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a quick look at some of the topics that will be exploring today was met this someone in the good incentive goals, such a unique bias of why the number of cobble a bikes, all the streets of germany, is set to grow and how of fungal we point should 5, even the simplest inc, king posts are full, takes us through after because west coast funding to save that every year gotten a generates a sad green 1100000 tons of plastic waste book. only 5 percent of that is collected and recycled. that's a pretty shocking fee go. well, there is hope, a number of grassroots organizations coming together to see how they can make a difference. let's take a look of the beach clean up is going to be back breaking work

similarly and listened future. well, this is a mission with a difference. these volunteers on from from beach, east of gun capital across and not just collecting old waste. this group called plastic punch have a plan, the sorting, measuring and calculating all the items as a weapon to find back against the scourge. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these cleanups often with volunteers from nearby communities. so when volunteers come around, community members speak to shoes. if the applicant shoes if applicant plastics are frequently plastics. if you are picking up to face you frequently to face this, we are able to separate the reset cloud, both from the normal reset levels because we want to the most states. and they'll come in to see that they can be some value from these things. what i've done, finding that me know what's always what it weighs, such as a cross call a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps with only

a tiny fraction of the city's trash being properly collected and recycled. besides, poisoning the land, the deputies flushed into the ocean, breaking down into micro plastics, getting into the food chain and destroying the classic echo systems. and it's from places like color good, that a big deal of the trash wash is down to trump from beach red plastic punch is working as they see the data collection of form of citizens science as a way out of the mess we uh, when does between us, hello, not the solution for the plastic solution minutes because this i didn't this high side, they'll be more trust coming in. power buy stuff, that's a very good activity. it's a quality relevance visa. then once we have well situated onto date is the one, the sound, what the police on what this polluted. and also which brian, this which campaign yourself, what you would say by collecting these dates that we are able to understand by

analyzing what the surface of this for defense could be. where are we on the cell where the surface would be? and that is where we, i will know, i thought, call direct our awareness access and also solution finding efforts and with the data quite whose team can begin to crucial next phase. helping the local authorities to understand the ways flows and to figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we're able to tell where the waste is coming from. and that type of ways that is coming into the show. and then the one is that there is a couple and then the ones that i know we say couple. so this informed as, as the assembly, how to plan for the management of the waste issue. the citizen science is also a key part of a much bigger puzzle. ocean conservation is one of the united nations, 17 sustainable development goals. but efforts

a come back moraine plastic pollution had been held back by lack of reliable data. from from beach and gun as a microcosm of world wide problem, it's been estimated that we have dumped up to 200000000 tons of trash and to the see most of its indestructible plastic as some estimates say the rate of increase the triple in the coming decades the u. n. environment program says the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic of the things to groups like plastic bunch done. i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density, according to you what guidelines the data loaded onto a u. n. platform containing the world's largest citizen in science. thank you, said unmarried, let's a officials of gunners that technical service set here for this very useful then when you're cleaning the, the beach, they also compiling data that would lift policy,

make us appreciate the value of the activity one to also appreciate what we are doing to ourselves in terms of nick for individuals to the extent that one it doesn't encourage tarzan to it affects a particular life being able to present 15 beaches is of course also find sold a gun, a $1000000000.00 tory sector and been well full citizens. scientists like richmond kennedy, quite group the hardware because only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change. no, no, we understand the problem to solve it. so we need so new stance, we need political will. we need investments. it's a waste management system. it's what they need to package and we need and also how when this we are listening to the science, we are listening to the hosting and what the results i've given us when we make sense. and we need to talk to now and fast of the citizen sciences of clean,

the stretches from from beach and the trash data has been longed. their hope is that if we all really understand what happens to the plastic, we use a discount that we can truly begin to free the oceans of all trucks. again. well, it seems pretty clear that shifting to clean the fuel is key to toppling pollution . what, how easy, easy to make the 61 liberal, who in london, a demonstrative us a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right trees. no local residents proved last. we vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources. and you know, way that benefits a lot of households at was the, the new solar panels of the printer is yeah, i'm assuming the street will be producing its very own power residents in east

london. lin. much road spends 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 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 the goal. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult. actually to, to even persuade anyone for us to henry pollen done 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street blinked 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 lynn miss 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 at the right action solution

for it, which is what we've kind of created here. 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 the. ready 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 and we need lots pulse of money which might get really

upset. the easy for people to get much funding or to get properly subsidized to, to ton that buildings the houses or the businesses into power stations when the home is that the live. and by the way, when i hillary power and then it'll sting off filming the installation of the solar panels, the 1st step on the pump to us. so willow road, the neva engine hoops, the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the panels under roof is going to be much better from the panels if we can, if they keep going and the chief and once people say this happened, you know, it's on the star to they were, it is really all new stuff. and of course, cheaper bills so now these solar powered homes are still

a rarity here. that partner a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the u. k. we've got pretty much like the one of the most that day to 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 cook . that then is there's about a few 100 different generators 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 grant. 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 coped with power that comes

straight from the roof. so when the rest of the street see this last 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 an totally fine this guy, i do, 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 pile and down 8 those dean. hope this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city watts on is power initiative for a next report. we as thing in you box heading over to germany with online shopping is a blooming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bought in munich more and more parcels and now being delivered by a bike. this is why the city has set up

a logistics hub because of bikes on this week's doing a beat. we find out how it is going the electric to go bike can transport as much as a small truck. then not only is flexible and admission free means of transport. they're often actually faster than the delivery trucks that cloak out. many streets in downtown munich, 40 minutes are going to see the, the amount of commercial traffic. and the fact that we see a lot of potential in a switch to sustainable electric cargo bikes. we're making this a key factor in our overall mobility strategy. because i'm 5 companies have warehouses and the call gigabytes, logistics hub, they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into can provides last small delivery. it says the call gigabytes. what

as well. now, how much is it that is the subsystem menu? we have so the stops that's manageable, it's all the fault drive is a paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies where they're a $120.00 parcels and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day in our country is kind of, i actually enjoyed the journey around 500 on some of the news replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes has major environmental benefits. initial estimates suggest fine delivery companies alone could save 6 tons of c o 2 per year. and this is just the 1st step of an initiative that goes beyond meaning. either cost at the cities have similar projects. we're all still figuring it out. i think it's important that we share our experience and learn the right lessons from it. so we're in discussion with other cities. we'll also work together to consolidate our projects. i look forward on climbing back to us,

we can no end of very different topic blonde till all too often chemicals. i used to get the range of diseases and improve views bunk. these kind of bodily damage, the environment, the alternatives on the age of kenya's only surviving tropical rain forests, a fung. but we phone a guest, we is being developed in us type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers grow well and can you to well in fact strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crumbs it viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvest as agronomist adult as can boy explained if that part of the take when i know it's kind of caused some damage to a plan to pass in in the fall. as you can see, this move, it is planted by the time you're seeing the trade, the m i z, the destruction is sort of ended then because the say the cd on the ground. the

parasitic plant attaches itself to the roots of crops and then extracts nutrients from them at their expense. they start to wield while the wheat flourishes, or margaret key so knows the problem all to well, which we'd regularly decimate her mace and milledgeville for y'all's high ongoing measure to some well we've been struggling with the problem of which we'd for many years. what we call it crops, but the yields the no good school follow when we trying to stop it spreading by sweeping up dead brain and the animal waste human and distributing it in the field . but it doesn't make any difference with google mouth and sees. and i've gone to the whole lake open, i will go forward to that from that's. i only harvested one bag of ways that can in the but that doesn't even leave enough for me to rebut them. doesn't mean the monday would be michael now. but to us and kenyon, scientists have identified

a fungus that kills the parasite. it's highly effective, even in tiny amounts, such as might fit on a tooth pick. this discovery lead to the toothpick of project dorcas kimball. he manages the projects tooth pick company. so team of scientists produce the fungus that kills to strike a plot. i don't see with the research on the bell controls, let's try going using for say i'm looks as far as this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's trego. it. and it was growing to make them bound control. so initial non is contrary to what we do in this knob is multiply the funk us as much as we can. so that is can $25.00 to a must. that's can solve the fun lives in great capacities for the last 5 years, ken boy has traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product. it costs about. so to year rose to treat

a one acre field until now farmers have been uprooting the destructive plot to prevent its seats from spreading further. because once they're in the soil, they stay there for years. chemical pesticides haven't proved effective and farmers are left with field harvests. that's why the tooth pick project is supported by a number of n g o's focused on food security. daddy's the effect of climate change. the app is warming, the soils are warming and we have seen dry got also moving even to some width as owns and to also some of course that region, if that is experiencing the high production, 80 ascending means the food in security also is except it becomes much more kenya isn't the only country with a strike. a problem. according to the un, 14 african nations are infested with the weed. this makes the project all the more important it's successful. it could be introduced in other countries to. so don't,

because can, boy is working with a to farmers to help produce more fund going up to them. and they could show acute that's can be produced. that's our laboratory is not enough to solve from mazda elk grove. this event, counties we operating. so that is the reason why we were in gauging we let you know clump or do stuff at the village level can have class pretty put. the final product production itself is relatively straightforward. the phone goes just needs to grow . 20 key, those of rice are cooked, and a small amount of fungus is added. then left for $3.00 to $5.00 days to incubate. the resulting 40 kilos of fungus enriched rice are enough for one, a couple of crop land. the researches found at that farm as needed to treat the fields for 2 years. that's full crops owings that was enough to banish the strike. and restore crop yields for small hold is especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farm is kind of apply for themselves. and

we end the program where we've begun the west coast of africa. and we to migratory bots, folk to send a go and movie tanya on the areas where they clicked on l. protected were visited the lagoon they simona and set a goal on a real natural beauty, a new birth conservation area to see what the protection meshes of achieved so far . the macro forest of the simone nature reserve are a habit touch for foster ray of species. the lagoons mix of fresh and salt water creates a branch environment and a rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's home or it's ad, but it's a freight it's a natural paradise. but the local fisherman on

not to have negative effect in the like in be that. but if we're not allowed to efficient the lagoon, then we don't really have any of the options available. coming in, some fishermen have decided to go out to sea and stay as i thought, i think i'm bothering me and i don't have to be sent back. i think i didn't want to do a lot of times. they kept something, but there is no in yes, any patient as in the nature of lane. thank you. so it's called pause now. plus i go like and do more up again. you brian fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the age of the nature, reserve it during october and november. they're not allowed to push here. so the face phone and the group can recover. so code eco got make sure the rules are obeyed. they also ensure they are enough of resting places for the areas main bird species such as the purchase. but last spring, a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the luxury that

they put play the probably 2 lagoon used to have a lot of mangrove for us. so, but land grove would easily just huge amount, but it's often thought of as probably what it was, but the people here mainly use it's a full construction of what because they know it's much more to apply towards this and then any other woods. so there is a lot of do far as a, somewhat over it is typical piece of data mit. so that example i can, the way it is, and as the band grows, disappeared, the fish populations decline to be the largest bodies showing they put the audio the e called costs have been working here for 10 years. they are employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a lively lot of a growing number of fishermen have started farming voices to compensate for the period when they're not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors discovering the lagoon. spect, texting a bio diversity, it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists are lucky enough. the

spots in our spring a. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit every month and locals with a guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income on our lives. and if i'm here to open them, you know, 20 percent of the revenue goes to the women who do reforestation work for me. then the 2 communities that live around the lagoon get 10 percent each. another 20 percent goes to eco got. they all 13 of them. they come from the villages to help us. so remember that this is all the papers on organizations such as bird life international are also active and the nature of the lagoon is facing a range of environmental challenges, elaborately finding menache repair. she lives on the banks of the lagoon. the main

threats which are climate change related are erosion. and suiting the locals can see what's happening. they, we conducted studies in aust, them what they've up the soon the data f have it on pause. you own it. the specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger, that the concept really presided, because they say they've noticed before, that has become sandia and has the highest self conscious setting, easy resolve tablet. the organization studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost of these problems as well, that d guess go see when we ask them what solutions they would recommend, what practices they've noticed that seem to accelerate the problems. and that should therefore be stopped. they themselves said that it's due to intensive fishing and harvesting, show fish in ways that damage the bankruptcy of the fuzzy that i thought in portugal. one is actually no cause traditionally

a harvested muscles and oysters from the shore line said bankrupt, damaging them in the process to date, the oysters are cultivated just above the water line. so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is flourishing in the someone of who. but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains a protect area. the time is flown by, i'm afraid we've come to the end of the show for this week. we hope you enjoyed the program before i say good by. i'd like to wish you all a happy only day. enjoy the time with family and friends. see you next time. same you increase merry christmas and puffy, 22 people. thank you so much for the active engagement with the problem. we hope to see you soon for now do take care and see you soon. bye. the. the

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