Have again marched through the capital authorities are refusing to allow foreign journalists to cover mounting opposition to the. Alexander lukashenko. Germany have confirmed that a 26 year old jewish student was seriously injured in an attack outside the synagogue in the Northern City of hamburg a man dressed in military style clothing struck the victim repeatedly in the head with a shovel place arrested the alleged attacker this is the news from you can follow us on twitter and instagram news website at www dot com. Each decision. Some consequences of this. To us and the above between. Some trees or. How many of us think about like the rights we have the nature of around us has right still went on this week. Alone welcome to equal india. Magazine when stories not only from india but across asia and europe im struck that i could. Report the story of an inspirational comeback. Just the color integral has a troubled past in india the die for which a right was a me just sort of exploitation in the british raj the colonizers commission on indian. Food which led to hunger and despair. But. A sustainable vibrant of the crop. Of. Something magical that describes extracting pigment from an indigo blonde the timing and external conditions must be perfect it is the only way to get exactly the right shade of indigo the 42 year old says his own mood is critical. If im upset. When we 1st grass green leaves. His affinity for indigo today it is hard to imagine that fun and vision and then different going to get bought for himself 15 years ago when he completed his masters degree in geography. Suddenly changed after his fathers untimely death and opportunities led him to the speed of natural dying. It is a physically strenuous process which requires scientific position and artistic ecstatic both of which has none and must. Just part of a himalayan movement that is binding but if i was off its nonpolluting natural diet through a sustainable supply chain that has been built around produces like. Albany is a social enterprise that creates commercial opportunities in textiles and die making. It began using him as a way of connecting the people of the mountain ecosystem years ago. That was. Specially. When it was. By the British Government that the farmers had to go in to go as a contractor crop a percentage of their crop had to be nickel and they were given seeds on very high Interest Rates leading to a lot of starvation debts suicides and so on and so forth looking at that it was it was a tough subject even ventured into the moment that a 3rd toward indigo i had people just telling me that hell can i even think about what will the. Mahatma gandhi considered the father of modern india was among foment to lead a revolt against forced indigo cultivation in 1980 this war was the 1st of its kind provide a clear direction for indias freedom struggle culminating 30 years later in so much on independence from the british coloniser. Today and he hopes to transform the idea of the color indigo as one that resonates with prosperity empowerment and sustainability. 300 who have been creamed and indigo cultivation are growing the dye crop and rotation that food crops using organic farming techniques. This not only increases soil fertility because of indigos nitrogen fixing qualities but also provides much needed additional income for the producers. Over the last 3 years and you davey from des goli village has been planting a small patch of her farmland with indigo together with the crop once a year by 2019 she and 10000 rupees the plant also keeps wild animals away. That she knew were bored in i began growing into google because i know it would. If some magic farming right for example meant having to kill on a constant lookout for wild thanks monkeys and other pests are damaging to crawl through our neck ive always worried about whether thered be anything left for me and then my live but it got me before. Compared with the synthetic version of the organic garden is much cost but also more eco friendly. The crop cycle last about 90 days to the quietest 10 to 12 days of live and nearly guarantees and provided the crop isnt damaged by unseasonal rings or other effects of climate change. What began as a small experiment has blossomed into a sustainable an attic and see to scoff indigo when you change that in short autonomy and selfsufficiency the productive are mainly sold in india but are also exported to countries such as germany japan or the us comment about it beyond through our borders are seen by people around the country remember degenerate of our hard work and we are really proud of it and i know it feels good to know that people appreciate and. You. Ringback with the himalayan indigo project the pigment seems to be bringing in a new kind of. Healing the wounds inflicted by the british eastern here come on the community and the land is gone. Now like many grassroots organizations across india and body of connected Decision Making and become a nation the notional sweat lodge which was the guiding principle during india. And badminton is this curious connection and finding solutions more and more people and organizations. Can benefit from it. So these are all moments where people have actually tried to claim that for all my toes that affect our lives we should be the ones who are making decisions all be central to the Decision Making we cant believe it through governments and corporations and so on. Its what i was actually a very ordered concept in india comes from ancient script shows and then doing the inventions movement against the British Colonial rule it was spoke to the eyes by many different moments such as put in since the moment done on jindal and others where the british were trying to take control over our Production Systems on agriculture and so on. And then Gandhi Brockett especially in his book ins what i was and then in the moment but whats important is still realize that its not just about indias independence from colonial rule about a nations independence. Its actually much more about an individual and of communities hard on me and freedom but responsibility to other peoples and other communities autonomy and freedom which means if it encompasses a deeply ethical well being off living it encompasses my self restraint so that i dont impinge on the rights of others to live. In india the concept of Love Development has been taken all the same from the west in the. Since and we have been boys did all the successive governments have been boys did either to state socialism or now increasingly to capitalism which means that g. D. P. Growth has to happen at any cost which means you can cut down for those who can. Bring out over to learn you can do anything you can displace millions of people in the pursuit of this kind of there was a cunt fortunately in modernized development we seem to think of ourselves as apart from nature we have to figure out how we are actually part of pretty please insert ourselves understand that other species have their own right to exist that everything around us has as a spirit of being order is in is is something in itself which needs to be respected. For the last 40 years what ive seen is a lot of communities in india and other parts of the world that are actually practicing in some senses different notions of what arch for instance Women Farmers in different parts of the country claiming for solar energy which means complete control over everything to do with food you know the seeds the land the water the knowledge of all movements to reclaim Community Control or forests in central india and other parts of the country. To build in the notion off far which is a deeply political and economic concept of independence and autonomy as they said but also the responsibility to the rest of nature and so course what odds but also radical ecological democracy in the sense of trying to rescue the word democracy from its currently liberal interpretation where we think elections is about democracy actually democracy is about power of the people we each have within ourselves inherent power to take decisions or be part of Decision Making many other values that are explicit or implicit in this for instance the value of solidarity among british and but cooperation the value of working with nature as a common is not as a private property the value of rights of all species the value. Living simply because if you if you consume more and more and more youre actually impinging on the rights of other communities or on other species the value of diversity so that i respect your ethics and your ideologies and your beliefs and faiths and you respect mine. You have to fundamentally order the economy in order for people to have much more control over their own Productive Resources and in order for these sorts of occupations also to gain respect and be something that also encourages young people to get into them rather than everybody running boards and machinery and industry and so on. Selfreliance or ogmund advertize become quite a buzzword in india these days everybody seems to realize that crisis tells us that we have to be selfreliant but the way in which its being manned and the kind of packages that are being pushed out actually pushing people more and more towards commercialization privatisation. With it because what id show many many things happen one is that for instance we make the centralised state a much less important probably even withers away and each of us begins to understand how we can take control over our own lives with as i said responsibility for others as collectives as communities wherever we are. Like. We have to recognize that other species and as a whole also have rights and that their value is not determined only by how useful they are to human beings but the way the world runs to be interesting the world can we expect industry for example to use this as a guiding principle a company in indonesia buildings. Here only outskirts of band on a city on internees is main island java something is being cultivated that could be of great value. Mushrooms they rarely draw much attention there are many species with many varied properties some one are showing others contain medicine allegiance here they are the roll material for an innovative kind of textile. Mushroom its a pretty green to be kind of Sustainable Future leather the curious cruel mycelium original piece part of your fondness can mean making perfectly. Without any bjork p. V. C. Or any can we caught on time race material how do you raise in your growth comes from a family of mushroom farmers in 2012 he and some colleagues founded a startup mushrooms but they quickly changed tack to focus on my psyllium they are committed to developing a sustainable animal friendly fashion industry compared to animal or in my school of leather it is having a really huge advantage in Environmental Impact for example we can share much less water we dont have to cure any walls we can move vertical farming so we can save some space and its also a really last carbon emission they feed the mushrooms with organic waste such as sort of just. Their company micro tech sources that locally whats waste for the witch mel is a recyclable treasure here. First the sawdust is cleaned with steam then its mixed with tiny mushrooms. They consume the sawdust and at the same time on the outside of the sawdust blocks they produce tightly woven mycelium which can be harvested within a few days. Percepts uses a fraction of the water used in standard leather production less than 110th. This has caught the attention of how long he makes and sells shoes many of course a major flood but these days hes keen to find alternatives. For Leather Industries one of the biggest contributor for carbon emission and we see that as as long as we keep selling forward whether footwear and as the cells grow we keep damaging the environment and then it came to a realization that we need to find the so sustainable solution at 1st he bulked at the notion of mushroom but his team have now learned how to work with it. My slim fabric is breathable flexible under a bust it can last for years and its an eco friendly Sustainable Product Companies around the world are discovering its advantages. My feeling im sure you still have a long way to go though not yet widely available they are not yet a mass Market Product it has still higher cost because due to the scale meaning. We still produce a limited quantity its a learning curve but as an Innovation Company we need to and i think the future will be very bright for us. The resin you grow and his team agree that busy ramping up production they already have orders is far ahead just 2027. So if only we are producing 2000 square feet of my silly matter per year over the money its really huge so we need to double down our capacity in order to keep up with him at. The company is growing it used to have just 5 employees now it has 38 monitors carefully the quality of its output even testing samples to destruction. New girl and his team still have some way to go but they hope that mushroom leather alternative is at the least a good step forward. The idea that each one of us is responsible for ourselves our community and of abundant is quite wonderful but in reality this is not a. Result of a project in the netherlands thats good for me and bob and the people who live in it but some. 60 kilometers from amsterdam on a tourist boat the destination is one that only recently appeared on the map 5 islands in an enclosed sea or lake created out of nothing in 4 years called marco water and. In 1976 the construction of a dam sealed off this portion of the north sea which became like a vast pond with no water in that so outlet muddy and stagnant water was right because. Getting rid of the suffocating blanket the slick. We marry. Our oath only refer to them with the soil thats causing the problem one of the islands is now open to the public it has a functioning harbor to several private visiting vessels a Visitors Center a beach and 5 houses that can be rented out for a week visitors are attracted by the remoteness of the place although its only an hour away from the mainland not 12 monument is one of the dutch n. G. O. S behind the project as soon as the silt and sand was pumped from the bottom of the sea to form 5 roughly shaped mounds the water and wind continue the shaping of the needle and at 1st reads in grasses were planted to retain the scent jeans but soon nature took over covering all with a blanket of flowers and plants at the latest count some 120 species of birds have arrived including geese gulls cormorants and more than 2200 nesting common turns but not everyone is happy with the new arrangement. About 20 kilometers to the north fishermen in the town of book say declaring the area and nature reserve has deprived them of the whole mark amanda lake in one stroke Monica Wagner we dont have a problem with the mark of about him but we love nature too because were nature people. But we made all these investments and suddenly we cut our legs we had 450. 00 nets and now we can only use 15 percent and that it would not be buried not fight so then we tried to go outside to the north sea we adapted to boats for that but really there are too small we tried for years to go out there in spring to get back on our feet. On the clock off to run. In the struggle to allocate land and sea in a densely populated netherlands nature has one less time the fish have returned to the market mallaig and for once that only being hunted by the birds. And a lot of that on the world may not be familiar with the work or. Not actually are right to point to that. One wanted to bring more diversity to the undocumented. So she founded the black. In mexico to find out about the behind her. Would see you to come. To the team the way you live is emotional soak sets deeply positioning yourself quite differently in relation to nature so they identify with this movie and i think if i was damage this is something that the west organizing. Can really take on into building up these feelings within the population so that it is the power of force in the environment. In 987 thats 33 years ago the Environmentalists Movement in this country with few of the white people and the group of friends including myself we got together you know what this i use it having been talking to each other they say dont we notice that actually this no black and i think minorities that you see anywhere in the environmental sector so we thought we should do something about it and this all the things goes on and on with nothing happening and this something in the opportunity comes it was a european year of the environment and we applied for a small amount of money and got it and that kicked off everything. When i grew up in hong kong as a child and hong kong in those days was not like the glitzy thing its now known to be it was the era when people will pouring in the cross the border from china because of the unrest and my parents ran out of china so we were very poor my parents came from nothing and you know taking nothing with them and all that but nation almost in the show was such an amazing thing that as a child i was in moon and the chinese still calls have a very deep relation with nature and now a rich in no way of being is very and the mystic so ill close this of nature is something that seemed continuous through my life. Nature is not local is local and global you know you pollute something a blows across the world that doesnt stay where it is and actually a lot about pollution that the moment though it was germany and causes acid rain in the black forest is also doing it but you cant change the patterns of nature so these people will very environmentally conscious of the world a more open to working with people of the world rather than as it now ne intrinsically local and Global People constantly in touch with their countries of origin so in a way they have more investment in environmental themes global things than anybody else they are connected theyre Global People. I hope to be sceptical has given you enough for part on how we can stop tradition ship with me and bob meant to live in ill see you again next week until then. Good care of yourself your loved ones. What keeps us in shape what makes us sick and how soon stay healthy. My name is dr carlson the i talk to medical experts. 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