5 cents a day, but uh, because we are real texted uncle serving nature and the world belongs to columbia. actually to see what it means to live in peace with me. the, the big cities comb with the overall special environmental problems such as how to get from a to be quickly and clearly 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 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 lives in lagos, nigeria,

great to have you with us. and here's what's coming out of bikes. i change in goals lives, then you can avoid in flooding. sometimes you just have to give breakfast space and how fishes i help you to cut my range pollution any were stopped the show here in off it goes most pop in those nation idea with some 220000000 inhabitants. it is also one of the most polluted countries on the continent, 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 that change it. can you guess where we are cyclists and electric lights, real way. urban county 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 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 plans for 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 the size of roots of false thought to i'm also the plan. what's,

what's being done these them well, which on still in popular to, to have done that. a few changes, most of which are for us to, to apply for 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, we have a while. wouldn't mind a little doesn't have to page route the very world well as the roads. because i'd like to because i mean i did as weather is good enough every time. well and i cause i'm the most. so it gets so they'll see with the smoke that comes up. we'll see if 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 cities, presidents, 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 fits new throwing into like 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 oe hub already so far. the 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 asked my take on video does

have a rest, directv. 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 rachels, you on people that smoke the small green spaces, good health matches the in short supply in the city and the environmental experts from ludy think there is definitely room for improvement. inspired by european initiatives, basically launched planting projects together with one and 2 years 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 suggested to companies indicate not the buses that day people the, you not above read their work, you know where they are going to go, or the display of the city i don't know direct unless well, 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 certainly keeps being stuck in a traffic jam. ok was amazing. lag, which i guess will wiggly because o, as in david, who was why is like not know,

my leg was really great inside because she's the enjoyment is key for sports instructor because she teaches surface skills to kids. and the art of motorcycle is a fun way of encouraging awareness of the environment and health here academy love just on this from the young age. this was the already tell me that when this that of our events, our lives, health benefits are we still very young. it does need to stop many when they get older or some of them read basically suggest bubble. most of them are very healthy range of new initiatives,

helping to get things really and make life in a place like a ghost so much more attractive and enjoyable. the mobility is, of course, not just the problem in the big safety rural areas present their own transportation challenges, especially for goals being 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, if it goes 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 really you kinda 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 o 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. wow. amazing environmental stories. so as i need news, my footboard or the si se 5 years from now is that all offers the one i support the this one. what would women on the rock as a soon as i'm provide us with the problem? the environment magazine produce side 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 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 biosphere. off at the 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. and this couple live in a 26 square meter apartment modestly sized, but with comfortably enough space for cooking, eating, and farming. the best of the telephone is so we have a 300 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, the possible their organic waste ends up here on

provides id of food for their 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 cool. don't finish what you can hear. are the 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 go over this 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 product 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 chevy is best available for the 2 bedrooms. let's get to move it to someone has a couple built in tossed, set up themselves in order to minimize costs and make everything at least repairable to. in fact, we've got to reinvent everything in this apartment. so we call this the customer all the future because the heating elements and the need is connected to the solar panels. so he found on his ethnic streaming well insulated and therefore allows you to cook food with steam or water, except with $7.00 to $10.00 times less energy than a conventional cooking system. because it's not with us. then we have a ventilation on 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 of apartment on the roof tops of paris. and 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 up here in egypt. but since don't have to be docked away today somehow. so 1000000 people lives in the out time buying valley. the vine marks the boat at between australia and switzerland. separates the 2 countries. but it's also forces them to work together the 150 years ago. it looked very different to the rest of the me on the 3,

the following. forming extensive motion on the locals tried to filter side the banks of ryan 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 rep by itself in 1892, all street and switzerland finally signed a treaty on flood protection. the 2 countries established a joint till thursday. the international ryan regulation to represent the respective interests of both countries. cool to the anything difficult truly we all different, even if the river is old, it separates us all but um, uh east because 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 began 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 to the next few decades, there was no more flooding. 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 have been built, placed the embankment. none of this comes as a surprise. but this still no solution. 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 of this that science also has claims equal need to

understand what's happening. so my books know they'll be misunderstanding. so they know the best times will be asked net publics of eye 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, if you call me now what 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 most space. at some point small tearing branch, the apartments will be removed completely. this will make the rest of white enough to allow islands to form 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 meters of dawson and keep to the rest, it will be 300 to 318 inches wide of the carpet. if you look at the up a 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 the, the, the movements cut the notes. didn't know how it does meet them fame in the household. 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 the office and bank now it will be removed and the rest of it will be white and to cover the cross lined up to the why the flood environments on base to swim and austria inside of. so there's that iso site they have yet to notes and

good feedback development, so they've gone so green in all the green areas behind us will them be refers sign on to cutting. you can no longer be used for agriculture for capital photo production of food or food or the split, the fairly clear. that's why some thomas, on the switch side project the plans. but for some of the australian side, they don't go far enough they have same price again, on the 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 a pretty good thing that if you're going to spend so much money and create such a huge construction site to do that, then you should also keep nature in mind to make sure there's enough room and the river to islands and river bank for it. 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 this revised on field outputs and where and this is what the ryan

could look like one day once the planning has been completed, the conflicts of interest results of the permits granted. but doesn't look to sol town on both sides of the river. so that base 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 boats 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 self 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 fish and when i clean the sea for them, the rose, 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. he if over $25.00 he is the huge amount of waste accumulating in the sea. he calls how prompted to lead to take action over the country looks at me, and we used to make more money on the fishing ground, all the place find we'd sail for half an hour to find fish. now it takes 5 to 7 hours, which cost us money on the floating by, she's threatening marine life and the likelihood sufficient and marine waste is

a problem in old $22.00 mediterranean countries. every day 30 to 40 truck loads of plastic waste dumped into that see the egypt is one of the major pollutants of the mediterranean, said the problem is particularly bad here. in lowering the fisherman 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. don't want to contribute, doesn't say all the original project mediterranean clean up started here in greece . i was noticed by the social enterprise and alaya. 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 you come to those people from me

to and they were telling me over that list. there it is. we really need to dispose of things so like one of the little physically and alaya 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. it had the side of the ottoman the knock, the challenges included the fishermen themselves, which gave literally a key role. that means you're not of keep person's a loony muscle and, and what he understands the issue and is well aware of the community i go are he started to talk to them in a different way. and the mom was 2nd of november. now around a 100 fishermen are involved and that number's 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 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 materials for plastic products, ropes, an interlocking tiles shut off and falls back on the machine. that's of course have the prophecy of sticking to signifies, which makes that treatment as a recycling expense, or let's say that it was still able to make an excellent and viewable final product . we're a strong competitor in the market and we can cover off production costs. so that was nice and the last says that 58 percent of the waste it collects is recycled. impact and the facilities doesn't tend up in the city again, still a lot needs to be done to prevent waste from ending up in the sea. in the 1st place, until then the fisherman, like literally,

will have to continue trolling for garbage and that efforts have inspired them to make their own waste fishing. net mean, show us the special much lights and then we'll so we not competing with other fishermen friends that doesn't, but that's 3 times a week. lou. least set sail not to catch fish, but to collect tough to 300 kilos of golf age, hoping to inspire others to keep the sea clean. that's all for today would love to hear what you think about the show. so feel free to reach out to us at eco dw 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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