both religious and secular leaders on display their power. to. create the tallest biggest and the most beautiful structures. is how massive churches are created. that. starts april 12th on d. w. . the. decision has a flippant effect in our surroundings some consequences of this are beneficial to us and the abundant we did. but sometimes up in the wrong position how many of us pink about being like the rights we have the nature of around us has

rights to when on this episode we'll introduce you to some change makers who do a lot of welcome to equal india a weakening involvement magazine with stories not only from india but across asia and europe unsung that i can. report is the story of an inspirational comeback. that the integral has a troubled past in india that i for which it's right was a me just source of exploitation in the british raj the colonizers forced competition on indian. food crops which led to hunger and despair in farm was a big barrier for cultivating evidence but a collectible farm wasn't. attempting a sustainable drill by one of the crop.

because hans performs something magical that's describes extracting pigment from an indigo blonde. an 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. and. seeing his affinity for indigo today it is hard to imagine that the dutch pun and vision and dali 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 a chance opportunity led him to the station of natural dying with indigo. it is

a physically strenuous process which requires scientific position and artistic ecstatic both of which the church has known and must. do you know just part of a himalayan movement that is binding but if i was off it's nonpolluting natural diet through a sustainable supply chain that has been built around producers like. obviously is a social enterprise that creates commercial opportunities in textiles and die making for nick cave's of. the region it began using him as a way of connecting the people with the mountain ecosystem then years ago. that was. specially. 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 occurred towards indigo i had people just telling me that the hell can i even plonk about what with and it was. considered the father of modern india was among foment to lead a revolt against forced indigo cultivation in 1980 this war was the 1st of it's going 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 dye 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 paddy crop once a year by $21910000.00 rupees the plant also keeps wild animals away. that she knew were bought in i began growing indigo because i'm not rich. have some magical farming rice for

example meant having to keep on a constant lookout for wild thanks monkeys and other pests are damaging to crawl through what i've always worried about rather there anything left for me and then my live but it got me before. compared with the synthetic version of the organic garden is much cost but also more eco friendly. the crop cycle last about 90 days because 10 to 20 days of live and nearly guarantees an income provided the crop isn't damaged by unseasonal rigs or other effects of climate change what began as a small experiment has blossomed into a sustainable and actually can see to scoff indigo when you change that in short autonomy and self-sufficiency production are mainly sold in india but are also exported to countries such as germany japan or the us come out of order to have through our borders are seen by people around the country a member degenerate of our hard work and we are really proud of it and i know it

feels good to know that people appreciate and there. you. ringback 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 community in the land is gone. now like many grassroots organizations across india and bonding and. decision making and self determination emotional sweat lodge which was the guiding principle during india. and badminton is this curious connection and finding solutions so

that more and more people and organizations can benefit from it. so these are all movements where people have actually tried to claim that for all my toes that affect our lives we should be the ones who are taking decisions all be central to the decision making we can't believe it through governments and corporations and so on. but i just actually have a ordered concept in india comes from the ancients could chose and then doing the investments movement against the british colonial rule it was up to the eyes by many to from the moment such as put in since the moment done on jindal and others

where the british were trying to beat them fold over our production systems on agriculture and so on. and then on the budget especially in his book in swat eyes 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 hard on me and freedom but responsibility to other peoples and other communities autonomy and 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 there was apparent has been taken all the state from the west in that. since and we have imposed it all successive governments have been boys did either to state socialism or now increasingly to capitalism means that g.d.p. growth has to 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 confectionery in 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 of being or a 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 what arch for instance women farmers in different parts of the country claiming food so we're going to be 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 because what odds but also a 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 as

a palm and 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 ethics and 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 towards ip and machinery and industries and so on.

self-reliance sort of maneuver ties 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 that are being pushed out actually pushing people more and more towards commercialization privatisation. with requests what i'd show 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 to understand how we can take control over our own lives with as i said responsibility for others as collectives as communities wherever we are.

like ashley school taught is that we have to vet could nice the other species and others the whole also have rights and that then value is not doing only by how useful the uk and human beings but in winter world drugs to me is the single can we expect in the string for example to use this as a guiding principle a company in indonesia believes it's possible. here only outskirts of bundling a city on internees his 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 medicine allegiance here they are the raw material for an innovative kind of textile.

mushroom a supreme reading to become a sustainable future a ladder the curious grueling mycelium original piece part of the founders can mean making perfectly like a letter without any bjork p.v.c. or any camera caught on time race material how do you raise in your growth comes from a family of mushroom farmers in 2012 he and some colleagues founded a startup mushrooms but they quickly changed tack to focus on my psyllium they are committed to developing a sustainable animal friendly fashion industry compared to animal in their minds whether it is having a really huge advantage in environmental impact for example we can share much less water we don't have to cure or. we can move vertical farming so we can save some space and it's also a really less carbon emission they feed their mushrooms with organic waste such as sort of just. their company micro tech

sources that locally what's waste for the which mel 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. percepts uses a fraction of the water used in standard love of production less than 110th. this has caught the attention of. he makes and sell shoes many of course a made of leather but these days he's keen to find alternatives. for leather industries want to be discounted your for carbon emission and we see that as as

long as we keep selling forward whether forward and as the cells grow we keep damaging the environment and 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 robust it can last for years and it's an eco friendly sustainable product companies around the world are discovering its advantages. my steely i'm sure you still have a long way to go though not yet widely available they are not yet a mass market product it has there are higher costs 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 as far ahead as 2027. so we currently are producing 2000 square feet of my silly matter per year over year when it's really huge so we need to double down our capacity in order to keep up with demand. 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 . nuclear and to steam still have some way to go but they hope the mushroom letter alternative is at the least a good step forward. the idea that each one of us is responsible for ourselves our community and of abundant is quite wonderful but in reality this is not an issue if i were

a project in the netherlands that's seemingly good for me and bob and the people who live in 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 1976 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 black and 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 for 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 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. 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 and spring to get back on our feet. all because a lot of the 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 posset around the world may not be familiar with the work or. words and boarding interactions are i took or to. want to bring more diversity to the and bob minton movement. so she found a black and. a mentor to find out about the behind her motivation. drives you to get. what you ronnie's ringback you to 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 s. 33 years ago he and 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 in this something in opportunity comes it was a european year of the environment and we applied plus more mountain 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 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 nature will stay in the show was such an amazing thing that as a child i was in movies and the chinese of calls have a very deep relation with nature and now a rich in no way of being is very and the mystic so i'll close this of nature is something that seemed 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 about pollution that the moment though it 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 very environmentally conscious of the world are more open to working with people of the world that can as it minorities intrinsically local and global people are constantly in touch with their countries of origin so in a way they have all 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 food for thought. after a mission 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.

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allowed manufacturing ignorance much make good on g.w. . business d.w. news line from berlin tensions run high in the u.s. state of minnesota after and another black man that's shot dead by police the officer who fired apparently in the still current gun for her taser a nighttime curfew has failed to keep a lid on protests as president joe biden asks for restraint also coming up. world.