benjamin vidmar believes that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way to africa so much the gas got to be precise where the forward station as oak washing impact previously 90 percent of the island was covered with forests now only a 10th of that remains according to environmental experts trees are mostly being cut down to create farmland all. but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does are launching a new process in which they can turn on plant waste on dry grass into fuel pellets it is so much better than cutting down the mall. fear done and is a small town in the highlands of madagascar it never had its own school until a nonprofit organization called zatanna made it possible for the residents to build one. founder of the hana has come to visit. talk to run me on tania revoked wants to increase environmental awareness and make sure that it's established in the school curriculum. the team is prepared a series of workshops. undie run and so on runs a course on bio char a charcoal produ

spitsbergen the extreme conditions there make you apologize for research as i venture is like benjamin vidmar his mission to boldly grow what no one has grown before let's go check it out. finally a little light every day in winter the darkness here stretches on for months it's minus $25.00 degrees celsius and the ground is permafrost there are more polar bears than humans on spitsbergen. but one of those humans benjamin vid mark grose herb's and vegetables here a pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this 13 for the 4th one is on the 3 of us vidmar and his employee haig a good harvest the crops grown in the lab as he calls this room. it has an almost tropical climate in the midst of a frozen wilderness and he's planted cress bezel and other plants that if you see that we've got the human now off to remove the tower and. yeah because we lift it from 20 to 45 yes definitely. they're learning to farm in these extremes by trial and error there's no experience to draw on then mark came up with the idea because he was desperate for fresh produce one day he even hopes to grow so

be nice if the greenhouse and its builders have achieved a certain notoriety hello my name is benjamin vidmar and doing this tour with you today we were nearly every day he has a lot of curious visitors. i didn't started to save the world i didn't start it i just said you know i want to have the freshest food possible. german student on a capsule helps out with planting in the garden she's a little more critical of the settlement in the far north. it's been physically seminude us of its back kind of personally i don't see spitzbergen as a place where people should be living. because it's got such an extreme climate and it's so unsustainable to live here but there will never come a time when people don't live here so i think it's a very good idea to try growing your own plants here. but harbaugh says it's about more than just having fresh vegetables on spitsbergen. this techniques that we develop here can be used to grow food in this inner city can be used to grow food on different islands so it has many. applications to other places as well so if we can do it here it can be done anywhere this