the young people clearly have the solution. the future is 77 percent. every weekend on dw, the, the big cities comb with the overall special environmental problems such as how to get from a to be quickly and cleanly or how to deal with the huge amounts of waste the generates with well about 50 percent of the world's population . already living in urban areas, it's crucial that we find the right solutions to work, can do a lots to help that. and they also of course, hello and welcome to

a new edition of the cool africa. i am chris, a lens illegals by jerry. a great to have you with us and here's what's coming up. all bikes, i change in goals lives. they, you can avoid in flooding. sometimes you just have to give breakfast space and how fishes i help my read pollution in egypt. was that the show here in offer because most populous nation idea, which some 220000000 inhabitants. it is also one of the most polluted countries on the come tonight. and that has a considerable impact on life expectancy. in 2021 get rates from air pollution among the on the fives, with the 2nd highest in the world. well, things are changing. can you guess where we are? cyclists and electric lights, real way and urban planting initiatives,

or in lagos, the mega city is commonly associated with cause congestion and port a. over 20000000 people live in the mega cities and some 2500000 vehicles take to the roads each day. a situation that the local initiatives are trying to alleviate. let's take a closer look. the one project is annual costs. 3 days, 500 people participated in the event, 3rd edition in 2024 organizes of thinking big. how can we also have good public transport? so has this sustainable transport festival, it talks about walking, cycling or the means of transportation, but also sustainable transportation mass transportation. and that starts with plans for cycle costs, which have to one,

the backing of local politicians to get them to put them in the old druids might be chatted because the size of roots last fall's thoughts as i'm also the plaque. what's what happens on these um, where we can still incorporated we have done that for future and goodness of future for us to, to apply to the long term goal of the lagos of and development initiative. ludy is a healthier and more livable city. people can get out and have fun and the plans of going down well with women here too. who don't often ride bikes? well, i love the conversion. i think we have a loading mind a little as i have a paved roads. the very well as well as the roads because i'd like to because i mean i did as weather is good, you know, every time well and i cause i'm the most so it gets so they'll see with the smoke that comes out, the feature doesn't help us to breach well, and so we begun to learn how to do it on our bicycle, the

exhaust fumes and industrial pollution. legal equality has improved a little in recent years, but pollution levels us to 3 to 4 times higher than w h o guidelines. and that has an impact on the cities, presidents, the number of people suffering from respiratory illnesses and asthma has increased here as it has in many of the attic and countries for a lot of things, especially for when you would see the fig smith are wanting to let you might not even be mediates, which is why things like this of a humble because you cannot measure j 5th almost immediately. they always help when, what time until you have children that or have already so 5 dc 5th, but they will have the disease easily thorough and then life for people with allergies like what are you enjoying my life has become

a real problem. the ex professional sports woman is trying to improve things in our own backyard. at least half of the people in my family asked my take on deal does have a rest, directv. they said ology. so being in lagos, that is congested. i mean, 3 areas really affect my health, the transportation area, a little exhaust fumes. jenny rachels, you on people that smoke the smoking spaces, good health matches the in short supply in the city and the environmental experts from ludy. i think there is definitely room for improvement inspired by european initiatives, basically launched planting projects together with quality is to create community gardens in particular on the highways the

. so what other legal authorities doing? they've been building an electric rail network. the 1st phase was open in autumn, 2023. the blue line runs from west to east and spend 13 kilometers. so for the rest of the schedule for completion by the end of 2026. meanwhile, the new red line open in october 2024 and the mass transit system is set to be further expand it in the us to come. if you look at the blue line, now we have this income as soon blessings are going between the 2. not the buses that day people, the, you not above read the, i walk, you know, ready. i going to go on the display of the city and then i'll direct bill us will a risk vision of your red line, positive post. i mean, the trains of quite popular at 40 you since a ticket. there's a not expensive and it's searching the keeps being stuck in a traffic jam. oh, well key was amazing. the flagship, visible and guess, well, way going because i was in david who was why is like not

know, my leg goes and really great inside because she who the the enjoyment is key for sports instructor because she teaches surface skills to kids and the art of motorcycling is a fun way of encouraging awareness of the environment and health here academy. the lead this on me from a young age. this was the already tell me that when this is our minutes, our in this health benefits are weekly, very young. it does. and if you stop, let me know when the good food or some of them are advisable, suggest bubble. most of them are very healthy

range of new initiatives, helping to get things rolling and make life in a place like lagos, so much more attractive and enjoyable. mobility is of course not just the problem in the big cc, rural areas present. our own transportation challenges, especially for goes been able to get to a wrong independently can make the difference between going to school or not. here's the 6 doing your bits of a small but significant change has made morning's role most mostly for goals from you, kansas didn't just community teresa. papa used to work for hours on end. now she's zips to school on u. n. g or donate to bicycle. it's a climate friendly solution and she always gets their own time when they come to

school that much. now i can do school, i mean because of the school, even when it's dark and raining most students. and we're really going to have to track several kilometers to and from school every day. that time is lost, that could be spend time lessons or study some even end up dropping out of school altogether, especially goals. that's why the n g or stop is providing goals with bikes. as they walk long distances to access scores, they find the challenges, for example, main. the whole said, use them into some other things and they end up going, saving and going out of school. the goals are safer on the roads and they have more energy at school, plus the bikes according to the environment and easy to maintain. the n g, i has already given bikes to dozens of goals. and this fall from the school which

has even helped some of them to successfully complete that secondary education. ringback ringback eco africa. wow. wow. amazing environmental stories. so as an engineer is my footboard, or the se, se 5 years from now is that the, this one was the wood. we've been on the wrong, as, as soon as i'm to fly this problem. the environment magazine produced by d. w. channels, tv and mtv climate friendly solutions does have to be complex or expensive. one visionary couple in power is wanted to see how well low tech innovations could be adapted to sits the big cd. it's a very special live in experiment. let's take

a look around and definitely welcome to the palm into the future. we call it the oven bios via the office. i was telling you, colleen and i projected ourselves into 2040 to see how we could live in dense oven areas, but in a low tech way. so with technology is that make it possible to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of 5 water consumption by 10 on a set that does not generate waste. that's healthy financially accessible. and that's nice. this couple live in a 26 square meter apartment, mostly size, but we've comfortably enough space for cooking, eating, and farming from the best of the telephone is. so we have a $300.00 leader water base. and with 124 plants, the roots, it directly in a nutrients solution. and that allows us to cut our water consumption to attend compared to a classic soil culture. and so it's simpler to have this system in an apartment of

the city. this is the possible their organic waste ends up here and provides id of food for the very own little animal helpless to the i'm sure these are black fly larvae. they're incredible the way they transform the compost into a quality fertilizer. on the not the couples, only animal roommates in this apartment where self sufficiency is paramount. oh, that's one of i'll finish what you're going to hear other crickets singing. we have a farm here too. and for this experiment, we have the help of several experts for determining our nutritional needs. and we realized that we needed vitamin b 12, for example. that's how we decided to raise crickets as food for us to take a 2nd visit to the camp for a moment. to school. every thing we bring into the apartment is recycled into resources for other living organisms. so for example, the shower has several particular features. the water from the shower is return to

the bio chronic system and we grow the mushrooms in the shower because of the ideal conditions they're within the apartment. it's both of them and shady. this is best is the best one for 2 bedrooms move to sit and move it to someone has a couple built in. tosh set themselves in order to minimize costs and make everything at least repairable to. in fact, we've talked to reinvent everything in this apartment. so we call this the customer all the future because the heating elements underneath connected to the solar panels you found done, it's extremely well insulated and therefore allows you to cook food with steam or water. and that except was $7.00 to $10.00 times less energy than a conventional cooking system because it's not with us. then we have a ventilation and installation system for the entire apartment. which also means that we don't need air conditioning in the summer or heating in the winter. a couple spent 5 months in the customized lot,

my apartment on the rooftop. so paris who needs to join a fitness studio? when in this apartment of the future, you can get a workout while spinning your laundry. urban living that's beneficial both to the environment and the residents from a media pot made in paris to one of the long does rivers in europe, which flows through 6 different countries. nature doesn't recognize national boundaries and as we do all too well in africa, that can be a big source of conflict. now just think about the now river water rights disputes between these 2 appear in egypt, but since don't have to be docked away today somehow. so 1000000 people lives in the out time buying valley. the behind mocks, the boat at between australia and switzerland separates the 2 countries. but it's also for the system to work together the 150 years ago.

it looked very different to the rest of the me on the 3 to 5 in forming extensive motion. nichols tried to fool to find the bank sits to brian with trees and raised the banks. but protection one side meant all the move flooding on the other side. devastating floods occurred on a regular basis. neither side was able to manage the river by itself in 1892, all straight and switzerland finally signed a treaty on slug protection. the 2 countries established a joint toll authority, the international ryan regulation to represent the respective interest of both countries. cool today and seem difficult truly. we all different, even if the river is old, it separates us all but um, uh each cuz that type rule i'd say we've helped each other to grow alpha on. i

don't think a box around 1900 the 2 countries, but gotten joint construction work on the upper reaches of the brian. the cost of the switch as initially the work was done entirely manually by the 1950s. heavy machinery was being used. the river bed was dependent, not right, and the investments on both sides were raised to the next few decades. there was no more flooding. but these days, heavy rain full is becoming more common, causing water levels to rise in the alpine. ryan valley design is busting its bunk. small, frequently flooding the residential areas. they've been built, placed the embankment. none of this comes as a surprise. is this still nice solutions engine is have been working on the problem since 2005, residential and commercial areas will remain on changed, but major changes a problem. so the surroundings, the key challenges,

gaining local community support this, but outside of class, people need to understand what's happening. so my books name will be misunderstandings, and all the best times will be asked net public stuff i own. the development problems was recently conducted in vice countries, not for the 1st time in switzerland, but the 1st in australia of weight is me sophie, you know, even if that wasn't as much feedback because we actually expected it was still useful and especially from australia, coleman, i'll put on the upside, is that ice? so in the end or something like that, fat is understanding. no say we believe ultimately speeds up the planning approval . yeah. happy should all you need done uh the plot at the plugin name is the main thing. so what exactly does the problems look like? it's actually quite simple. the ryan will be given most space. at some point smoke, terry, and brad. the apartments will be removed completely. this will make the rippled white enough to allow islands to foam in the middle, which play

a key role in flood protection and also bio diversity. the plans are on a public display in an exhibition on the stand side of the rhine. citizens concerns the rules, so address that set them up right? if when we currently have a width of 6070 me to this i thought then i and keep to the record will be 300 to 3 $118.00 inches wide of the cop. if you look at the upper section on the map, for example, you can see very clearly that whether we're built on periods, we haven't moved, environments thought before whether we're forest areas. so agricultural land wise, we've taken the opportunity just to move them a little further out. what to the, the movements cut the notes. didn't know how to submit them, same in the household. so that will be less agricultural not and the farmers will be given alonzo swear in australia on the switch side that's know available on to distribute. and i have the a piece of baptism bank now it will be removed and the rest of it will be white and to cover the cross lined up to the wide flood environments on face the switch and

austria inside. seduced by per site there, it'd be at the notes and good to, but i did that. and so they've gone synchron in all the green areas behind us. will them be refunds sign up for it and you can no longer be used for agriculture for capital photo production, food or food or the food, the fairly clear. that's why some thomas, on the switch side project the plans but for some of the australian size, they don't go far enough. they have same price again on me. and so 2 years we've never had a project on this scale to 3 extra. so it's actually a good project that will bring about to major improvements, and that's only going to fuel, going to spend so much money and create such a huge construction site. you know, then you should also keep nature in mind to make sure there's enough room and the river to islands and riverbank for it all. that's the best thing that would be really great. this is an extremely monotonous uniform channel and it's not true state. it will be much more varied and far as the 2 funds. if the revised on seen

outputs nowhere. and this is what the ryan could look like one day once the planning has been completed, the conflicts of interest results on the permits granted. but doesn't look to sol town on both sides of the river. so is it based countries, a happy itself may sometimes i called sleep at night because the project is so complex. right? so complex is break. nice. the austrian government has approved construction for 2027, but switched approval is still needed in 20 years. the vine could resemble it states from a 150 years ago with new islands. that will also be great for the butts from the right to the mediterranean, every year next to meet at $10000000.00 tons of plastic waste. and so in the woods oceans some estimated 2800000 in the mediterranean alone. now according to the w,

w. f. egypt is by far the big guess pull you to now one and you is picking up the challenge. mohammad met moods a newly set itself on his fishing boat from the egyptian port city of alexandria. at the end of the day, his net swept before with fish, though his catch of the day will be gone page, the rich, i benefit my son is station when i clean the sea for them the those who heads out tough to me will find more fish it's about why that sounds like his father literally is a fisherman and he's being costing his nets off the coast here for over 25 years. the huge amount of waste accumulating in the sea. he calls how prompted to lead to take action. i wouldn't come through looks at me, and we used to make more money on the fishing ground, all the place buying. we'd sail for half an hour to find fish. now it takes 5 to 7 hours, which costs us money on the floating rubber. she's threatening maureen life and the

livelihoods. the fisherman marine waste is a problem in old 22 mediterranean countries. every day 30 to 40 truckloads of plastic waste dumped into that see the agency is one of the major pollutants of the mediterranean. so the problem is particularly bad here in lower deficient and used to dispose of that trash by throwing it into the sea. now we collect some use nets from them when they see the project and how it's implemented, they're excited and want to contribute. because i own the original project mediterranean clean up, started here in greece, and was known by the social enterprise. and the last its mission is to promote sustainable fishing methods and to reduce marine pollution work in greece was more than 1200. and one of them,

a 100 those people for me to and they were telling me over that list here it is. we really need to dispose of things so like one of the low, physically and the extended its mission for a clean mediterranean to egypt with the project in alexandria, overseen by magazine. convincing the fisherman to catch waste instead of fish was anything but easy. had the site and even the not the challenges included the fisherman themselves, which gave literally a key role that with united key persons a loony must elena know. he understands the issue and is well aware of the community i go on. he started to talk to them in a different way and the mom, the 2nd of november, now around a 100 fishermen are involved and that number is a growing since the project started in may 2023. they've collected more than a 100 tons of waste off the coast of alexandria for some dealing with marine waste has become a full time commitment for service. oh awesome. it is productive to what with the

fishermen, i collect the goes next for recycling, and at the same time i presented the wealth of marine life to some of these ghosts nets. and deb reconnected from the c a transformed into something new in recycling facilities that processed and turned into rule material. so plastic products, ropes, an interlocking tiles, shut off and falls back on the machine. that's of course have the property of sticking to say, which makes the treatment. so recycling expend. let me some of it was still able to make an excellent, incurable final product. we're a strong competitor in the market, and we can cover up production costs. so the office like any political science and the last says that 58 percent of the wasted collect is recycled, empowering the facilities doesn't tend up in the sea again. still a lot needs to be done to prevent waste from ending up in the sea in the 1st place

until then fishermen like newly will have to continue trolling for garbage and the efforts have inspired them to make their own waste fishing net. no, i mean show the special much lights in that. so we not competing with other fishermen, franklin southern, but that's 3 times a week. lou lease set sail not to catch fish, but to collect up to 300 kilos of golf age, hoping to inspire others to keep the sea clean. that's all for today would love to see what you think about the show. so feel free to reach out to us at eco, a. d, w dot com. you can also find moist byron stories by searching for eco africa online . thanks for watching for now is good bye for me. chris lives in lagos, nigeria. see you next time. the,

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