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turned away at the board, families playing bomb attacks in syria. these critical is in this way, not against administrative people fleeing extreme around a raft. getting 200 people has sunk in the gmc around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. we ask why, because no one should have to flee to make up your own mind. d. w for mines. ah, ah. the scale of change needed to tackle global environmental issues can feel overwhelming, but by coming together, local communities are finding effective ways to deal with the threats on their
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doorstep. to me, we explore collaborate of projects that prove sharing is carrying. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm subtle that we start in southern quimby thought a city that like many others in india, is what it about water. scientists say the regions, rivers are vanishing, while droughts increase and water tables drop. we met one man who decided to take action and save local water bodies and then found surprising strength in numbers. ah, when a local n g o put out a call for help to clean up trash along a water tank and done and i knew it didn't expect 350 people to show up. here's what it looked like before the clean up and after and it happened in less
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than 2 hours. in that hour we have had 25 to 30 talk and i will not be yours. who have worked with us. got it. not love you be blocking to make a positive contribution to society. i'm looking for you. the hard part is organizing it money undone is the founder of the n. g o. clock. lakeland the by the gobbler might its volunteers have been disturbing what bodies across glen metal for the past 5 years and this is how they do it. so a she's in charge of getting all volunteers to arrive at the scene. a lot of the gum disease. dig, mom often wear gloves with a date and time in brooklyn. it's money, gardens job to divide them up into various groups. hello, hello, you are all their reading globulin, but i'm just like when i book distribute supplies. i heard about housing, language, and gopi isn't out of documenting the process group at the very last minute come closer, agony no longer. it all started in 2017. when coin metal was facing
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a severe shout money. camden was determined to revive one of the city's dias. to water bodies barrel. when he produced down the call it hadn't has even water for many years, rather than i decided to clean the panel by removing plastics and with an vis a visa. now mcclare decline. we began cleaning activities on the 12th of february, 2017 maniac in the 1st week. 50 sure diamond bed, but in the weeks after 400 people showed a loss of in just a moment while we finished eating the tank or it apart the day. and we don't have a financial or political back. good luck. we had volunteers who were ready to work for this. now what i was helping belinda anna mcclendon at it. and so we decided to clean up various water bodies every sunday. so far we have been working for 249 consecutive sundays, either very care no day with dom we're the army, gordon, and i don't like from us. the organization has restored for largely ex 9 small ponds and more. but if you ask money canden, which project was hottest,
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he'll insist on taking you there before he tells you the story behind it are either eloquent, spread across 90 acres. the velo tank is one of going with those oldest. it's fed by the no loose river for 15 years had remained dry because of 3 major problems. that blown the there were lots that in this account here on the canal from water hadn't been lot benito to like other people had encroached on 4 and a half of the 6 and a half kilometer long on it on either side of the river banks. am garbage had been dumped into dot jack dunn's to which this dang receives the water for. these were the 3 problems, and i did morning brittany, liberty in 2017 money camden and his team began cleaning the tank and it's checked dance. they also played a role in convincing 2 and a half 1000 families, settled along the river's banks to relocate to state housing. and then for the 1st time in 17 years, the velo dang was full. ah,
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village is 2 kilometers, only once laughed at reliable water sauce. but just a few months after the reservation was completed, locals noticed an increase in groundwater levels because of eleanor tang could now retain the water it received back in the you only have armed if it drained or file, if it didn't, i was he would inform you born or boring, since there is water in the tank for the past 4 years, there's been water in our valve. american museum wouldn't bump out the water for farming ross. i wonder what i want to buy 200 to 200 liters of water every day. mamma, when it's much better now because i can't get water when they were and when he did at home on my savings, having cleans as a result, loa, and the one of the jungles able to hone in water again. it's not only people who have benefited from it and from the ground water regenerating itself. this tank has now also become
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a habitat for various species. that's because volunteers when beyond just cleaning the tank, they planted over 10000 cheese of native varieties using the milwaukee method, a japanese afforestation technique. this chip of forest protects the water in the tank. it's also attracted dozens of bird and butterflies species to develop dank, and the green zone surrounding it. at a northern expressed a joy i had when i saw the dang, phillip with water in 2018. we used to water these plants. glad i walked over. laurie yadi, shortly after that, we used buckets to cross with the water from the tongue it put ne, long suddenly, with amaral got diana nama to in the collect any medical said, you will need to what i need to find warranty of the n d o reaches out to schools and colleges, yet it's most powerful tool has been social media. by sharing, it's what's up link and post and clean updates. it's succeed in bringing many young
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people together who wish to be a part of the process or gopi is the perfect example. he joined when he was just a student to day he pitches in with his skills as a jones cinematographer then we have a need, we do it for jason and so did before the cleaning, after the cleaning and after the water get restored on v, then presented to companies looking to fund organizations. at the same time, we saw it to the government officials along this helps us get access to see as add opportunities and allows us to continue our work with government approval in order to look as under the one that they used to let me in. instead of us approaching people about this, they are becoming a read on it. oh, there is a young boy in peers with us. if you ask him, what do you want to be when you grow up? he says, like you, i'll go up long trees and save lakes. now he like,
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what will you do for food? he replied, i'll go home and we are seeing such positive changes amongst children. whereas when it is organ, it isn't even burned. defects are usually loom yet, but here it will get their hands dirty, the field, this is my home, i'll keep it clean, it is more effective. the protection of water bodies requires more than restoration, increasing encroachment waste, dumping effluent discharge, and lack of proper maintenance by civic bodies or just some of the major problems. if you are near a relative letters to people who drive you well, but there are so many duties of data here. nobody raises questions because unlike the villager, nobody drinks this warrior not according to government to suspend the groves of rupees to revive lexical coin, but had it made efforts to make ready water consumable new people would begin to get healthy. not a critical monica, none has succeeded. in uniting people who care about water, now he has a site set on restoring them. no yell driver,
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which is the backbone of modern declaim little this river that passes to 4 districts and feeds $25.00 tanks is under threat going. but also the itself is on the bands of the neural villarreal and we don't drink from it in this . did we dig water, bonnie: bonnie or ali or really alan, that the number of days the water flows through this river is decreasing each day law. and we want to increase it, and that's what we're now working. good. we are. then i may say it again. i am waiting on you to with modern do you organizations like money condoms? hope sped awareness about the urgent need to save local water bodies. damage. not who has over 200000 tanks and other irrigation sources, but less than 90000 of them are in use. it was a collective effort from the government and citizens to save water for future generations. me through the netherlands now and
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a new town taking shape near amsterdam. killer. it's the residence we'll call the shots when it comes to planning and development rather than the municipal authorities. the goal is to foster innovative and sustainable lifestyle options while encouraging local food production. is it you topic? we visited auster wars to find out. i thought i spilled the air at this building side around 30 kilometers from amsterdam. the crew is hard at work were now the wind sweeps across the meadow. there will soon be a school for 60 children. every screw, every fixture is being put in by the parents themselves. one of them is flora, small and big, whose 2 children will attend the school. we started only 3 weeks ago, and i, we all right, is that far, houses, streets, parks, playgrounds. the residents are building and developing the 43 square kilometer area
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themselves on their roster wall isn't organically growing city and a unique experiment in the netherlands. the idea is to give people more freedom to create their own living space architect clos hoffman started the project over 10 years ago. we thought only freedom is also a responsibility. and usually in this kind of normal urban development, the responsibility is mostly at 2 developers side or in municipalities side can organize top down. and you know, if the voltage is completely put upside down, the plan is to have an unplanned city more. it's more one of the few rules is that ost old has to be green, been a lot of room, less than a 3rd of the land can be developed. and every resident is expected to use half of their land for urban farming. to encourage bio diversity, we wanted to kind of introduce the strategy to develop housing in the green
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environment that would kind of preserve the qualities of the green environment while still allowing people to live inside of it. over a 1000 residential units have already sprung up in the countryside east of amsterdam for florence mullen back and his family, receiving the subsidy for the parcel of land with a dream come true. since the house was finished, they've spent a lot of time organizing community life building the school and working in the vegetable garden. once a week, floris moreland be goes into the fields and marks the plots with harvest ready vegetables. we are a c s a and a community she product arca agriculture. and that means that i yeah, we are producing festivals for about 50 households. if the harvest is plentiful, every one gets more and they also share the risk of a bad crop. once a week, community members can pick vegetables in the garden with
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a message on their phone tells them how many and which one's neighbor alex hames care comes by regularly. this is just an comparable in terms of quality alike. it doesn't have any pesticides on there to put a lot of love and attention and effort in it. i know them very well personally. so it makes this a big difference in experience, but also the quality of the food for me community exchange original ideas. but there are also challenges in creating poster world. now, you could say it's a social experiment and that, and people are not always use that to have to work together. like usually it's government lay down like you can do this, you can do that. is this going to be like this like that? and here people have to do it themselves. and sometimes it just takes a bit of a learning curve because people have to figure out how to do that. a few kilometers away in the community shop, maryan up spool and neighbor, my youngest son martin display the selection of homemade honey jams and cheese oh,
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produced in aust of old joke will go up spool is one of the original settlers. hundreds of different plants grow in his wild looking garden on the other side of the street. mostly the land is bare when you buy it, so if you can give her seats to the land, then they're all kind of native plants and trees will start to grow. and it's very helpful for her biodiversity, of making a good ecosystem up spoon collects and rise the seeds of his plants and laid her hands them out among the ulster. valdez. the self taught forrester, he believes nature is the thing that links every resident regardless of their chosen lifestyle. most of all is expected to grow over the next few years. the plan is to create space 415000 houses and 40000 people. prices for the new plots have
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multiplied up spool is worried that the inclusive idea that any one could be a part of the community is in danger. we feel it also us as a responsibility for us to realize that there will be a mixed community, which also people with low, low salaries and starting people with a young her children, and they cannot afford her house. and that's really a problem. the settlement is attracting attention, not least from property developers. some have built terrorist houses on the plots in the middle of auster walled, selling them at high prices, while ignoring the tradition of building your own home with an urban garden. the introduction of more regulations from the city has also stirred resentment among residents and yet demand to be part of the experiment is huge. today there are 10 times the number of applications, then there are plots available. that doesn't surprise to parents on the school
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committee. in addition to a beautiful place to live, they found a real community and that's the beauty of our world that are. busy a lot of am equally mind as people and oh yeah. and the spirit to build things and and, and i yeah. builds, oh, so the community and it's a really strong and powerful community. so that this. oh, so yeah, there's one of the things i really like and love about. oh, so in 2 weeks lessons for the little ones are due to get underway until then there's a lot to do. but cooperation is 2nd nature to the people of auster world. well, that type of ne, believe spirit is at the heart of the sharing economy. a model where people rent or bought the things the mean rather than buy and own them. that not only helps them save money, it also has a positive impact on the environment. the concept is taking off in indian cities,
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we had to look around and denny, to explore the lifestyle a little more looking for something especially for addressed. she would only be reading once on her reading, but to ease, not out shopping. she's was been fly rule a clothing rent. it is an outlet that gives you the option to rent clothes for a one off occasion. and for half the price of buying outfit ah, being conscious about what we buy, where we spend on money, and is it really worth it for that time period? when you know you're actually gonna be wearing it and then you don't need them after that, you're never going to wear it or anybody else's reading. so, you know, might as well let it be. oh, so click on image has the world's largest population of millenniums like doing it is a demographic gutters increasingly drawn towards renting, rather than purchasing efforts. young people in cities tend to be more social
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financially and abundantly of it. and they are embracing the flexibility in affordability of the rent or shared economy model. given that more than 1000000 tons of textiles are thrown away, each ear environmentalist see it as a positive trend. now the one way to reduce that is to reduce consumption of materials. now then tell economy provides that opportunity. if the same product was the market is trying to sell to. everyone can be sold to many people and everyone can fulfill their need. then you know, they are proportionately reduced environmental impact between 20162019, more than 100 online rental companies. it sprung up in india, traditionally, rental businesses ment, small units in unorganized markets. now swanky rental outlets provide a wide range of occasion via for rent through ice cream stores, an online ups and
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alongside clothing. rental furniture is the other segment, spearheading the shared economy in india. the domestic market for rented furniture is what around 800000000 euros ashi. she is booking a dining table for his home and got his opted. fort city furnished an online platform for furniture and branded appliances. the table is assembled at his home. this works well for us sheesh, he's a consultant and often has to relocate to a different city. practically everything in his current house, from furniture to appliances. rent right now, he's paying about 160 years a month buying the same furniture would have cost up to $10000.00. you're only the hassle offer. owning furniture his of his renting it out. her these, this furniture. i mean, you know,
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furniture models keep changing her. just the sure convenience of going on to you know, their app on the phone, selecting your furniture, looking into having it delivered to saved a lot of time and effort. furniture rental in india has grown 5 times in the last 3 is according to need of jane, founder of city furnace. he collected data on rental apartments. more than 80 percent of apartments in india are either semi furnished or unfurnished. if a new tenant is moving into a rental apartment is measured, it turns out that he'll be moving into an unfurnished place. so all those are i do target segment for our furniture rental. so that's how we arrive at this number there. they're 9 group people living in the metro rental department of which 80 percent are unfurnished. and that's an id market for her furniture. and when it comes to wooden and metal furniture, it usually gets used for
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a longer period of time. but still around 3000000 tons of furniture waste ends up in india's landfills. every year, all furniture markets like this one in dell, it can be found in most cities with the oldest refurbished and sold at a discount. but the challenge is to live in meeting the demands for new furniture, sustaining there is illegal primary forest timber r, which is coming from across the world, including se, asia to india and china. in fact, i know would be the bigger legal market. now, refurbishing for little means that we are reducing that illegal logging. ah, that is happening. we are reducing the number of trees that we are cutting. ah, the are you saying, you know, the land requirement for growing goes 3 to protect the forests in india, the government introduced to forest stewardship student or at s. s. in 2022 to
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confirm that forests are being managed, sustainable. together with growing current of renting instead of buying, it is an important step towards maintaining a more environmentally conscious consumer behavior. in india, the sharing economy already works like a well oiled machine in the german capital. borrowing things in berlin from a store of from neighbors has never been so easy. thanks to the digital platforms that connect owners with seekers of goods and services. i would like to been boffa has clearly done this many times before. he's putting together his bike trailer that he can lend it to a neighbor for free. of course. that's nothing out of the ordinary for him. he regularly lends out his belongings. more dollars, garden equipment, tools, a child's mattress for sleep ends. if he and lynn says neighbors,
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these things so goes hence thinking they won't have to buy them. is it? i don't see this as being anti consumerist. it's about sustainability. nadia, these things are usually so rarely. if you knew something along than buying something makes increasing settles and the 2 men gone to know each other via an online neighborhood platform. more than 1600000 users are connected to people living in their vicinity via neighbor on dot d e. people use it to lend and borrow stuff, to swap information or to offer help. the startup was set up in berlin in 2015. the portal is free of charge for users. the company funds itself by a donations and small and placed by companies and the respective neighborhoods. young ganna offers high quality tools for one year of 50 an hour.
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you can reserve them by an app toolbox is built around the classic business model of the sharing economy, where companies are in money by renting items out for a particular period of time. gladys my mic was little, it was used to play a role. how big your record collection was and you needed your own car to get anywhere on. and if you had a lot of books in your shelves, you possessed a lot of knowledge. today we of wikipedia, car sharing. there's netflix and spotify. what you have isn't important anymore. it's having access to things that's crucial and that's why the status of the role of belongings is different today. on yosh fonts is one of his customers. she is a dancer who travels around the world a month for her work for small household tasks, she borrows what she needs from tul bought an electric thrill. in this instance, even though she could buy one if she wanted, she managed to borrow use and returned the tool within an hour. as an
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o since this one year of 50 is a lot less than the price of the drill national. and i can always come here and borrow and again wendy else. lions house. that means i can get it as often as i needed to come talk with paul him. yon gallow is launching a crowd investment campaign to help him grow his business. he believes his motto could also work with other items. and on an international basis. despite social distance in the lockdown actually brought advice, clue been baba, and his neighbors closer together. in many ways, they re decorated the apartment of a neighbor who was ill and helped out with aunt jobs. all that for free. the concept of sharing and collaboration is of the heart of nature. take a colony of hands or a pack of foods, a school of fish, communities of humans, sharing wounds knowledge so that the group as a whole can survive and thrive. what are you doing to collaborate with a community,
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