What well explore to be hello welcome to in korea india. Coming to you from mumbai over the last century vapid industrialization and urbanization made sure to whom listen less in sync with the Natural Environment we live in many of our building practices used over time harmed nature instead of helping you try for an architect we met in delhi is behaving the path to lick our homes eco friendly again. The new delhi skyline is a mixture of modern skyscrapers and Energy Intensive poorly designed constructions. Carbon emissions from buildings are often neglected from the climate debate but in India Buildings alone are said to contribute to 40 percent of Energy Related carbon emissions. Architect melungeon who has been designing sustainable functional buildings for over 20 years he says the need is now urgent. But there are still a lot of misconceptions about what Green Building design really means. The biggest myth is that people believe that they can home is one that has a lot of green plants you put in a lot of plans you know lawn and glass it becomes pretty which is not so and again with thing its actually green because it respects nature and it. Kind of uses the replenishable sources resources and it uses various stages of uses consumption and we recycle a lot of materials. One of the valves designs in new delhi is famous for being indias 1st 5 star rated green home called green one. The home has been certified by research and policy organization the energy and resources institute. Large windows provide lots of not to the light while Double Glazing adela to be a new feature in india insulates the building keeping it cool in indias hot summer has. No value look with green one or no pressure. To make his home sustainable. One important factor for going green was sourcing local materials. Next door identical people would be there all the same picture same size and those houses have cost war their cost much more than my house why because they have. Spent on a lot more expensive things there for example prague and italian model of a baby or city in so good very very expensive finishing so actually it turned out that my house less than those poles. The house also generates Renewable Energy and harvest rainwater. Today. It is able to capture 75 percent of its water demand and can also save up to 40 percent of its power. But what explains that these teachers be off overtime. I think it is still worth it if you spend 10 percent more or 15 percent more and after 5 years it pays for itself and then after that it runs virtually free of cost and you are giving back to the future generations youre giving back to the environment were now coming into the concept of you know 0 carbon exit or buildings which are going to you know give back more than they consume i think thats the need of the are right now. At the moment india has around 1400000 modern homes that are built with the green concept. Which constitutes less than 5 percent of all residential properties. The indian Green BuildingCouncil Hopes to take this number up to 10 percent by 2022 and some states have already begun giving more incentives to green certified constructions. However this statistic excludes the countless temporally homes and those built by hand in rural india to this new homes that are often green in their own right. To be with inspired by or instructors that history has to be studied because historically what people have been naturally it is known that they are the best structures and that what we do is we can raise it a bit so that we can use the same materials but in a more contemporary were using modern technology so that it is of value and so that its easier to maintain it to be. More vulgar innovated his own house in the year 2000 he was inspired by the traditional methods of releasing and building based on the environment i used all the broken pane that came out from the toilets so all that were broken and used in the form of a back to and since a lot of them were late to reflect a lot of peters very. More people can now afford the initial investment and more indians are getting conscious about the impact of their choices on the environment. They strongly feel that sustainability has to start from home and you have to adopt a certain a bill a state before you want a system that will lend Green Building so i think the consciousness has come in and by no means or not this really really pick up but i am sure that this. Situation we have been receiving a lot of. From saying that it does simplify it homes now does give more openness. Less going for more green measures plant more trees because. Youre not taking care of pollution as well. As the link between personal choice and the environment becomes clear a market. This need will only continue to grow. Now like we just saw using solar panels. But installation can be costly and battles are not always efficient in conducting sunlight into electricity what if we could use that in viewing for. Electricity or university in germany is looking at ways to do just that. Photosynthesis on our planet dates back almost 3000000000 years todays plants harvest the energy of the sun with the help of a green pigment cone chlorophyll and there it absorbs sunlight to produce Chemical Energy which enables the plant to grow this energy is truly green. At the university of consul scientists are trying to use the same principle to generate energy a team of architects artists scientists and designers are working on a Building Material that will transform sunlight into electricity like a solar cell. The basis of this system is just ordinary concrete the researchers mix it with graphite to make it electrically conductive when it has hardened it can take on various electronic functions acting as a light switch for instance. If i get close man as an artist tossed into an architect they came up with the idea of using conductive concrete to generate solar power. It. Must mean he has the seat also becomes now what you see here looks like ordinary concrete but whats special about it is that its sensitive to the touch as you can see and thats because weve made this concrete capable of conducting electricity and this conductive concrete is the basis for our solar concrete will not be taught. To give the concrete the desired characteristics the scientists spray on various layers of colored liquid the result is a sensitized solar cell that produces electricity through a kind of artificial photosynthesis the order in which the wafer thin layers of color are applied is crucial. If you combine the layers correctly you end up with something that functions like a photovoltaic so this is one layer contains died off when sunlight strikes them electrons are released and current starts to flow. To improve their die sensitize solar cells the research is conducted long term measurements in the lab a single solar cell provides just a few volts of electricity if you cover it with your hand the current fall sharply and rises again when mike hits the solar cell. The south current efficiency is 5 percent its twice as high as it was in the research started. The love it one would have solar concrete are discrete is so interesting because its really easy to produce its environmentally friendly and can be used on a large surfaces and maybe one day in the future all the smooth flat surfaces in the city could be used to produce electricity. Couldnt the more cells that are affixed onto a buildings wall the more electricity it can produce to do this the individual cells need to be interconnected under ideal conditions a surface area of one square meter could generate 20 watts of power. Now the researchers want to take the concept to another level they have developed prototypes of facade robots that could in the future scale the outside of buildings and print solar cells on them in 5 years they hope to roll out their solar concrete so it can be used to construct New Buildings and upgrade existing for sounds. That inspire to use and like me im sure many of you have wondered what can you do about all the plastic use and dispose on a daily basis weve all seen the headlines that tell us how it 1000000 tonnes of plastic makes it into the ocean every year but is that an eco friendly alternative to plastic available to us a scientist in indonesia may have the answer to a question. Plastic waste as far as the eye can see here north of jakarta a grim normality in indonesia as much as 3000000 tongues end up in the ocean every here. And thats why nobody more your know wants to change her aim keeping the seas clean his solution see wheat. The green weeds not only filter the water of unwanted talks and encourage biodiversity. But they also are an alternative to plastic packaging. How can we solve it if we do not have something to replace this plastic because of course we cannot go back to. Our eggs him. Or live without plastic as a picketing so we have to think about this problem in the early friendly picotee. Like the one she has come up with. The sheet here is a result of 10 years of research as a food. Scientist financed by institutions and grants its a pride and joy she uses a red algae that has a special polymer that makes products make from it very pliable the foil can be kept for 2 years and it even dissolves in hot water practical for popular products like instant coffee over 200 Companies Worldwide are testing the foil and though its edible you dont have to eat it well to harass people. Everywhere on the garden and it will be fact i said for plants or yes this story is. There and it will not go up. The street. Not as advantage there are plenty of seaweed farms in her country indonesia is one of the worlds biggest producers of seaweed around 200000 farmers work under and above water like up to seclude. He cultivates 300 lines in pang gang one of his clients is no more ya know. In the past he was financially unstable. But now his take home pay is much more secure. But i want this thing out and then yeah. He said its silly the family is full of promise we hope it will enable us to pay for the best possible education for our children. And they did but i was much more profitable from working as a fisherman specializing in aquaculture area. We hope that see we will always flourish here and that we can maintain its quality here. The seaweed business here is often a Family Affair the women tie the seedlings to the lines and to take care of the finances not email your not teaches them the business side of things to gain independence. And meanwhile the men are responsible for the cultivation and harvest around 2000 families supply for millionaires by a plastic she regularly meets with the heads of communities to exchange the latest production numbers to pay for a way just she cuts out middlemen. The most important thing. Drives me to. This is about. This they are. Out there so they have. Fulfilled their basic needs so some of them also have their fix of Human Trafficking so i think its fair. To help them to improve. When the pandemic has eased not the more you know well need more suppliers to scale up production farmers like. Its primarily big food chains and cosmetics distributors who want to see their products wrapped up in seaweed. Demand for plastic repackaging is growing and shes using a raw material with massive future potential. Its not just the energy and materials we use inside our homes that have an impact on the what we used to build our houses and apartments with takes a toll but there are alternatives that are more environmentally friendly than others we visited a home in england made entirely out of a material that many of us commonly associate with wine. You can use cork for wine bottles or to build an entire house. This one in Eastern England is actually made completely of cork and its entirely sustainable ive always been slightly dissatisfied with things that we typically build with especially in housing so you know concrete blocks cement based mortar plastic foam insulation the whole collection of things which and up being quite sort of negative impacts on resources. Must be hell and then this team experimented for almost 20 years cutting interlocking cork blocks until they found the best structural solution the 1268. 00 blocks are slotted together without mortar. Alone holds them together and no additional insulation is needed. That does have a smell all of its own a bit like inside a cigar box. 44 square metres of comfort and security modern in a cave rather like in an ancient mayan. Temple. Has long been news and building facades. This holiday homes built in 2007 in northern portugal out of the cork oak. Has left its mark on this house. Course and chilling with the environment moves in changes color thats exactly what. Likes about it. As its rent. And its why its here in this one is behaving just as we expected. This shark one brown color its the color of the reaction to the. Wetness of the atmosphere its very sensual material it follows the seasons it changes through and through and through the year. A tribute to portugals national pride. It has the Worlds Largest korku forest its a paradise of biodiversity and a boon to the climate. What is one of the rules because the card has a unique system for each stone of cord we retain 73. 00. 2 and is that tree species that we dont cut we just peel the bark of the tree. The trees can be up to 200 years old the core can be harvested every 9 years but the bark grows thick enough to be carefully cut. A spot of course are increasingly replaced by metal and plastic stoppers the oak is in decline. So the rediscovery of cork as a Building Material is welcome. Its look is also in line with current trends. You dont get to put something on the outside of your house if you dont like so people 1st have a visual and aesthetic satisfaction with the product it is at the same time a roosting contemporary visual. Now hundreds of constructions using cork have been built private homes doctors practices schools. But theres never been a Building Made exclusively of cork like the house in eden. Hell im just pleased with the result and given the almost 0 Carbon Footprint hell certainly be able to sleep with a clear conscience. One of the options across the world today when it comes to building faster or double shipping containers theyve been used to build hospitals or tells restaurants and even makeshift school but skeptics have sometimes questioned their feasibility as a sustainable Building Block a designer employee seems to be finding solutions to tackle the skepticism by providing a more eco friendly. Not long ago this Daycare Center urgently needed to extend the building and decided to try Something Different opting to use discarded shipping containers. These the steely boxes hows a play room for children where the learn my geography and incidentally also about how to live sustainably. I was searching for something that can be quickly constructed and if at all in future we want to change something then that option is there because its a mobile you kind of construction let it its the tsunami pocket and doc about run the company that provided the containers. Defended the studio alternatives in 2016 to design and build homes work in space and just about anything that can be contained within for. Only using discounted shipping containers. The motivation that we have to work behind this is also a big environmental factor where we feel that math things youve always done and we should be able to work with all of em selfmotivated that we have it around us so as humans weve created so many complex 20 of us and that we ourselves dont know what to do with and it is just ending in life and. Since 1956 shipping containers have been the standard way of forwarding from. Built with corrosion resistant steel there used for crossposting for about 12 years after this period to sit in junk yards waiting to be melted but melting shipping containers uses 8000 glue what our financial repurposing them into buildings requires just 5 percent of the. Usual axes or at them youre calling the guiding principle of Creative Reuse the partners with keen to show you whats possible. So the design and build a home for don and the family made and direly out of scrap and 3 discarded shipping containers. So the entrance door is made with all the windows and. Ones who think that his house is made of it. The 25th or do you know converted into a 2 bedroom house as a kitchen sink cum wash basin so with the distinctions of keeping the plumbing in a can do you know. The effect of come up with the wash basin something made out of. Water can be used even on the side. Of the blue house built at a cost of 17 block rupees or 22000 euros has served as a show home to convince new buyers for an. Effective and environmentally free living space. The shipping container can be up to me does the it needs to be created to eliminate exposure to toxic chemicals and also to prevent trust the studio all done to do spokeo the containers locally from a boat in mumbai each one costing up 200000 rupees 1300. 00 euros a typically container home takes about 3 to 6 months to make and can subsequently be transported to any part of the world. It has a much lower Carbon Footprint than homes built with cement for example which is one of the biggest producers of Carbon Dioxide worldwide. But as yet these homes made from discarded containers on a still something of an experiment rather than a go to housing solution. This becomes mainstream in terms of acceptance that people thing that are use is not because i cant afford it but because its making us sick and Environmental Science so maybe achieve that probably you know its just in his own head were trying it out. The designers have built 16 in our home so far and saved close 220 tons of steel. And perhaps even more important theyre spreading the word of rehabilitation and eco friendly constructions amongst the youngest into song. I hope to visit the thought has given you a sense of how people. Are making Sustainable Choices when it comes to the Living Spaces and i hope you had many takeaways from it well see you again next week until then stay safe to good care of your loved ones and yourselves in the box. The food. To. Be in good shape. Good there is no cure for a child. Thats how can one lead to normal life with a potentially deadly virus they are working on a vaccine a better therapeutic drugs. 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