the cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. iran's mountains reveal unparalleled beauty as well. yeah. i saw the scenery is magnificent, particularly warm in acquisition is exceptionally ah, a special look at a special country. iran from above. start september 16th on d. w. ah, with no one is too young to make a difference. thus the moto of a dedicated environmental activist based right, cherry lake, us and featured all today's show. i'm chris, 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 look at what is coming up. young people in beneath constructing more equal friendly all things. how architect defining eco friendly houses and a designer here in uganda uses an unusual natural material to create views for government . you may have had the author referred to as the blue founded. that is because of a sitting 2 percent of the stuff is covered by the sea. and yet so many people, especially here in africa, struggle with water should it is on the big basis. now if we could take water from our ocean for drinking, bathing, cooking, and also farming,

it was dramatically changed the lives of millions. this report from somalia hung small ah securing a day supply of drinking water is hard work in kiss my you. i see teeth on somalia is crossed the wells are up to 200 meters deep and holding up the water canisters is training us. since rainfall discuss fresh water east to salt water from the nearby ocean infiltrates and contaminates the wills. still abdul calgary, acme, and his neighbors come here most every day. they have no other choice for 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. and i, each of them was actually what i like to do with her

in recent years, samaya has experience several field rainy seasons. the london rank is my or is drying out for residence. it's a disaster. this little grazing land left and animals are dying off cast. the ground is so parched, it's hardly worth 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, your and the surrounding areas. there is a severe water shortage increase my rewards. some of the worlds have dried up on the reverse half to. we're not expecting grains in the coming months, but the drought will end when allah since us ringing off to get us. we're below you bishop for either in really larry karen warmish. it might even without any rain,

help hazard in the form over what had be selling nation planned. it was built by somali business people who wanted to improve the water quality in the world. so they founded their own from ohio level to lanky. we established the few water supply company in kit smile in 2014. after we saw that there was no clean and drinkable water in my being cancelled when we down deep. well, we not had that the water was, and so we bought machines to diesel in it was like in mechanical coming in this ordinarily, this would be the government's responsibilities. but still, malia has been in political tomlin for the kids the collie. i'm sure the government does not collect enough money through taxation was and so these

non public investments and building i'd be selling nation plans requires millions of dollars, sir. yes, the 1st just want to walk through some on, on a little dog at the last climate change conference. so money us to industrialized nations for funds to cover such course as it produces just a fraction of the walls. couple of emissions baby silly nice and lans used to be powered by a diesel generator. it was 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 health, mac, and on the head we're using says can borrows of diesel, which cost a lot of ample, usually after we installed the diesel consumption, they said that we use more at night,

but when we have enough water at night we rhonda martin, i think about what production has increased and we lower cost for some follow up be walk on a baby silly nation plant has been a blessing for people who are supplying fresh water to around $5000.00 households. and because the energy has reduced the cost of clean drinking water, even poor wrestle moneys can now afford it. people flock here to bite sales for a fraction of the former price. the now for here, mohammed comes here regular to as she sees by good water for herself and her family . i used to walk 2 kilometers to get water kit on with this. and then it was not good to drink because the water was full, so

t m. o and all feel. now off he brings clean and bring cable water right here, close to me. and i have a senate court and i got a little more planning and that's made her life much easier. because despite the persistent drought, she still has access to plenty of drinking though eat. so molly, as dog gets, was even thought, well, water will be in short supply. so the head of the water company is to build a plant that will be selling its salt water straight from the ocean instead of the salty water from the world. well, would we be without the ocean? it's not just a water supply, it also stores cowboys and helps to regulate the climate and perhaps even more important, it is 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. ringback 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 white bathroom up. but the 1st will still use would, would these ovens don't use as much of it? and they allow the women to produce more smoke fish in record time rhetoric caught your c close. with these ovens the women can work together or not with yourself or look or sucking. then the angio has built 5 of the large scale ovens in benning.

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. and i mean, i don't, i, none of that bill got immunization, 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 bit, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweet. past ag 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 a 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 and switzerland embedded in nature. that's more like a hobbit hole than a conventional home. but it's excited exterior conceals one of the most environmentally and climate friendly homes available. there of the brain child with architect peter vetch, who invented these earth houses over 40 years ago. as his down for her new car, it's just a logical solution. in terms of environmental protection, integration and ecology. the color b. o. normally houses take space away from nature. here, agitation can grow on the earth covered roof, and the house melts harmoniously into the landscape. is too much pretty so

here there's a 50 centimeter layer of earth, but the cover increases in depth further rather than just on the very top, there's up to one meter and 20 centimeters of or as it does so a lot can grow grew. there isn't much ceiling when we're restoring green spaces, including replacing the earth. houses are low energy, faster, biodiversity, and are cheaper to build than conventional houses. lu, 1st i woven steel grid, is erected. this has been filled with concrete and then covered with a 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. i have at home, correct,

has been living in his earth house for 31 years. he was fascinated by peter fetches . to sign from the 1st time he saw it. they do 3 men. beast don't you don't notice you're under the earth. you've got these big windows and you see greenery everywhere you look, it's greeny uncomfortable living here, eat food, and the indoor climate is very steady. dusk like the mo, the stone carved houses and tenicia, or these went in capital to turkey, served if it's 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 to this earth hostile public park near syracuse. generally, he is weary of the trend to integrate ever more high tech elements in architecture . is the savvy, the i, nick, there's

a return to nature to simplicity. why all these expectations soon, but hopeful are borne from the womb after all in us. look, the 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 apart and 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 and i'm not fitting boards down to the centimeter. so i can follow my intuition a lot more through thief 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 day. if i could use 3 d printing, that would be the bad. then i could make the design here in switzerland. i'd send

it to china and they'd print the houses. i couldn't see. i was had out through blue. these earth houses are head of their time. but more and more people are taking interest in our, of living concepts. ah, 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 prizes 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. what 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 make cuts. after a don't out and complex process, it will be turned into fabric for dorinda. much of was creations. the design, i mix fashion from buck close in has to join compiler. in uganda, it is an age old tradition, and one she thinks has a lot of potential with a drink too. to revamp the bulk loads from the locally known cold. so cold norms and what's advisors to them and appreciating the into a more then question, when gone no matter who gets the butterworth 280 kilometers from the copy to where the traditional technique is still practiced here. clothed is made from

the inner back of the natal feeds locally known as them are 2 by treat. 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 sup, but also to soft in the materia. then the back is beaten with wooden mallets. it takes hours of pounding and stretching before usable, broad fabric is created. wow, the cloth jays in the sun, no matter what talks to will kennicott, anita the designer, also as to adopt a tree in future. she will get all the back clothes from a particular tree at an agreed price because i won't this buck close every year. so in that process that bama will michu, are he blanked more and more trees and also keep those ones that you already had. so, looking at amina 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 vis new buck from the same chill. this process can be repeated for up to 60 years and humanity neighbors were wrong. i'm confident that even my grandchildren were aren't from the tree without cutting it down. got to tell, continue to get more benefits from keeping it to me earlier june. yo will cut amina also wants to sift god the art, which is an eunice cause 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 for new mom. 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 gala 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. dorian number 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 on. 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 there is like plastic, mig live convenient. while there is already more all dead than our planet 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 are non existent. imagine walk into animal the life. there is no way concent after the environment formed soil underneath 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 and nature need to be preserved to though we can preserve as humans. a change may come 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 a shakers. you remember why. 0 has

students here, it's no 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 due has reached over 6000 young people in 11 african countries by rend 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 impacts that they can also have and the environment. i also want to teach them how to be leaders and be change because amongst their peers and those that

people have on them. ah, so this plan is quite as the child is, is standing in front of it was straight ahead of just marsha in the 5th of on i. and then the way we didn't know about the students from the right achievers, school spent several days collecting unclaiming plastic bottles with a touch of paint. they are transformed into st declarations for the people who were you know, outside of the school year, which contains a lot of plastic boxes. and we see that we can make use of these blasting to and what we now can get as a team. what can we use it for last year the young people collected over 12000, bought to us, puts all similar project. yeah. do what is called 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 say that the materials on the website. when you add that to something they walk in wonderment or something that basically is it says a good please. in this sprawling city of lagos has a special worst management authority or less st. my job is hoping to get support from the department, which is just a quiet $100.00 new garbage trucks. the local government is often versed in money in local recycling incentive programs. currently hundreds are recycling containers are still waiting to be told. i don't lakers are listening you want you want to us with management. they wrapped up why the c t is to trucking in garbage. 15 years ago is plastic. they don't, there was the law was we are using blackboard to where you drink and they

tell you what to back to the bottom company to refill with the population, challenge and groups. because then as you fall to finally easier and quicker, we to, to get all these, all the production loss. so if there is a, we, we come, we ring, their usage is always going to be better. nonetheless, seconds had over. now, the young activities, unexpectedly, fines and i managed to quickly agree to climb a joint conference for high school and university students. and when is the next event again, next month, isn't it? we march 18th. so we can prompt 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 do as confusion has so many laws.

what is just returned. most of them the i was put into practice. we need to make laws and, and effects laws implement laws. and for those laws on sending preserving environments, for instance, if you'd like climate change and blast flowing oil spinning that's terribly impacted in the region. the laws that the wilson protect conveniences will guarantee. darren being followed because people are choosing a company that doesn't profit or plot properly to the planet to buy like when on the way to even busy serving the plan. it. she studies low up the value of legal here to have focus is environmental protection. but sometimes even the most dedicated climate hero needs a break, pending time with friends is a one company. what after 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. we need to take action as soon as possible to preserve what we love and issues like climate change. he's actually trying to do things. i know one is too young to make a difference. he probably had before and just back, don't ever look down yourself. don't ever lose your circumstances, your background, you funny like where you came from you 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 so lance 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

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. hm. when you work as an architect, like go online or not at all women in architecture, why are they so invisible to the larger publisher? we decided to ask them, and women go up with an inefficient models. they can identify with certain professions about their guiding principles. messes, and what is the poetry, the secret of the houses and i'm house about their motivations. architecture just so much to you. it newfield. the goal of architecture is to create habitat for human about their struggles and dreams. bondsville he was to be have so much to lose, shattering the glass ceiling women in architecture as soon as it has to be really,

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