and find out about a nice story. info, migraines, reliable news to migrate the, the big cities comb with the overall special environmental problems such as how to get from a to b quickly and cleanly or how to deal with the huge amount 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 solution to work can do a lots to help that. and they also of course, hello and welcome to a new edition of eco africa. i am chris,

a lens illegals nigeria. great to have you with us and here's what's coming out of 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 you to cut my range pollution in egypt. was that the show here in off because most pop in those nation idea with 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 seen, so i change it. can you guess where we are? cyclists and electric lights real way. urban county initiatives, or in lagos, mega city,

is commonly associated with cause congestion and pour it 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, $500.00 people participated in the event. 3rd edition in 2024 organizes a thinking bigger. how can we also have good public transport? so it 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 transport cycle costs, which have to one of the packing of local politicians to get them to put them in the old rule. it's might be a try that because of the size of roots of false thought to. i'm also the client,

what's what happens on these um, where we can still in popular to have done that for future and goodness of which are 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 where 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 convention. i think we have what would in mind a little as i have a page route to very well as well as the roads. because i'd like to begin to manage it as weather is good to know every time when i come on the i most like get so they'll see with the smoke that comes up, but it doesn't help us to brita well. and so we begun to learn how to do it on our bicycles, the

exhaust fumes and industrial pollution. legal equality has improved a little in recent years, but pollution levels are still 3 to 4 times higher than w h o guidelines. and that has an impact on the city's residents, the number of people suffering from respiratory illnesses and asthma has increased here as it has in many of the african countries for a lot of things, especially for grants, you would see the $50000.00. you might not even be mediates, which is why things like this of a humble because you cannot mitchell j 5th almost immediately. they always help when, what time. and so you have children that oe hub already. so 5 d, c 5th, what they will have the disease is late darwin and 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 osmotic and they are,

that's how the rest and richie, they said ology. so been in lagos, that is congested. i, me, 3 areas really affects my health, the transportation area, a little exhaust fumes. jenny, rachel's zoom 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 calling tiers to create community gardens in particular on the highways the . so what other legal authorities doing?

they've been building and electric rails 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 as things are going between between not the buses that day, people go, you know, so the regular walk, you know, regular going to go on the display of the city and then on direct bill us will a vision of the red line, positive post. i mean the trains of quite popular. it's 40 years since a ticket. there's a not expensive and it's searching the peeps being stuck in a traffic jam. oh well key was amazing. lag this visible guess? well way going, because i was in david who was why is like not know,

my leg was great inside because see who the the enjoyment is key for sports instructor because she teaches surface skills. the 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 next hour in this field, bennett is always full. very young. he does need to stop letting me when they get older or some of them are. i basically suggest 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. the mobility is of course, not just the problem in the big safety 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 a small but significant change has made mornings 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 came to 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 will 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 right, so may have more energy at school plus spikes, a kind to the environment and easy to maintain. the energy i is already given bikes to dozens of goals. and this fall from the school which has even helped some of them to successfully complete the secondary education. ringback ringback ringback

eco africa. wow. amazing environmental stories. so as i need news, my footboards or the si, se 5 years from now is that the one i support the this one. what would women on the rock as, as soon as i'm provide this problem? the environment magazine produce side g, w channels, tv, and mtv climate friendly solutions does have to be complex or expensive. one visionary couple in par is wanted to see how well low tech innovations could be adapted to sits the big city. it's a very special living 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 of an 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 model for the size, but we've comfortably enough space for cooking, eating, and farming the best on the telephone is so we have a 300 leader water base and with 124 plants, the root cit, directly in a nutrients solution, and that allows us to cut our water consumption to attempt compared to a classic soil culture. and so it's simpler to have this system in an apartment in the city. this is the possible federal gun equation ends up here

and provides id of food for the very own little animal help us to them them. so these are black fly larvae. they're incredible the way they transform the compost into a quality fertilizer on the couples. only animal roommates in this apartment with self sufficiency is paramount. oh that's cool. don't finish what you're going to hear. are the crickets thinking 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 them 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 returned to the bio products system and we grow the mushrooms and the shower because of the

ideal conditions there 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 tossed, set it 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 with $7.00 to $10.00 times less energy than a conventional cooking system. and that's 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. the couple spend 5 months in the customized lot of 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 to 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 by states 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 mouse locals tried to fool to find the banks if the brian with trees and raised the banks. but protection one side meant older, more 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 interests 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 its cuz that type of rule i'd say we've helped each other to grow alpha on. i don't think a box around 1900. the 2 countries begun 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 embankment on both sides were raised. for 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. the vine is busting its bunk, small, frequently flooding the residential areas. they've been built placed the embankment . none of this comes as a surprise, but there's still no solution. engineers 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 of this that science also has claims equal need to

understand what's happening. so my books know they'll be misunderstandings of age and older. best friends will be honest public. so if i, on 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, 5 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 more space at some point smoke tearing branch. the apartments will be removed completely. this will make the ripple bright 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 the debt set them up, right? if, when we currently have a width of 6070 me to there's a thought then i and keep to the record will be 300 to $318.00 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 meet them a little further out. what to the, the movements cut the notes. didn't know how to submit them fame in the house. so that will be less agricultural land but 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 both the switches and austria inside of. so there's that iso site, they have,

you have the notes and good feedback development. so they've gone synchron in all the green areas behind us. will them be remco, sign them to cut and can no longer be used to agriculture for capital, for the production of 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 to 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 what you're going to do. but if you're going to spend so much money and create such a huge construction site, you should also keep nature in mind to make sure there's enough room and the river to islands and river bank for all this. and that would be really great. this is an extremely monotonous uniform channel and it's not true state. it would be much more varied and for us the to funds if the revised on field operates the wheeler. 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 if that from a 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. the will also be great for the pots 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 as pull you to now one and you is picking up the challenge

of how much meant moods? a k, 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 garbage. 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 were coming through, looks at me, and we used to make more money on the fishing ground, all the place. fine. we'd sail for half an hour to find fish. now it takes 5 to 7 hours, which costs us money on the floating rubbish. 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 egypt, he's 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 scrubbing 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 to this aisle. the original project, mediterranean clean up, started here in greece, and was known by the social enterprise and the layout. its mission is to promote sustainable fishing methods and to reduce marine pollution work in greece was more than $1200.00. 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 la extended its mission for a clean mediterranean to egypt with the project in alexandria, overseen by a magazine. convincing the fisherman to catch waste instead of fish was anything but easy. at the high bit cypress and even the knock, the challenges included the fishermen themselves, which gave literally a key role that with united key persons a loony must helen and what 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 fisherman, i collect the goes next for recycling,

and at the same time i presented the wealth of marine life. both of these ghosts nets and deb reconnected from the c a transformed into something new in recycling facilities that processed and turned into room material. so plastic products, ropes, and interlocking tiles shut off and falls back on the machine. that's of course have the property of sticking to thing, which makes that treatment. so recycling expend, while 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 and the lady says that 58 percent of the waste collects 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. lean show the special much lights and then so we not competing with other fishermen, franklin southern but that's 3 times a week. lew lease set sale 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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