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sandra, twin over you, coming to from compiler, here in uganda. hollow sandra again, a co africa highlights good examples from one country that can work in other african countries. and we offer some environmental hope. i'm chris, the lamps from our balcony. nigeria, here is some of the things we have lined up for you. a book in a far so our group of farmers who know exchange delete has information via old fashioned radios. how old wind turbine, sorry cy, good in portland, and what can be made out of them. and a simple way to keep goods cool for as long as possible without electricity in malawi. well, we 1st had to egypt who will host the next cup climate conference in 2022. the country on the nile with its deserts, long coastline and megacity,

cairo is extremely vulnerable to the effect of climate change. now leaders want to increase public investment in climate friendly measures by 50 percent, by 2025. this does not only apply to major initiatives, was more skill grasfer at once to our tiny non profits outside the capital is among those seeking to bring change to ordinary community life. so how bieber is helping out and so is archman. children from the egyptian village of east bed is hark. are excited about their small new playground that's being built with recycled materials. it's to be really colorful neighbors and other villagers are making sure that the project was initiated by an egyptian n g o called b. now the organization promote sustainable projects and particularly focuses on

children and young people and a fulton, colorado children in rural areas, often lack playground. along with each project, we're creating open spaces for them. and we make these spaces with recycled materials, such as old food and car tires and cortez. this playground is linked to a new school building where children with learning difficulties or those who have stopped going to school can receive extra help to get them back into school. the village of his b as hock is about a 2 hour journey southwest from cairo. the area has one of the highest rates of, of literacy in the country. the nearest school is a 2 kilometer walk away on a road with lots of traffic with built the classroom for young children. it's much closer, so they wouldn't have to walk on the busy road outside of abdullah. now the village

has the only school of its kind in all them. egypt that's made with recycled materials. it was built from compacted earth and 9000 plastic bottles filled with sand. blue plastic waste is a huge problem in egypt. the country produces $5400000.00 metric tons of plastic each year and is the biggest plastic polluter in the arab world. the construction industry is responsible for around one quarter of egypt, carbon emissions, because it relies heavily on concrete world wide concrete production generates nearly $3000000000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. of course one school building made of earth and plastic bottles filled with sand. won't solve that problem, but it can show what's possible. flatow a little bit there. there's a trend towards reducing plastic usage and finding solutions or non polluting ways

to recycle it. so we thought, why shouldn't we start with a new idea and a prototype to reuse plastic in something that benefits school children and the environment. we'll talk about it. meanwhile, the playground is slowly taking shape. there are very few jobs here, so the villagers are happy to have work. shabba ona shore normally gets by, by doing casual labor. here he gets paid 15 euros a day. his son adam is also helping unknown to them. and i wanted to work here for the sake of the children of gather new ideas to which i can apply elsewhere. oh, the building work has taken 6 months. many of the villagers were involved and filmed the progress, the school and playground cost around $10000.00 euros to build. the project was funded by unesco as a model of how good ideas can help reduce waste. the villagers participation in the

project was not about saving money. it's an important part of the concept little girl. we want them to appreciate the building, so they'll look after it. and if they share in the work, they'll feel like it belongs to them. about the finishing touches are being applied to the flooring. even one of the architects is helping the building is scheduled to open in september 2022 and has space for 35 children to resume their schooling. in a pleasant atmosphere. the palm trees in the classroom were allowed to remain and have been incorporated into the design. the roof is made of bamboo, a fast growing, sustainable material. in the evening, the playground is finally ready. the work is over. now it's time to relax and enjoy the results. ah,

what's a great initiative on next piece highlights something odds. this is already new above and used to successfully defy the whole temperatures in our region. in this regard, the listening closely to nature and we are way ahead of us are doing your bit this week. show me the vegetables early, even good enough pursuit in sub saharan africa. more than 40 percent of fruit and vegetables go to waste every year. they often spoil on the way from harvest to market because of a lack of refrigeration. malawi knows the problem. well, almost 90 percent of the population has no access to electricity. but since last year, many farmers in was a village in the south of the country, have been able to use small cooling boxes. they weigh just for kilos and have a 60 liter volume developed in the us. the unit is meant to help solve the cooling

problem without the need for electricity to gotcha vanguard muttering, this cooler box uses water to make on the outside, there is bags, which we fill with 6 liters of water. i think when a minute, when the water is filled, then i take the vegetables and put them inside and i closed the lid and all the vegetables inside are kept as fresh as if i just picked them from the garden. wanted to try it. when would i tell me what to do to the special materials in the box that heat is extracted from the inside, leaving it more than 10 degrees celsius cooler than the outside temperature. fruit and vegetables stay fresh, longer and can still be sold for up to 5 days. demand is high for the boxes, even though each $1.00 costs around $150.00 us dollars. it will food program has paid for the 1st boxes. and i hope that they can soon be produced much cheaper

locally in malawi. ah, and how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it. visit, tell web site both, send us the tweet. hash tag doing your old, we share yours to raise hers, and now we go from low to high tech, very high tech indeed in europe. over to you, sandra. think increase. now when you might think of green energy as sustainable. it also leads to west tech giant we tumbling, for example. europe will have to return nearly 12000 turbines with 2024. normally the old materials would end up in crop. but in portland, they have formed a noble way to reuse them.

these wind turbines are more than 20 years old compared to modern ones. they're small and inefficient, so they're being torn down. so what happens to these green energy giants at the end of their lifespan? the blades, especially, are made of composites and plastics. instead of recycling them a lot and some in landfills more incinerated in the kilns of cement and steel factories for some years. now, facilities that insinuate them aren't really happy about it and that's down to the physics of the combustion process. last fall, the glass fibers bonded with residence which come up the kiln and the ash and i so quite apart from the environment, luna sank on the it's just not an ideal solution. zeal unique you lose on and recycling is only just getting off the ground. it's only recently that wind turbine

manufacturers have had the wind to waste problem on their radar. that often leads to situations like this on this green field decommission turbine blades are dismantled for the scrapyard. one company near the polish city of rod suave has come up with a solution unmet takes old turbine blades from germany and turns them into furniture. the plains of the 12 meters long are 1st sought intersections, sounded and painted. they get a new life as outdoor furniture, chairs, benches, and tables. accented with top quality march would students from the university of shalana gotta come up with the designs. they're thrilled that their products are being bombed by customers around the world. of

course you can use it inside, but i think outside is am, is better i to, to use this material because it's water proof is damaged grove, a foot bridge, another of unmet novel recycling ideas. the rotor blades were transformed into the support for pedestrian bridge. it's the brain child of engineer on j. r. done show for him. old blades are not hazardous waste but a resource spout. she, me guar news me ions gloves for example. we don't try to change the shape of the rotor of years. we turn it into a sculpture or that doesn't blade and so we have me deal is going to be monumental . you really big so that it really while your bush bunge, it'll be on a little jack rosanna. unquestionable of runs and online shop wings for living.

that's the exclusive retailer. there's even an app to let you see what the furniture would look like in your garden. snobbish and his counterparts in poland are good friends. a garden bench like this can easily cost 1500 euros. we're aiming to be a small and stylish brand to that helps raise awareness of the problem people and also shows that old discarded objects can be turned into beautiful and unique furnishings. the movie boy, his friends and poland are constantly coming up with innovative designs. like a rotor wing transformed into a wine cellar. when it comes to up cycling, the sky's the limit. and there is no shortage of turbine blades that need repurposing. will the new generation of wind turbines are bigger and more powerful. modern turbines are temples of high tech filled to the brim with electronic components. and they promised to help solve the wind to waste problem.

in 30 or 40 years, when these turbines go offline, they'll be more easily recycled into valuable raw materials. alanon, how soon he austin, american, the all big manufacturers are working on producing their components and so that they'll be easier to recycle. meaning in a way that's environmentally sustainable energy saving and cost saving energy intensive, we cost 100 percent recyclable turbine blades are the wave of the future. germany, for example, plants to install $1500.00 new wind turbines a year in a few decades. their aging blades will be mined for valuable raw materials even if the food situation in germany is a relatively stable, it doesn't mean that everything is fine. the area set aside for conservation is limited. farms compete with all the infrastructure projects,

such as roads or wind turbines. now like everyone in the world, the climate crisis is making the situation was additionally, because humans were calling for a general rethink of agriculture. this is why 2 of them wanted to take a closer look at the farm over william in early morning wash and chi farm in the zone holland region of western germany today vill him a guy doesn't have to look after his animals alone. alexandra moo stumpage. and even as cooney are here to help for a weekend, they've only just arrived, but are already hard at work. they want to learn more about the practical challenges faced by farmers is are within a limit of marcia. i work in the food industry and would like to continue down this path in the future weekend or, and i wanted to get to know the whole food industry from its roofs, the industry and yeah, what's the canon lannon has been been so st. andrews gas,

i am self employed in the catering industry and i work with products from the food industry or cervical cancer and was i had this, i wanted to know where they're made, where they come from and how much while catch to goes. and then howard benoit, the farm has been in the family for 150 years. it covers 70 hector as of land and has pigs, cows, and chickens. while not an organic farm vill him a guy is big on sustainable methods and animal welfare. unlike on many farms, the pigs can move freely and they're stall and an outdoor area. but of course, the animals will still be slaughtered as it been that the i'm not the kind of person who says that i can't eat them now that i see them. i'm getting is actually just the opposite. once you see they have a good life, you know, there's always lots to do. reading livestock is an important part of the farms income, in addition to around $300.00 pigs. there are also 40 cows. but the farmer has no

plans to increase his livestock with van phil feler, schriner on scott frugal garden. in germany we keep germany, pigs and poultry garcia at sierra did we produce more meat than we can consume? and that's not good for any one. i'm award for him. listen for the one we have to import feed, we're moved enough like we have to export the meat on ceiling mark. it's a difficult market to the lunch yet so that farmers often don't earn enough income . we are not really stunned. plus, we then have the problem of manure, which is simply no longer a valuable nutrient when they so much of it. and instead it becomes problematic for the ground water. the lesson for the school brother dash 2. so he decided to take a different path in 1989 vill hm applies. farm was the 1st in germany to adopt stricter animal welfare rules. these include free roaming for livestock all year

round the use of straw and plenty of space in the stalls. unlike industrial agriculture, them with an unclear or start fin the store, we have to move towards more regional farming and regional marketing, where we produce for the needs of our population and under conditions that are approved to ecological and sustainable india collision in our house. if in the were continuous for the 2 women. next, they have to collect eggs from the chicken coop. the farm has more than 1200 hands upon me. i've never collected eggs like this. this is oh, it's warm, it's really fresh. is it farming that needs to change or something else? the name is minus the act. i think the problem is over consumption, the constant unnecessary demand from consumers. all right, if we could just reduce that, then there'd be no problem there. then people would just be satisfied with what's

available empathy. so both consumers and farmers need to change, but how much change is realistic? the 2 women raised the issue during the coffee break as an cancel work not to completely turn that the clock. only bad people joining forces to work together again, one would have was a sharing system exactly like cannon this olive moor heading home. you can think of all sorts of things, including new farms or small farms that are managed sensibly by several generations or a farm with a baker, a butcher, or handicraft business in design life, in a market economy, the decisive factor is always whether something's profitable, whether the prospects for making money are so good that there are courageous people who do it will help a guy has that courage and has invested in new mobile outbuildings for his chickens

with any other. and for them that i phone and we're actually getting 3 of these in total. they cost a lot of money. so of course it's not something you do when you're 60, but our son said he's more interested in poultry from rural area van. so the future of the farm is looking secure and the sustainability concept of the past 30 years is said to continue the working day. his finished for the women. what's their main take away? that for alice far might need to be smaller. instead of being huge outfits garvin, i see that is a better way of producing food labels where that is both done. i yes, create an awareness in each individual. and so they're willing to pay certain prices because they know where the feed comes from. and so they appreciate that and a completely different way on my mother's gonzalez's shirts. we simply produce and throw away too much food. and what the 2 of them also found out how much hard work

actually goes into making a single breakfast egg less can indeed be more. we have seen these many times in the fight against climate change. sticking with farming, we had overtook enough fossil, a country in western africa, where more than 80 percent of the population lives from. and we've ugly culture. we have to deal with heat, drought and lack of rain just to secure any harvest at all. so through sandra to cope with these difficult conditions, what's needed is more knowledge and better management of their land. luckily, there is a project that uses unusual means to pass that knowledge onto farmers. at 1st glance, bama is a village like many old as in booking a fossil. but it's also part of an ambitious pilot project aimed at bringing

helpful information to the countries or regions. here small hold, farmers can use phones, access radio programs, the future agricultural information in 4 local languages called transmission. attend the program as practical ideas and suggestions. the listeners lang. my uncle, you, thanks to this radio show. i learned how to give lies pellets from yada. i'm from a about any finance we found out about the bucket s m channel learn how it works, florida, we really appreciate it. and the best thing is that with just a few clicks, you can call up and look into older program equity. don't show that is a great feature. it got sick image on them. any goal or let me do technology behind. it is simple summer's going call of programs free of charge. possible radio transmitters doesn't use of data volume or require some cat. all

that's necessary is to be within a specific 6 kilometer range. the radio station bummer plan, one of the project partners can be listened to in the middle of rise fields. some of the programs can be accessed later on demand by people unable to listen to live broadcast, or by those who don't have radios. time behind a microphone is given to farmers, but also job record will experts, the wrong thing. this is a leopard, but us on the phone. we talked about preparing the soul for planting the berries and also about the distances that families should leave between the waterways and their feel, assuming that limp ugh, the we also discuss the use of pesticides and their effects on the soil is a negative impact on plants no visible the project is not a one way street of an abuse as regularly meet with families representatives to

find out which topics are interested them by the summer's will welcome programs about seed of fertilizers have been higher yields, but also protect the soil sig, you on thunder valley does universal. those has heard about new and interesting innovations. tell us about them. me standing up there also in contact with specialists from various feelers, while they very often suggest we talk to people who have special expertise on certain topics. so the group here in bama has a major influence on our program handler, their products, you know, liberal please sure. the device is come from a project partner in germany and financed by the german development agency g. i said the program target regions with pool or no radio reception. it was our food fast predictor. briefly, we piloted pockets of feminine buckley bama about deer boutique, and in the cascades region is set faster than it a concrete unsecure for, couldn't,

of which was so successful that we want to introduce bucket f m and the rest are booking a fossil in the coming weeks and months, passenger down there, push instrumental push won in the future. video clips will also be available even without an internet connection. the team is currently shooting one about vegetable diseases and how to treat them. but regardless of our multimedia, it becomes pocket fm will continue to record those issues and need nearest and dearest of the farmers. just like it has always been what a wonderful project take a closer look at it again on our website or social media may be something that would work in your community. well, that's it for this edition of a co africa. i'm chris alone saying good bye. from our belter nigeria by chris, i'll be singing again next week on that. see you all viewers, please do stay in touch full. also all our social media platforms. we're always

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