Special edition of eco africa your pan african environment show this week we will be focusing on Sustainable Living but before we get started lets welcome my charming colleague incompetent hi there sandra hi hello everybody else youve just had on todays program we want to take a closer look just how much the idea of Sustainable Living is catching on here in africa and how much more we can all do yes you and i to make a bet to walt i am sundra to know you and he is what is coming up shortly. Going to go on a mission leaving the computer and dont greatly encouraged residents to make this trip to the green and. Were going to move on to more to the lets go to nigeria. Before the scenic route moving. And finally in ghana we find out how to get the young people all wind up and about something in the morning with both of them. We start in a neighboring kenya grazing land becomes even there more and more messiah people are looking for theyre saying me nor my degree of life cowards go on to a few or most doesnt mean they dont need lots of money for that and they are more money. Lloyd the forest is a great place for wild bees to leave there are no fields or pesticides and very few people. The members of my site people who do live in the area traditionally collect wild honey in the forest its arboreal and dangerous activity but last year about corn and 14 other men went into the beekeeping business setting up 10 hives in the forest they dont take up much space and they are environmentally friendly. And. We get we get money and an income. And this helps who live. The life. Like no greater number of. Young men yeah i dont. Know who and getting him money. And. It has become very hard to make a living the traditional way and some in a magic pastoralist some men still have as many as i found on the head of cattle. But nowadays they are the exception more and more looking for other ways to make a living. A major reason is frequent periods of drought that means dried out pasture land and less for the cattle to eat and drink another reason is that the land where they graze their heads in string trees it also has to be shared with wild animals. Patrick property has been observing this development for years now he is himself from outside and the local Community Official and has close ties to the People Living here still observe centuries old traditions but they are being forced to embrace change in order to survive. Biggest challenge is the loss of blood loss of life disease and blood is going to be subdivided that would reduce the number of less that we rely on because that is the only thing that a lot can support that if you. Number 2 is the Climate Change grains are predictable. You can apply you cannot invest because in the future there is not clear for us. Climate change and lots of. A couple of 100 kilometers to the north east in nairobi African Beekeepers only commercial companies devoted to the development of the beekeeping and Honey Industry most of the 20 employees make cards for 2 beekeepers. And this to me only runs the from his skin to see Honey Production in kenya grow. Intreat 80 percent of the honey consumed in the country is imported from tanzania but it would take time to build up a network of supply and market in china has more people need to go into beekeeping. Biggest challenge is getting enough money. We cant get enough and thats the challenge because the market is that its not the short market its the challenge is getting enough and this more amount of time is so far produced and is not santa tonight or beef it is sold in nearby villages but if production is carried out and if movie keeping project size time just for the future of the industry in kenya might prove to be sweet. Well before we get into more examples of sustainability we thought it would be good to get a better sense of what you believe the accident means in africa i think you can help us with that we have to indeed i can sound i mean order to find out more about what factors fully evolved in how sustainable our continents communities can be i measured identity i can share most of the Green Institute here in lagos finally we get to see i dont want to as we talk about this my whole Sustainable Living and sometimes i wonder how many people where or even understand the idea of sustainability and so on the belief let me give an example like im a lecturer and when i was teaching my students about 400 a few months. And i simply asked a question like what does that mean. And you were looking at me like you know you know. What are you talking about so i just give a very simple example of all my students youre right and vice. What do you think that he said said some will say oh im just writing my soup but basically its for poor people its not necessarily it paul might they think about bicycle as a means of your transport as yourself when youre campers but how do you doing that you could be fits you know yes i mean cost of i think the kick and upkeep of that so its a school you know and its saving money so its a win win situation and thats when you start thinking and unite so then that youre going green is that when we situation is adults in the scheme use the attributes that its necessary in also money got resources that i can have a habitable planets and achieve ship prosperity and other people still dont understand what it means to drive with the environment in my to live with environment might be sued so charts everywhere how do we get the people to buy more simple in the country at the bottom of the crowd was so trying to get food access see clean water security where you once and what were looking at see you being on the on the top of the pyramid actualization so do people have access to clean water who have access to base. Its way of excess of those things that you start thinking of ok my environment so forced we have to stop with the basic needs you know is that people. And their 2nd we have to take it from the grassroots from Elementary School and thats like the mild musician we form like the grandkids globe so this is a club suit. Responsivity they go home and they tell mommy and daddy and under their wind on the window and true you know some want to try sometime the kids was like new mom you can do that you can do thats you know hes against you know. Your dictionary of making developments not clean so you know those little kids dont go home until the appearance and the principal flexion and say ok you know i want to be the change but what do you think is it even taking a taking who we need to start looking at the youths and we start giving them reason the census by sense is honestly use the money or you have to let them see that ok you know what you can be an intrapreneur you can do stuff like kids that are making plastics using it for d maybe like my production isnt for beauty and things theyre making money they can they can sell those bricks and then they make money from meats theyre taken off. Nonbiodegradable plastic from the environment and socially down he is also helping the local economy nigeria africa and the rest of the world coming together to assist in the because you see any synergy or are we having people pouring in instead of coming together were all on this one globe so whatever happens in china is going to get to nigeria and weve just learned from that so its its a collaborative effort is a shared vision we haul off to come together thank you so yeah russia has bought. The show is art. We had to send a go now to meet some more individuals dedicated to helping the planet and n. G. O. S greening the servers of the capital the car by planting trees and more importantly theyve drawn the local residents into the project thats crucial because its only once people have discovered the benefits of trees that they can protect and take care of their. Planting trees is now a days some days favorite activity. She and a group of volunteers want to make this sandy parking lot on the ice growth of the car more has special. Im planting a salmon and. Its a shade tree that can grow up to 20 years. A large square full of shady trees a place to hold celebrations and festivals somewhere to meet the neighbors thats the vision of a local n. G. O. S has managed to win over the local residents. Living on. The most important people need greenery. And as i see it those who respect the environment respect themselves. We must do what we can to combat desertification by planting trees all over the city. But its not enough to just plunge trees you need to nurture them as well day after day. Its imperative to involve the local population thats what guarantees the survival of the trees or. The n. T. O. Actually took its name from a tree in a bed a is the word former in the wall of language its a versatile tree its leaves and food can be eaten or used for medicinal purposes. Scientists have proven that trees bring rain by contributing to the transpiration they trigger precipitation in the clouds more trees mean more rain and the more we cut down the less rain there is one that they say deserts advance but they dont its humans that make it possible so things must change we must plans. Big cities are growing as a breath taking speed in senegal. In the past 60 years the country has lost around half of its forests to urbanization. 10. Of thousands of hectares of woodlands continue to be destroyed every year. Yet in from this one that theres a lot of pressure on urban centers the population is rising theres more construction and fewer green spaces and trees were neglecting nature and thats why desertification is growing worse in our country. The result sure sure nature and more irregular wet seasons in the past the rain began in june and lasted 3 months now and things have changed. Everyone knows the trees are useful but we dont give ourselves the means to plant them as a result with operation 1000000 trees and what were doing in the neighborhood we are introducing people to the importance of trees the importance of greenery and one day these trees will provide much needed shade offering city dwellers rest bite from the burning sun having planted 750000 trees last year nobody is aiming for a 1000000 in 2021 way to gauge how well we are doing when it comes to sustain a living is by looking at the health of wildlife populations penguin colonies in south africa suffering as a result of overfishing in their habitat to the point of putting them on the park to extinction down there are plans to land into other regions where this plenty of fish for them to heart how find out in this weeks doing. African penguins inhabit just a few select locations among the coasts of namibia and south africa in recent decades their population has plummeted due to human interference ranging from people stealing their eggs to fishing fleets depriving them of their primary source of food. Conservationists have hatched a cunning plan to lure the penguins to better fishing grounds on the coast of south africas to hope nature reserves are disproved darling creates decoys out of cement theyre intended to trick the birds into thinking there are already penguins settled here. When we went inside to install them we also had to look at the site from many different angles and trying to visualize the way thing winds and the way ping when you think the idea is to entice the endangered birds to start new breeding colonies one of the Biggest Challenges we faced is that no ones ever done this before for the african penguin so weve had to learn a lot so as we go along the project organizers hope that penguins will take the plunge and relocate. And how about you if youre also doing your big tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit. We share your story. Those decoys looks so real i wonder how many thank you this way that sets on there by after seeing them we probably could all use a little nothing here and again to open our eyes to new approaches its not so sandra. Yes i suppose it is near to specially when it comes to science thinking ability we tend to be creatures of habit and much of our Consumer Behavior is based on years of conditioning but thats when noggin comes in if you the proctors the tries to gently entice consumers to make certain choices some of which can be good for the planet. I got a form and if you walk through here and then you have to turn towards the stand it will be better if you could walk straight to it. And it should be at an angle. Is advice in the manager of this supermarket in berlin on ways to draw shoppers attention to regional organic products. This is a bit better so you come along here and see it immediately and now if we just had Something Like a small close to something from brandenburg from the countryside perhaps a piece of wood. Or. The manager is not yet convinced mathias still wants to try out various things regional organic products also tend to be more eco friendly europeans buy lots of imported goods bananas coffee chocolate with a much larger c o 2 footprint. Many people know that regional products are more sustainable but that doesnt necessarily lead to a change in the way they shop creams and wants to suddenly encourage consumers to think twice the approach she deploys is known as nudging. Basically its about positioning products in the way that people will be more likely to pick them up. Who studied social sciences wrote the 1st academic paper in germany on. Could it be considered manipulation. Thats a charge that one often hears but the difference between nudging and manipulation is that nudging is used for positive purposes. Take Meat Consumption for example in ecological terms its much too high what kind of know might make a difference here placing vegetarian sausages right next to me the ones. People who are already environmentally conscious go looking for products that our organic and regional and theyll buy them. The way nudging is meant to reach those who dont Pay Attention to those kinds of things. Now shoppers here will come face to face with vegetarian alternatives to meet this isnt easy no its evidently hard to redirect attention to an entire display is looking for some good props and if youre not going to have those id like it to be larger more eye catching so you get the message at once organic and regional and im wrong. They explore the store room but dont find anything particularly appealing to use as decoration. Or cover what else could we do. These are heads out doors to scavenge branches will certainly evoke nature even in a supermarket he says there are many ways to nudge people to act in a more eco friendly way. To my fear for example if you could see how much water you use when you take a shower and how many daily rations of water that amounts to for people affected by drought it would be pretty shocking but thats an extreme example but the idea is to grab your attention and make you think about doing things differently. Crazy has come up with another way to know that shoppers at the supermarket to consider eco friendly products. Fish from 44 hours of birdsong just. This doesnt have an immediate effect the customers just walk by. Knows all too well that a good no is not something you can pull out of thin air. Well buying locally grown produce is definitely a good way to reduce the strain on no environment here in africa Outdoor Markets have a long standing tradition however an increasing number of factory made goods also forward shops on the market and as we know things like rot usually packaged in plastic. Thats very true sondra and if we dont watch out a lot of those packages and other wastes end up in streets and the pots getting into the habit of proper whiz disposal constant soon enough and thats why one gun and school has made environmentalists studies part of its curriculum. Saying. That both lead to meet once a week at cut about Junior High School the kids have a class on environmental studies. Where reality around is when the premise is whats dead. You feel sorrow and decide whats going to talk to us. This. 8 fall sick. To. Most of those. Either in the class the young people on things like how to properly separate trash for recycling them or talk harvest the west they discovered that paper and plastic are valuable resources that come the sold for cash income from them has helped finance projects and Study Materials and the school found few parents came and they were d like only about recalls out home says they used to put all rubbish is the simplest they realize no says the so they came back to come and fix their house assault why did brutes. Because of the vocals and such its weird because it generates income from so much happens when the content is a food theyre picked up by the enjoy and barrowman 360. 00 s is said to have been a share to the american intentionally put children at the center of the project. Weve learned that children may not be Decision Makers but theyre great influencers so ill think of the example if youve ever been around a child i think weve all found ourselves doing things just to keep the peace are not to be bothered a little bit longer when as these come to go on a 5 years ago never and how i just dreams would she have predicted that one day should be the head of the countrys largest Plastic Recycling film environment 360. 00 is a mixture of n. G. O. S and company. An income is reinvested in new programs last year we were cycled right at 150 or so tons of plastics not think about 200 tons of paper with is that she was able to support all 43 schools on our recycling program we employ 13 people and environment 360 so 10 of those have actually been paid for the rest cycling services. This is a 10 minute town a poor settlement outside that has a container port on one side and enough to park on the other this is where the battle in 360 has sent copies fasts recycling center throughout the day i steady stream of people brings material they have got that in their districts here for sorting and weigh up to 5 tonnes of plastic come out of the company pays by kilo caution and interesting rule is make 10 minute a plastic a plastic with 3 communities everywhere you go Everybody Knows about Waste Management signal beaten and then dont know how to manage or even keep waste and rude in c plastics just lying down i dont have to so its coming plastic based on color and quality for further processing shes been doing the job longer than anyone else here and have to organize the women in the neighborhood into our west because association oh. Yes sometimes the work is disgusting. But environment 360 provides us with everything we need. We have a shower here and we can wash our clothes after work. So when we go back to the Community Nobody knows how dirty we sometimes are you think growing different then environment 360 well pick up the food socks later. Junior high school is out for the day time to gather up the west thats ended up in the schoolyard in the cause of the day. Dont forget to wash your hands afterwards nowadays these kids in ghana clean up the once they have produced as a matter of cause. Its dream inspiring to see those young people taking responsibility for their environment it makes the future look a little brighter weve come to the end of our equal Africa Special on Sustainable Living we hope you enjoy the program im now if i may see you again soon and that goes for you too. So long nieto so well and for you all of us please dont forget you could always get the letters from it off a good Instagram Facebook too to would also love to hear your thoughts on ideas on how to live more sustainable so please do send us your thoughts and of course be sure to join us once again next week until then it is goodbye from me sundra to nokia here in kampala uganda. Dont. Jump. On. Board for. Literature invites us to see people in particular. To see how strong is the fine strength growing up her. Work and. She does the books on youtube. The break is over when the new season is kicking off in the most. Summer but the history. Is very wide awake. This is. Probably anything but normal. Numbers in this league i started to tell my team on d. W. O. And. The required. Angle for cutting i think the battle of the field. To. The us that i had the al gore fastball that i am open to go up on a. Man. Thank you im. Going out on our own other parent as family and warner. 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