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for that all i can seen today is hopeless. and i'm sure this is a feeling shed by millions, not just across any but across the water because air pollution is a real big problem. let's 1st i don't 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 fonda to you. some of the world health organization consider safe when we built into the data though, we found some surprisingly good news. and many megacities see here it's getting better. so we wanted, what are these cities doing, right? and can replace do this. for this analysis, we looked at one measure of evolution, that's everywhere, p m 2 point 5, pm, $2.00. be able to find 5 pm, 2.5 kids 2.5, p. m stands for particulate matter and make sure it's started particles and liquids

dropped instead of $2.00 microns for less, much smaller than a human here. this is only one possible type of information about people's lives. if he could meet from the w h o, use it as an indicator for evolution in general, just as important. and that can come from very different sources. and he tried to get this thing to work to. there is really no place in the world that is the 3 of those are to get his metrics and it's big cities that 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 swiss company i q, and we chose the average levels of pm to point 5 for more than 7000 entities. 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 and all of that, even when levels of 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 air pollution problems. for many cities, changing how people move around just can make a big difference. there is a need to be a push to really have either very close, but also fewer legal reading from on working side team and the providing most of the big transportation with electricity. the electric very, to take bank coke, for instance. the city is working on expanding its still limited sky train and metro services. and in the meantime, electric alternatives for the traditional combustion engine trucks that keep looking around admission for you as well. denny is working on an extra fine, 80 percent of its best rates, and even in coca town, sometimes called the diesel capital of the world. a tentative psych, this electric scooter service starting up the next steps. so which i says can be introducing so called low emission zones 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. being competitive with this through an area to reducing traffic uncomfortable or being of hers on teams to more by planes and parents are putting cities everywhere, experimenting with a different kind of urban design. transport is not the only area such as must tackle. there is action upon against evolution also focuses on industry and measuring and reducing the dust from construction sites and having more industries shift to feed the fuels and more efficient techniques that converging traditional bank accounts to 6 accounts. this is something a lot of cities are doing like here in the heart past on the method still uses cold but much less of it and it traps more of the particular meta inside the account, knowing it's emissions. one reason for denise luxury, but yeah, the space might be that in 2018, the city shut down the by the poor coal tall trend which wasn't comfortable for around 10 percent of the cities particular is not to air pollution or no one area

that progresses, still snow is waste, so they don't have you solid waste management vinyl for 2016. this to not implemented every country has been advocating for clean air for more than 20 years . she found that the mother's activist group worry a moms who campaign against air pollution by petitioning the government and courts throughout india. she says even in the right policies of that, the governments 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 awesome. the only option for getting rid of unwanted materials causing toxic smoke full of handful particular matter that can stretch for miles. so preventing waste as well as collecting and disposing of it better has to be part of any cities time to curve and pollution. when policies are implemented thoroughly that can have a big impact. take phasing,

for instance, the city imposed 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 still a fossil fuels, but produces much less particulate matter for to electricity, which could be produced by renewables. countries around the world are investing in renewable energy, phasing out cold 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 pockets done 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 horn and pack of some irregular the tops list 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 the to improve does not beat omar in 2016, he found as a pockets on equity initiative, which is a community initiative at 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 census and no for a long showing the current air pollution levels. michigan, honda for governments and citizens take northeast and the time monitoring systems have strong up everywhere in the past few years. 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 as stuff change in their air quality? and last but not least, the 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 intense smoke to now that india, including daily every year after the hottest season. and the same program happens, for example in cairo or across indonesia where smoke clouds 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 discipline just to fix it. it's taking me in decade 0 for us. people like us to be fighting the field and the gods. and coming with such a long re changes happen. social changes in the v and even when really good air as far away any change helps in the reduction in air. air pollution is good for now and it's more 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 parts, each of the 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. i'm as an individual level 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 poor 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 lead. i'm some,

a bunch of the things that happenings will 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 realize 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 cops,

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. first of all, correct. thank you so much about people speaking with us. it was a lovely conversation. my pleasure. thank you. and i'm sure our audiences and we'll associate, could do we have quite to which one this speaking of so you should already entered action. what do you will do when you're done with you'll see of this, i'll fix as well. most of us just solely to a field 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 advertise, right?

no, they're not enough government just address 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 diverse external ways of age over a 1000000 metric tons end up in lend since it is a significant amount we bought. that is actually something we can do about this. so if you want to look at the increase, 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 on tapping into this potential psyche. and also across the cycling the cities subject waste one piece at the time. you just need a little bit of skill and a little bit of imagination. and you can mix something beautiful, which is really usable, upside good,

as well as good for the planet. text on your wrist 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 fabric waste is to keep it local because we didn't want to would own vase from one area to another . and also, if we wanted to provide employment opportunities aspects particular place, it says up slightly, mostly makes blackbox and bags number root out and whatnot. the maybe gets, have fabrics drops from local building unit, just incredibly popular in india. despite the rapid growth of foss profession, or because most dealers don't have a new one coming then of taking the waste from them on a regular basis. so most of it goes into one is for the solid waste and maybe to the landfill. unlike up psyche, the d ment was crap also accept fix diabetes such as old clothing and home

furnishings. i need to look at the government and based on the condition of service auditions with either donate the common upside because the government recycled, the government on the trip, the government, up saki and all scrap each have close to. it doesn't seem stresses work with them to create these products. so it's improving that awnings to the industry to have each given new life over fold down 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 the 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 j level as so you should, these 3 barometers could provide a sustainable basis for the upside good product market as an under the extended good use of 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 dispose of the indian government does not planning to implement these guidelines in the indian tex dot industries. so, but the consumers can also do all that fashion definitely is one of the biggest polluters of the world. but we can start with just our own home initiatives like up slightly and also grab, provide important opportunities to convert x w based into up cyclic products addressing and one monthly concerns and boosting the local economy by creating what

as we heard earlier, the key to obtaining toxic ad is shifting to p and a few. but how easy is it to make the switch? there's a streets of london that shows us that sometimes all it takes is community to new solar panels of finery here, and see when the streets will be producing its very own power. residents in east london, lynn much road, spent more than 2 years 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 a 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 the goal. 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 pollen done 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street clinton to a great. but some of the roofs are suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet will 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 ican on a crisis in the country, not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 octaves launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds split. ready and spent several weeks during the winter 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 innovative ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis. the 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 i'm once people say to something, you know, a ton of you started, they were, it is really all new stuff. and of course, cheaper bills. so now these soon, the powered homes austin le, rarity here that partner

a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the okay, we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it pink time, so it's like 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 so the pioneers couldn't even produce it, plus energy that can be fed into the grids instead of time for that fossil fuel network, which i'm getting, is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grid and create that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight

from the roof. or yes, when the rest of the street see this last 1020 houses getting the solar panels. and i see that you know, that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not have, right. and then just a couple of off his coming up with a totally pine, this guy dam, 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 hilary pals and then 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 buttons. why some other dice on 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 visit substitute?

well, the 1st step is awareness of finding project incoming logo is doing just that in squeeze last through. finally, groupings, portable backed with pictures and stories. young students in india state are coming not do are learning about marine life in a fun rate. but the subject is deadly serious. and it was like this, the daughter audit 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 wrist class has designed school lessons about plastic pollution space. leslie, and i'm going to say what we do in the race class is we have designed a column on vase and waste management. and we are teaching. it took me longer to explain the age group, but the age group we choose is $10.00 to $13.00,

from colossus $6.00 to $89.00 and already 10 they already knew about the site could be bought, it becomes the vapor due to heat becomes clouds then becomes gold. and falls down as pre explain part of it. they all explain it when you look at these, what we wanted. these then was the plastics we use in all the daily life also follows the similar cycle or to the form of how wonderful is inside conversion of plastic alter goes to a cycle. and if we wanted to be temporarily normally suddenly that affect them to fire. and so in the program part we 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, expedia and 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 every day. products. the one

experiment is to find out if the odd micro plastics, beads in face washes, learning using all their senses and their imagination story telling really captors the children's attention we came up with was a very creative way of stories. we created these stories, these dialogues between 2 to maureen creatures or sea creatures. there's the y circle, 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 plastics like the why do fish michael plastics and 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 somebody not to school or taught of days 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 a school event. this program has been implemented in a government disclosure in 3 districts of time and not their own governments. it reaches over $10000.00 students in nearly $200.00 government and solve them to follow up on their children will shape the future. the least less themes believes that this guy taking them would teach them why it is important to slash blog stick pollution, and how to do with 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 like me don't. what's your city

is doing to reduce the you can email us already talk to me directly on my social media. i will see you next week until then take a would by the

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