benjamin vidmar believes that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way so africa to madagascar to be precise where deforestation as quashing impact previously in 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 over 5 but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does aligning a new process in which they can tell on plant waste on dry grass into fuel pellets it is so much better than cutting down the move value of the trees. fear done and is a small town in the highlands of madagascar. it never had its own school until a nonprofit organization called zahara made it possible for the residents to build one. founder of the hanna has come to visit. talk to each hunter around me on tania revoke wants to increase environmental awareness and make sure that it's established in the school curriculum. the team has prepared a series of workshops. and the rambles on runs a course on bio ch

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 too i just said you know i want to have the freshest food possible. german student ana ketzel helps out with planting in the garden she's a little more critical of the settlement in the far north. it's been present in mining disputes back and 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 technique that we developed here can be used to grow food in this inner city it 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 anywhe