And welcome again to rebuy and im Elizabeth Piron and our task here on the wind is to dig out some of the best and most influential films from the past decade and to find out how the story has moved on since one of the earliest series launched here on aljazeera was earthrise a show which tackles increasingly important issues of Climate Change but also tries to find good news stories wherever it can back in 2012 reporter Russell Baird traveled to detroit and the heart of the usa is decaying rust belt a city built on kamen you factoring he was on the trail of a growing urban Farming Movement aiming to change the face of detroit and reverse decades of decay rewind recently returned to see how that movement progressed the 1st lets take a look at motown to grow town from 2012. In 1900 Detroit Companies 30 square miles and is home to just 300000 people with an economy based on money factory Railroad Cars common timber in the streets. Thanks to the introduction of the Mass Assembly line by the 1920 s. Detroit is the. Capital of automotive production and americas 4th largest city. 50 years on and things were very different the major Auto Companies moved their factories out of the city to the suburbs and the workers followed meanwhile the citys racial tensions were exploding into some of the bloodiest race riots in american history. Today more than a 1000000 taxpayers have moved out of detroit leaving behind 40 square miles of vacant land nearly 40000. 00 abandoned houses and a municipal government struggling to pay the bills. For many detroit is the epitome of urban blight but to find out how detroits urban environment is already showing signs of a green renewal we head across town to georgia Street Community garden. Set up a few years ago by mark colvin tin urban farming pioneer and local hero mark. A man you know i. Have to lead a neighborhood when i was younger it was a car dealership owner on down the street we had restaurants all the stores shoe shops everything needed was right here. And. Over half a 1000000 detroiters live closer to Convenience Stores than groceries and with limited public transport and nearly half of the city living below the poverty line access to healthy affordable food is often a challenge they call if you dont drive it and he cant get out of town the malls where people buy food. Liquor stores gas stations and the lol scarce markets that we Grocery Store that we do have now because we do have places where people can go get food but its how healthy it is in all and how cheap oil is but you. Know we need to come here and you get a you know. Size bear board. These 4. 00. All this used to be how this is just a bacon street grid right now its. 10 they get lots are vacant houses to one inhabited house. People move to the suburbs for a better life and the more people do move away. The less tax breaks we had as tax base the same company and the meanest and i want people dont realize what a tax base really means to a city you know as far as getting things done and having money word play so a lot of things we have to do on our own. And i assume police and each other and cleanup at each other. But this this is where it all started. I lost my job in the summer of 2007 i had to move back home on George Street with my mother my grandmother and. I came out when the snow started melting off all the garbage trucks powered up on the curb and in the process of cleaning it up. I just said i need to put some food here and ill hear you know work and Start Talking to people in the neighborhood and finding out that a lot of us are struggling you know our Senior Citizens were trying to choose whether to pay for them or buy medication and i decided to make it bigger everything ive done ive tried to engage to the community but its easy for me because i know everybody so. If you had much help here in the garden from the city not really other than because technically having a Community Garden is illegal still has eagles right yes growing food. It. Is technically illegal to see detroit Family Living like Columbus Ohio and friends over here in mississippi which is a farming state dont know if im going in detroit yeah im like yeah right the middle of detroit you can go to chicken in detroit im like yeah right in the middle of detroit so i can hear them actually in the distance its a huge thats it says thats a pheasant you can a president you know. What. I g q yeah weve got president s rabbit. Fox if you if you took a shot right here and were right across the street it looks like you know for the speck that can go from a no when people see what you do to say would have been clear in. My coding tints no the only open farmer in detroit in fact hes part of a growing movement when i started school and see when the house and dining room on liberty was full of plans somebody said willie nelson. There was a meeting of governors and they were telling them about the different resources that they offer its all like a weight was lifted off my shoulders well its. Just. You know. Must take me to earth would highly productive urban agriculture and education hub supplies would be city farmers with everything they need from support to seedlings morning. Among the stuff you know the idea is to be able to have a space where folks can learn how to grow food at a level that. Would be for their own economic interest so if they were trying to grow it to start a farm where they made money or if they were trying to grow it at a scale in order to provide a really nice amount for their family and i introduce you guys real quick to this is russell we can find him a spot this is a lot of. Ru works as hard for a Training Program and were learning to be our bombers so what were working with here this. Thing thats a good one thats got some good routes on it that he should go through i got into it because i have i have Young Children i want to be able to grow as i think im going out with this one of the most revolutionary at least you can test the baby. And i also have a small. Beginning Catering Company so how can a girl cook or actually purposes you want to make a business out of this. Trade is not only unhealthy financially but with health i dont know if theres popular but that you can do so here yourself is do you have Something Different so we do it ourselves we know what we have. And try to be gentle with them theyre just so fragile these Little Things well nigh scattered was saying its stronger than you realize really. Folks oftentimes think of the gardens as that and the farm as being what we do but we see it as being more like the canvas upon what we do our work that really the work is about people these seedlings will be distributed to over a 1000 families in Community Gardens all over the city on the days when we pick up transplants its like a carnival theres so many people want to one you know. This is a hope house part of it is using this as being sort of the classroom but then showing that it can be replicated on a smaller level you know you can go out to the Hardware Store and do this instead of being dependent thats one thing being able to provide the food but you think people would start more fresh fruit vegetables if it was available as a country we dont not grow enough fresh fruits and vegetables for what were supposed to be eating so that capacity has to ramp up of that we have to be growing new farmers that are growing fresh fruits and vegetables. The flipside of that is how do we get folks to eat fresh fruits and i think its relationship based and i think for most the folks you talk to that find this work very sacred almost always theres going to be some sort of memory attached to it it might be way back in the back of their mind but when you start asking them theyll almost say. You know its because of a parent or grandparent or my neighbor taught me how to do this and we carry that with us still this is my friend ada floyd. One of the pioneers in bloody for taking over vacant lots and. Having a daughter. As it would allow to. You as well as. The lawyer this image to prove it is moved to detroit as a child and in a 14 years living on mount olivet street shes seen a lot of changes so how many houses used to be on the street 6464. And i can count 123. X. 56 literally just 6 you can see from here we have done this 1st lot right here and then the next house got torn down to the next one but then we kept on going until we got down to the end so how many how many look to be adopted so far just 28. 00 just 28. 00 foot this is going to watch him think is the piggery bush. Jr delicious red goose whos. Wow this looks great and what do you think mark what do you reckon to all this learn. A lot of work. Is a lot of work but its fun oh yeah and. Ive always there are good tire but its a good tired not content with utilizing detroits adopt a low program that allows residents to lease abandoned properties for personal use it is plans to turn the whole street into a drive through fruit market and if they want they can get out and pick it themselves if they call me a day before i have it ready do you believe that this is what youre going to be able to manage that this is easy all you got to do is happy clip when you visit only a note. You just got the grant money she. Did to buy the truck to buy volunteering to maintain the local park. Just take i was cut out pushed love more. It wont be brought up but 23 lot more message does not work you need to get a track back of leave this just remember were in the middle of detroit. Oh. Ok ok so were going to do some telling you how were my going to let you look. At it. And thanks to this you can turn that wears learn that tall grass into productive formulate it into a template fashion because i can plow implant those whole thing in one day yeah thats how fast it is and you think theres a real need for that in detroit right now yes because right now i cant walk to the office store is so far apart you can go to the gas station to get joe but to get fresh food is no way no way around you. Need to get a goal 7 miles on the other ceasefires in miles to get the food you need. Is so much later in your why dismissive feeling go to nothing i rather what with the laying in the world and yet feeling. I like to. Use the live its not free and it feeds people into taking are you taking i mean it. After decades of urban decay the city is getting back on track with improvements to Public Transport Services in the installation of thousands of Energy Efficient streetlights despite being on the brink of bankruptcy in a City Investment is totaled over 9000000000. 00 since 2000. 6 as entrepreneurs hustle to stake a claim in the city while its still going cheap the last 10 years so 59 percent rise in young graduates moving into the cities core reinventing arts and cultural one on the outskirts a new wave of. Social rising. Detroit. But really can keep. Rising fares he says he could you see here in the city in this market the. New street i had heard about. Here. Which was much smaller than it is now and Getting National publicity and all of that. Feed. In agriculture. World here we take everything eastern market. And. The big trucks yeah yeah people love their cars and. People want to brand it is this you know green place in which is great and people are kind of taking on that mentality its still detroit and its still always going to have a big cars until. People have to figure out Something Else that yeah. We dont use any kind of chemical fertilizers or sprays or anything just lots of. Hard work. So this garlics been saved in detroit for about 7 years now so it does better and better each year because youre selecting the ones that do the best and like oh my goodness i just. Really love. The match. And living some kind of new revenue stream you know or this is going to give me again here most of the folks that still live here now kind of have been through hell and back you know in this neighborhood with crack. Drugs and gangs and whatever and so i feel like the folks that are here now are probably not going anywhere theyve kind of theyre putting anything i mean i think that we need to slowly transition to a smaller scale more Sustainable Agriculture and i think pretty you know soon that like economically just makes sense to grow the way we do now you know our law our whole in style or society is completely reliant on the fact that oil is cheap yes you know once that one element isnt so cheap anymore i mean. And were interrupting our normal programming to take you live to the russian port city of sochi the russian president Vladimir Putin giving us his breakdown on his discussions with his turkish opposite number mr. The Russian Foreign minister the front and center. As we head towards the imminent ending of the cease fire we syria lets listen in to whats being said its only the strengthening of the threat of terrorism and the growth over confessional. Conflicts in this area and these. Contradictions separatist attitudes lately you know all of us were artificially escalated from outside its support and. That the actions of the Turkish Forces should be used by the members of the terrorist organizations including. Rival rebels captivated by the kurdish groups as who try to get out to be free. Syria should be free from the illegal Foreign Military presence. Stable a long term stability nation in syria are on the whole in our view its only possible. While observing the end territorial integrity of this country. Its basic position important position how we discussed in detail with mr rogan about it its important that the turkish partners share such an approach. To protect the peace and stability on the border with. Turkey syrians should do together. And here without the respect special cooperation between turkey and syria i can do without it one should also launch a wide dialogue between the government of syria and the kurds who reside in north east of syria its obvious that precisely with the prime work of this inclusive dialogue in full volume can be taken to account and implemented all the rights and interests of the Kurdish People of the as part and parcel of the multinational Syrian People in the course only got heat negotiations with the president of course discuss the further steps on the promotion of the peace political process in syria which syrians themselves with the help of the un will come back within the framework of the Constitutional Committee upon its creation the guarantee countries of the standard format worked only during the latest period over many years where the situation on the ground shouldnt hamper. A long awaited launching of this committee next week already 2936 told by in geneva of course of course with upon the humanitarian situation with make its necessary further onto the Syrian Refugees to return to their motherland it will in 2 to alleviate the burden of the social economic strain which the countries bear who are great to accommodate serious of course include including turkey 1st of all turkey where people to the International Community especially profile edges of un to be more active in offering humanitarian assistance to all those syrians who return without discrimination but if there is a sion and preliminary conditions. Have been taken advantage of this meeting. Took a bunch of it to discuss the the Current Issues of the bilateral cooperation where with satisfaction. The turnover which increased by 60 percent in grew last year we share their views and saying how we should act in the near future i would express to a 70 that the further growth of the novel will have a dream the limitation of the settlement or payments a settlement in National Currencies which was signed at the beginning of october we spoke about the part and document to which envisages not just more active use of ruble and initial trade but also the widening of the acceptance of the russian carts in the territory of turkey and the switch on of turkish banks to the system of the financial matters of the back of russia i think its one important step on the way of widening broadening of the tourists. Go on to us we spoke about the whole complex our relations including huge projects which are being developed positively. Military. Operation is deepening we want to stress that in turkey in the new russia there are cross years of culture and tourism are conducted finally id like to thank mr dog and all our friends colleagues for this businesslike and frank conversation which we have we have in cash and further on to promote our cooperation not in all the directions or the principle so neighborliness and the respect of the interests of each other but i cant but express satisfaction that as a result of quite a lengthy. It has worked we managed to reach the. Roof solutions which after our statements were the pronounced where the ministers appear in the face of both countries. Solution of which you know of you are very important if not just fatal and it will help resolve quite an acute situation which took place and the border between syria and talking. For. President this thing goes for members of the delegation distinguished members of the press. I salute you with my sincerest feelings and respect. Very happy to be in another night like to be in every right to express that to begin my words. Id like to 1st express my condolences. Nicholas centro. Russian citizens who lost their lives id like to send my condolences didnt. Again the same day in transfers. The bend in the water band transfers 15 of russian citizens lost their lives i like to also send my condolences to the distinguished members of the press especially. Todays discussions todays the liberations our main agenda was syria and the developments in syria. But along with that we also discussed are by the by by literally relations a bad economy. As the president s just expressed. We are going to increase trade in our National Currencies and the agreement about this has been signed very recently this agreement. Well we are very helpful to reach our 100000000000. 00 trade relationship. Our cooperation on who you are is continuing and we have agreed upon a calendar. Into our. Neetu oil interests. Work who will continue in order to reach our a mutual interests. In here. By when i mention this also we have taken very important steps on and Defense Industry and we will continue to do so with that mr putin we have talked about at the maintaining the establishment of peace and tranquility in syria we have. Has spent a lot of effort years afeard on that on a stand agreement as well. Together with such a memorandum and we have made it very important agreements under 16. September and ankara summit so we have a declared the committee Constitutional Committee on 38. 00 of october committee will be meeting for the 1st time our expectation. From the Constitutional Committee is going to be beneficial for the syrians. Political change and open doors for this political change. Of course to discuss this collation is was in our agenda so. It is it is very hopeful to see at this commission at a moment in the region and our main aim will be to strengthen this Peace Process and to make it prevailing as turkey with our. To secure russias. Interests and also for our interest we will continue. To Work Together today especially we have talked about operation peace a parade and we have validated latest developments in our operation i have given very extensive information to mr putin about our operation as i expressed earlier our main aim in this operation is to clear. The g m p k k terrorists from the area and to maintain establish the reports relation of Syrian Refugees this is also going to eliminate the threat of the separatist terror group and will secure syrias territorial integrity and political unity we have absolutely no interest or theirs or sovereignty or and other country. As turkey all the steps we have taken so far we have been very sensitive. In a freighted shield and in all of Branch Operations we have secured. 4000 square kilometer. Area and cleared from terrorists. This area that we have secured and made safe 360000 refugees have repatriated voluntarily. At some time syrian land was always mentioned with terrorist attacks but now it is reaching tranquility and peace. Hopefully this will apply to. The northern syria. We have we are we have been hosting. 303 min