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day, twice a day for 7 years. she's a pharma. she danced with the cattle in the house and she also looks off to the inside house. and in 2 days episode we are in she is house. and today we will try to learn a little more about the lives and a few of the many struthers off women farmers and agriculture and large across india. this smoke is a major source for indoor evolution, is one of the primary causes for the deteriorating respiratory health of girls and women across the board on sub and india. and it is a major contribute to the global warming. solving this problem would mean killing many more than 2 birds with one stone. and someone is trying to find a solution that's find out every day before the sun goes down, have novel divided good. and many of the women in had a village, big the long walk to find firewood. this is a common site invest in india's,

send to the district a block, we go to the down the road and then tied into bundles to getting back with us. after that, we have to dry the wood before we can use it for cooking. from morning to evening, i spend that is 56 hours long, the meals on this tune up these cooking stoves, expose many of them into high levels of carbon monoxide and other dangerous funny things which can cause serious health problems in the long run. an average family in sin to do it abuse is about 10 k g off volt every day and this demand continues to dies. the founder off in india, working on social issues here. dr. beside the old hub has been working to address this issue in this, into the, for over 25 years. man, a put a distinct may be, have about probably the 1000 families living in the villages in the district went

by the lack of buy one point. $2000000.00 people have been so imagine the amount of food would consume on daily basis. somebody to 185 for us have a certain amount of biomass in the form of good word. and village is only used by mazda that line on the agenda for the state, monica, it won't cause any deforestation because that causes. but as the demand goes up, say 10 percent, then even need to stop cutting down the for this in here, we've got a forest. but now there is an alternate the most farmers and send to the own knives, stop a combination of menu or and found these can be used to followed individual bio gas units for each home. bio gas is produced when organic matter like food and annual waste is broken down by micro organisms in the absence of oxygen. in this process, the meeting emulated from amie many, many or is dropped inside

a don't like structure and can be used in the form of compress gas, the in guide, the the main route and what to do it in from the go and our own toiletries can be integrated for the risk needed to produce bios god, we can build a unit for a family of 4 that can run on even one called of course at the high, the bio gas is not without its own drawbacks, it can be flame, mobile and toxic. however, it can got domestic ad pollution endorsed by almost 75 percent. it takes approximately a v to build the bio gas unit that's about 2 cubic meters in size. unfortunately, many farmers are apprehensive because of the cost goals and then we put a come by a good for plant this size. they need to invest $25000.00 to be some they do it. and utilized by guess is not

a priority for the family. if they have saved that much money, they will most likely spend it on a family function are on their house. what kind of energy is not the top priority priority? we showed them that this one time investment could benefit them for at least 25 years. likely, what they're selling. the district administration has also lend its support to the end use efforts. the now incentivize the transition from 5 will to bio gas by being around half of the total cost of installing a plant. anything new people are a little apprehensive, so making them understand about, you know, this is how sustainable, how it's cost effective. so we are giving them an incentive offer on $14500.00, but a beneficiary the government has given every district that gets off funeral, how to switching to buy a sustainable fuel. but even otherwise, also, i think people actual more to coming forward because they're understanding the benefits of, you know, going sustainable and going great so far the,

and you have had it been doing what, 8500 via gas units across $150.00 villages in send to the district. dorothy 5 as good was one of the 1st from head of vintage to make the switch to by august the if i left them and since to have had the bio guest, i don't need to go to the forest. now i can click very quickly to the bottom left in the 1st day and you is also given us authentic. no pressure. cool, good. well, i mean, once i put that on the gas, i can meet in 30 minutes and what to what time i'm saving. i now use it in the fee that, that, that's, i want to do another. i've got more time for i'm a daddy business, i'm good able to produce more than that. and though it will do it on the very top, unless you're done with it, i'm glad i remember that the more women have followed her lead and move to disagree

. now and more convenient, alternate to for cooking monday, the board that the time saved has enabled them to start businesses or work on the farm to help generate more income for their families. sometimes sustainable, alternate days, like these are seen as something that's purely beneficial for the environment, but they can also transform the lives of entire communities from a family's house. we have now come to the field. i'm this, what i tell is the lead. once the green stick and what is left is a husk straw and some stubble, especially with the id cool. and this is often blunt, becoming one of the primary causes for avenue sion across the new guns declaim making it almost impossible to believe in almost all of north of india. but today i learned this can be efficiently managed and also proffered company upside cuz the

3 times a year, these women so rise seeds in the flooded fields of domino not it is grueling what good to call as a lot of bending and a stooping. india produces a straggling $130000000.00 metric tons of price of the wood off of the houses. the left of was drawn husk is often but in the fields which pollutes the companies across india and exploding ways to use this waste for the more then we have a soft extra. is that what is the end of the meant? uh, we wanted to develop a product, which in fact can be used as it should be. the ultimate goal would add the same thing. it shouldn't be as strong moves on too many problems build been gone and drums a company called in the booth. after working with base product for over 20 years. he decided to experiment with rice hoss. he has been and it has the problems with

a good, comfortable, raised 1st and as the approach to farming has evolved and the top of the cut off that value is the part we use the ice. this to is a by product. then that's larger c, 2000 and the bottom portion is incorporated back into the site. but everything is completely altered since the green's illusion. because the, as a whole has become transformed. upcoming plumbing practices have see what else was doing piece for recycling, and they use the green revolution and monday, and sixty's as a period of technology trustworthy should is that saw a huge increase in agricultural productivity, but at the expense of sustainability and resource conservation. companies like into good on adding value to a good comfortable ways. these bianca jerry found the store. so this, it goes, system works very well for us because we have regular supply of so many deals from the, from us the font most get a good thing though,

which is us to send the enrollment due to the big, the license and funding what i did convert into folder that i brought to me, uh, 16 or 17 in going to be an ingredients mixed together in a pretty freaking them, it is yours. and then it is a free dating these google battle and they exclude the machine from the google machine. it is gundy meals lead thinking out it make the board the live or does the apartment building materials usually made by bonding to get the tim layers of body using the strong adhesive. this is the world's 2nd largest producer of blythewood, which is use a lot for furniture and interior design using grice house. as a substitute for food can help prevent deforestation is simply because rather when you are able to use but i would then you can use it. no, it's not just limited to chance or furniture or beds. it can also comfortably be

used in the kitchens and vanity where the moisture is high. in the m f. c can be printed for listing, and also co formed. so you can create any kind of garb sofas or those by the stake is if you want to create anything as possible. the complete in the who has a presence in blood states mindy and recently began exporting to old credit, new zealand. and along the company has plans to expand its international operations and branch out into europe to every one is talking about the saving of the 3 saving of environment. but then the housing sector is again, booming up so that the mismatch of demand and supply. so the supply has to come from sustainable legal family product because the nature of the product becoming a scattered day by day is becoming costly,

may by day some of the it's essentially to commercialize that. it covered goods. the long term on said bill involved developing a means of generating income using based from land that has been processed as the psych or commercialized and brought into a psychological and to me the, the in future in the world wants to explore the potential for producing plywood from coconut 5 by not belief book last, another crop residues as elsewhere. waste is then increasing the valuable product. speaking of evolution, doing what is the largest ongoing debate across the was an india transitioning from when using sources of energy to clean or again what, what sources of energy. okay. no, it's all good and easy examples from cool to store. but you know, what is the largest slice in this by offering will be sources of energy. it's hydro power, but there is something often despite for years how long for new thing and clean are

these large hydro power plants that's find out. somewhere between all the chapter about fossil fuels destroying the planet and renewables like sola and when saving us lives. a big a really big grays on this is altered by hydropower, which is great in every sense. it's kind of sustainable, kind of green and even on the kind of and you of the most hydro power comes from the dams that i've been across rivers. water is stored in it as a for and when we need energy related to on to, to binds, which then run generates us. of course not all dams generate hydro and not all the hydro comes sometimes. sometimes still binds, also stuck into the diversion, less destruction, but less control. the fluid kind is pumped storage where the station is split into one physically higher water is pumped up when there's enough energy and allowed to run down through it to bind when energy is needed. this one is supposed to be works

really well as a large box fee that can counter the intermittency of sola. i'm wins, which is really positive for hydro power, but as one major problem free flowing rivers, or rather what dams do to them. a fresh water equal systems have decline fossil then all others, including far as affected by deforestation, and dime construction is the number one reason for this digest closer the poster child of this tragedy. and many projects have come up with ways to get fish boss done. some work and some done by just dixon is but it's not only about 2, so it's also about other organisms that in the river tuesday. and it's also looked at the many ways hydropower disrupts and dial water systems, layers within the rest of the reservoir. and so and some of the lowest later is the closest one. and so if you and let's say at the hydropower them from time to time

to bulk them up and the, the gauge for the water to produce a electricity. and then it usually has a very strong and cold pink of water so that this also effecting on the types of organisms in the, in but damn, this thing is bad in other ways to steal and cement to used a bit plan. so some of the most common intensive materials on of and as well, remember when i said hydro is any kind of green and sustainable? one big reason that's true is because greenhouse gas emissions from aggressive was in the tropics, have proved to be the dictators as much trees degrade much fossil. the normal they release meet the and end up making. hydro projects was for the climate, then comparable coal plots. this national graphic shows the more immediate impacts, the 3 gorges dam flooded, 13 cities

a 140 downs and over 1300 villages. approve of it. even change the local weather being so huge, it's even cause or the quakes in the region. the other took them until he has created a huge block to the tigris that it ended up causing severe water shortages down the river in iraq. and then in the molly, as with 550 projects underway, dams has made the impact of land slides was over the years. hydro dams have also displeased at least 18000000 people from the homes. the big push for hydro today is coming from the time of movement since compared to fossil fuels. hydro doesn't look so bad. i cooked 26 in 2021. many countries pushed for hydropower as a key source of clean energy in the mix. in only 2023, the international renewable energy agency declared that we need hydropower capacity to double by 2050 the limits global warming to 1.5 degrees. this

brings us to the iron, the in the 2 hydro, his habits to murphys and to day this day that's meant to mitigate the climate crisis is becoming a big victim of the crisis. ringback sense as rivers i the fly don't dry up. the productivity of all kinds of hydropower. big and small is dramatic. the dropping the climate aspect is generally being considered the new dumb projects. even on the last on top rivers. in we build on these large, i don't know what damage that car into the 1052 percent of the remaining, the free flowing river, the big loss in the tropics. they wouldn't be fragmented. so we need hydro, but do we still need them. ready there is a potential for a 9 percent increase in global hydropower top city without building any new

facilities. kayla got a month for the hydro research lab in texas when they looked into 3 ways in which this could be done. the 1st category was done so that was for anything other than hydropower, which i've already had an impact on the environment. maybe put in generators turbine. i think it's a transmission line or the scale of an entirely new type of tory development to retrofit a, an existing non on power dam presenter ration there is a lot of on top potential there. the 2nd category was plants that need upgrading, including generally 2 units of software upgrades. and then up to a category. there is a fund of dams that are a smaller scale. so there may be, you know, a farmer, he's not a small dam built in his property to create a bond or small late for his farming operation. there's this many additional opportunities for how you're part development. a very small gales which in

developing countries maybe a much more the how will global equitable and quick integration where hydropower projects that 9 percent boost isn't what the energy agency says is needed. but it's a significant step in the energy goals can also argues that it makes almost sense from an economic standpoint. sometimes might still need to be billed, but these can be used for more than just hydro, in general. and this is kind of a key when you have to think in a whole system. and this is also true for thinking in terms of renewables. it's important to think about how to combine their renewables. so like, so when i switch over time, like winds. and so on. ready this is already happening in some places one portugal giants ok but as for floating solar panels, feed soul plus energy directly into the dams hydropower system. projects like these

have a lot of potential to use existing hydro as diet batteries to store renewable energy . energy from hydro needs to be a part of the future, but not of the cost of so much else. when this is considered, we can move towards a truly green future pop of focus on and almost all of nothing they are located in the email. again, just explain. i'm separate on the was a small sample use. the cities are also located here, and i grew up in one subsidy. growing up schools would be shut down because of a smog in the winter months. i mean people move out of our windows and just see moms and nothing else. i mean, it's still the same buttons for my best friend to add as my wouldn't offer. so pop in our house. and i didn't like that much. what is the cause of this as a nuisance? and what have as a nuisance to that? that's find out every year when the temperature dips in winter,

the quality in the bucket dining city of la hor quickly goes from bad to worse. when the land goes down, pollution from guys in factories doesn't get blown away from the city. and instead farms of take small small is especially bad for children's health. that's why many schools get students days off to avoid forcing them to commute in the polluted city smallwood and the starts and when the most, most people don't was in building my score. so i can see my friends anymore. and everyone usually stays home during small season, this 1100 bed children's hospital is frequented by young patients suffering from respiratory issues. studies have shown that increased exposure to add pollution can even have long term impact on the development of children's. you're logical and cognitive capacities. you go so chemical, but the combination the smoke is

a give me a good combination of fog and as small as the smoke season approaches. there is a higher incidence of pneumonia allergy as to mount flu and throat infection which can have long term effects. if our dentist dips are not taken for the home, good music which are 2 steps, nadia, that the punjab environmental protection department is tasked with addressing the root causes of air pollution in the heart here at the departments control room. they monitor air quality constantly. the issue warnings, the citizens the whole or take literally a pose unless of the most polluted cities and the what the departments team is also improving existing laws. and now they are focusing on a specific solution to reduce the pollution that's gotten was due to organization. a bit of a nice ation dismiss. all the little webpage i knew as more and more people come to the cities. there is agree to stream on data sources. more costs are needed and

more construction activity takes place here. we'll bump the dot here and then to provide those resources to the cities that got that are brick goes and factories or things that tried to be close to the cities felt better access, inconvenience up, likely off, expecting armies, tending all this causes concentrated air pollution in the city full talk, a good to communication of will be so you will get your supply at full speed with us and you can to handle f one sion condense or just the issue that are close to 8000 brick guns in the state of punjab. alone contributing to an estimated 10 percent of the pollution in the region. in the past, they used an antiquated making method. this procedure required going to be boned and the furnace process that's not environmentally friendly. for leasing smoke with a high density of carbon monoxide and particular toyota and been job almost 60 percent of them have been converted to news executives,

hostility this and the small squad is inspecting big guns to oversee the transition to this exact method and make sure annoying legal fuel is being used to put it in a tim knew that the previous gave it to me and we did black smoke which flowed down with the changing rain plus the how on each other. we had to face health issues due to that will put off again, but now we have no issues. i'm, it was in the smoke is fun decisions. so we and is white in color. now, do of a company called the or to the new cause of the brick so placed in a zigzag pattern inside the can. that creates literally passages between them and allows the heat to be evenly distributed. the fuel added from the top bones more efficiently than using fuel consumption and emissions. a converting a traditional, getting into a zigzag, getting costs up to 10000 euros. however, the investment can be legal within a year, and the benefits to health and the environment are enormous. altered these estimate

overall pollution levels of already have compared to the previous year. as the yearly small period ends, monday and eagerly the duns to school. today i'm going because the small circle thing i hope for the rest of my life going forward, the cities administration has plans to help reduce values by improving public transit and creating a network of vikings. the hardest set to go into coming use it citizens are hoping authorities will drastically reduced evolution so that it's 13000000 residents can find a new breed easy today is episode got us away from the city and into the when it is where most of in dallas i'm today, i learned a little more about both indoor and outdoor pollution and the people who are trying to find the solutions for this. and what we learn to is that there is still some hope,

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