take tomorrow, join us and register now for the d. w global media for in 2020, for the roles. that's those had some pretty good ideas and some of them can even help improve people's lives today. welcome to eco offered co. i'm chris alarms joining you from lee goes nigeria, what works best is often a combination of traditional wisdom mixed with cutting h innovations with gold both on stays. so i m, sandra the homes that tween over you right to come play. you going to, it is great to have you with us. here is what we have. i mean,

that indigenous blonds provide women in united with food and income. why more wind turbines might soon be made of route and not still n y c shuck diagnosed to the cost of denmark. but we started right here in uganda. oh, well me, population goes hunting hunt with a blooming construction sick to and that can take it stored on the environment engine is looking for or the tennessee used to climate demanding materials. and they have come up with some promising ideas. a district dr. pressed and did not try it, and it killed their middle sons and up until the 7th, and a lot of muscle power and no votes. since there is no killed, you're going to actually take steven duco believe

a switch to alternative construction materials is long overdue. when you drive through many forest, then no longer for you, so don't feel that documents surrounding you. so the problem is that we need to stop fighting bricks to make to make our house is about a quarter of each week is made out of segment bill. and december, 24th to inc, produces a lot of youtube, but the inter looking brakes are easy to assemble. full, they need less segment. the regular ones to the book that comes out is the intel. okay. it looks at the top, at the sides and the bottom. so by, that's we as where we reduce the amount of the same inches to deal with that structure. and that's where we are reducing the emissions by addressing the segment and the, the amount of cheese that's or vegetation that would have been cut down to 2 in order to produce a break or to build a house. in uganda,

most houses us clearly made out of q and fi. it breaks, which mostly use firewood. the thousands of small brick making businesses like these throughout the country. and the ongoing housing shortage means the brakes are in high demand using pressed brakes and states could help save a lot of plywood the homes and still look the same as for the home owners. they also offer other benefits constructing. we've, instead of looking groups enabled us to have our buildings in less than for 2 months. it's 15 our budget. and then we also save because of the money that would the views to transport, to my, to yours. the construction industry is a major climate kilo segment one to factoring accounts for some 8 percent of global coupling emissions. that's why engineers us cutting

ways to reduce or eliminate segment in brick making, including my view and what heaven is that she works for. echo concrete, a company that makes seminar using of full kind of ash, traditional segment you've made out of limestone and firing it meets massive amounts of c u 2. when you hit one kilogram of lamps, then your image about it's 44 percent of it is comp windex. i do under 1855. so for one time, when you put in all of the production emissions, you find that for one time, you're in meet them both internet because they're going to come by next i to the about how for the it's the engineer has been working with students at mckayla is a university income pilot on the new process. volcanic ash is plentiful in uganda, just like an ordinary segment. the recipe calls for sodium hydroxide,

but the mixed it doesn't needs to be heated. so the process use is 5 times less energy than limestone base 7th result is what's called g, a, pull him up segment. that test tub shows that this product could cut emissions by 80 percent compared to port and then segment which is used around the world. we've been using it and looks building books and those are done with the absorption this and this much is up, prevent to be better then we're clients and meant the engineer and the after tech share. a common goal to help make uganda is construction industry more sustainable . then missouri took the book into our way towards the it's how they get to work. but to engineers is different actually have this, this to innovate and read, use that come windows and emissions as someone who started in the building profession, i could dig to and then with my colleagues in engineering were responsible for many

of the design. so the 1st, it's tough with us that'd be commendations or big or the specifications or give to our plan was steven zucker has been using his bricks for several years. my view on a new i have is a, is starting pilot production and hope to soon get the green light from looking forward to it's amazing how just one good idea can have such a positive effect on people's lives. and next report to stay with the elements and go from water to wind power. we all know wind turbines are great source of clean energy. yes, they are, but the actual construction of the still turbines can use a lot of couple in the oxide that gold, innovative, and sweet and thinking. what about making them from a different material? the wind power is environmentally

friendly, but building the towers isn't the materials have a big carbon footprint, especially when the towers are made of steel as nearly all of them are nowadays. that's why the swedish company moxie has to turn to a traditional construction material. quote, the someone make the move, it's built out of full modules which are assembled into a tube section. so what do you stuck them on top of each other? and in the end, you get a total tower for month fee on the sky limit. man, because you're going to build up to 214 meters. the 1st commercial turbine has already been erected in scott on northeast of golf and burke. it's not quite that tall yet, just 105 meters. the towers made of layered laminated wood vets bent into shape, and the muscle doing what together is much stronger than bolting or screwing. it must be on says the what is fine sustainably. the 1st commercial tower is equipped

with a 2 megawatt turbine and like steel wood can also with the stand the harsh conditions of offshore operation, the water and still don't go together, would have more to work great together. we protect out house with the coach on the outside so they can withstand the climate and see or that can move in 2021. the damage company, invest us invested in the mog beyond start up. they also built the turbine in scott off, if the innovative would turbine towers catch on. it could help make wind power even greener solutions like that can really the you mind. for our next report, we stay in contact with you and to head to an island. what a body in denmark, the looks beautiful, bought in fox, has almost no married life left to eat. that is because the water is in very poor health. the. the politics see with its stunning nature,

is one of northern us most popular travel destinations. and the coastline along by the field is one of denmark's most expensive residential areas. but it's superficial. beauty is deceptive. he's weekly fishing trips continue to show the show las amigos in how the feud is slowly dying. below the surface, allergies blooming clouding the water and depriving fish and underwater plants the vital life and oxygen. scientists footage shows how the bottom of the fuel it has become nearly devoid of life in waters that once but full of cod flounder and loved fish. it used to be a real fish, as paradise says nicholson. but now there are almost no fish less. he's been going out to sea for over half a century because in had hoped to continue fishing off to

retirement, to supplement his pension. now taking the boat out is not really worth it anymore for my that is, and he makes me both angry and frustrated. nobody is really doing anything to special. no it, it seems like those who should be taking action are only trying to shift the blame of the people who is getting off and on the nicholas ends. mind denmark's farm is to blame. the small country with just under 6000000 inhabitants is home to twice as many cows and pigs. and many farm is used fertilizers on the fields that eventually end up in the c christian. and they mentioned from lies only a few kilometers from the field. he says he has already cut the use of nitrates to the bare minimum. he uses

a satellite images to monitor which fields need to be fertilized and which can do without. but he thinks it would be impossible to give up fertilizes altogether. i think it's a good thing that we have reduce the nitrogen, but i don't think we can get any further. i think we got the lowest limit that we can accept as a, from the plants need nutrients to grain when grow without them since the pharma and since reducing the use of fertilizers, his plans are already only surviving on what is left in the ground. the mads fields christianson is aware of the problem. as a nature manager, he's only saying a project aimed at restoring the ecosystem invite. yes, your, you know, is the odd facts and numbers. at this point, we know for a fact that the 80 percent of the nutrients emitted to why the fuel it comes from

farming. we also have 10 percent today from, from the up and waste water. and maybe 10 percent from from fish farming, but that is the range and that's uh tell us a little bit about where we need to have the nitrate run off regularly closes out the gross to explode. the balloon covers everything in the field. even killing the gross due to light the probation that same you across is one of the most important elements in the ecosystem along the baltic sea coast. it produces oxygen and provides habitat for smaller fish. that's why christianson and his team from the municipality. i've taken to planting new beds of you gross invited your fuel, but the restoration project is complicated. artificial rates are being built and muscle fonts created. these blue muscles filter dirty water, which in turn allows more light to penetrate deeper fuel gross can return and

therefore produce oxygen. but when too many nutrients are flushed into the sea, again, causing the algae to return, the fragile balance is thrown off and the nature manages concerns not restricted to divide. you feud, we have hit this breaking point the, the system has collapsed within the last 56 years. so that's just the beginning. we will see this is a situation that over the baltic along the coast, the eco system of the inland sea has become disrupted. lots of mucous and sees little other than crowds in the nets. he puts out in the value fuel of the since they no longer have any natural enemies, they have become a plague. destroying that you gross eating the muscles and killing the young fish. then code makers in hopes

that everyone in the region would take more responsibility and act to save his fuel . because the problem, denmark is currently looking to solve is already threatening the baltic seas entire coast. that is certainly a warring situation. we all need to take responsibility for the good of a planet and talking of responsibility here in africa it's, we, women will certainly curry and lots of it up to roll. we're still very often the ones who look up to the home and the fun me, including of course, preparing meals and the fresh produce for those meals often come from the markets, which is great, but in the heat, a lot of its full quickly. luckily though, there is a very cool solution that has the pot to make that problem. a scene of the past on the outskirts of lagos, fruits and vegetables, that'd be gold for the more than 15000000 inhabitants of nigeria largest city.

there hasn't been room for that within the city limits for a long time. now wrap it up and growth means it takes long got to get produce from the funds to the customers. that means that harvested vegetables have to be delivered quickly as there was a lack of refrigeration facilities across the country. a large proportion of fresh produce wells before we can be sold. it's something that's frustrated. ramos out loud. okay, ever since you opened up business, 13 years ago the my thought is that we try to sell new produce before the end of the next. the, when it's very sunny model, we call that rate. so it's going to click, let's say, you know, the price drops when it's no longer a fresh, but i'm, before i sold these for almost 10000 now doesn't look now. i have to sell them for less than $6000.00 there. once they've spoiled, we have to to them out. it's

a waste news money. at the same time, many people, the illegals, haven't got enough to eat. mack of somebody that is a found, the biggest food bank that distributes food to those who need it. he says, good waste is increasing. i have written, i do not wish to about warner. i need to night, kilograms a foot by year. more than 40 percent of the for the produce is lost across the entire agriculture of value to the value of food that goes to waste. right? on one of the men julia is more then several and also about time i don't have that capacity to install for a long fuel stand for future. say a lot of food are in soaking land fuel costs, easy greenhouse gas emissions that affect the climate. there is one solution to the lack of cold storage space. cold tops was developed by my julian starts up financed by a wide range of international investors. we intend to extend the shift life of this

for this form to, to about 20 to one days. so this courtroom has been helping a lot to solve the problem. of course, how this little face on food with gold helps now operates in 28 states in nigeria and has over 6000 customers. the walking cold rooms are located next to markets are on farms and cooled and toddler using solar energy. customers like trade, copy rooms to pay the equivalent of $0.20 a day for store trait the vegetables to him. it's worth it now, he can charge higher prices for his produce because it stays fresh for much longer when i do close to one, when they keys i c, n, k i n one. now, before we used to buy in small quantities, the just semester and i sure would sell out the same day. okay, could anyone do that? but now do we have the cold room? i mean, we've been buying a bulk installed in without any problems at any time to kinda meet the customer's

needs. and by simply setting what the us for, for the toner and sort of asking them to come back the next day for them call me back or you can see it on my side. i thought it did kind of see me if that was the it would be looking how many trade is, how is the cold storage remains? the dream solutions like cold have, i still is very limited and there's a know most demand, some 220000000 people living in nigeria. and the population is growing faster than almost any other country in africa. we're staying with the topic of food in our next report in many rural communities. and so hilde rate and women are re discovering in pictures planned study, grow wild, which will once unimportant part of the process, those diets in times of climate change. these have many benefits the women of scale that plucking the leaves of the twisted branches of good trees

as a village of dun buddha, there in dom on the women can have is the leaves all year round, using them to cook or to sell at the market in the nearby town, those in there. and that when i brought it in, before we used to go into the bush to cost would double, could sell to buy food. and then one day i went to sing the for a foreigner, all my relatives took me to so hard, so helpful in the neighborhood and told me that the by i do have foods does that dates. so i started selling these to them is because there's 2 plots from left to me with any one by i do it for me. it's. but then to are this drawing to me, you know, for, to women? do we get to harvested market and native wild plants? came from joseph, gotta be it grew up in the j at long been thinking about the benefits of reviving native trutland trees, such as the wild tons of species. and they used to have hands out. they used to eat

tons of it only in times of hardships. so when we started working that with them, we started buying their hands. at 1st, they were reluctant, they didn't think we were serious, but they realized that we were actually serious. we were actually buying it and they got involved in harvesting lots of homes and delivering to us. and they became very happy from the extra income they could make. but we weren't quite satisfied because they were harvesting in order to sell us. but they were still considering it something that they'd rather not eat themselves. now this dr. to change their minds as a social enterprise. so how does that help foods raise as a way that's in local communities about native trees that can provide nutritious needs, fruits and seats. and they've learned to appreciate that new years ago we had the special ed training program and we were showing them different recipes, different ways of preparing homes up and making a nice, vicious, nice news from it. and that's really is struck on so the year after

they said that they had very little homes up to sell us. and the reason they said was, that's well basically, now they were eating the hands of themselves. so instead of selling it to us, they'd rather keep it for their own needs. exactly the result he'd want it. so how does that help food says with activities in the region says 2014 and these days works with 1500 small farmers and 80 villages because they supplied, there was fruit send me some over 20 local fence species, which i then used to produce oil jam, spices and pastry, 60 products that are sold around this year and some of them also exported of what's on it by as up until today, many people thought that these disputes are just local stuff and don't have any particular value they. so those about them because they just grow wild in the bush . but now people have begun to understand the product. so useful for example, they talk to is it sunday or national hospital prescribe foods or my show such as

hands up storage, which helps diabetics kind of guide you. so how does that, how foods could 3 causes of popular today instruct uh how i have blue is showing the women what they can do with hundreds of fruit. it has a high protein content the well that's why i was i would. why do we have taught them a lot of things such as how to cancer with souls made from home for to tooth? which did it in new tons of porridge? which did he didn't know either on to, to bayport biscuits and basically we thought them a lot of recipes home is available. why do i, can i'm go what i'm going. joseph got if you learned a lot for me is no region father. on a gobby was a young man when he immigrated to initiate with his wife. he began collecting seeds

from indigenous plants and re sewing them using a direct feeding method side as to how food successfully we planted 160 local varieties in this way. the farmers followed suit care of the commune of da go for the 5 kilometers drums into many of the trees were planted by the farmers themselves. the whole idea of diag sitting is that you can teach it to the farmers and the farmers can teach each other. and um, and then once you get the at the, what we call the v c. economy established, it will have its own momentum. and i would like to inspire people not only here, but all over the world to use their indigenous perennials. just of gobby also teaches at the university of linda. he works together with dr. i

do not do the topic of local while sans is also on his curriculum, and it's already been sending students to train with enterprise since 2018. a dement decide if i had a good the so her a saw her food site has become a training ground for our students in was a 2 deal. it's where they go to learn about the plans that are most often found in the arid and semi arid zones. here in new share, it is and see me. i see one is yeah, after 10 years of agenda region, gabby's project is flourishing. many spoke to the farming families and extracts and various local key varieties and how to care for them and not passing the insights onto the children. because i see, you know, a child, well what you from a very young age, i might have to understand that it's with the income from these efforts that will buy them certain items. so she follows you know, full steps. and that's why,

from time to time, she feels trees to mean that you still have the regular income. i can feed her family well. she's even being able to build her own house that the small seeds have borne fruit. so there is still a lot of work to be done. well, we blonde and load again this week. we hope you've enjoyed the show as much as we did. i m sandra holmes, that we nobody else signing of from complex. right to you got to a and i of chris 11. see an idea. thanks so much for joining us. and don't forget to head to equal offer, go online for more insight to stories and drop off a line at eco dw dot com. so you again, next week the,

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