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expand big cities, not just photos, but also for the biodiversity that relies on it. on to this show, let's see how this has been made possible. hello, welcome to eat coin beer. i'm some of that i'm green spaces in my home city of moon by us steadily disappeared. it was rapid organization that our residents. however, what taking change into their own has carving out of been green of the better will be, can ah, there are some surprising green and leafy corners of number the mer to go neighborhood is home to a 600 meter long got beneath the busy flow. these days locals flocked to the public bar. it's partly the work of retard mechanical engineer. michel decide who lives

near. he was fed up with having an eyesore on his doors one year or 2 year after the flower was being started being misuse and the taxes and other things target parking. below it, people will bargain, forget their cars, their only, and then some group of people will start living there only, and started cooking and watching and everything the and then the many long portions of people will stand anywhere and go it became an open you dinner type thing all were stinking all the time. they named el so it was very bad suggestion. now 70 mickle, this son, together with other residents decided to raise funds for a garden underneath the flowers. the city authorities was so delighted by the idea

that they decided to award the project public financing today, the bog, both flower beds, winding pathways and pleasant spots to while away the time i wait with another green heaven brussard which but gardens urban garden. he hint from the state of order up a dish for 20 years he has been growing produce here, close to bundle railroad station, the garden spot of government, london, and part of a state sponsored initiative organized by central really called grow more food had puzzlement. nearly every 5 years and the land is transferred to a different building official can get at the new officer,

in whose name it is transferred or had drunk comes here. and pigs over it says, manage mankato are they are, are escape audio app would iron management, leg press. all wish luka dance the garden on their behalf. the real, the company helps the gardens be proven. crash and litter from being dumped around platforms and stop people from settling and illegal shacks along the tracks. what does work preferred and enough to support his family? the live nearby, one of his sons has just graduated from college because 2 people from his village help him out with the garden grid has come by regularly to buy his fresh vegetables is nigelica, the cape al, about the good is it, but our on 1st of all it is really helpful and beneficial for the environment and people get to enjoy the vegetables. we grew here. so what i do here,

or that gives me a lot of satisfaction from la gordon group. newsroom alcala, italy uncle brought him a telecom on the vision edge of them, but there is a community garden, you called dream group. i use the members of the initiative like and being there harvest when it's freshness won't be as meet twice a week to work in the garden. anybody can join him as often as divorce. the fruits and vegetables off free dipped. he jungian joined when the group was launched in 2018. most important things that we do is side building out of this material. we growing a whole lot of vegetables, fluids, and flowers to attract bees. we have all the amazing uh fruits and vegetables that be grill. and of course, most important to foil. we bid the community off a whole variety of beautiful human beings. and we have a really lovely them together,

neighborhood warranty or finance the seeds and everything else needed for their food falls. more than a 100 people have already got involved. some have brought the idea of community gardening to other areas of the city. we need more green spaces, we need to save us soil. we need spaces where people can come in and forest bade right in the middle of a been jungle like mom life. and that is laid is crucial for us, as well as other people to adopt activities initiated like this, where we can one square foot at a time green every single but of a city that's available back in the heart of man by the garden. my tongue has become a trailblazer. the cities traffic authority has recognized the value of such greenways whatever would either get married or whenever we can find the space we are creating gardens. we are known by citizens can walk under

a meet and relax under it. as part of the city's new concept. awful had been green space. escalate the pillar garden deal of gray, 4 kilometers from none another meter. god. the next god in the west is coming to light. it set to open in a few weeks. mom by will then have 16 green flowers in the past 3 decades. the city has lost 40 percent over to greenly. the green spaces under the flowers can't make up of these losses, but the city has at least now recognized just how widely our public fafsa, the father is, make up much of berlin's green spears. but it's the allotment garbled with complete with the small summer house that had given the city. if you me green charm for more than a 100 years. yet they are under threat for how important i leave early. let's figure look in the spring has arrived. the show it's family is preparing their garden

for the summer. it brings them joy. and it also has other benefits. like of the everything, you know, i think these plants are very important for nature and the climate god, everyone can contribute and they offer people the chance to plant greenery or oh yeah, i will my rock and from the show it's family has been leasing this garden for 3 years now, every year they plant new vegetables, but it's not just about hard work. the summer or ours is it? it's such an oasis, an island where you can just spend time and relax in nature, hard on search button. it's really great to a hot dance toy. this oasis is part of the allotment colony. i'm stuck park. i'm in western berlin. not long ago plans to extend to schools threatened 19 of the 120 plots.

marianna, once hymer has had a garden here for almost 30 years, had children and now grand children have grown up using the green space. these are gap when these gardens are a bonus to city life. but doyle, there are a local recreation area. i know, and they give berliners light or fresh air opportunities for exercise and in begging on the chance to experience nature. lucas and to socialize all. well, that's up in the minds have runs hymer shoots and other plot holders successfully campaigned against the school expansion plan. berlin has over 70000 allotment gardens more than any other european city. together they make up almost $3000.00 tech t as some are on city land. others frank track, some property not used by its owner. rail provided deutscher bomb get

shopper is head of a berlin allotment association fee for you. he represents holders across the city allotment gardens are extremely sought after and yet plots are increasingly at risk to home classes. with hulu, the city needs tracks for new subways, for new trams reliable. it may also need additional tracks where the suburban rail net world shit needs facilities for schools and kimber gardens at berlin needs more housing. and all of these requirements are putting of squeezing available space. we been feeling pressure for many years and believe it will only mount in the coming years. allotment gardens 1st appeared in berlin in the late 18 hundreds as the population exploded. people from rural areas flocked into the city and needed to grow vegetables for their own food. the gardens were

a lifeline for berlin. as during both world wars, during the cold war gardens sprang up along the berlin wall in the east, where hobby gardeners contributed to food supplies, to day allotment, similar for relaxation and connecting with nature. there were regulations on the size of them and how they used. they are also important for the environment in the city and beyond. scientists, it's voice vague, specializes in urban greenery. he frequently visits berlin to keep tabs on their cities ecological balance. urban greenery is providing a lot of so should the political services to cities and citizens. for example, they cool cities, they provide water because they are not sealed. i, they provide by a diversity services. they are home for many insects for example, i'm a very most and they will become more important in the future. did you find a change? temperatures are rising in by land, while the amount of annual rainfall has dropped allotments, provide urban greenery,

and can help address climate change challenges. but just because a garden is green doesn't mean it's a cure all. if you have a lot more gardening, where you have only long and there has no, they're not many plans, and you use a lot of pesticide for example. then the value of this green is very, very low. so what you need is more while the gardens of more diversity gardening and berlin has developed beyond traditional allotments in the center of the city on the land of the disused temple golf air fields is the community garden amen. their contour founded in 2011 the project to promote sustainable organic gardening. these children a here to water, the potatoes, but there are more than 250 raised beds with more than 500 gardeners. sophie recalls me volunteers herself organized and meet regularly to attend to

different parts of the garden. like this area dedicated to the communities bes 20 coca has been part of the collective for around 5 years. he leads the group dedicated to taking care of the b colony at amanda control. we will be the better for me and from a lot of people who are part of the group a they realize how important is to know how difficult is to work with earth. and to be a, we're the connection of nature and human. and for me, well, the form is quite of the pillar of the project here to be aware how we are connected to the nature backet colony, amsterdam, park ions. the should says have finished their work for the day. it's time to enjoy some lunch. it's not clear, their oasis will forever survive the pressures of urban development. but for now,

it's a bonus for the family and the environment. as we just saw, open greenery is not just about providing space for relax ation. it can mean much more. for example, it can be used from going food in the southern city of c one and to put them this idea is helping solve a multitude of problems. it's planting season. the jackal model is placing green, chilly seedlings and the soil. the plastic wrap locks in moisture is walked as a foam help for 6 years. he comes from the pre dominant rural state of a fam in northern india. but it's here in the southern city of k to run for them and get that to learn how to fund if they get me bill it is. i make me she madly. i knew nothing about having me. i just used to help me. but after coming here,

i have learned a lot about me and i know all about helpful technology. and now we're ever going me . i don't have to feel no good natasha. no one needs to tell me what to do. and i know it all my cell phone we did us works for grew agro ventures, a small company on the outskirts of to run on the bottom. it provides farming and technical expertise to help people set farms. on unused open land, launched in 2016, a company combines modern techniques, the traditional farming practices. it grows vegetables adapted to the soil and uses only natural best decides. founder it just really combines as engineering background with a passion for farming to get more people in urban areas to grow their own food. during the found to make the exposure to local produce was far greater than before, simply because of the fact that your resources will limited. so that has changed the pallet tremendously. and that single aspect of what i believe will be the

future driver of this business kayla. has long sought agriculture, the views from neighboring state, but a 2015 study exposed high levels of chemicals and imported vegetables. the state began promoting local food cultivation. government data shows that just 2 years later, each of their last foot in the streets boasted some $20000.00 rooftop farmers. urban agriculture is billed as a sustainable solution to help feed people in india's fast growing cities. but outside of get along, scaling up could be a challenge, especially in major cities like delhi, bengal, little, and shanae, where groundwater levels are dangerously low. experts, a banking on new technology, unlike did earlier conventional method of getting blanks using a board or maybe

a holes. no, we have micro irrigation methods like micro sprinklers, other than that, but litigation is the government is supporting those programs also and there are a number of private companies also bring your good models that can be fitted into this. so that want to shortlist for a problem can be forwarded to a great extent. open farms also serve as a green buffer against carbon emissions and helps filter evolution. but a lot of people living in cities, i can't afford to grow their own food. and these are the grounds of a nonprofit organization in piddle, one on the bottom that supports the young people with autism from low income families. gruen agro ventures help to convert one acre of the added land into a vegetable farmer program. participants learn valuable skills and can take their harvest's hope. experience has shown that farming has therapy,

antic benefits they are actually a careering skinny, they play can all, i team building skill set and the way they are in are working together. why? debbie holl west. so understanding the concept m acquiring. so tim skill set and all communication and other areas i'll farming, it's really helpful. it just salim services are booked mostly by middle and upper middle class families in gala. but he now wants to encourage city workers to cultivate vegetables during and outside of of his art. his companies, one from farm initiative, seeks to create a poor walking space that provides a calm, rural walk environment while providing members the opportunity to engage in farming activities. we would like to have people come over here as a regular way of life, understand as to how farming is and create that farm connect and bond so that they

are able to nurture in their minds. in all a dream of future fun with more people turning to organic urban farming, grown agro ventures past up into a growing market and catalog. and it's also nurturing the g more farm work of video, thus cool one day hopes to set up his own fun. back in his home state of a sam big cities need big ideas, especially to fight against climate change. the international horticultural exhibit and flurry other in the netherlands is exhibiting concepts from all over the world on how to re nature back into cities. a beach house made of over 7000 kilos of plastic and in ecosystem created in a desert landscape. these are some ideas for greener future on display at the florida,

a world expo for horticulture in the netherlands in the future. more and more people are going to live in cities. so our, ah, yeah, our idea is to show people, how can we create shape the cities of the future? how can we make them greener? how can we make them more sustainable? and what can each and every one of us do exactly to i to make this happen over 40 countries, are taking part in the florida at the german pavilion, bio tapia, visitors learn about environmental impact and change by interacting with the exhibits as well as with each other growing green cities is the overall theme at this year's florida. the key message is we are a growing community. so we have to work together in unison to create a more green and sustainable future. it's really each and everybody's contribution and only as a whole. we can make the future and the cities more green. another highlight news,

this house. it demonstrates alternative building practices by using mostly natural materials in the construction over $100.00 natural materials were used in the construction, including cork, recycled wood, burlap by a waste, seaweed and fungi. so this is a room a completely made out of bacteria and fungi. it's actually made out of my celia and my celia are the roots of the much room which form a strong network which you can use to insulate your house wits. the floria takes place every 10 years. this is the edition located in almera, about 30 kilometers from amsterdam. it will remain open until october. it's not only cities with solutions are needed to bring back green space. india has

suffered a loss of natural forest area, largely due to agricultural expansion. an activist in the north of the country is trying to reward some of the damage. $13.00 advertising ah, each worst thing johanna shows how it's done. for about 15 years, the teacher has been planting trees here on the marla plateau in central india. it lies at an altitude of around 500 meters. he initially started out alone planting the small seedlings. but now he has the support of numerous wall interiors from the local area. in addition to fruit trees such as guar, mangle when bananas, they also plant people deep and named treats a bio duel the degree aided by each man and his team, which previously didn't exist on this rocky terrain. to water the young trees, we have to walk several 100 meters back and forth with container

or 5 to 7000 entries. here they are like my children. if a plan dries up, but it hurts my heart. but if we want a duty and to model it comes back clean again, that gives me immense pleasure. elsewhere, forest has been cleared to make ready for farm land mining operations or growing cities. the rate of deforestation is unclear as india accounts areas, even with the limited tree color as partis, situation gets a bit complex because how india defines that. what is cover? we actually earned up for the soviet been down to find any area with one heck data plan with dent busing cover as wallace. although i some of the interventions that monaco desk what is color actually trico? ah, since the most recent ice age, the art have lost one part of its modesty area. from 2015 to 2020 alone, around 10000000 hectares of forest disappeared. each year. as it is old,

the earth is getting warmer with doubt. vile fires and lance lights on the rise around the world. more and more reforestation projects underway. these include both large scale campaigns and smaller initiatives, lakewood each were and his team give you digest a long for building is efforts to restore our forests are still far too small in scope, but their big ideas of what the politicians are promising is and normally offered when there are you and back programs with hundreds of millions of factors ought to be replanted with foreigners. there are many local initiatives to vote, but what's being done right now is not enough overall to compensate for the readers . deforestation in sca sundays. just not just, you know, counties in drugs compet via india is one of the world's major biodiversity hotspot. so export c reforestation efforts need to be planned with care taken as to

what trees are planted red, so as not to upset the balance of nita the open naturally systems the grass lives need to be protected. you know, the, again, the biodiversity benefits and be dependent on the master list, etc. why depend on that? so every base doesn't need to add something to the open. naturally, ecosystems, white tape are very important. so before the station, it's about restoration and identifying what interventions, where basically ah, but each i feel he's on the right path. with his walk as a teacher, he finances the feelings that he and his team planned regularly. nothing would please a more than to see later generations follow his example. preserving trees on the malware plateau. bringing back nature in cities and beyond. it might seem like a mammoth doth,

but with every small solution of step is taken in the right direction towards the green future. i'll leave you with a hot and see you again next week. good bye and thanks for watching. a ah ah ah ah ah

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