A community now make sure that it stays this way how can communities come closer together to save the embodiment thats what we talk about today. Hello welcome to equal india. Now indias problem with effectively disposing. In fact plenty of studies have been conducted try and solve it local governments in many cases best practices communities to adopt so that they were used can be segregated. On the outskirts of delhi had a better idea suggested by. Their breaking move when it comes to Community Waste management. Surrounded by sprawling villas and luxury is geared to communities one for ages 108 acre property of nirvana country and. The complex is home to 900 independent bungalows and gardens but things have not always been rosy. And. The fact that living in a beautiful way like. The still was. All around us and different. And would give us. A 20 minute drive from nirvana country is one of the regions biggest landfills a large part of india as we used ends up and dump sites like this one they often catch fire sending the plumes into the air and the talks again equipped from the unfiltered rotting waste seeps into the ground. Refused to accept the poor quality around her community or the poor Waste Management system she began to think about her role in this and wondered how she could play a part in correcting the course of things. Citizens want to drink committee 1st approached the Municipal Corporation of course looking for a solution at the time the corporation was flooded with options from vendors selling instant calm pastas machines that promise to turn organic waste into compost within 24 hours but after a few experiments they were dissatisfied with their results. Since the common 24 posters want exactly working group came up with their own simple system of Community Composting after Much Research the finally decided to use the drum and been method where every household contributes by 1st segregating their waste at source. Then there is a 2nd resegregation that happens because sometimes by mistake the residents may put in something which cannot go into the shadow for example sometimes the pieces of plastic and maybe a broken bottle is there so this sift through it and then this week is put in the shed. The resulting mass is mixed in a drum with horticultural waste and a bio enzyme so you get your nitrogen from the kitchen we use to get your carbon from the dry leaves and the by owens and walks like the excellent. Drums of rotated 5 times a day for a ration and to prevent them from smelling finally they are lined with dried leaves and a semi compositor and left to mature for one and a half months. So this is what has been harvested from the. We have removed it over a period of. Months and one 3rd here 5th it sifted through mango see then a little bit of plastic that sometimes left here then its just left to mature for another week or so and then it becomes a beautiful. You have. Gulati believes change needs to start at home to help get other local residents on board group holds orientation and Public Awareness sessions for voters residents and domestic helpers along with volunteer home visits from the. God that was story the key but im not home go hasegawa takes a signal you would so we ask and i was going nowhere. So i do good and then it not really begins i have bad leg you dont throw any plastic into the gideon raise no greenways didnt do that so its really going to stand on its not much of a problem oh so what i feel the nirvana Community Say is that in the past 4 years they have processed the highest amount of waste of any community. Generated close to 250 tons of compost which has been used in our lawn sort of the residence and sold to us of people from outside whether wishes to buy it its available and. And also which means that the driveway is thats going out close to about 700. 00 tons has been clean and has been able to go into the recycling stream. The experience of monica glad his community and that of other municipalities in india to start separating waste at source is a key starting point as well as citizens making collectively informed decisions about dealing with their own waste. Repairing and read designing cities its going to be an enormous task gladness how do you be possible to keep the cities of the future clean for example wants people to be c trash its a dirty smelly nuisance but we just has a huge potential smart recycling by turning it into the new can make way for a sustainable soak in the economy something. The netherlands seems to be favoring the way for. We are using Natural Resources at a very fast pace some are finite others renewable but nature cant keep up with us. We also generate vast amounts of Greenhouse Gases cities account for 70 percent of them the dutch capital amsterdam is aiming to create a circular economy by 2050 that involves containing the use of new rule materials avoiding waste and reusing as much as possible that by slashing emissions. The City Sanitation Department fishes 42. 00 tons of floating plastic trash out of the canals every year a lot more probably gets through. We never got around to ferrets of all the plastic in the ocean actually traveled by reverse towards the ocean and quite some trash you see on the street or this is there and up in this rivers and then of course the rivers flow to work to see you so its one of the kind of transport and Magnus Magnusson of plastic pollution and thats why we would really like to stop it there a memory of elaines is behind us start up the great bubble barrier and its Ineffective Technology heres how it works a chub is laid across the bed of the waterway air is pumped out of poles along it the bubbles drive trash in the water to the surface towards the bank and into a receptacles. Tests have shown that on average 86 percent of trash in the water can be collected in this way. The garbage that ends up in the container is removed 3 times a week. For now only one bubble barrier has been installed in amsterdam its a Pilot Project but the potential both in the city and world white this is. You have multiple sectors that have interest in this for example you can imagine that companies that have a benefit of tourists coming by they want beaches that arcane maryland riverside that are clean they want to have terraces very comfy all nicely and on the moment you install such such a system you can you can make its being make sure that it looks nice to visit again the firm has received Financial Support from the government its also working on ways to recycle all the collected trash. Cities also generate lots of waste water as unlikely as it might seem the water flushed down our toilets contains valuable resources that could be retrieved. Scientists in the netherlands have developed a new waste Water Purification system to do just that. One of the end products is a gun may call coma which has many up locations as a glue or binding agent in the manufacturing and construction industries. But if you want to have a circular siding to ensure its that cycle all our waste streams and waste water is a very important way streams and nowadays what happens is i think in the end produced by a gas whether its but by i guess a relatively low failure education and im producing discovery and i just dont know we can use this before i feel you have your ships show what we want to do in the hands are going to produce i show you Building Material sort of using waste water from a certain. Ringback Standard Industrial police are made from oil which is not good for the environment. In the new process bacteria purify the waste water. Comair is a side benefit. A single plant can produce up to 800. 00 tons of s. A year. And this research is a working on new bio degradable materials. They mix cow marrow with recycled toilet paper and various combinations of peach pits and. Shells. Materials. More r. And d. Is needed before this new composite based on cow merit and toilet paper can come to market but prospects look good. For infrastructure hardwoods thats b. To buy this material and also another ministry huge markets with aluminum has a very very high c o 2 footprint and a good thing of this material if you can beat its all mechanical properties and to property if you believe so then the price will be the challenge and i think the coming to in years we will try to replace aluminum body discovered near a composite material. Recycling and up cycling organic waste and construction waste could be a money spent and would certainly be good for the environment. Spend known as a great place for emissions for recycling for decades its still a long way from achieving a circular economy. The plan is to make that happen by 2050 and ambitious goal 1st city to time and to be a pioneer. For the last 15 years an organization in the desert of the largest part has been planting at least one tree. If somebody this is possible they plan to have trees the next mobilizing a community to restore the trees to be added to the region is not the only aim it also extends to securing its peoples future and making them climate resilient. The women and children of lumber village in the state of judges time. Out by the lake this morning. With all the floating lotus flowers have disappeared and theyve thought of an ingenious way to dispose seeds in the water. If they are miss finding a doctor she says we can go in because its too deep on and i was so we thought wed make small balls of money with a lot to seed and each and hope they will germany and far out in the. Next year next year it would be full of lotus flower as it would look beautiful and would also be great for the environment but they arent getting able to. Join the local and so on are volunteers with the local ngo name she called through some stands. Its young volunteers come together to help green their village and plant saplings countless trees have been cut down as a d. J. Has developed. The organization was founded by environmental activist vishnu lumba. He planted his 1st sapling when he was 11 and he now spends all his time growing saplings and distributing them across the region. The. Lumber village has adopted his philosophy and several activities revolve around the love and respect for trees. Just. Today is how the allium of us and i knew in the festival. A procession winds its way through the village to a bow bob tree that stands beside the temple. Of god is believed to reside within it and to grant wishes anything from good health to financial gain. The only other thing the says to this gathering the residents of the village showed that commitment to conserving and nurturing mother earth but the sacred tree is more than a plant it is a Guiding Force for us but i got somebody one of our. Trainees are also important for the women of lumber. They have restarted to make plates from the leaves of banyan trees. And sell them to nearby villages. This is a Traditional Craft that has been neglected for some time with the women say that this is help them economically during the pandemic which has halted some of the other work. Will. Other volunteers spend time weeding and clearing the village of invasive plants. They also replant native species that are important for the ecosystem and have medicinal value yet they hope this will help build immunity at this time of danger for. People here say their village is greener than others nearby and that they want to keep it that week. You know you do want to like i have a very big aim in life i want to try to transform 100 villages into environmentally friendly smart milledge is and to plant 50000000 trees in my lifetime ive been through all of this were going to learn to. Love village is an example of an anti a community really adopting a green way of life. In tune with the way their parents and grandparents once lived. The wind who was a few little they pride themselves for their practice of organic farming the Canary Islands with its off the landscape shaped by. Provides exceptional conditions. And the venue me cultivation practice. Even. This is not heady yeah the wine producing region on the island. Vines grow in 3 metre deep craters designed to protect the plants from harsh winds. Wind grower pedro limits and his family have been farming in this land for 3 generations the grape harvest is done entirely by hand the volcanic ash plays a vital role in nursing the plants. Whats important for the harvest is that the volcanic earth mixture stores the humidity of the rain for the entire year. Thats why the vines grow so well and are so fresh. Wheat fields used to cover this land until a major volcanic eruption hit the island in 1730 lava spewed for over 6 years destroying the agriculture later it was discovered that the earth here was full of minerals conducive to growing grapes. Ignacio remeron is a qualified biologist for him preserving the traditional methods of farming is the main priority. People have lost most of their land and so what they had to do was to continue surviving and this difficult terrain thats why they started to dig holes knowing that underneath it was part of. Something they planted the blinds in these holes and it turned out to be. And thats in a place where it hardly rains the ash storage 150. 00 millimeters of annual rainfall into service. Each creator can produce up to 20 kilos of grapes or 20 bottles of wine the vines here are all organic some 100 of the 1000 wine growers on the island have abandoned chemical pesticides and instead of focusing on Ecological Methods to protect their crops page ole miss is one of the farmers who receives advice from her marrow on organic farming methods the biologist explains why lime plays an important role. One of the serving here is line which in traditional organic agriculture is used to combat caution ale and sex symbol it has traditionally always been used but when people began using chemicals as a pesticide that tradition was largely forgotten. This is organic because what i use is sulphur and the line i wasnt getting any results with chemical fertilizer it just didnt work at all so i went back to sulphur which is what my grandparents used. To enjoy the temperate climate all year round the annual wine harvest here begins at the end of july taking place much earlier than elsewhere in europe farmers offload their graves to the local wine cellars which in turn produce about 3000000. 00 bottles per year alone number by Industrial Production standards around 75 percent of the wine stems from the mouth of a c. A grape and its sold across the Canary Islands the red and white wines are made for immediate consumption. If you get a wine from lanzarote sale is unique in an outstanding way it comes from a very harsh climate with a lot of wind a lot of dryness a lot of heat and so the vines absorb a lot of intense tropical mineral aromas you know which we then also find and the wine. 250 years of wine making in an unlikely environment. But the traditional method used on line to row to has proven that it can stand the test of time. The disruption caused by the fact. That we founded by it. Is looking into what we can draw from this event. And we chose the urgency of Climate Change and make the wizard to think about the consequences. Beneath your feet thats literally part of the experience at the down to earth exhibition at the march in gropius bal gallery in berlin its art you can touch. A real puddle scooped from a berlin street with antarctica on the wall behind some of the very 1st under your photographs the focus is on the earth and climate and without bright gallery lighting. And this photo is completely new is that were not using electricity the light is simply the light that comes through the window were not showing any films there are no loud speakers for a few weeks with this project were changing the entire system under which the only functions we didnt go anywhere by plane and everything were using we are using in a sustainable way. This was before this 5 and a. Is one of the curators of the show hes an author and man of the theater and director of the berlin effect that puts on arts events including this one the project explores nature in all its variety as well as threats to nature and the role we humans play in that process of destruction. At the truce in Borneo Mission museum in madrid theres a temporary exhibition that tackles pressing questions about how human activity is affecting nature especially the oceans. Its almost going to. War and through that lens you can. Start thinking about what are the main thing i see any space in you can think about this piece is you can thing like the way the sound were listening now thats the way. The exhibition by joan jonas is called moving off the land to the Permanent Collection also contains paintings from the 19th century that can be seen as a critique of the destruction of nature. Our has never been silent and artists have always been nouns through their wars citizen of this premium a sound so sale in india as the as in all these kind of problems a long tradition of environmental thinking in art is on display here moving off the land also explores the way phenomena are interconnected across the globe Climate Change is very much connected we try with Indigenous People but also really of the fishing with poverty in india because in the end its all part of a very same system. At the show in berlin visitors can take part in hands on workshops that engage with fundamental ideas behind the project. They are going to take a spanking im really excited to see how the museum has set up the exhibition its unplugged without artificial lights an air conditioner i think its really important to get the. In the sense of the state of the woodworking workshop is also unplugged visitors can try out sustainable building methods without using any power tools. For 1. 100 years ago everything was done by hand without electric tools we can do the same today its not magic or anything special if you have the time you can do it all by hand how. Many different aspects of art come together here but there is a common concern how to strike the right note in the debate about people and the environment. It is a vast problem and a contribution to addressing it is of course tiny but were sending a s