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i'm in low income families, keep room a true win win situation. a dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. romantic cornered, tread hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot. d a. w. travel off we go. with spending time in nature has been proven to have more physical and psychological benefits. no,
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that is more important that we find some believe space than in not expanding cities, not just for us, 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 goin via i'm some of that green spaces in my home city of moon by us steadily disappearing due to rapid organization that our residents. however, what taking change into their own has carving out of been green or the better will be, can ah, there are some surprisingly 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 loc to the public bar. it's partly the work of retard mechanical engineer.
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michel decide who lives near. he was fed up with having an eyesore on his doors one year or 2 year after the player was been started being misuse and the taxes and other things target parking. below it, you will will bargain. forget that cause they're 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 l. so it was very bad suggestion. now 70 michael dishonor, together with other residents decided to raise funds for a garden underneath the plane. the city authorities, the so delighted by the idea that the decided to award the project public financing
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today, the bog, both flower beds, winding pathways and pleasant spots to while away the time that i may wait with another green heaven brussard which but gardens urban garden. he hints from the state of old rubbish for 20 years, he has been growing produce here, close to bonder, railway station, the garden spot of government land, and part of a state sponsored initiative organized by central really cold, grow more food. i had my sal met nearly every 5 years and the land is transferred to a different delivery official kid at the new officer in whose name it is
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transferred or had drunk comes here and aches. or what it says, manage, mankato are they are, are escape audio app with our management leg resort. we shall come down to the garden on their behalf. the real big company helps the gardens be proven. crash and litter from being dumped around platforms and stop people from settling and illegal shacks along the trucks. go to target. what does wordpress out and enough to support his family? they live nearby. one of his sons has just graduated from college, to people from his village. help him out with the garden. printers come by regularly, by his fresh vegetables is nigelica, the cable about the egg. it is it, but i went 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 audra gives me a lot of satisfaction,
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love for la road and carry woocommerce remark her. it's leanne promoting 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 eating their harvest when it's freshness won't be as me twice a week to work in the garden. anybody can join him as often as divorce. the fruits and vegetables are 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 of fruits and vegetables that be grill. and of course, most important of oil. we bid the community offer whole variety of beautiful human beings, and we have a really lovely them together,
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neighborhood warranty or finance, the seeds and everything else needed for the 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 bathed, right in the middle of a ben jungles like mom, my. and that is laid is crucial, her eyes as well as other people to adopt activities initiated like this. where weaken one square foot at a time, glean every single but of a city that a little bit back in the heart of man, by the garden motto, has become a trailblazer the cities traffic authority has recognized the value of such green oases, forever. what i didn't get married, or whenever we can find a space, we are creating gardens, they are known by citizens, can walk under
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a meet and relax. and as part of the city's new concept of what had been green space escalate the pillar garden deal of gray, 4 kilometers from none and all. metre, 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 of its greenly. the green spaces under the fly was gone to make up of these losses. but the city has at least now recognized just how widely our public fox and fathers make up much of berlin's green spears. but it's the allotment garbled with complete with a small summer house that had given the city. it's the only green chart for more than a 100 years. yet they're under threat. for how important are the hurley? let's figure look. in spring has arrived. the shoots family is preparing their
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garden for the summer. it brings them joy. and it also has other benefits. like of the every food i think these plants are very important for nature and the climate god, every one can contribute and they offer people the chance to plant greenery or oh yeah, i will. my land from the short family has been leasing this garden for 3 years now . every year they plant new vegetables, but it's not just about hard work. listener. oh awesome. it's such an oasis, an island where you can just spend time and relax in nature and on search button. it's really great to a hot dance. this oasis is part of the allotment colony. i'm stuck park ions in western berlin. not long ago, plans to extend to schools threatened 19 of the 120 plots.
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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 moves in 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 mind. tough runs hymer shoots and other plots 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,
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bon get shopper is head of a berlin allotment association for you. he represents holders across the city allotment. gardens are extremely sought after and yet plots are increasingly at risk to home, possible to lose the city needs tracks for new subways, for new trams reliable, it may also need additional tracks where the suburban rail, not world shit needs facilities for schools and kindergartens. as alice, 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,
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as during both world wars, during the cold war gardens sprang up along the berlin wall. the east, where hobby gardeners contributed to food supplies, to day allotment simone, for relaxation and connecting with nature. there were regulations on the size of them and how they used. they're 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 the cities ecological balance. urban greenery is providing a lot of social and 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, on 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,
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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 in berlin has developed beyond traditional allotments in the center of the city. on the land of the disused temple of 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
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different parts of the garden. like this area dedicated to the community's bees. as well. when coca has been part of the collective for around 5 years, he leads a group dedicated to taking care of the b colony at amended control. for, for me, and for 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 coronation 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 eyes 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
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development. but for now it's a bonus for the family and the environment. as we just saw album greenery is not just about providing spheres for relaxation. it can mean much more. for example, it can be used from going from in the southern city of 3 to one and to put em, this idea is helping form a multitude of problems. ah, it's blunting season video camera does is pleasing green, chilly seedlings in the soil. the plastic wrap locks in my show is walked as a farm helper for 6 years. he comes from the predominantly rural state of a sam in northern india. but it's here in the southern city of cutover and, and to put on in get law that he learned how to fun. here figure belatoya. i maker . she madly i knew nothing about farming. ma la, i just used to help my dad could get me. but after coming here, i have learned
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a lot about it to me, and i know all about helpful technology is ready to go mile and will now be at over a girl. you me, i don't have to feel no good night and you know what needs to tell me what to do with that? and i know it all. my cells, husband, uncle mich, um, got us like thank vizier dos, works for groom agro ventures, a small company on the outskirts of to run and it provides farming and technical expertise to help people set of farms on unused over land. launched in 2016 accompany combined modern techniques, the traditional farming practices. it grows vegetables adapted to the soil and uses only natural best. as i found it jostling 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
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future driver of this business. kayla has long sought agriculture. the views from neighboring states, 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 food industry 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 gala scaling up could be a challenge, especially in major cities like delhi, bengal little and china, where groundwater levels are dangerously low. experts, a banking on new technology unlike the earlier conventional method of getting plans using afford or maybe
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a holes. now we have micro irrigation methods, like micro sprinklers, other than the british and other government 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 our problem can be forwarded to a great extent. open farms also serve as a green buffer against garden emissions and helps filter evolution. but a lot of people living in cities, i can't afford to grow their own food until these are the grounds of a nonprofit organization in fiddle one. and the forum that supports young people with autism from low income families, gruen agro ventures help to convert one eager of the added land into a vegetable farmer program. participants learn valuable skills and can take their harvests. hope experience has shown that farming has therapy, antic benefits they are actually
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a careering skinny they play can all i team building skill set and the way they are, you know, working together why debbie holl, west. so understanding the concept m a co adding certain skill set and all communication and other areas i'll farming is really helpful. just to leave services are booked mostly by middle and upper middle class families in kayla. but she now wants to encourage city workers to cultivate vegetables during an outside of office. ours is companies, one from farm initiative, seeks to create a poor working 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
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are able to nurture in their minds. you know, a dream of a future from, 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, 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 exemption flurry other in the netherlands is exhibiting concepts from all over the world on how to re nature back into cities. a b channels 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
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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. now another highlight is
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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 swiss. india has
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suffered a loss of natural forest area, largely due to agricultural expansion and activists in the north of the country is trying to reverse some of the damage. $13.00 advertising ah, each we're seeing 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, one bananas, they also plant people deep and named treats a bio, do us a degree aided by each one 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 containers. yarber
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buccaneer, 5 to 7000 trees here. they are like my children. if a plan dries up but it hurts my heart. but if me, what a duty and to model it comes back clean again. that gives me humans pleasure. elsewhere, forest has been clear to me, grief are farmland mining operations are growing cities. the rate of deforestation is unclear as india accounts areas, even with the limited tree colors. potters situation gets a bit complex because how india de planes up what is cover we actually earned up for the soviet been down to find any area with one heck did of land with dent bus and cover as quite as, although i some of the interventions that on it though, that's 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 a lawn, around $10000000.00 hectares afforded disappeared each year. either though,
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the earth was getting warmer, whipped out via fires and landslides 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 they are 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 skus and it's just not just you know, counties involved to compet via india is one of the world major biodiversity hotspot. so expert fair reforestation efforts need to be planned with care taken as
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to what trees are planted read so as not to upset the balance of meta the open naturally systems the glasses need to be predicted. what, you know, the, again, the biodiversity benefits and be, be dependent on the master list, et cetera. one dependent on that. so every piece doesn't need to have, they've all been actually ecosystems wait safe. i already did. so before the station, it's about restoration and identifying what interventions that basically ah, but each one feels he's on the right path. with his walk as a teacher, he finances the seedlings that he and his team planned regularly. nothing would please and more than to see later generations follow his example. preserving trees on the malware plateau. ringing back nature in fifties and beyond. it might seem like a mammoth doth, but with every small solution,
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a 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. ah, [000:00:00;00] i
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