ah, the cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. iran's mountains reveal unparalleled beauty. that is well your high for the scenery is magnificent, but people are warm and our position is exceptionally ah, a special look at a special country. iran from above. start september 16th on d, w. ah ah, no one is too young to make a difference. thus, the moto of a dedicated environmental activist based right here, illegals and featured all today's show. i'm chris 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 link art. what is coming up? young people in been out constructing more eco friendly all things. how architects are designing eco friendly houses. and a designer here in uganda uses an unusual natural material to create beauty for government. you may have had the author referred to as the blue planet. that is because of a sitting 2 percent of the stuff is, is covered by the c. 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 all the funding,

it would dramatically change the lives of millions. this report from somalia, how small, ah, securing a day supply of drinking water is hard work in kiss my u. r. c t on so maria's crossed the wells are up to 200 meters deep and holding up the water canisters is training us since rain, fully scarce, fresh water east to salt water from the nearby ocean infiltrates and contaminates the wills. still abdul calgary archman 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 la. each of them was actually live like rose middle grammar.

in recent years, somalia has experience several field rainy seasons. the london rank is my or is drain 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. so margins are already feeling the effects of climate change. lehman was sent from so maria's minister of energy and water resources is worried about the future. we've got other can smiling over here the. the drought has adversely affected people under livestock in kiss my, your and the surrounding areas. there is a severe water shortage increase. my goal is 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 electing

a bishop for either in regular care in our mission but even without any rain hell has a right 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 words. so they founded their own phone. oh, holly level, one key. we established the alpha water supply company in kit smile in 2014. after we saw there was no clean and drinkable water in my being cancelled when we dug deep. well, we not have that the water with so we bought 2 machines, 2 diesel in it. the analyst can to mechanical coming in this ordinarily this would be the government's responsibilities. but somalia has been politically tomlin for the kids the collie. i'm sure the government does not collect enough money through taxation was and so these non public

investment and building i'd be selling nation plans requires millions of dollars said yes, the 1st one you want to some one on a little dog at the left climate change conference so money us to industrialized nations for farms to cover such course as it produces just a fraction of the walls. couple emissions babies really 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. and so on. the head we're using says can borrows of diesel, which caused a lot of absolution. after we installed the systems, we've got diesel consumption. they said that we use these markers at night,

but when we have enough water at night, we rhonda martin, i think about our water production has increased and we lower cost to keep the follow up key be walk on a baby silly nation plant has been a blessing for people who have supplying fresh water to around 5000 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 the heal hammered, come see a regular to as she sees by good water for herself and help me to do. i 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. m. o and all feel no off. he brings clean and bring cable water right here close to me. and i have a tennis courts and i got a little more planning and that's mid her life much easier because despite the persistent drought, 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 its salt water straight from the ocean instead of the salty water from the world. where 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 if he's a valuable source of food. you are right above that sandra, but unfortunately a lot of trees

a sacrificed in order to smoke fish over burning coals. 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 benny, 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 white bathroom up with the 1st will still use would move these ovens don't use as much of it. and they allow the women to produce more smoke fish in record time rhetoric caught a or c close. with these ovens the women can work together and that was your look our 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 immunization daily. 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 bid, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweet. patch 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 a sweet it's a 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 can feels one of the most environmentally and climate friendly homes available. there the brain child, the swiss 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. normally houses take space away from nature here, education can grow on the earth covered roof and the house melts harmoniously into the landscape. is too much, but is home here. there's

a 50 centimeter layer of earth, but the cover increases in depth further out than just on the very top. there's up to one meter and 20 centimeters of or as of today. so a lot can grow grew. there isn't much ceiling when we're restoring green spaces is losing a place you lose earth. houses are low energy, faster, biodiversity, and are cheaper to build than conventional houses. lu, 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.

ah, habit albrecht has been living in his earth house for 31 years. he was fascinated by peter fetches to sign from the 1st time he thought they drained and beast. don't you don't notice you're under the earth. you 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 the mo, the stone carved houses in tunisia. are these ones in capital to turkey? served if it's gratian for peter vetch, he built his 1st earth house in 1974 for his own family. today there are about a 100 in switzerland, austria, germany, and on the crimean peninsula. he also designed this earth hostile public park near siri. generally he is weary of the trend to integrate ever more high tech elements in architecture is the savvy,

the andric. there's a return to nature to simplicity high. why all these expectations soon, but hopeful are born from the womb after ordering us multiple. i'd just felt like got click blitz. why do we keep building everything square little bowen, 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 it goes. this building method involves very few materials. when 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. 3 thiefs is how i build houses a bit like a little kid playing in a sandbox autumn, increasing the height here, or there just given it's created a thief with the that i did. if i could use 3 d printing lab, 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 that could be all set out through blue. these earth houses are head of their time, but more and more people are taking interest in our turn of living concepts. ah, let's say i've received lately, i've been receiving more and more requests where you can feel that people are paying greater attention to the environment. and they're realizing building a freestanding box isn't environmentally friendly with plans as well. 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 don't out of complex process, it will be turned into fabric. for doreen, no matter was creations. the design i mix fashion from back close in has to join compiler. in uganda, it is an edge old tradition. and one she thinks has a lot of potential with a drink to to revamp the bug blood from the locally known cold. so called nomes and what's advisors to them and appreciating the into a more then question when gone no matter who gets the buck close to a 180 kilometers from the copy to where the traditional technique is still practiced here. cloth is made from the inner back of the natal

feeds locally known as number 2, but she, after the buck is carefully peeled from the tea trunk, it is socked in hot water for several minutes. this is primarily done to remove sup, 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 dries in the sun, no matter what talks to will cannot catan needa 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 won't this buck close every year. so in that process that vamos michu our, he plant more and more trees and also keep those ones that you already had. looking

at ermina 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 she made ninty. there was a wrong. i'm confident that even my grandchildren were earned from the tree without cutting it down. got to tell continued to get more benefits from keeping at emily ginger will cut. amena also wants to sift god the art which is on unesco. intangible culture heritage least, his were it too many cheese have been cut down and that yellow people are choosing western tales over these eco friendly traditional one. he now trans craftsman in the technique which also creates jobs. a settlement to woo? no, ma'am, if you cut down to betray to make charcoal, for instance,

you can make quick money. but only once, the, 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. so duke was, zillow, was, he got, i won't bug looking at ermina once the buck close to be promoted as a sustainable alternative to would 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 materials, and not only are they less than environmentally friendly to produce, they're not so easy to recycle either. does right, sandra, but here is like plastic make life convenient,

but there is already more dead than our planet can cope with what that doesn't stop, dedicated environmentalists from doing what ever they can to make things better. oh, in me, without the environment we non existent. imagine walk into your normal life. there's no, we're contracted environment from the thought on your feet to the air you with to the sounds you hear. nature is very, very huge part of our existence or which we shouldn't leave in this one with nature . we should understand nature need to be preserved so that we can preserve as one a change may come boot camp in lagos, nigeria, plenty of old environmental activist, or senior managers founded in g o for training. the next generation of movers and

shakers as students here, externally to make having the environment creative and fun, such as super rating with, with the legs tied to one another. at the end of the workshop, the best predictor is decided on the n g o u recycle supports the winning idea. we just n g o 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 are 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 changing because among step peers and those that people have on them, ah, the plan is quite as co instead of the old child is, is standing in front of it was coming straight ahead. how does it fit the one i and then what we didn't know about the students from the bright achievers, school help spent several days collecting and cleaning plastic bottles with a touch of paint. they are transformed into street decorations, for the neighborhood where you know, outside of the school. yeah. which contains a lot of plastic voters and we see that we can make use of these blasting and what we now get as a team. that's what uses for last year the young people collected over 12000 bottles. as part of similar projects we are doing what is called the cycle of

the process of what's in waste into something of value in this process. no does. it is not like recycling does result. we have to break it down to ro, myself, you there almost as a group on the website when you add in that stuff that goes on the lake where we are at walk in one immense or so i basically is very aesthetically pleasing this brawling city of lagos has a special worst management authority or loss. any major is hoping to get support from the department, which was just a quiet $100.00 new garbage trucks. the local government is also investing money in local recycling incentive programs. currently hundreds or recycling containers are still waiting to be installed on legos or listen, you want to don't want to ask the waste management director why the city is too shocking in garbage of 10 years ago. these plastic

they do in their wisest him. a lot of was we're using eye glass ball true, where you drink a name, tanya, bottle back to the bottling company to refill. well with the population, challenge and groups. it is ministry for to find it easier and quicker we to, to get all these audio products was true. eve, there is a we, we come pre ringed. our usage is always going to be better than the recycling side of the young active is unexpectedly finds an early in the managing director. they talk quickly agreed to plan a joint conference for high school and university students. and when is the next the rent again to the next and go, i think it is located every year. march 18th, i so we can planned i think i'm happy, let's do that. let's do it. and there's plenty of work to do before

me. and then do as confusion has so many laws, what is just written, most of in the i was put into practice. we need to make laws and an effect, laws implement laws. and for those laws concerning preserving the environments. for instance, if you'd like climate change, glass flowing, oil spinning that's turbine impact and in the region, the laws that wouldn't put that can just continue to will guarantee that was being followed because people are choosing a company that doesn't profit or plot positive are planted profit by like, when all was hanging, we do isn't busy serving the plan it. she studies low up the vehicle here to how focus is environmental protection. but sometimes even the most dedicated climate hero needs a break. spending time with friends is a welcome to 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 he's actually trying to do things. ah no one is too young to make it defend you probably had before. and don't ever look down or yourself. don't circumstances your background to find me 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 no video signing, go from compiler, here in uganda. ah, [000:00:00;00] with ah,

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