human sources of polluting gases have been growing. because the machine. food production. construction these and more all contribute to the high concentrations of pollutantin

the atmosphere. including carbon and other greenhouse gases which is the biggest drivers of climate change. our choices people can make to help drive emissions down. i'm not so great in denmark to me a community investing in their own green society. and i'm going to occur within india where a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more environmentally friendly. green energy is touted as a future if we want to stop global warming. but placing a commitment to renewable energy is one thing and doing it is another. to just over there on the horizon is some so highly no they are officially 1100% renewable i want to get all of the energy from renewable sources. so we're gonna go over there and meet the communities find out how they did it.

i've heard that the system the island is of setup is so efficient that it produces more power than they need. not only does this enable them to be carbon negative but also to make a profit by selling energy to the danish mainline. i'm meeting soaring hermansson who heads up the sum so energy and environmental organization. all right says soren finally here. russell yeah to see you it was nice today for today yeah. hello to cut it. excellent. he's taking me in a private tour of the island. so when they say it's a 100% renewables i mean is that true like 1100%. i mean we still have some fossil fuel consumption. traxxas are driving we have combustion engine consoles will still. but we export. about eighty thousand make about every year well now that's incredible.

the four thousand people on the island over the past twenty years they've moved from a reliance on fossil fuels. to wind solar and biomass technologies. from when the loan they produce enough energy for themselves and the usage of twenty thousand other home. so why why was it set up on why he is. on some so. acted out of the the beginning of it was very interesting because it was a top down decision we had a very ambitious minister of the environment. and he announced the demigod cut down 21% of the of the press zero to a mission. which was really interesting because i was the first. person that was hired to do this project i remember the feeling that i was sitting down and is having the office a night plus in the the telephone and said. man out how are we close this. the community here have come a long way and now boasts the

carbon footprint of negative twelve tons per person per year. getting to the stage wasn't eas. people were concerned about the impact of all these big instate installations on this little island. and to convince people that this was good. we started thinking about using the old her corporative ownership mobile where people come by in. the bias yeah a small show alive because yeah it depending on how much money they have. and thereby invite them to participate in the ownership so do you feel that i'm i'm i'm the proud owner of the winter months so therefore it's it's it's it's because of me it's death. guys know if you get so close to these things. imposing. voice id no spending. all this one is this a service on it. can you go yeah you can. really you want to go. at e. s.. of course. right okay .

being in the bowels of a and what they don't tell you when you're on the grandest c. suarez a little bit too this is a little bit on and you know you fifteen years of hello. three eight okay this day -- while [inaudible] all my s. is. is [inaudible] how? i'm in love. the t. mobile to check the

generated. a look which made okay nine and a half yemen like interest up okay. oh my goodness. get that and so this is it. that's the energy right. generated. so you can. there are. claiming this can foster a foster [inaudible] all. three three zero nine for wind power is critically productive on some soup because of its location in the cat to get straight. they're living turbines on land and more on c. producing all the

islands electricity needs [inaudible] thank you. when the project started in nineteen ninety seven turbines cost more than one million dollars each? two four hundred locals go together most buying five shares costing about two thousand dollars. so it's taking me to meet some of the investors. russell i'm sorry so initially. to sororry can you give us a see is going on here. this is -- you know out of the season starts. okay so little red bull is a page to try to get as close as possible. come on hi.

i'm russell can you give us a sense of how the community [inaudible] and have responded to this shif. 21100% renewables what really struck me was the fact that. people who didn't really speak to each other before. gonzaga -- andrews. and cena's talk to each other and have a have a condo. what brought you to the island did it have something to do with the whole kind of 4100% renewables is that something you're proud of? definitely. that's great is it your own yes hi i'm russell. and so how do you fit in with this kind of energy landscape that we've been learning but i have a green wave parts. involved and i have spent the hello good morning also. the first was to i winter buyin.

on on my farm and everybody could see that that much -- goo. sir how things progress since then. and so three years later i'd buy a half we divides undersea. so you know i had to save the world this is a this is busines. dot posted is not. what strikes me is that everyone here has their own reasons for buying into the project? and ultimately their investment is is good for the planet as it is for their wallets. it is their willingness to collaborate on a common goal. this led to some ingenious solutions. come to the local biomass heating plan to find out more. this is not what i expected at all. this is the fuel. this plan is one of three on the island. all the straw hughes produced locally and fuels the heating system that allows locals to spend 40% less on their bills.

and the houston. anonymous floating on the those of hate each one is about. just less than a ton so. they're going on the conveyor belt and the and then they're getting dragged didn't and in here they getting stranded often and fed into a blast furnace. so. can you tell us that is efficient show her cue hello. the end in order. to i mean what makes them [inaudible] our first. w. pain presumption it is a little more. fedex resumes general order strike. lotus notes we do have a short survey heiau. id which you to make one off. yeah.

where? is it. florida is surrounded. the water heated here's circulates via a network of underground pipes connecting to radiate is an individual homes in the surrounding area. festivals the by product this act. harmon okay.%. he did it. okay caddy. the micro nutrients to the plants need to survive. amazing. it's really a much more efficient system. fran is practically company too as well because the missions that are created to fund burnin. about the same as the emissions as the carbon is sucked out the atmosphere when it grows in the first place so. it's a pretty neat and consistently. some some island success in creating not only a green society a green economy hasn't been lost on the rest of the world. these days they receive five thousand and eighty two s. per year. so many that the set up energy account.

and so what is the big idea that draws people from all over the world yeah. i think everybody has some kind of intuition that this is the way to go this is where we want to be at in the future. but a lot of places they don't know how to handle this how do we do that how do we how do we get started in. the meeting here is kind of confirming that this is possible we can do this. since the project started soren and his colleagues have advised twenty nine countries. alexis the project manager has invited me to sit in on a call to a community organizer in hawaii. can i ask what is the the most important thing that you get out of and communicating with the residents here on some so i think the most important thing we is. inspiration. support. and to hope for something better for the future he said.

so that's the idea to help communities -- rlize their potential and their options and fly. i mean it's really quite simple when you think about it you know these guys don't have access to something that the rest of us don't. it's just the fact that the plan is to get everybody together sit around in a circle listen to each other. just make it happen. around the world the rev vital regions like oceans a dense forests what the us naturally absorbs a sres kopp. but many of tse underhreat drastically reducing the amount of co two they can sequester. forests for example of being lost due to looking land

clearances and pollution. and the area around hoff the size of england vanishes each year. and someone call back such i the monitoring the woodlands t learn how far as destruction is impacting carbon storage. so trees through photosynthesis takes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn them into biomass so into what. where they're stored as carbon the more carbon that we have stored in bile mass in the forest? the less carbon dioxide we have in the atmosphere contributing. this research can help guide local conservation strategies and influence town planning to mitigate impact on vital areas . thousands of years hindus have been performing the last funeral

rites according to specific religious guidelines including burning the day. cremation is the traditional method of disposing of the dc. but with eight point five million hindus dying each year funeral pyres exact huge environmental told. filling over fifty million tree. emitting eight million tons of carbon dioxide into the air. and adding to india's already critical a pollution problem. but here in delhi a team of environmentally conscious engineers as adept at this age old tradition of cremation. to today's means to protect the environment -- nigam boot crematorium is the oldest and most sacred of dailies three hundred seventy five open a cremation sites or ****. it's also the busiest cremating about seventy bodies per day.

it's sinking in now. looking at all these burning bodies and immediately to mind it off from my own grandmother s. passing last year. brings up a lot of raw emotion that go with the passing of a loved. this is a difficult time for families and not particularly a moment in the environment is a primary concern. but an organization called mocks the is trying to change all tha. you must be untrue yeah hi hi local uncial guard is an executive officer at the ngo. one commission is. about to start they have just done the mahogany. the initial. letter thing about the plan and how long does it keep -- it it takes about -- minimum five to six hours five to six hours i can see your eyes are watering yeah because of the the pollution. and you can see it started dog

smoke yeah it really does. this is the actual pollard and i see that is a little bit more activity now. see now -- the chief more not on the sun. he will do the most important part of the admission process. he will take this bamboo and he will hate. the head of the dead person there discord compile clea. to give salvation with a deceased person. everything is part of this time honored tradition. the gods in the open air. the mourners gathered around the body even the use of what is significant. but it's also a major contributor to the environmental problem. all of this is the word that they have gathered here -- which gets chopped up into smaller pieces. as the day goes on and as they get orders -- and that's body start coming in -- they have

this massive warehouse here which is full what. is going. john so could you. a family just an ad with the deceased and i'm told -- they pushes the **** crowed flew off would which was four hundred kids the four hundred is here. i didn't make a filipino thing. for huda within me the bodies of food on the disney world as this will not be around two hundred quintals switches. twenty thousand kilos. of would go through this area. i just cannot begin to imagine the magnitude of the problem facing us any extra played this. for the rest of india. no wonder forests and disappear. as early as the nineteen sixties the indian government recognize the environmental impact of cremation. and they try to address the problem by introducing an

alternative method. sir this is sanji of gas based criminality against this everybody so these are not fully support the party inside this type of cremation only cost ten dollars which is less than half the cost of a traditional. one even still there are few takers. the main problem is -- the people you cannot perform the the tools there is no use of board. and once the party's inside you want to anything you would just have to say it like this. and after two hours or three hours to convict the ashes and then you can go back. i mean i have to say this place looks. really grim one industrial. there's nothing absolutely nothing traditional about this. even with the best government subsidized intentions gas and other forms of more environmentally friendly methods of cremation haven't caught on doctors are these things a sociologist of funerary rituals.

has some thoughtsn the subject referee why is cremation such an important. element in hindu tradition. it comes from the scriptures -- one of the most important and central res to sort of think of creamy sin. is to begin to think about the dead person himself or herself. participating individual as a sacrifice we've seen would being used in the commission of this site is that an important and integral part of commission as well in the end. yes. so would join the vicky is very significant the bio ease and headache that is seen with a certain degree of grace so that would explain the reluctance that. hindus -- exhibit in trying in adopting alternative ways of agreement. i would think that it is part of a certain kind of or to track see that you'llou'll do what. you have been doing.

and this is very difficult to said. in case of death rituals university. indians might be resistant to change when it comes to saying goodbye to a loved. one but the environmental impact of cremation can no longer be ignored. as india's population approaches a staggering one point three billion. more deaths and more cremations only spell further than mine mental problems for the living. this is why most -- unsure as organization has come up with a more ecologically friendly system which balances the environment with a tradition. so -- what's going on here. by -- for the commission to start. we are talking about.

we use only. one fifty to two hundred videos. for one reason. instead of four hundred gauges and using less would also means this system costs less. than a traditional cremation this is my third hello for the traditional rituals to be performed the same way as a conventional fire might yes. definitely. god. god. god when this system we are using only on my order and whatever things people generally use in the knesset to someone. so there is no division in the beatles which we follow. now that the bodies in there. and they have never die -- well gone -- basic principles of fin. the head of the in grease the combustion efficiency by providing proper here.

that is through the chimney and the hood. when more all season is coming in the combustion efficiency in grease is? third in please go to hedonism. in this the emission process get so what within two of us. most of the system has been around for fifteen years a tiny amount of time when it comes to taking on a centuries old tradition. with more news and now beginning to consider it seriously. promote has just cremated his father. you do you have to have no marks the country is sitting -- yet offer matanya cafe listed on that. if we fail hi everybody. a tremendously. you can feel it in the family. a chance. to the trend of color that key is unique film co estelar king of monsters are they admit that it. includes men look like on the moon -- applied to this --

federal safety disorganized. eagle commission pies currently host up to seven cremation today at this site. it's still much less than the traditional one someone who cares about the environment deeply myself. i know we have a long way to go. however it also hardens me to find groups such as motion that. finding alternatives that are starting to have a real impact - and that's a choice is hold the key to reducing global emission. and spain as a company helping the onus of because buses and lorries the council out their emissions by growing gardens on

the top of that vehicle. and in northern holland a pilot project to ten seventy meters of bike pots into soda road. is creating enough and actress team to power three households to one year. projects like these offer different options so that individuals and communities and reduce the impact of human

>> welcome tthis week's edition of "global 3000." we go to the seyelles, where people are trying to protect a unique ecosystem from the human touch. then to iran, where sanctions are impacting the trade of prized persian rugs. i, the government provides mental health support for those suffering in the wake of natural disasters. europe, africa, asia, the americas -- forests are burning