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a lamps. thank you for joining us for this new edition of echo africa. hello, chris, good to see you again. our program today will be presenting several examples of how much can be achieved once you dedicate yourself to a course. here is a luke art. what is coming up? young people in been are constructing more equal friendly all things. how architects are designing eco friendly houses and a designer here in uganda uses an unusual natural material to create viewed for government. you may have had the author referred to as the blue planted. that is because of a sitting 2 percent of the surface is covered by the sea. and yet so many people, especially here in africa, struggle with water should have it on a daily basis. now if we could take water from our oceans for drinking, bathing,

cooking, and also forming, it would dramatically change the lives of millions. this report from somalia hung small ah securing a day supply of drinking water is hard work in cust, my u i c t on somalia crossed the well so up to 200 meters deep and hauling up the water canisters is treating us since rainfall discuss fresh water east to salt water from the nearby ocean infiltrates and contaminants the wills. still. abdul calgary, acme, and his neighbors come here most every day. they have no other choice. i talked to lucy, it's exhausting to draw water from the deep well and it's salty tool. but i cannot afford to buy a clean water on asian was actually i was going to remark

in recent years, samaya has experience several field rainy seasons. the london rank is my or is drain out for residence. it's a disaster. there's little grazing, land left, and animals are dying off. cast. the ground is so parched, it's hardly was funny. over $2000000.00, so margins are already feeling the effects of climate change. lima was sent from so maria's minister of energy and water resources is worried about the future rather than smiling over here that the drought has adversely affected people under livestock in kiss my you're on the surrounding areas. there is a severe water shortage increase my rewards. some of the worlds have dried up on the reverse half to what we're not expecting brains in the coming months, but the drought will end when allah since us ringing off to get us. we're allowing

a bishop for africa realistic in our mission. but even without any rain, help has arrived in the form of a water be selling nation plant. it was built by somali business people who wanted to improve the water quality in the worlds. so they founded their own from ohio to lanky. we established the water supply company in kit smile in 2014. after we saw there was no clean and drinkable water in my being or cancel when we double deep. well, we not had that the water with so we bought machines to be selling it. the analyst could like in to mechanical criminal justice. ordinarily this would be the government's responsibility. but so malia has been politically tomlin for the kids the collie. i'm sure the government does not collect enough money through taxation

was. so these non public investment and building i'd be selling nation plans requires millions of dollars to face. i just want to run through some what on, on a little dog at the last climate change can change. so money us to industrialized nations for farms to cover such course as it produces just a fraction of the walls. couple emissions basically nation lance used to be powered by a diesel generator. it is expensive to operate and environmentally harmful. but now the company is using green energy, big solar collectors near the plant replace much of the need for fossil fuels system. so look at ally and done using fiscal barrels of diesel, which caused a lot of applications. and after we installed the diesel consumption, they said that at night, but when we have enough water at night,

we rhonda martin, i think about our water production has increase and we lower cost look up the key be walk on a baby silly nation plant has been a blessing for people here supplying fresh water to around 5000 households. and because the energy has reduced the cost of clean drinking or even poor, restful monies can now afford it. people look here to bite asset sales, put a fraction of the former price. the now for him hammered, come see a regular to she sees by good water for herself and help for me to get used to walk, to kilometers, to get water on with this and then it was not good to drink because the water

was also t o and all feel that no acid brings clean and bring cable water right here close to me. and i just got a tennis courts and i got that little boys that live in june and thats made her life much easier. because despite the persistent gout, she still has access to plenty of drinking water though eat so molly, as dog gets, was even salty. well, water will be in short supply. so the head of the water company is to build a plant that will be selling it straight from the ocean instead of the 30 water from the world. where would we be without the ocean? it's not just a water supply. it also stores come on and helps to rachel's the climate, and perhaps even more important if he's a valuable source of food. you are right above that sandra, but unfortunately a lot of trees are sacrificed in order to smoke fish over burning golds. yet there

are ways to do it's safer with less fuel. as we see in this example from the dean. bah, near the coast of bennett, many people make their living from fish. it's mainly women who buy up the catches before smoking the fish, and then selling them. but they often use cardboard boxes as fuel which can release hazardous fumes, including carbon dioxide. that's why the n g o young volunteers for the environment has designed a new type of brick builds oven, or they've been without regular work with you mom. but the 1st will still use would these ovens don't use as much of it? and they allow the women to produce more smoke fish in record. time reporter got a or see close with these ovens the women can work together or not as yet. so look a 2nd, then the angio has built 5 of the large scale ovens inventing. they're

used collectively by more than a 100 women in 3 villages. how do i know i like the new oven? the smoke isn't a problem for us anymore because it rises upwards. it's also better for our eyes than the way we used to do it on the $1.00. none of that bill got emily lozano. i like the idea is to eventually phase outward completely and replace it with bio char. that's charcoal made from plant matter, such as leaves, and that would further reduce the c o 2 emissions. and how about you? if you are also doing your best, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us or tweet hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories to europe now

sometimes is good to think out of the box as they say. and that's exactly what the swiss architect did when he sat down and designed on extremely down to earth house more than 30 years ago. at 1st glance, this earth house in switzerland embedded in nature, looks more like a hobbit whole than a conventional home. but its accepted exterior conceals one of the most environmentally and climate friendly homes available. there the brain child with architect peter vetch who invented these earth houses over 40 years ago. as is down behind utah. it's just a logical solution in terms of environmental protection, integration and ecology. their color v. o. normally houses take space away from nature. here vegetation can grow on the earth covered roof, and the house melts harmoniously into the landscape. is too much,

but is so here there is a 50 centimeter layer of earth, but the cover increases in depth further out. and just on the very top, there's up to one meter and 20 centimeters of her as it was a. so a lot can grow, grew. there isn't much ceiling with we're restoring green spaces leading, replacing the earth houses are low energy, faster, biodiversity, and are cheaper to build than conventional houses. ah, 1st i woven steal grid is erected. this has been filled with concrete and then covered to the layer of polyurethane. our claim. ready ready ready and what about the inside of the house? our host was already expecting us. nice to have you hope. the house has curved walls, high rounded ceilings and fanciful paintwork. the rooms fused together elegantly

happy contract has been living in his earth house for 31 years. he was fascinated by peter, which is designed from the 1st time he thought they drained and beast the man. you don't notice you're under the earth. if you've got these big windows and you see greenery everywhere you look, it's greeny, i'm comfortable living here, eat food, and the indoor climate is very steady. dusk, like a clean mo. the stone carved houses in tenicia are these ones in capital to turkey, served as its gratian for peter vetch. he built his 1st earth house in 1974 for his own family. to day there about a 100 in switzerland, austria, germany, and on the crimean peninsula. he also designed this earth hostile public park, near syracuse. generally, he is weary if the trend to integrate ever more high tech elements in architecture

is the savvy, the i lyric. there's a returned to nature to simplicity high. why all these expectations soon, but hopeful are born from the womb after all in us moved to lead. just felt like got click blitz. why do we keep building everything square, little bowing. if he had a key, he has been retired for a long time, but that's not falling him down even at age 79. he keeps working on new projects. currently, he's designing an ecological apartment building job. i mean, these are bow as you go, this building method involves very few materials and he goes, i don't need to be all that precise. i was on revenge him. i'm not fitting boards down to the centimeter, so i can follow my intuition a lot more. 3 east is how i build houses a bit like a little kid playing in a sandbox autumn, increasing the height here, or there has eskoville. it's created a thief mix of that i, they, they by could use 3 d printing. that would be the best. then i could make the

design in switzerland, i'd send it to china and they'd print the houses. i couldn't see. i'll sell out through blue. these earth houses are head of their time. but more and more people are taking interest in alternative living concepts. let's say i've received lately, i've been receiving more and more requests. well, you can feel that people are paying greater attention to the environment and they're realizing building a freestanding box isn't environmentally friendly, but this will our understanding of architecture change. how can we live more sustainably? peter ventures design may provide at least partial answers to these questions. wall, that was another great example of what nature has to offer. if we open our eyes and ears do it, architecture is just one example. but there are others. here in uganda, for instance, people have been making clothes from

a 100 percent renewable source for centuries. now, one designer is using it to make sustainable high fashion. let's take a look. this back will be used to met coats. after a gone out of complex process, it will be turned into fabric for dorinda mate of was creations, the design i mix facial from back close all has to join compiler. in uganda, it is an age old tradition. and one she thinks has a lot of potential with a drink to to revamp the bug blood from thy locally known cold. so called nomes and works advisors to them and appreciating leads into a more den question when gone. no matter who gets the butterworth. 280 kilometers from the copy to where the traditional technique is still practiced. here,

close is made from the inner back of the natal feeds locally known as dumb of puberty. after the buck is carefully peeled from the tree trunk, it is socked in hot water for several minutes. this is primarily done to remove sap, but also to soften the material. then the back is beaten with wooden mallets. it takes hours of pounding and stretching before usable, broad fabric is created while the cloth jays in the sun numbered over talks talking a cotton made up the designer also as to adopt a tree in future. she will get all the buck clothes from a particular tree at an agreed price because i went to this buck close every year. so in that process, that farmer will make sure he blunts more and more trees and also keep those ones that you already had. so looking at amena plants and she every tame one is adopted

. but he also takes care to protect freshly peeled ones. they are wrapped in banana leaves and left in peace to give them time to rejuvenate. after ear ketamine icon, her vest new back from the same chill. this process can be repeated for up to 60 years and humanity neighbors will run. i'm confident that even my grandchildren were earned from the tree without cutting it down. got to tell, continue to get more benefits from keeping it merely a junior will cut. a meter also wants to safeguard the act, which is on eunice goes intangible culture heritage, least. his were a tall, many trees have been cut down and that young people are choosing westerns tales over these eco friendly, traditional one. he now trans craftsman in the technique which also creates jobs, a settlement to will vanilla. if you cut down a mer to battery to make charcoal, for instance,

you can make quick money as but only once. is it. if i harvest the bark room, i may earn less money, but i'll be able to get that money over and over again. for years i do see lucy gallow won't bug looking at amena once the buck close to be promoted as a sustainable alternative to wood plastic and even paper. he has already partnered with local artists to further explore the renewable material. dorinda mate of was buck close gown is now finished. she hopes for more visibility for this african heritage and its role in protecting the environment. that dress is gorgeous. suddenly, most clothes are still med from synthetic matters, and not only are they less done environmentally friendly to produce, they are not so easy to recycle either. thus, right, sandra, but fair as like plastic make life convenient. while there is already more they're

done are planted. can cope with what that doesn't stop, dedicated environmentalist from doing whatever they can to make things better. oh ah. without the environment we and non existent, imagine walk into animal. the life is no, we can't interact with the environment from the soil and i need your feet to the air you breathe to the sounds you hear. nature is a very, very huge part of our existence or which we shouldn't leave in this hum. when you with nature, we should understand a nature only to be preserved to thou. we can be preserved as humans. a change maker boot camp in lagos, nigeria, 20 year old environmental activist. all was a new major founded an injury or for training the next generation or who was alicia

because your river. 0 has stood in caea external ways to make serving the environment creative and fun, such as separating west in pairs with the legs tied to one another. at the end of the workshop, the best predict is decided on the n g o you recycle supports the winning idea wages. and you has reached over 6000 young people in 11 african countries by brand new ways of cycle recycle house as well. and how to be in need or amongst my peers. also continue actually educating my peers and people younger than me about the impact we have on the environment, the good impacts and in the, by the facts that they can also have on the environment. i also want to teach them how to be lee does and be change because among step peers and those that people

have on them, i thought this plan is quite as co instead of the old child is, is standing in front of the street. i had just my shop in the 5th one i and then we didn't know about the students from the bright achievers. school spent several days collecting unclean in plastic bottles with a touch of paint. they are transformed industry decorations for the neighborhood. when you look at outside of the school. yeah, the good which contains a lot of plastic voters and we see that we can make use of these blasting for to and what we now get as a team. what can we use it for last year the young people collected over 12000 bought to us, puts, or similar projects. yeah. what is the process of

watson waste into something of value in this process? just isn't like recycling because we says we have to break it down to almost the other thing is that once you're on the websites, when you add that stuff to create something, they walk in wonderment or something that basically is it says you could please in this brawling seated leg was, has a special worst management authority or less st. my job is hoping to get support from the department, which has just acquired 100 new garbage trucks. the local government is often investing money in local recycling incentive programs. currently hundreds are recycling containers are still waiting to be told. our own labels are listening . you want to you want to ask the with management director why the c t is to trucking in garbage. 15 years ago is plastic. they don't,

there was the law was we're using glass ball to where you drink and then tell you what to back to the bottling company to refill with the population, challenge and groups. because then as you fall to find the easier and quicker way to, to get all these, all the production loss. so if there's a we, we come to ring, their usage is always going to be better than the fact that us had over. now, the young after this unexpectedly fines and many going to quickly agreed to climb a joint conference for high school and university students when the next event again. next they're going to love it. march 18th. so i think i'm happy, let's do that. let's do it. and there's plenty of work to do before that me and then jewels cottage and has so many laws. what

is just written most of in the i will put into practice, we need to make laws and effects laws, instrumental laws, and falls. those laws concerning preserving the environments for is an issue like climate change and glass flowing oil, spillage. that's toby impact. and in the region, the laws of the person that can just conveniences will guarantee that was being followed because people are choosing a company that doesn't profit or plot what we did our planet profit by like when all the way to even busy serving upon it. she studies low up the inevitably go here to how focus is environmental protection. but sometimes even the most dedicated climate hero needs a break, pending time with friends is a welcome reward of to all the hard work. i'm still tired of sitting back

and watching the plan, the planet into the very, very horrible states, right? we don't have much time. i will need to take action as soon as possible to preserve what we know and issues like crime which info is. he's actually trying to do things . i know one is too young to make a difference. he probably had that before. and is this back? don't ever look down or yourself circumstances, your background feel funny, like where you came from. you have so much potential the. i think she has a bright future ahead of her. that's all we have time for today. hope you enjoyed the program and i look forward to seeing you again next time for now is goodbye for me for the lens in lagos, nigeria, so long crazy. it's been a pleasure. i look forward to seeing you and all of your viewers out there in

a week fine until then do take care. i and sandra to nobody signing go from compiler, here in uganda. ah, with ah, with

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