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recognizes where exactly it was fun. learned a lot of our culture history. all their travel extremely worth a visit. the we know it looked like it right now, was this island might be the best island in europe and even the wells mostly because they've been sandy beaches or architect uh or you around were with the wow cool. because it's maybe the greenest island in the world. all the energy produced here is we use the we use a lot of a wasted and a reviving vist struggling economy by becoming angel for the running into a lot of all too familiar with sounding problems. problems that

a lot of places around the world are trying to solve right now. so how did they become the green this island county, they keep it up and what can we learn from them? the back of their job to where it is, the other one is part of denmark. it lies in the middle of the baltic sea and about $40000.00 people lived there. used to be a viking stronghold, then swedes, demons, and danes, food over it for centuries. but the danes, one in the end, and the island has been there since the 17th century. bonham was never rich because it's isolated and doesn't have a big industry. it was one of the lowest income regions. and then most, most of the people here on the living by farming fishing or latest through tours, or when this population started dwindling and tourism couldn't make up for that one home with very tight spot. it needed

a new plan to become the best island ever, or at least the green this island ever. they wanted to become more independent from the mainland seas money in the long run and bring more people to the island as tourist or as residents. the plan was so successful that the you would have gone home, the title of the most sustainable island in europe. of course bonham is very small, but many people around the world visit to see what they are doing here to learn from their success and their mistakes. so how did they do it? the 1st step was to reduce waste. the common problem with islands is that the waste can pile up quickly and can be expensive to ship out many islands, especially those with lots of tourists like falling heavily polluted with plastic and other trash and bone and lots of it on the island. which used to be similar here to or you know, in the old days, all the waste,

nearly all the waste was incinerated and all the results as what is guessing of in the and then smoke. this is plea on your hands and he works at the local waste management company. but things have changed since then. people already have to so it's a household waste into 6 categories and they want to upset to 12. and the waste that the recycling yard is divided into 4 categories to make recycling easier and more efficient. how did people react basically when your saucers making categories? when you started this uh, 7 years ago, it was a lot of 5 for quite a few bucks a month and 35, you know, why was that? but now, you know, with the mic, scott sense that they're supposed to show off the waist. and the we tell them a lot that it's not a waste, it's resources. with a bonus,

everybody can come to the recycling center and take whatever they need before it even needs to be recycled. which sounds super logical. what is illegal in most of denmark and then lots of other countries economy? if i need a toilet, i like to come to. yeah. and the different oscar my comic if you want to help you with taking them out. there's no problem. yeah. you're the one separated the ways to shift often neighboring sweetie to be recycled, looking beautiful. so many businesses on board also recycle their own ways so that it doesn't even have to make its way to the recycle. like this 5 which is left over from producing rate. because this directly from the pharma you still have a little bit waste leaves and stuff like that which we had taking away also. and that we have pressing into a pellets. which way he think is saving money. so no need to buy or look at. so in

the thing in this sustainable hotel, a lot of the furniture is made of wood that would have been thrown away shallow water as we used to flush the toilet. and to add a whimsical touch, this boss is made from old glass bottles. that doesn't mean bon home is completely waste. we somehow did this. trash still gets lanfield and about a quarter of it gets found. what kind of waste is this? this is the house will waste. we mix it off to the west, the waste with this driveway. and it's lessons in wood and we use it as a heat coming sooner. that's just like heating and boring. why can't this be recycled? it could be we don't have some companies who can the so you get to and we used to come back in 5 years, maybe 6 years. this mountain of a voice was the mux, the smaller the goal is to sort the ways so well that nothing has to be banned at

the latest by 2032. that's when this blonds will have to shut down because it will be too old. the 2nd step was to stop reducing their own energy and become less depends on electricity for elsewhere. islands, especially. oh, awesome. dependent on the mainland, even other countries providing them with energy which can become expensive. up until a few decades ago, bonham's energy came from almost a 100 percent fossil fuels. but not anymore. we have a solar panels of photo, both harris. we have a photo gas system on the home. and of course, also wind turbines on show, close this year, is this big specing for bond homes, energy provider. some of the solar panels were developed, especially for bond home like these windowpane ones. many businesses send their organic ways to a bio gas facility where it's turned into energy. most of the remaining

electricity and some of the heat on home is produced by banding with chips. now we actually using locally to environments. so our money is actually staying on the island, or the wood is renewable branding. it is one of the dirtiest ways of producing energy. it's a lots of c o 2. that's why bond home is planning to use less of it. another hitch was the same problem. a lot of other places have the people are very, very fond of where we're live. i think we all off. and of course, this is this discussion always when you put on winter events and that you can really see them many island as well, or against windmills in their back yard. that's our local politicians actually said, well, well i was actually just not to put up more window. but on show we will put a offshore the wind power bonham's. how about is already

full of offshore wind turbines, which are going to be installed a few kilometers off the coast. the island will either get some energy off of those giant when fox will set up a locally owned smallpox. until then, all this energy still isn't enough to cover the islands energy use. on average, about a quarter of the energy comes from an underwater cable from neighboring sweden. and on top of that, they face a well known problem. what to do when the wind stops blowing and the sun stop shining, the energy produced in peak times needs to be stored for when non is generated a. so you're going to pull of a mess of energy storage capacity here on both. and so what does molten salt? it basically is salt that little note on, on putting in electricity. uh so plus in electricity from the winter months when the a rubbing. and then we renewed and you didn't, you didn't,

we just put forth for into that and create steam and then we produce heat and power . so definitely kind of contain a lot of energy for a long period of time actually. so how big is it going to be? is it going to be or to the top floor? so it's going to fill out this entire room. actually it won't be nearly enough to store all the excess energy. but if all goes well, the company building it wants to install more on a bigger scale. so the original plan was to run on a 100 percent renewables by 2025. is that going to happen? do you think? definitely not. definitely not. i think what we, we, i think we will be very close intensive. i went into the system on the, on home. we have to fix land based transportation, not only of on home. i think that's appropriate problem. i think that is a problem in germany. oh, invest in our goal risk. well actually like with this electric charging station that isn't as popular as people would have hoped. the around 20 charging station scott is across the phone lines, which is not a lot electric cause

a still more expensive than gasoline ones. meaning it's a hot switch to make if you're not the richest, the regions. once more of them on the streets, the bonham plans to use the car batteries to also store some excess energy which is already happening on a test basis with these electric cars that are owned by the islands, municipalities. not a big problem is this very because it runs on marine diesel and this is very just there's some discussion about hydrogen or electric engines which are cleaner, but it's still very early days. change can be slower than wanted, especially if you can't just throw money at the problem. that's why sustainability must make sense. money wise as well. we have a lot of a texas in denmark on energy. so of course, by every 2 of us, you can save. you also save money, it's very simple. we have a solar panels on the roof and our system is something we use our residues from

production to heat up the whole factory and simple things like choosing a bottle with less glossing. it's reducing weights, but also then reducing the amount of gas used a producing a bonus, initial cost. this may be high else because you need to do some investments when off. so that's, it is actually cheaper for us to run the business here. and that's not always the case. i strongly agree that old people wants to do the right thing and the most we think, but they have to be able to afford it also at the same time. that's why a lot of the efforts here are co funded by you or governmental programs or a set up as experiments that companies collaborate on and invest money into. another way to convince people is to show why being more sustainable make sense? this is, you can, you can see it with the eyes when you were using a reciting stuff. and that's not going to verify you. you can see that the,

you know, it's, it's good for them to climb and rough environment. so of course, all of these as a service mean the entire island is steve agreement, friendly politics. the only technology isn't missing funds time get in the way in delay program. but there's still a lot of things we can learn from this tiny island experimenting away on the baltic sea. you can just copy what was done here and paste it any way. you can copy the core idea, which is make sustainability the easiest most logical and cheapest way of doing things. and way this isn't the case yet. we need incentives. like wrapping up text is on fossil fuels, subsidizing electric transport, or investing in experimental project like this one. you want to see? mary was raising all. we subscribe. we 1st videos every friday, the

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