what secrets lie behind us will. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore world heritage sites. world heritage 363 get me out now. only. welcome to global 3000. access to clean water is a basic human right but what if it's not readily available we hear about one solution from uganda. the winds of change how traditional oil loving texans are seeing green in renewable energy sources. but 1st we reap what we sow

crop diversity is so important for both people and. the earth produces a rich variety of plants adapted to a wide range of habitats around the globe. there are around 400000 species known to science less than 10 percent are edible corn rice and wheat account for more than half the global food supply. ever since humans began adopting a sedentary lifestyle they have collected scenes to plant the 1st crops were cultivated over 10000 years ago by farmers in mesopotamia now modern day iraq and turkey and some 200000 varieties of wheat alone have developed from that early stock. having a wide range of crops and genetic diversity within each from. and

dates back to 1900. today the seed bank. one of the. many of the seed stored here are found nowhere else a large seed archives have now been established all over the world. each collect various scenes and plants from different regions. many are then stored at the global seed vault on the norwegian island of spitsbergen. but out in the fields the trend is towards less diversity during the 20th century alone an estimated 75

percent of crop diversity was lost according to the un's food and agriculture organization the reasons are many and varied. the industrialization of agriculture meant crops suddenly had to fulfil different requirements they have to produce a high yield all right and at the same time and not suffer damage being harvested by heavy machinery. our modern globalised trade network means fruit and vegetables no need to stay fresh while being transported over long distances very few varieties can live up to those demands that range of produce in our supermarkets is deceiving the tomatoes and cucumbers may look different but genetically they're very similar. this genetic poverty is not without risk in the 1970 s. for example a virus destroyed one quarter of the rice harvest across the whole of asia it was

only through cross breeding the rice with a wild variety that the crop became resistant to the virus thus rescuing the world single most important food staple. for thousands of years farmers have collected their own seeds and swapped them amongst themselves to improve their harvest and develop new varieties. but in recent decades a steadily declining number of seed companies has. in selling an increasingly limited range of sorts. 95 percent of cabbage varieties for example have already disappeared the companies designed their own crops and secure them with a patent they supply 2 thirds of the global market often farmers are unable to collect seeds and are required to buy certain fertilizers and pesticides but a growing number of people worldwide are seeking to reverse this trend by increasing crop diversity and distributing seeds without patents

a nonprofit organization in austria called north or noah's ark collects seeds of old endangered varieties. it propagates the scenes and then passes them on to a supermarket chain which sells both the seeds and their produce. here the genetic diversity is genuine. now from the gardens of noah's ark in austria to the seeds of south america ecuador protecting traditional sea varieties also indigenous traditions. is a farmer and her and her village. corn seeds are stable and vital for life in their community she conducts

a ceremony to thank. mother earth for her bounty. for indigenous communities here in rural ecuador understanding seeds and different varieties is essential for survival but the old varieties are fast disappearing pushed aside by modern industrial alternatives 75 percent of traditional seed varieties and native plant species have already been lost. in the ecuadorian capital quito a collective is working to preserve native plants and crops they've already saved 3000 seed varieties which they now make available to farmers all over the country javier career a set up the network 18 years ago when he realised that industrial seed varieties were taking over. the

problem with industrial seeds is that they've been bred intensively to ensure they can withstand the use of agro chemicals. they're not designed for natural farming methods and have no genetic diversity in themselves. so the seeds can't adapt to different places and conditions yet up. all the seed varieties here in the store are free of disease and plant debris they're stored without use of chemicals with every seed they pass on javier corella and his team are also helping to preserve a traditional way of life ensuring valuable expertise is not lost. just you see that have been identified by a part of our culture you know if someone gives me a silly but i don't know what it is or what i can do with it it's worthless to me. so passing on information about the scenes is equally important. to me and. one of

the goals of the network is to put these old varieties back on the menu. one sebastiaan paris is preparing a chocolate drink made of cocoa beans in a local fruit known as stock so for 4 years now his restaurant key to has served dishes made exclusively with natural ingredients including traditional fruits and prop for righties. working with the writings also means that you're promoting fair trade which proves people's lives and you're helping the environment too. and above all it gives you lots of freedom to conjure up a different menu every day based on what is currently available and what's in season. the seed guardians network wants to persuade farmers to adopt ecological methods and work with old seed varieties. they also

give workshops this one here is all about perma culture how the a career explains how best to maintain the soil so that it remains fertile and retains its natural balance of nutrients. the tomato is native to ecuador. potatoes come from the n.d.s. whereas lintels come from asia right over here somewhere. that's every sort of seed has its own story which is very important to the seed guardians of the hungry no began growing to count 12 years ago 1st he visited the farmers in the local area he discovered more than 30 different varieties of cocoa. every cocoa bean can be planted to grow a new tree but this one will be turned into chocolate so you know.

what i love most is the risk for rioting that we have here. but you can harvest throughout the entire year. if you have a monoculture you only have one harvest. but here there's a cow that you harvest when it's in flower one ripens only in summer the other is better in the wet season. many of us cook our righties were on the edge of extinction until the other 100 and his team began growing them again . by preserving old varieties they've also helped to preserve and renew the rain forest. from the indigenous keech war community this type of farming is nothing new 22 different she varieties have been sown in this field alone. she

loves the many different types of course. she has at the request we have all the colors here white black red yellow purple all these corn varieties are there for us to nourish. 2020 was a record year for the global wind industry newly elected wind turbines alone generated $93.00 gigawatts of power 30 more than the year before total wind energy production rose to $743.00 gigawatts that's about as much as 70 nuclear power stations upon a single wind helped to cut c o 2 emissions by more than a 1000000000 tons worldwide the equivalent of c o 2 emissions generated by all of south america. china is home to the lion share of

turbines just under 56 percent of the us follows with around 20 percent. one place relishing the breeze is the u.s. oil state of texas. currently 10 times more people still work in the oil industry compared to renewables but change is on the horizon. some things never change in west texas and brooks ranch cattlemen round up the herd as they always have on horseback. only the landscape looks a little different today the cattle graze at the foot of wind turbines it took some time for lewis brooks still in the saddle at $71.00 to warm to the idea. initially i didn't really you know. and then. when i

found out you know well and like a general i mean they're beautiful while the cattle like to lie down on a board for some reason. the ranch louis brooks runs with his son boy it covers almost 80 square kilometer his that's a 3rd bigger than manhattan the man destroy and it's hard to thrive on ranching unless. the brits thank god for giving them boil as well as another and even moon lucrative resource when. different energies are have been a great. to maintain this release rich is the way we we want to be maintained in the way my grandad and great grand. all the way back they are it doesn't well pump starting their land and 78 wind turbines the elder brooks doesn't want to talk about the income they produce passed on average each winter by and in the region brings in $10000.00 a year. when he hears the hum of the blades turning saving the planet is not what

1st comes to mind. so what monny that may it what way well it's just mind. or well it's you know it's produced you know nothin's was to. say welcomes visitors with a huge turbine blade the town of $11000.00 is the 3 hours' drive west of dallas and has traditionally stood for oil castle and rattlesnakes. it may have weathered droughts storms and the ups and downs of the oil price but many young people moved away. sweetwater was becoming a ghost town then came the boom in wind and 80. rod wetzel is the 4th generation of his family to live in sweet water he's a proud texan as a mineral rights lawyer he negotiated leases with the oil industry until the late

ninety's when the new wild west of wind. we had so many people wanting to talk to us about their wembley says that they lined up all the way down the block trying to get into the door that's always good for orders but it transformed everything so the proverb tax base here was only $435000000.00 after the advent of all those wind it is now 3 b. . texas is now also a leader in renewable energies more than a quarter of us wind energy comes from the republican run state is plenty of wind and sunshine here and they took of transmission lines and little to no regulation. wind farms are popping up all over. but they're not an option for buddy napier. he too has a ranch near sweetwater but it's more for fun he makes his money with the small oil

business he's run for 30 years. he's skeptical of president biden's plans for which to renewables. is. a good thing for renewables i don't have a problem with i don't think they are to be created the. condemning your own gas industry which also seems to be obvious. for nate here the hossa texas pumps oil. from sweet water is the permian basin the largest shale basin in the us countless oil pumps work around the clock vast amounts of natural gas off lead rather than piped to markets it's terrible for the climate it's a practice president biden aims to regulate more tightly. nabeel says the market is being skewed against oil and in favor of renewables even though green energy is in

his estimation unreliable there is definitely. i think it's not good for us to be reasonable about the way that you go about it and condemning 11 energy industry in order to supplement another energy industry that intermittent energy. i think is shortsighted. but others see the future in wind texas state technical college in sweet water trains turbine technicians there's no shortage of students the industry off is good pay travel and opportunities for advancement and jobs not far from home. a lot of these students that come through here are from oil families so they know what it's like to the way of having money and everybody working and then when oil drops you know people are laid off and you know they lose the money whereas and when it's steady. predictive for tina has already secured

a job with the wind power company what makes the job so appealing. and money. and. the students here at knowledge the need for clean energy but they certainly don't see themselves as doing i'd already mantic about preserving nature. i don't down before you're going to need natural gas i don't think i don't doubt that we don't need to have all of. the college has a wind turbine for students to train no. oil industry champions complain that wind energy gets subsidies that the oil industry does not get one response to that charge is that everybody has to pay down the line for the damage the oil industry does to the environment. whatever comes of joe biden's plan for a clean energy revolution texas is pressing ahead installing wind turbines across

the state stemming less from idealism and the desire to save the planet then as a way to make some money. the un declared access to safe clean drinking water and human rights in 2010 yet millions of people simply don't have it for global ideas our report said. traveled to lake nakia valley in uganda there he took a swig of the lake water which thanks to a simple but brilliant idea is safe enough to drink. this is the nucky valley refugee settlement in western uganda 130000 people live here. 6 years ago dina not been to fled the democratic republic of congo after rebels killed her husband. inaki bali the lake is the source of water also for drinking for livestock as well. but the water is full of

germs. every year 20000 children under the age of 5 die in uganda of diarrheal disease one major reason is that they have no choice but to drink dirty water. heat kills germs so dina not been to blows the water she fetches from the lake she has 5 children. and i think we've all drinking water using charcoal and if we don't have it we use firewood otherwise we would be drinking very dirty water. that comes at a cost to the environment to make charcoal trees are cut down forests also had to be cleared to make space for the settlement. but there's another way to provide safe clean drinking water sound of the room g. and henry if you know run to sufficient a social enterprise that makes automated low cost filters this set up cost $1200.00 the money was donated by somebody in the united states. it supplies enough water for about 900 people out of 130000 in the settlement but it's still

a start and it worked and that through our food that you get whatever from the lake you can see this is all really know what that from the lake and then outbreak prices through the future this is there is out that we get. south of the ruins you have lost a brother to cholera he drank contaminated water access to clean water is a human right to sufficient aims to deliver what the state fails to provide it also developed a small water filter for home use. and uses and grenades. and purify the water we have 2 buckets that bucket contains the grenade and then the love is there is above for this safe water so they pour water on the bucket and then gratian happens in the ground.

only water. can get through the ground and only see if what i was in to be reserved for that out. of you know it shows people how to put together their own water filter the grain it needs to be cleaned every few months then it can be reused. didn't have been too isn't treatment if you filter water this way you no longer have to boil it or buy charcoal which means lower emissions and costs and there's another advantage every time least to a new station field we train that women around a community to make sure that they have access to safe drinking water in their homes and they can also go and train other people or also make this what a fool does then so them an extra income for themselves. to be rosy and henry if you know installed the 1st large filtering system using granite in central uganda

in a school near the capital kampala. several 100 pupils now have access to clean water and fall sick less often. with a safe doesn't have anything so has told me a lot cause i'm no longer suffering we. suffer every day for. i don't even go to school. to sufficient has installed the institutional scale filter systems and more than 30 schools so far. here at st bruno's an impi district near kampala the system is the school's pride enjoy it cost $600.00 the parents each contributed about a dollar. the school still uses wood but only for cooking not for boiling water to make it safe this is good for health the environment and the budget. we used to. follow riis. by rights you know we've tried to beat. from. now.

to sufficient has quantify the impact that use of its filters has on the environment and terms of trees protected and c o 2 emissions. it proved that we installed the amish school every day we shared one trollers and place 100 years of the old somebody up there give me k.g. as he will see a few. we see. $200.00 in 4 days so. it . proves that we've run. whenever 2 sufficient installs a large filter system in a school the team plans marine corps trees with the pupils about a 1000 in all over the past 2 years. the. marine has absorb carbon dioxide at an amazingly high rate 20 times the rate of general vegetation according to one japanese study

few but to sufficient aims to do more than just replace trees that have been felled. we need to begin writing he's. protecting the environment into the minds of the people why there's 2 young men in uganda and many african countries he's got. to. write what i want to. do you know not been to his sense acquired and started using a water filter she put it together herself. mind you also from the filter is clean and usable i'm very surprised that this is the same that was what it was originally did to cows and people have contaminated it my. thanks to the 2 sufficient filter she and her family stand a better chance of staying healthy with less effort and at lower cost however dirty

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