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for that all i can seen today is hopeless. and i'm sure this is the feeling shed by millions not just across any but across the water. because avenue sion is a building from let's 1st started to understand what is causing it and what are affected cities across the world doing to see that it see all these being done. they show that in almost every major city in the world, the air is found that he has some of the world health organization consider safe. when we look into the data though, we found some surprisingly good news. and many megacities see here it's getting better. so we wondered, what are the city is doing right? and can every place do this? for this analysis, we looked at one measure of evolution, that's everywhere. p m 2 point 5, pm, 2.5. be able to find 5 pm, 2.5 into concise. p. m stands for particulate matter and make show started

particles and liquid drops instead of $2.00 microns for less, much smaller than a human here. this is only one possible type of information about the people next. if he could meet from the w h o, use it as an indicator for evolution in general to this is important that can come from very different sources and because it needs to be gets us into work. so if there is really no place in the world, that is the 3 of those are to get his mentor and it's big cities that are often particularly polluted. this problem has been well known for years to sign up with anything has changed. we took a closer look at this state domains from this which company i q and we chose the average levels of pm to point 5 for more than 7000 cities. over the past 5 years, we put it all into a big excel spreadsheet and check that against a list of the world's biggest cities. those has more than 10000000 people living in them. of those 25 cities, it seems like the air has gotten better in almost all of that. even when levels are still high. what we've seen is that on average,

about 5 percent improvement in air quality over the past few years. so we chase help cities that want to tackle the acquisition problems for many cities, changing how people move around just can make a big difference. there is a need to really a push to really have peter peter rachels, but also fewer legal reading from on working side team. and the, providing most of the big transportation was effectively the electric. they to take bank coke, for instance. the city is working on expanding its limited sky train and metro services. and in the meantime, electric alternative spelled the traditional combustion engine trucks that keep looking around admission for you as well. denny is working on an extra fine, 80 percent of his bus rates and even in coca, sometimes called the diesel capital of the world. a tentative psych visit electric scooter services starting up the next steps. so which i says can be introducing so called low emissions on cities that are restricting emissions in

a certain part of their city votes to improve their quality, but also to improve quality of life from times square in new york city, the competitive industry, an area to reducing traffic uncomfortable or below horizontal, to more by claims and parents are putting cities everywhere. experimenting with a different kind of urban design. transport is not the only area such as must tackle daddy's extra fine against acquisition also focuses on industry, measuring and reducing the dust from construction sites and having more industry shift to clean up fuels and more efficient techniques. a conversion traditional brick accounts to 6 accounts. this is something a lot of cities are doing like here in the heart, processed on the method still uses cold, but much less of it and attracts more of the particulate matter inside the account, lowering and submissions. one reason for denny slattery, between these days, might be that in 2018, the city shut down the by the poor coal tall tent, which wasn't comfortable for around 10 percent of the cities particular is my to

evolution alone. one area that progresses still snow is waste to there to have you solid waste management vinyl from 2016. this to north implemented that green country has been advocating for clean air for more than 20 years. she found that the mother is active as group worry, a moms who campaign against evolution by petitioning the government and courts throughout india. she says, even when the right policies are that the government often doesn't follow through, we do not segregate the ways to source. and mostly it's all makes. and that is what is making those huge landfills and the mixed race to insinuated in the middle of a city without organized waste connection. burning is often the only option for getting rid of unwanted materials, causing toxic smoke full of handful particulate matter that can stretch for miles. so preventing waste as well as collecting and disposing of it better has to be part of and he said he's time to curve and pollution. when policies are implemented thoroughly that's can have a big impact. take phasing, for instance,

the city in post type limits on emissions from boy that's used in people's homes and subsidized anyone who wanted to upgrade that coal fired boiler to natural gas, which is the level so fuel, but produces much less particulate matter or to electricity which could be produced by renewables. countries around the world are investing and renewable energy, phasing out coal from the energy supply in favor of solar, wind, and others for cooking stove fires with wood or kerosene activity on the option in many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, without access to electricity such as projects from practiced on to rhonda to the millions or introducing cleanest of models to those regions as well. whether and how 5 cities can implement change comes down to a few things. and the 1st total is bits of data. take the hort, unpack of some irregular the top solice of the world's most polluted cities. according to the data, it looks like it has improved at least a little, but it's hard to say without any actual changes happened that we haven't really

seen any trends that would explain why the numbers are going down. so i think it's just that the, the quality or data improves does not beat on march 2016, he found as a pockets on equity initiative, which is a community initiative, a life i ended up individuals. corporations, organizations have come together with low cost monitors and providing that data publicly uh on the internet on base that farms. and that data is what is driving awareness. thanks to initiative. there are no more than a dozen sensors in the for a long showing the current air pollution levels. michigan, honda for governments and citizens take northeast and baton monitoring systems, a strong up everywhere in the past periods. cities are increasing their ability to monitor their air quality, and this is something that is extremely important. a very positive trends from our perspective. then that's the question of money. changing was able to put

a huge amount of investment into the air quality problem. and that is the key question for a lot of other cities right now. do they have the money to invest, to make such a step change in their air quality? and last but not least, specified digital collaboration. so if you imagine air flowing together over parts of the world, that's what we call in the air side. if it doesn't respect political boundaries and found a place like deli, it's extremely important but neighboring cities and jurisdictions work together on their common problems. cups of learning brings in 10 small to now that india, including daily every year after the harvest season. and the same problem happens, for example, in cairo or across indonesia where smoke cells can reach so far they affect the air and singapore, and parts of malaysia. so cities, regions, and countries will have to work together to change because this, what we have at the heart of the matter is the health of the people living in

a city. it doesn't really matter where the air pollution is coming from. it's extremely important that it's reduced. so evolution is still a huge issue. big cities all over the world are pretty far from what the w h l consider safe, which would be below 5 micro pounds per cubic meter of it, but it's can get better. so that's what i tell people that they get this one disappointed fixed it's, it's taking me decade 0 for us. people like us to be fighting the field in the gods and coming with such a long re changes happen, social changes, and never easy. and even when really good air as far away, any change helps any reduction in air. air pollution is good for any small reduction is good. what's more is that the things that clean up there are also good for come much in climate change, which is likewise fuel by emissions from burning waste and fossil fuels. i have a lot of questions and i need some on says so today the i want to go and meet harvey just to really who is

a very busy environment to list an open policy expert to figure out what is going on and what can be done at the local level, at the state level, and as an individual 11th. thank you so much for speaking with as monday. so how bad is the ad actually in the need? well, the air is deceptively bad. it's really cool because 1st of all be sitting in this beautiful sunshine that is as beautiful as far as behind us and around us. and we would imagine the air is good, but in fact, it's full. and it's so bad that people shouldn't be outdoors, exercising, running the spice of beautiful morning, always people should be inside children should absolutely not play sports. so we are really in a situation of a health emergency right now, correct. and as we saw in our last report, denny is doing things, you know, we're electrifying our bus fleet and some

a bunch of us the things are happening. so tell us a little about that. is it enough and what else can be done? well, i'm certainly happy that with electrifying our bus fleetwood, what's disappointing is that firstly we, we don't have enough buses. we ought to have people say at the very least, 11000 buses, so that we're a long way away from 11000 buses. but equally, we have to push people into these buses, not just bush, you know, people who might, they do windows and say, here now get into these buses. they have to push everybody into public transport. so it doesn't have to play a more active role. you don't just say the air is bad, you go next door, you walk as a community and you say, well, my neighbors making a new house or a new floor. and they following the laws. and can we help them to cover the cement or the workers that protected? you have to do those things. what do you do on an individual level to fix things? the biggest thing is, when you know your neighbor, you're comfortable sharing resources. so you can see that my cost and me are going

to say another part of daily anyone wants something from the anyone wants to lift and those kinds of things look like normal just 15 years ago. and somehow now we, we've fractured as a society. we're in zillow, and we have to break that installation festival, correct? thank you so much about people speaking with us. it was a lovely conversation. my pleasure. thank you, and i'm sure our audience is also take it and we have quite a visual of this. speaking of so you should already entered action. what do you will do when you're done with you'll see of this out when most of us just throw it away here and in the millions of done of fabric waste ends up in landfill. we met 2 entrepreneurs in 10, they were using their creativity to make a difference. one scrap of fabric as side the right?

no, they don't have enough commons to dress the next 6 generations of humans. why do we need so much government phone closure. this is becoming a little bit ridiculous. every year, india generates some 8.5 percent of the world's external ways of age over a 1000000 metric tons. and in length. it is a significant amount we bought. that is actually something we can do about this. so if you want to look at fabric base, it has a lot of potential and not only is it, you don't produce it in terms of revenue, but also a lot of employment opportunities to, to not initiatives happening into this potential psyche and also correct on ups like in the cities, fabric waste one fees at a time. you just need a little bit of skill and a little bit of imagination. and you can make something beautiful, which is really usable, upsize good, as well as for the planet. next,

donnie risk can be generated at any point during the manufacturing process, or when the building or the home furnishings are sorted out and thrown away upside . these approach to dealing with stop request is to keep it local. because we didn't want to what owned vase from one area to another. and also we wanted to provide employment opportunities as that's what the color place it says up slightly, mostly makes backpacks and bugs number roots out and whatnot. the main, the gets of fabrics, drugs from local building unit system incredibly popular in india despite rapid growth of foss defection, or because most dealers don't have a new one coming then of taking the waste from them. i know they love bases. so most of it goes into one is for the solid waste and maybe to the landfill. i'm like up psyche the d ment was crap also except spec started ways such as old clothing

and home furnishings. i need to look at the government and based on the condition of service organizations with either do need the common upside because the government recycled, the government, all 3 of the common upside. you know, scrap each, have close to a dozen, seamstresses who work with them to create these products. so it's improving that awnings to the industry doesn't have each given new life over for them to fabric waste or what about forty's up? cycling is an effective solution, but it is one that's difficult to escape believe experts. but it awesome idea is to make the products more attractive to consumers. one is what i spotted. it should be quarter, due or less than what is available to be in the market. the default form, in spite of the design, is to takes all the functionality of the product. the 3rd is what i call use of access or ease of use and so on. right, for example,

if it is one of the available from one website, then it does start as a level as of use. these 3 barometers could provide a sustainable basis for the upside good product market. and under the extended producer responsibility guidelines, manufacturing brands in new york, for example, a month to take responsibility for the products or the entire life cycle, including recycling and disposal. the indian government is not planning to implement these guidelines in the indian tex dot industry so, but the consumers can also do all bit fashion definitely is one of the biggest polluters of the world, but we can start with just our own home initiatives like upside lee and also grab, provide important opportunities to convert x w based into upside good products addressing and one monthly concerns and boosting the local economy by creating what

as we heard earlier, the key to obtaining toxic and shifting to key nephew. but how easy is it to make this switch? there is a street in london that shows us that sometimes all it takes is communities to the new solar panels of finery. yeah, i'm assuming the streets will be producing its very own power residents in east london, lyn much road spends more than 2. she is working for this moment and convincing the neighbors to get on board to day. that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of saying something's going to happen and having that power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing it come to reality is, is kind of a relief. it's joyful. we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels that was go. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult actually to, to even persuade any one of autism,

henry powell and done the 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street linked into a grid. but some of the roofs are suited to solar panels, and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households on limits road are on board. however, i think across britain, there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. you can offer a direct action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created in. then it kinda floats quite well with the general public. given me economic crisis in the country, not everyone can afford to sign up. that's why the 2 artists launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds. the even spend several weeks during the winter and living on their roof and found it as a crowd fund wanted to make the streets as the low cost of a story. but it also is

a kind of experiment, prototype test pilot thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say that government should support invitations, ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis. a neva angela hoops, the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the panels sunroof, it's going to be much better for the panels if we can. if they keep going and achieve, and once people say to something, you know, to tell me you started it, they were, it is really on this stuff. and of course, to prepare for now the solar powered homes on the rarity here that partner

a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the okay, we've got pretty much like that one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels, so it pink time. so i'd say 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generate to is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this horrible kind of pollution. and of course, it's really expensive on sunny days and, and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it plus energy that can be fed into the great instead of going for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grade and create that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be cooked with power that comes

straight from the roof. yes, when the rest of the street see the 1st 1020 houses getting the solar panels and the see the, you know that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not have. right. and then just a couple of off this coming up with a totally fine this guy did, hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved. hillary pals and them 8 those dean who this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in this city some pollution like this have is a findings why some other types of he didn't like microsoft micro plastics have been found in drinking water in as an even skin right. then how does one save one says on the environment from this or for a visible substitute?

well, the 1st step is awareness, and a fine yielding project in some of the model is doing just that includes last. finally, groupings, portable fact with pictures and stories. young students in india state are coming not do are learning about marine life in a fun way. but the subject is deadly serious. and it was like this, the daughter out at risk from fishing nets and plastics. and estimated $11000000.00 tons of plastics ended on oceans each year. so what can we do? indian based and your risk list has designed school lessons about plastic pollution . baseless learning, i'm going to say what we do in bracelets is we have designed a column on the face and waste management and we are teaching. it does take me longer to explain the age group,

but the age group we choose is $10.00 to $13.00. from clos is 6289 man already 10. they already knew about the walk, a psych voter becomes the vapor due to heat becomes clouds then becomes gold and falls down as pre extinct on the all explain it when you look at the what we want to these then was the plastics we use in of a daily life also follows a similar cycle or to the form of how waterfall is aside, because we're to the last to go to it goes to a cycle and we wanted to be some good, you know, certainly that about the bi. and so in the program has to be planned the curriculum and the way that it is not to set the quote again, did you want it there to be hands on activities? it could be the end of it to be experienced based on the display of the front of the 2 experiments. the children are taught how to find micro plastics in everyday products. the one experiment is

to find out if that odd micro plastics, beads and face washes, learning using all their senses and their imagination. storytelling really, captors the children's attention. we came up with was a very creative way of stories. we created these stories, these dialogues between choose to marine creatures or sea creatures. there's the wise turtle, and then there's a smart student starfish. and they're having a discussion. so all the scientific content that we're talking about of micro plastic cycle. why do fish, michael plastic? some are planting. this is all put in a story. so every less than the story continues and students are able to also read the story. the teacher can read with the students on both of them. the see change program has been developed in cooperation with them in i do school authorities

based, listed on to the c chance program. we created a vis because this is one of the 1st times and the students are learning about micro plastic pollution in the school. and it will, this program has been implemented in a government disclosure in 3 districts of time and not uncommon once it reaches over 10000 students in nearly 200 government and solve them to follow up on the children will shape the future. the waste less themes believes that discovery came in with teach them why it is important to slash blog, the pollution, and how to do it. the understanding the solution is the 1st step to finding the solution. while you can ignore my badge, right? but i certainly do feel a lot more hopeful than i did at the start of this episode. and i really hope that no one in any part of the was, has to live with any sort of solution one day. you will have to meet on what your

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