on the finger from them in a major in women in italy obscene woman where a suspect forced into prostitution their stories must be told and once you force me into things through. an excuse me of the 77 percent starts april 17th on t w. decision . perfect in. some consequences of this are beneficial to us and the above between. the sometimes our. generation how many of us think about that like the rights we have the nature of around us has rights too well this week . alone welcome to equal india. magazine

when stories not only for media across asia and europe but i can also report the story of an inspirational come back to history books not just the color integral has a troubled past in india the die for which it's right was a major source of exporting into british the colonizers commission on indian. food crops which led to hunger and despair in farm was a big barrier for cultivating evidence but a collective. attempt at a sustainable. something magical that's how the 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 unexpected. affinity for indigo today it is hard to imagine that 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 indigo. it is a physically strenuous process which requires scientific position and artistic extatic both of which has none and must.

have a himalayan movement that is. off its 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 debts suicides and so on and so forth looking at that it was it was a tough subject even ventured into the moment but a 3rd toward indigo i had people just telling me that the hell can i even plonk about what within the. 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 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 and you davie from des goli village has been planting a small patch of her farmland with indigo together with her paddy crop once a year by 2019 she 110000 rupees the plant also keeps wild animals away. that she knew were boarding. i began doing indigo because i might it would. some madman farming right very example meant having to carry on a constant yoga for a while thanks monkeys and other pests are damaging to crawl through what next 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 cost but also more eco friendly. the crop cycle last about 90 days requires 10 to 12 days of live and nearly guarantees an income 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 african c to scoff indigo when you change that in short autonomy and self-sufficiency to production are mainly sold in india but are also exported to countries such as germany japan or the us common ability are 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 get feels good to know that people appreciate and fair macof 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 in here come on the community in the land where it is gone. now like many grassroots organizations across india embody the country decision making and said become a nation emotional sweat lodge which was the guiding principle india. and badminton this curious connection and finding solutions 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 toes that affect our lives we should be the ones who are taking decisions all be central to the decision making we continue with the governments and corporations and so on. what i was actually a very ordered concept in india comes from ancients good joes and then doing the inventions movement against the british colonial rule it was spoke to the eyes by many different moments such as put in since the moment on on kindle and others where the british were trying to beat them to all over our production systems on

agriculture and so on. and then on the budget 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 hard on me and freedom but in responsibility to other peoples and other communities autonomy and freedom which means it encompasses a deeply ethical we'll being off living it encompasses my self restraint so that i don't impinge on the rights of others to live. in india the concept of development has been taken over the state from the west in

their. since and we have been posted all successive governments have been boarded either to state socialism or now increasingly to capitalism betweens their g.d.p. growth are still happen at any cost which means you can cut down forests you can. bring out over to land you can do anything you can displace millions of people in the pursuit of this kind of their will upon cunt fortunately in modernized development we seem to think of ourselves as apart from nature we have to figure out how we are actually part of pretty please insert ourselves understand that other species have their own right to exist that everything around us has as a spit 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 what arch for instance women farmers in different parts of the country claiming 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 order of forests in central india and other parts of the country. build in the notion of swaraj which is a deeply political and economic concept of independence and autonomy as they said but also the responsibility to the rest of nature and so 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 not one british and 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 despair 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 boards and machinery and industry and so on. self-reliance or ottoman advertize become quite a buzzword in india these days everybody seems to delays their 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 are actually pushing more and more towards commercialization privatisation. with it because what i would show many many things happen one is that for instance we make the centralised 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. we have to recognize that other species and others the whole who have rights and that their value is not determined only by how useful they are to human beings but the way the world runs to be is the sins of all can we expect industrial for example to use this as a guiding principle a company in indonesia. here only outskirts of bandung a city on internet users 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 roll material for an innovative kind of textile. more serious opinion rewritten to become sustainable future leather the curious cruel mycelium original piece part of the fungus can mean making perfectly michael

out there we don't have any be your p.v.c. or any can we talk hunting 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 for sure 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 in their minds hillary is having a really huge advantage in environmental impact for example we can share much less water we don't have to cure. we can move vertical farming so we can save some species and it's also i mean it's really less carbon emission they feed them mushrooms with organic waste such a sort of just. company micro tech sources that locally what's waste for which 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. percepts uses a fraction of the water used in standard letter production less than 110th. this has caught the attention of how long he makes and sell 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 forward whether forward and 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 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. my feeling i'm sure you still have a long way to go they're not yet widely available but they are not yet a mass market product that has the or higher cost because due to the scale meaning that 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. the resin you grow and his team agree that busy ramping up production they already have orders is far ahead just 2027.

so we currently are producing 2000 square feet of mycelium per year over the money it's really huge so we need to double down our capacity you know to keep up with him at. 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 our own bob it is quite wonderful but in reality this is not an issue because the project in the netherlands that's good for the and bob and the people who need it but some people.

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 flew 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 reads and grasses were planted to retain the scent genes 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. 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. of the bird 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 one. 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 work or.

boarding house actions are i took origin i. wanted to bring more diversity into the and bob mentioned movement across canada so she found a black and. he met her to find out about the behind her motivation. drives you to get. what you ronnie's you to change the way you live is emotional so called sepsis deeply positioning yourself quite differently in relation to nature so they identify with us me. and i tend to 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 environmental 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 actually this no black and i think minorities and 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 the opportunity comes it was a european year of the environment and we applied for small amount of 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 you know 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 moods and the chinese so-called have a very deep relation with nature and now a rich in the way of being is very and the mystic so i'll close this of nature is something that's in continuous through my life. nature is not local is local and global you know you pollute something of blows across the world that 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 will have very environmentally conscious of the world are more open to working with people of the world looking that's it minorities are intrinsically local and global people are constantly ringback in touch with their countries of origin so in a way they have all investment in environmental themes global themes than anybody they are connected global people. i hope to be separable has given you enough for a course 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. with a. little. bit

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