Last century rapid industrialization and urbanization made sure our whom speaking listen less in sync with the Natural Environment to live in many of the building practices used over time harmed nature instead of helping you try for an architect we met in delhi is favoring the path to make 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 laval has been designing sustainable functional buildings for over 20 years. He says the need is not urgent but there are still a lot of misconceptions about what Green Building design really means. The biggest myth is that people believe that a given home is one that has a lot of green plants you put in a lot of plants you know lawn and glass it becomes green which is not so in the Green Building its actually green because it respects nature and it. Kind of uses the replenishable sources of these sources and it uses various stages of uses consumption and we release a kill a lot of materials. One of the valve 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 the new feature in india insulates the building keeping it cool in indias hot summer has. No value look with green one on oprah shanteau 2 i command to make his home sustainable. One important factor for going green was sourcing local materials. Next door there are other identical people out there. Say mature 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 they have for example rotten italian marble of a baby or 30 insurgents very very expensive finishing so i actually turn out like my house less. And. The house also generates Renewable Energy and harvest serene water. Today it is able to capture 75 percent of its water demand and can also save up to 40 percent of its power. 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 00 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. 00 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 dish will homes that are often green in their own right. Be. Inspired by 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 contemporize it a bit so that we can use the same materials but in a more contemporary were using modern technology so that it is a value vent so that its easier to maintain it to be. More valid and. Needed his own house in the year 2000 he was inspired by the traditional methods of reducing and building based on the environment i used all the broken bells that came out from the toilets so all that were broken and used in the form of a pact and since a lot of them were laid to reflect a lot of heaters 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 to stay in ability has to start from home and you have to adopt a sustainable lifestyle before you want a sustainable and Green Building so i think the consciousness has come in and pandemic or not this will really pick up but i am sure that this. Situation we have been receiving a lot of calls from clients saying that does simply fire homes now does give more open areas lets reduce the built up area lets go in for more green measures lets go in plant more trees because they help in you know taking care of pollution as well. As the link between personal choice and the environment becomes clearer architects like this need will only continue to grow. Now like we just saw using solar panels one of our buildings but installation can be costly and panels are not all the efficient in converting sunlight into electricity what if we could use that entire building for us to generate electricity a university in germany is looking at ways to do just that. Photosynthesis on our planet dates back almost 3000000000 years todays plants harvesting and. She and the son with the help of a green pigment combed chlorophyll in their leaves it absorbs sunlight to produce Chemical Energy which enables the plant to grow this energy is truly green. That 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. Would have on. 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 he said you know most many of these also been guns and 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 unlike tricity and this conductive concrete is the basis for our solar concrete. To give the concrete the desired characteristics the scientists spray on various layers of colored liquid the result is a dyed 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 photovoltaics. One layer contains dye pigments when the sunlight strikes them electrons are released and current starts to flow. To improve their di sensitize solar cell. The research was 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 cells. The cells current efficiency is 5 percent its twice as high as it was in the research started. So more concretely are discrete is so interesting because its really easy to produce its environmentally friendly and can be used on 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 facades. Thats inspired or used 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 tons of plastic makes it into the ocean. But is that an eco friendly turning to the plastic of beautiful to us a scientist in indonesia may have the question. Now Plastic Waste as far as the eye can see here north of jakarta. Grim normality in indonesia as much as 3000000 tonnes end up in the ocean every here. And thats why nobody more ya know once change her aim keeping the seas claim his solution see wheat. The green weeds not only filter the water off 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 and freedom in the early friendly picketing. 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 her 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. A lot of. People. Everywhere are the garden and it will be fabulous that 4 plants or just this. There and it will not go up your history. Not a 1000000 us 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 and i dont yeah. He said siri the family is full of promise we hope it will enable us to pay for the best possible education for our children a. Very much more profitable than working as a fisherman specializing in aquaculture. 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 the more youre not teaches them the business side of things to gain independence. I mean while 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 fair wages she cut out middlemen. The most important things that. Drive me to. This is about. This theyre. Out there so they have access fulfill their basic needs so some of them also have the 5th of Human Trafficking so i think its fair. To help them to improve. When the pandemic has eased not a more your no will need more suppliers to scale up production farmers like. Its primarily food chains and cosmetics distributors who want to see their products wrapped up in seaweed demand for plastic free packaging is growing and shes using a raw material with massive future potential. Its not just the. Use inside our homes that have an impact on the what we used to build our houses and apartments with dick supporters but there are alternatives that are more environmentally friendly than others we visited a home in england made out of a material that many of us commonly associate with wine. You can use cork for wine bottles whats a blue house. This one and even 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 block cement based mortar plastic foam insulation the whole collection of things which and up being quite sort of negative impact on on those all systems nothing helen done this team experimented for almost 10 years cutting interlocking cork blocks until they found the best structural solution the 1268. 00 blocks are slotted together without mortar. Gravity 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. 00 square metres of comfort and security modern on a cave could once rather like in an ancient mayan temple. Has long been used them building facades. This holiday homes built in 2007 in northern portugal the habitat of the cork oak. Time has left its mark on this house. Course and sheen with the environment moves in changes color thats exactly what vasco magali likes about it. As its raining. When its wet here and this one is behaving just as we expected. These 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 portugal its national pride. It has the Worlds Largest korku forest. Its a paradise of biodiversity and a boon to the climate. What is one of privilege because that card has a unique system for each dawn of cord we retain 73. 00. 2 and is the 3 issues that we dont cut we just feel the bark of a tree. In the trees can be up to 200 years old the core can be harvested every 9 years when 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 online but current trends. You dont get to put something on the outside of your house if you dont like it so people 1st have a visual and aesthetic satisfaction with the product it is at the same time a roost dick 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 eaton. Helen displeased with the result and given the almost 0 Carbon Footprint hell certainly be able to sleep with a clear conscience. One of the go to options across the world today when it comes to building fast Affordable Homes is shipping containers theyve been used to build Hostels Hotels restaurants and even makeshift schools but skeptics have sometimes questioned their feasibility as a sustainable Building Block a design a do employee seems to be finding solutions to tackle the skepticism by providing a more eco friendly toilet if. Not long ago this Daycare Center urgently needed to extend the building and decided to try Something Different opting to use discarded shipping containers now does the student boxes hows the play room for children where they 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. Sonali part and dark 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. All using discounted shipping containers. The more duration of that we have to work behind this is also a big environmental factor where we feel that nothing should go waste and we should be able to work with all kinds of material that we have around us so as humans we have created so many complex. 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 rail forwarding from. Built with corrosion resistant steel theyre used for crossposting before about 12 years after this period the sit in junk yards waiting to be melted. But melting shipping containers uses 8000. 00 clue what our finance repurposing them into buildings acquires just 5 percent of the. Usual axes say youre following the guiding principle of Creative Reuse the partners with keen to show you whats possible. So the design and build a home for daughter and a family made and die early out of scrap and 3 discarded shipping containers. So this entrance door is made with all windows and. When once you enter this house is made of it. The 25th or do you know converted into a bedroom house this is a kitchen sink cum wash basin so that is to actions of keeping the plumbing in one thing do you know. The fact of some of it the wash basin something made out of fadil and water can be used even on the side. Of the blue house at a cost of 7000. 00 lock rupees or point to 2000 euros as a show to convince new buyers for an. Effective and environmentally free living space. The shipping container can be up to 12 meters long it needs to be created to eliminate exposure to toxic chemicals and also to prevent trust studio all done to spokeo the containers locally from a boat in mumbai each one costing up 200000 rupees 1300. 00 euros a typical container 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 reuses not because i cant afford it but because its making us sick and environmental sense so theyll be our chief that probably you know its just in the in that zone where were trying it out. The designers have built 16 container homes so far and save lives 220. 00 tons of steel. And perhaps even more important they are spreading the word of the lies dition and eco friendly constructions amongst the youngest into song. I hope to be is that the thought has given you a sense of how people around the world are making Sustainable Choices when it comes to been Living Spaces and i hope you had many takeaways from it well see you again next week until then stay safe big good care of your loved ones and yourselves the bikes. Clicks likes follow us. Whats the secret sea going viral on t. V. We dive into the depths of the algorithm and explore its biases. B. G. Counting fears theres a price to pay a strange 100000000. 00. 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