mushroom is a pretty real to be kind of sustainable future leather the cure is cruel mycelium vegeta piece part of a fungus that can mean making perfectly. we don't have any b. your p.c. or any can we count on 10 ways material how do you raise a new growth comes from a family of mushroom farmers in 2012 he and some colleagues founded a startup may mushrooms but they quickly changed tack to focus on my silly and they are committed to developing a sustainable animal friendly fashion industry compared to animal or myself whether it is having a really huge advantage in environmental impact for example we can share much less water we don't have to keep. we can move vertical farming so we can save some species and it's also i mean it's a really last carbon emission they feed them mushrooms with organic waste such

a sort of just. their company micro tech sources that locally what's waste for the witch mill is a recyclable treasure here. first the sawdust just 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 love the production less than 110th. of. this has caught the attention of. he makes and sell shoes many of course are made of leather but these days he's keen to find alternatives. for leather industries one of the biggest contributor for carbon emission and we see that. as long as we

keep selling for well over footwear and as the sales 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 lover 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. mycelium shoes still have a long way to go they're not yet widely available but they are not yet a mass market product it has a 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 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. certainly we are producing 2000 square feet of mycelium per year over the money it's really huge so we need to double down our capacity in order to keep up with the man. the company is growing it used to have just 5 employees now it has 38 monitors carefully the quality of it so i would put 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 bombardment is quite wonderful but in reality this is not an easy decision to move on

a project in the netherlands that's seemingly good for me and bob and the people who live in it but some. light. 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 make so iow and we fill them 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 genes but soon nature took over covering all with the blankets 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 a nature reserve has deprived them of the whole market man lake in one stroke monica wagner we don't have a problem with the market. we 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. what of the better not 5 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 in spring to get back on our feet. on the global to run. 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 world or. boarding out actions are i took or to not to. want one to bring more diversity to me and bought me a court. so she found a black box. in that how to find out about to find her motivation. would sue to campaign what you're wrong 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 as me. 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 s. 33 years ago the environmentalists movement in this country was 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 apply force more mounted money and gutted 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 the border from china because of the unrest and my parents ran the china so we were very poor my parents came from nothing and taking nothing with them and all that but nation almost in the show was such an amazing thing that as a child i was in moods and the chinese so calls have a very deep relation with nature and now a rich in though way of being is very and the mistake so well closeness of nature is something that seem continuous through my life.

nature is not local is local and global you know you pollute something of blows across the world doesn't stay where it is and actually a lot of our pollution that the moment floats 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 have very environmentally conscious of the world are more open to working with people of the world and that's it man ortiz intrinsically local and global people they're constantly in touch with their countries of origin so in a way they have more investment in environmental themes global themes than anybody they are connected they're global people. i hope today's episode has given you enough for part on how we can go after a mission ship with me and bob went to live in. i'll see you again next week until then. good care of yourself or your loved ones.

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