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instead of going to class others can attend classes only after they finish uni. millions of children of the world have to go to school. we know why. because education makes the world more just. make up your own. d.w. make for minds. welcome to resounds and. 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
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a sea of green and renewable energy sources. but 1st we reap what we sow white crop diversity is so important to both people and nature. the earth produces a rich variety of plants adapted to wide ranging 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 and the 1st crops were cultivated over 10000 years ago by farmers in mesopotamia now modern day iraq and turkey and some 2. 100000 varieties of wheat have developed from that.
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helps to secure our food supply. others. and dates back to 1900. today the seed bank. 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
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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 med crops suddenly had to fulfil different requirements to have to produce a high yield all right then at the same time and not suffer damage being harvested by heavy machinery. are modern globalized 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
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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 design their own crops and secure them with a patent they supply 2 thirds of the global market often farmers are unable to
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collect scenes 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 scenes without patents a nonprofit organization in austria called nora 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 scenes and their produce. here the genetic diversity is genuine. now from the gardens of noah's ark in austria to the sea of south america in ecuador protecting traditional seed varieties also in teaching this tradition.
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is a farmer and her and her village. and seeds are staple here and fight for life in their community she conducts a ceremony to thank or 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 korea set up the network 18 years ago when he realised that industrial seed
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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 harvey a career and his team are also helping to preserve a traditional way of life ensuring valuable expertise is not lost. they are part of our culture and if someone gives me
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a cd 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. one of the goals of the network is to put these old varieties back on the menu. chef one sebastiaan pet is 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 crop 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
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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 andes whereas lintels come from asia right over here somewhere. every sort of seed has its own story which is very important to the seed guardians of the hungry began growing kickout 12 years ago 1st he visited the farmers in the local area he discovered more than 30 different varieties of cocoa.
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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 reitman's only in summer the other is better in the wet season. many of us could how varieties were on the edge of extinction until his team began growing them again. by preserving old varieties they also help to preserve and remove the rain forest. from the indigenous keach war community this type of farming is nothing new 22
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different sea varieties have been sown in this field alone. she loves the many different types of corn. she has at the question 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 harnessing the wind helped to cut c o 2 emissions by more than
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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. i need a 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
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i didn't really you know. and then. when i found out you know. like a general i mean they're beautiful while the cattle like to lie down on the board for some reason. the ranch lewis brooks runs with his son boyd covers almost 80 square kilometer his that's a 3rd bigger than manhattan the land is drawing and it's hard to thrive on ranching unless. the brits thank god for giving them all will as well as another and even more lucrative resource when but 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 there are a dozen while pumps dotting their land and 78 wind turbines the elder brooks
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doesn't want to talk about the income they produce passed on average each wind turbine 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 monitor may it wave 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 a 3 hours' drive west of dallas and has traditionally stood for oil paschal 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
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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 when leases 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 probably the tax base here was only $435000000.00 after the bet of all this 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 it work of transmission lines and little to no regulation.
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wind farms are popping up all over. but they're not an option for buddy nate here. he too has a ranch near sweetwater but it's more 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 a swift switch to renewables. it is. a good thing for renewables i don't have a problem with i don't think that they are to be created the expansion condemning your own gas industry which also seems to be obviously. for navy here the heart of texas pumps oil hours from sweet water is the permian basin the largest shale basin in the u.s. 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. nevil says the market is
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being skewed against oil and in favor of renewables even though green energy is in his estimation unreliable i think there is definitely pollution but i think it's not good for us to be reasonable about the way that you go about it and condemning $11.00 energy industry in order to supplement another energy industry that is intermittent energy. i think is shortsighted. but others see the future in wind texas state technical college and 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 the 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
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drops you know people are laid off and they you know they lose the money whereas and when it's steady. predicted for tina has already secured a child with a wind power company what makes the job so appealing. and money. manager. the students here acknowledge the need for clean energy but they certainly don't see themselves as doing aren't all romantic about preserving nature. i don't down before you're going to need natural gas both and i think i don't doubt that we didn't have all. 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
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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 the desire to save the planet then as a way to make some money. in the un declared access to safe clean drinking water a human right in 20 to 10 yet millions of people simply don't have it for global ideas our reporter julie traveled to lake 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. and 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 the lake is the source of water
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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 boil the water she fetches from the lake she has 5 children. and i think we were drinking water using charcoal and if we don't have it we use firewood otherwise we would be drinking 3 days she 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 run to sufficient a social enterprise that makes automated low cost filters this set up cost $1200.00
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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 price is through our food back to the water from the lake you can see this is the original order from the lake and then prices through the futa 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 a grenade to. purify the water we have 2 buckets that bucket contains the grenade and then the law but that is there is above for this so forth and so. on the bucket and then the whole food creation happens
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in the granite. on the water and. get through the ground and only see if what i was in to be reserved for the down. 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 treat 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 filter 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 the people or also make this wonderful to us
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then sell them and then extra income for themselves. out of the room going 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. doesn't have anything so has told me a lot cause i'm no longer suffering we tell you for you don't even pay for it and 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 and joy 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.
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we have. from. which to sufficient has quantify the impact that use of its filters has on the environment in terms of trees protected and c o 2 emissions. that we install each school she. says she wants travelers and plays on the range here of. somebody up there give me j g g i p c h. 200 and. say. that we've done. whenever 2 sufficient installs a large filter system in a school the team plants marinko trees with the pupils about a 1000 in all over the past 2 years.
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with the. marines as absorb carbon dioxide and an amazingly high rate of 20 times the rate of general vegetation according to one japanese study. 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 mine so that people live as 2 young men. in many african countries is that you've got to compute if i want everyone to change that tradition. that nucky volley deano not been to has since acquired and started using a water filter she put it together herself. minds you know that water from the filter is clean and usable i'm very surprised that this is the same year or so which was originally dares to cows and people have contaminated it with my. thanks
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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 the water and the lake continues to be. that's all from us that global 3000 this time don't forget to write to us at global 3000. pounds check out our facebook page to. see using take kept.
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might this spell the end of the road for germany's car industry. team. w. trenches goods. they love flashy wigs extravagant outfits and glitter glitter glitter. as their fight against prejudice i don't hold cable like i did nothing i'm just dancing up and form recognition. maybe our little stars on the big stage. just starts missing to come to.
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gigs and calling a place for a bit of. the arab spring began in 2011. people stood up against corruption rulers and dictatorship. funny money all these moments have left deep banks in my memory. up. to the it was a huge challenge it was an incredible feeling. the people were liberated. they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity have their hopes been fulfilled. where does the arab world stand today. 10 years after the arab
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