 90 days requires 10 to 12 days of live and nearly guarantees and provided the crop isn't damaged by unseasonal rings or other effects of climate change what began as

a small experiment has blossomed into a sustainable and attic and see to scoff indigo when you change that in short autonomy and self-sufficiency the productive are mainly sold in india but are also exported to countries such as germany japan or the us come out of florida to yahoo our nerves are seen by people around the country and he didn't join our hard work and we are really proud of and i know it feels good to know that people appreciate and. you. with the himalayan indigo project the pigment seems to be bringing in a new kind of. healing the wounds inflicted by the british east india company on the many in the land where it is gone.

now like many grassroots organizations across india embodiment of connected decision making and selling new commission the notional sweat lodge which was the guiding principle during india. and badminton is this curious connection and finding solutions for more and more people and organizations. can benefit from it. so these are all moments where people have actually tried to claim that for all my clothes that affect our lives we should be the ones who are taking decisions all be central to the decision making because the governments and corporations and so on.

what i just actually have a ordered concept in india comes from mentions good shows and then you're doing the environment movement against the british colonial rule it was up to the eyes by many different movements such as put in since the moment done on the nickel and others where the british were trying to take control over our production systems on agriculture and so on. and then gandhi bracket especially in his book ins what i was and then in the moment but what's important is to realize that it's not just about india's independence from colonial rule about a nation's independence. it's actually much more about an individual and of communities autonomy and freedom but responsibility to other peoples and other communities on a mean freedom which means it encompasses a deeply ethical we'll being of living it encompasses my self restraint so that i

don't impinge on the rights of others to live. in india the concept of love development has been taken all the state from the west in that. since and we have imposed it all successive governments have been bolstered either to state socialism or now increasingly to capitalism means that g.d.p. growth are still happen at any cost which means you can cut down for those who can . bring out over to lend you can do anything you can displace millions of people in the pursuit of this kind of their will upon confession italy and modernized development we seem to think of ourselves as apart from nature we have to figure out how we are actually part of the reason sort ourselves understand that other

species have their own right to exist that everything around us has as a spirit out of being order is in is is something in itself which needs to be respected. for the last 40 years what i've seen is a lot of communities in india and other parts of the world that are actually practicing in some senses different notions of swaraj for instance women farmers in different parts of the country cleaning for solar energy which means complete control over everything to do with food you know the seeds the land the water the knowledge of all movements to reclaim community control or forests in central india and other parts of the country. to build in the notion of swaraj which is a deeply political and economic concept of independence and autonomy as a segue but also the responsibility to the rest of nature and so the course what odds but also radical ecological democracy in the sense of trying to rescue the

word democracy from it's currently liberal interpretation where we think elections is about democracy actually democracy is about power of the people we each have within ourselves inherent power to take decisions or be part of decision making many other values that are explicit or implicit in this for instance the value of solidarity our competition but cooperation the value of working with nature has a prominence an artist private property the value of rights of all species the value. living simply because if you if you consume more and more and more you're actually impinging on the rights of other communities or on other species the value of diversity so that i respect your it takes on your ideologies and your beliefs and faiths and you respect mine. you have to fundamentally order the economy in order for people to have much more

control over their own productive resources and in order for these sorts of occupations also to gain respect and be something that also encourages young people to get into them rather than everybody running boards and machinery and industry and so on. self-reliance often advertise become quite a buzzword in india these days everybody seems to realize that crisis tells us that we have to be self-reliant but the way in which it's being manned and the kind of packages there i mean push that actually pushing people more and more towards commercialization privatisation. with equal swaraj of many many things happen one is that for instance we make the centralized state a much less important probably even withers away and each of us begins trying to stand how we can take control over our own lives with as i said responsibility for

others as collectives as communities wherever we are. like. we have to recognize that other species and earth as a whole also have rights and that their value is not determined only by how useful they are to human beings but the way the world is the single can we expect industry for example to use this as a guiding principle a company in indonesia buildings. here only outskirts of bandung a city on internees is main island java something is being cultivated that could be

of great value. mushrooms they rarely draw much attention there are many species with many varied properties some one are showing others contain magazine allegiance here they are the raw material for an innovative kind of textile. more serious appearing rewritten to become a sustainable future a leather the curious cruel mycelium original piece part of your family it can mean making perfectly like a letter without paying me be your p.c. or any can we call it hunting raise material how do you raise a new growth comes from a family of mushroom farmers in 2012 he and some colleagues founded a startup. but they quickly changed tack to focus on my still young they are committed to developing a sustainable animal friendly fashion industry compared to animal in their minds

hillary is having a really huge advantage in environmental impact for example we can share much less more there we don't have to kill. we can move vertical farming so we can save some species and it's also it's a really less carbon emission they feed the mushrooms with organic waste such a sort of just. company micro tech source is it locally what's waste for the witch mill is a recyclable treasure here. first the sawdust is cleaned with steam then it's mixed with tiny mushrooms. they consume the sawdust and at the same time on the outside of the sawdust blocks they produce tightly woven mycelium which can be harvested within a few days. the process uses a fraction of the water used in standard leather production less than 110th.

this has caught the attention of. he makes and sells shoes many of course are made of leather but these days he's keen to find alternatives. to leather industries one of the biggest contributor for carbon emission and we see that as as long as we keep selling for well over 4 where as the cells grow we keep damaging the environment and then it came to a realization that we need to find the so sustainable solution at 1st he bulked at the notion of mushroom but his team have now learned how to work with it. my slim fabric is breathable flexible under a bust it can last for years and it's an eco friendly sustainable product companies around the world are discovering its advantages. my psyllium shoes still have

a long way to go though not yet widely available they are not yet a mass market product that has 0 or higher cost because due to the scale meaning. we still produce a limited quantity it's a learning curve but as an innovation company we need to learn and i think the future will be very bright for us. at the resin you grow and his team agree that busy ramping up production they already have orders is far ahead just 2027. so if only we are producing 2000 square feet of my silly matter per year i ever be diminished really huge so we need to double down our capacity in order to keep up with. the company is growing it used to have just 5 employees now it has 38 monitors carefully the quality of its output even testing samples to destruction . new girl and his team still have some way to go but they hope that mushroom

leather alternative is at the least a good step forward. the idea that each one of us is responsible for ourselves our community and on bob is quite wonderful but in reality this is not an issue he's on the project in the netherlands that seemingly good for the in bob meant the people who needed it but some. 60 kilometers from amsterdam on a tourist boat the destination is one that only recently appeared on the map 5 islands in an enclosed sea or lake created out of nothing in 4 years called marco water and. in 1706 the construction of a dam sealed off this portion of the north sea which became like a vast pond with no water in that so outlet muddy and stagnant america rather was

right because of getting rid of the suffocating blanket the slick. we marry so i o. o. roof through with the soil that's causing the problem. one of the islands is now open to the public it has a functioning harbor to several private visiting vessels a visitor's center a beach and 5 houses that can be rented out for a week visitors are attracted by the remoteness of the place although it's only an hour away from the mainland not 12 monument is one of the dutch n.g.o.s behind the project as soon as the silt and sand was pumped from the bottom of the sea to form 5 roughly shaped mounds the water and wind continue the shaping of the new land at 1st reeds and grasses were planted to retain the scent jeans but soon nature took over covering all with a blanket of flowers and plants at the latest count some 120 species of birds have

arrived including geese gulls cormorants and more than 2200 nesting common turns but not everyone is happy with the new arrangement. about 20 kilometers to the north fishermen in the town of book say declaring the area and nature reserve has deprived them of the whole mark of man lake in one stroke monica wagner we don't have a problem with the market. we'd love nature too because we're nature people. but we made all these investments and suddenly we cut our legs we had $450.00 nets and now we can only use 15 percent. it would have been better to not fight so then we tried to go outside to the north sea we adapted to boats for that but really they're too small we tried for years to go out there and spring to get back on our

feet. all because a lot of the ones. in the struggle to allocate land and sea in the densely populated netherlands nature has won this time the fish have returned to the market mallaig and for one. that only being hunted by the birds. and lot of fossett around the world may not be familiar with the word or. words boarding in our actions a writer for to now. won't want to bring more diversity into the above mentioned movement across benadryl swaraj so she found the black box. even better to find out about the behind her morticia. would drives you to get. what you run if ringback you didn't change the way you live is emotional so called set. deeply positioning yourself quite

differently in relation to nature so they identify with this movie and i think if i was damage this is something that the western organizations can really take on into building up these feelings within the population so that it is the power of force in the environment. in 987 that's 33 years ago the end vironment to movement in this country with purely white people and the group of friends including myself we got together you

know what this i sit round having dinner talking to each other they say don't we notice that actually this no black and i think minorities are you see anywhere in the environmental sector so we thought we should do something about it. and this all the things goes on and on with nothing happening and then something in opportunity comes it was a european year of the environment and we applied post more money and got it and that kicked off everything. when i grew up in hong kong as a child and hong kong in those days is not like the glitzy thing it's now known to be it was the era when people will pouring in the cross a border from china because of the unrest and my parents ran out of china so we were very poor my parents came from nothing and taking nothing with them and all that but nature will stay in the show was such an amazing thing.

as a child i was in moon and the chinese so calls have a very deep relation with nature and now rich in know way of being is very and the mystic so while closeness of nature is something that seem continuous through my life. nature is not local is local and global you know you pollute something that blows across the world doesn't stay where it is and actually a lot about pollution that the moment though which was germany and causes acid rain in the black forest is doing it but you can't change the patterns of nature so these people will have very environmentally conscious of the world are more open to working with people of the world that can as it now ne intrinsically local and global people are constantly in touch with their countries of origin so in a way to have more investment in environmental themes global themes than anybody

else they are connected they're global people. i hope to be sceptical has given you enough for part on how we can go after nation ship with me and bob went to live in. i'll see you again next week until then. good care of yourselves your loved ones at the bottom. of the.

beach. in good shape. no doctor foreign wife and then you can visit virtually he's just so in his voice and his picture. diagnoses via video chat. back exercises with a tablet. it's even possible to see a midwife online. what are the benefits of digital health care coaching. next on w. the defining issue. and

bangladesh have. stuck to their necks. growing unity with. it's been a regional tradition. but is touted as a model for the entire country. lissie idea. 3000. and 60 minutes. in many countries education is still of privilege poverty is one of the main causes some juncture in the working mine shafts instead of going to class and do so can attend classes only after they finish uni. millions of children all over the world have to go to school. we ask

why. because education makes the world more just. make up your own mind. d.w. me for minds. a welcome to end good shape this week rapid a weight loss how effective is the protein shake diet. every day aluminum just how harmful is it for our health. and telling medicine we learn about the benefits of digital health care. oh and welcome to good shape do you know what this is this is telemedicine many people say that it's

a future in medicine because you can bring your doctor right into your home. but of course the doctor but of course and doctors not coming in a real person to your home he's just sending his voice and his picture using his mobile phone. during the corona crisis i introduce telemedicine into my practice as well because who likes to sit next to a patient who might contract covert but do you know who the real pioneer in telemedicine is. it would do it hello how are you today i see you are breathing while the fast. i'm fine i was doing some chores this morning maybe that's why. this is an online medical appointment the patient.

checks our own blood pressure blood oxygen level and breathing rate the data sent automatically to the hospital where she had been an inpatient last summer contracted co one team was in intensive care for 10 days and required ventilation once you no longer needed oxygen the doctors made her an offer. you can go home and will continue to monitor you remotely via computer and communicate on line she was the 1st patient to sign up to this pilot project you know thank you that is seen as danger to cram. there i got very clear instructions on what to do i took my blood pressure and temperature and all the rest by myself after 3 days i realized you know what it's actually ok or your. name and the point i thought it. the pilot project was born of necessity at the height of the pandemic the hospital in the town of sirte italian yes stockholm was reaching capacity. sweden started

working with telemedicine well before the corona virus hit physician roland says more and more health care is set to go online. for your throughout the from there and i think we're going to have to think more about why patients are actually in the hospital and for how long. can we still look after them if they're at home. and if the answer is yes then that's what we should do. we have to use our resources wisely and do what's best for our patients that means new ways of working . it's already quite common for people living in rural areas to see their doctor online. don't half for example 1st turns to the medical app on her phone rather than try to get an appointment in person which often involves a long wait. in the swedish health care system it's standard practice for initial

contact to be made by phone or video call. dr lee works for a digital health care company she says video consultations often work well for simple ailments such as colds certain skin issues or an upset stomach waiting time is no more than an hour it's different with more difficult cases. i had an 11 year old girl with a persistent bad cough that kept coming back. there are limits on how often patients may contact us at some point we say they should go and see a doctor in person with that guy. this is what the digital startup has $50000.00 patients a month its c.e.o. is martin lynn patient fees are covered by the government companies like this face criticism from doctors with their own practices maybe seahawks or from the tone of the debate shows that we actually need digital health care in. the pandemic has

demonstrated that it's effective and benefits patients including those who we've never seen before. in the field we're in it makes a huge difference for them going through feelers he. ringback says she's happy with the care she's been getting online. back home surrounded by her family she soon felt a lot better. just imagine i wouldn't be here. what you see right there's no doctor here. so telemedicine makes perfect sense ok you might say it's just a case if you want to speak to a doctor but that's not true even midwives can use telemedicine. 'd call a midwife is an online platform based in berlin it offers assistance to pregnant women and new parents midwives can do

a lot on video call though they still have to show up for a birth. to be nicole set up the platform she's been a midwife for almost 3 decades for most of that time her days looked like this making house calls and she still does visit young families. very good for the baby weighed 3.9 kilos last time and had put on 300 grams over the course of a link so doing fine either for never before. the baby is 2 weeks old it's important to check that it's continuing to thrive and grow. by now it should weigh at least 4 kilos there's just a one way to find out. 120 grams that's great yes and. various aspects of being

a midwife do require being bare in person as all the senses are involved. breastfeeding isn't going well a baby's breath will smell like acetone that if babies are not being clean properly they'll smell of milk. when it comes to breast feeding advice from a midwife is often useful just checking. can reassure young mothers. of the live. in. in the. it's not clear that a video call can replace a house call including the emotional contacted office. also has physical premises and office. in all the midwives who work for call a midwife speak 9 languages. a member of her team is about to talk to an

expectant mother in sao paolo brazil. in mice most countries have the same kind of system as we do midwives look after women before during and also for quite a while after birth but many countries don't. that's why i call a midwife offers its services worldwide foreign clients have to pay as their health insurance won't cover the feelies data previous issues have not emerged so far and i also works as a midwife it sharon tate hospital she speaks portuguese so she talks to the women in sao paolo. first i found it a strange idea that i might not get to know woman in person face to face and that i would look after her in this way i wasn't used to that at all but now i don't see any major disadvantage especially if there is no alternative.

no sniffing touching or hugging but still i love reassured the young mother in sao paolo. definitely told her that she's producing enough milk and that the little one is growing well i think she was happy to hear that. such online counseling by midwives supplements does not replace in person encounters there is a shortage of midwives and demand this time call a midwife is growing and seeking to engage midwives to speak anything greater range of languages during the corona pandemic i myself introduced telemedicine into my practice and i have to admit it worked out quite well many patients simply laugh the direct access to their doctors with out any infections hazards in the waiting room and many patients still struggle with a computer systems and what if i have to listen to

a heart murmur to the chest because i cannot do this through headset so those questions will be answered by health reporter peter in today's talk. of video call with dan out mercs intensive care specialist and chair of the german society for telemedicine he's convinced that patients can benefit when different doctors and clinics share their expertise digitally. hello dr marks good afternoon what exactly does telemedicine tell of medicine means that we are caring for patients completely independent of your own location the location of the patient and the tiling using modern information and communication technology what i want to press for a person 1st thing is that we can provide expertise and sharing expertise

from from different departments and and fields of medicine to a single patient so it could be well that one expert is from germany in auckland and another expert is from london and bebo's caring for patients in portugal or at the as henri's. and bringing all our expertise together and then joining here the forces in order to provide to the best service for our particular patient and diagnosis all the therapy here are in terms of care for the truth and through a practice of telemedicine especially now i love a pandemic what are 3 up personal experience we could demonstrate that we can really providing at telemedicine improving the outcome of the patient and fun example treatment of sepsis treatment of stuff or caucus arias that's to me in

sections but also. in our g.p. practice is that the do not give antibiotics in for example if you have a cough or something. really very highly effective and then corona happened and. have retreated now more than 300 patients so far more that 2000 a tele consultations and it really a very good results compared to our national survey especially in the most severe covered 900 patients so again highly effective and also we could keep them at their local hospital. mostly so after all it's immediate very timely possibility and of treating patients. today treaty and i'm sure this is the right way forward but story come fall or be there comes

a time florine replace the face to face visit at the doctors well this is a very good question so one thing is for sure and has been proven in the states in research studies telephone alone is not enough you need to see a patient you need to have the clinical picture. all kinds of information and means x. rays. of oratory of blood gets analysis of monitoring e.c.g. and so on what we cannot provide using telemedicine is that we touched patients so there's no hectic but we have really very good resolutions and technology we can zoom in can see the pupils of the patients and the reputed reaction so this is really good and what we really not really want to replace is the colleague at the other side we want to be together as a team and be better as

a team then the it individual as physicians treating caring for a patient in many regions of the verb there are very few doctors can tell him everything will be a solution to this problem. well maybe not to the only one but it is in my opinion better to provide its position via telemedicine rather than there's nobody around so this can forgive you here very helpful in the treatment and. this is in patients thank you very much dr walks for there's. my pleasure. now you might say i don't need a doctor at all because there's an app for it and my smartphone is connected to my smart watch and it measures everything inside my body my heart rate my blood pressure even the oxygen saturation of my blood but are those measurements

correct. a growing number of people and now doing their workout with instructions from a health up this one suggests exercises to strengthen the back and there's a huge range of training routines out there. as is typical with apps in general they include illustrations and short videos demonstrating the exercises in question . but do these apps have genuine health benefits. they are just booked sick is a junior doctor and himself a keen sportsman and of health apps we showed him some of the exercises in this one . workout taps can have their benefits but as ever there are a number of things to be wary of. for chronic patients in this case with.