A bunch of surprises for you this week. Were coming to you from Lagos Nigeria and our first big surprise is here with me right now sharon hello and surprise for the very first time we are presenting this one hundredth episode together from lagos thank you for inviting me to nigeria right and first before we get into it we want to take in the amazing view from right here on the tower and wave that behind you can get a glimpse a little bit off the ocean and i have a feeling that a little and were going to see have a closer look at it we will in did but first lets look at how far the show has come ninety nine episodes what did we do what did we learn how far the disgrace take us. If. I do do that machine do we. Get to the tesla or some place for me. But. Wow what an exciting design it has been but were not resting on our laurels we are looking to the future thats right and theres no better place to start on environmental journey phone from leader of a magazine about eighteen Million People but no matter where we go we are going to get why recycling plays such a big role in africa do you have any answers sharon yes when i look back we just did not have so much in the past but ive come to continent continue to get richer and to do the grow production and consumption having me michel never before they have more plastic more paper and even more new ways and in africa we have a way of finding new creative uses for the everyday items which otherwise would feel trust me and indeed sound theyll feel are transparent and. Yes well we have a knack of turning this creativity into our business like our next colony are in project the recycle points which uses it collecting on something hard to not speak or to recycle while having the other benefits of creating jobs. The margarine commercial capital of lagos is drowning in waste theres so much of it that drainage systems and waterways get blocked which creates a serious Flooding Risk chum okun oog wanted to change that shes the founder of recycle coins a company that creates incentives to recycle waste such as plastic bottles and fuel to sashay from care what i. Pay less and finally to shopping bags and train away the care what are the ticket content and plug in our last field and grand ideas and what i always and we train our streets we can actually use them as the raw materials. For a new product the Company Sends out a socalled waste bastar to registered households and businesses it picks up everything that can be recycled including plastic bottles glass bottles cans and cardboard in return the participants receive points taken rejean for Household Items every time they come from the airport and theyre gone three or four times and there is probably the brick for because theyre making a rule to the clear clean. One pet bottle for example equals one point four five thousand point zero five thousand bottles recyclers can get a carton of noodles for example that may not seem like much but for many people every day it helps to waste and crushed and so to recycling plants that allows the company to turn a profit turning trash into cash is an idea. New hopes will catch on and she wants to raise environmental awareness we usually introduce community to come through different communities by first of all organized what we call degree rallies where we you know. Clogged drain agees and street restraints and clean and after a green that were committed realize about were starting there within that the ways that generated in that exercise that help is really needed legal state produces about ten thousand tons of waste. Too much for the municipal Waste Collection to handle. Residents appreciate the opportunity to reduce the impact on the environment and so to local companies. As a bank to produce quite a lot of waste and now instead of that just going to some regular landfill and polluting the environment we find that we have been an even more socially responsible citizen because we know that working with a trusted partner to recycle points the will the huge amounts of will that we do produce as a band ends up somewhere good. More and more people are joining recycle points. Says the venture has been a success. We have about six thousand households on our platform and thats. Because we have put their house. Under School Recycling scheme because we want the schools to be able to catch the young ones possible so thats cause for change from. Any stage and its been a fantastic rate so far. Today just a small fraction of the legal says waste is recycled that leaves recycled points with plenty of opportunity to expand its business. Well its great that she recently won an award for have business idea she will be able to invest the two hundred thousand dollars prize money. Mt did you know that kenya has the largest wind power farm in africa it is located in one of the driest parts of my country but also im feeling that youre not really lacking in wind here made you know not in my country like the beach where we are now sometimes you get here and the winds are just amazing for instance well just to see it may not be as much as it used to be usually im into them three i think we could actually set up one of those parks right here absolutely and it would be a good step in solving one of africas biggest problems that is Power Outages and to become a region of kenya lets head over there to that mega wind farm and feed how that area is benefiting from this project. Three hundred and sixty five Wind Turbines located in one of the windiest areas of kenya. The lake took on a wind power project is the largest private investment in kenya at six hundred seventeen million u. S. Dollars and the largest wind farm in africa. Its owned by among others a number of scandinavian investors theres wind pretty much nonstop in this area of northwestern kenya theres an incredibly steady wins throughout the year its only very rare three four five days and maybe that we have actually no wind here but three hundred sixty days of the here we can produce power. Technician wellington or t n o is making his daily routine checks. Cutting curio we have not to go into full time operation but given that were using the crewmates that needs maintenance needs and your checkups others needs wittily be a little cups so we have all this maintenance. Sheets that we need to live good through make sure our commits us if. And weve bought into. The wind farm is not yet on the grid. The lines to connect the plant arent ready much to the annoyance of wellington or to know the state owned contractor is behind schedule. But the substation that will distribute the electricity is already operational. After the coalition this is the point where the power comes in so at this point we have the power the only thing we do the prime ministers decision is centrally to step up the voltage that were getting then feed to the government substation. Wind power accounts for less than one percent of kenyas power supply almost fifty percent comes from Geothermal Energy and more than a third from hydro power. Once operational the wind park will provide fifteen percent of the nations electricity with an aim to decrease the use of fossil fuels. So you can take the population of nato then that gives you almost the number of home states that the power that were going to would probably be giving cundiff took and that. Was farmers live close to the wind park sorry that village was relocated by one kilometer to make way for an access road one hundred fifty thousand acres of Community Land was allocated to the investors there are disputes about whether or not the locals were adequately consulted kenyan courts ordered both sides to seek mediation for an amicable settlement. John ecowas is a resident of sorry emma and a defender of the wind farm. He hopes arema two will get the clean and cheap energy helping the village to develop. Yeah thats me and i will use the electricity for education because we have a school here and it needs power the people who use it and also in the village will use it to charge our phones and it will also help businesses to grow that will have access to internet and even open a cyber cafe i mean. Wellington is proud once they connect to the grid which should happen by june twenty eighth but they took on a wind farm will reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions by more than seven hundred thousand tonnes a year this will make kenya one of the greenest countries in africa if not weld wide. Now were standing on africas second longest reach nearly twelve kilometers from and to end this technological feat not only come back to district but people as well speaking of good ideas when they also be one hundred doing youll be yes and be it either hundreds doing your bit im doing a bit is trying to segment when i was sure that we used to highlight the nice inventions and just little ideas about good warby and are absolutely and do you remember me flea balls and plates amid from last week almost eighty Million People watched this video on our various social Media Channels or the one about recycling and reusing concrete probably was what well leave you with here and lets hope we can a once again please with this threshing environmentalists idea guess what we have a look and see what this company from germany is doing with what remains from making up old you. Straw wars when you can eat the enemy. Sometimes you really need a straw. But in most cases theyre fun but unnecessary. Straws may be small but they add to the huge amount of Plastic Waste worldwide. There especially harmful when eaten by marine creatures. Now you can protect the environment by eating straws yourself. The food engineering student constantino man and his colleagues have created an edible straw. Its made from the leftovers of germanys apple juice production of. The entrepreneurs say this method would currently reduce the number of Plastic Straws in germany by fifty percent. The start up already sells to Restaurants Hotels and supermarkets. They now have strawberry flavored straws and are working on a lemon one. And since its all biodegradable. You can enjoy your drink with a clear conscience. You like that. If you are also doing your bit tell us about it. Visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit we share your story. Hi there were back again and this time were in the area of Lagos Nigeria where we meet some people who are doing some wonderful things with very unique ideas id like to introduce to you. Thank you. For texas had a very brilliant idea. Thats right what theyre trying to do is to show the people around here what they can do to protect our planets atmosphere and at the same time improve Food Security for People Living in aben areas like legals so tell us what are the support behind us doing and why africa has to face in hard poverty and also extreme by the year twenty fifty the population of people decided in the cities. We increase from fifty five percent assistance be sent so be having about ten billion people in the ward and the majority of them would be in the city so its very important for us to feed them and to get them fed well you know we need to strategy. On farms within the city so that people can from very close to their houses so does the overview of what we are doing protect always on has been around for three years now and its clear that you want to stop the growing of the ozone hole but other same time involved in gardening and promoting Food Security how do all this as you sit together we need what you call still agricultural and we can only achieve Sustainable Agricultural true. Participation actually protecting using only through the use of with materials and also you know visions like fifty percent what are. You you so. You get used to be a part of it do you. Mind where does your funding go. Passionate i mean one of the greatest resources we have in africa is. Not only. Will we actually open or opportunities you know we have our teams that have attended Young African leaders initiate. So we create opportunities for them and asked for indian we get so little. International organizations to help fight extreme security in the grassroots the Food Security of the nation is the National Security particularly so we were talking about insecurity in our country we need to produce more food to get people secured so what were seeing around here really is a lot of commitment and theres no doubt that the participants here want to see the results so how do you measure your success one of our participants has about four city farms you know not in a particular location of a faucet if im in different locations you go states so that. Has to us. Getting testimony that we have one of our parties one that is actually financing is education from growing food in the city and we also have some farms do point out though that you need competent people on the farm so they can actually trust those to produce competent people to actually be on their farms for more Food Production so whats next. Currently weve affected a bit over seven thousand five hundred lives so want to. You know. Were actually looking. Obama farms that his Backyard Farms in the city and also this our facility well actually looking forward to the completion of the facility whereby we have of agriculture has been proxies in the cities so that is whats. Thank you thank you for coming off again so very you have it the boss is back at work that brings us to mixed favorite topics on the show wildlife report in zambia which is not too far from where our own lives rights are really not too far and its about chimpanzees which are one of the species that are in serious need of protection like many other animals in africa their habitats are being steadily eroded by people they come looking for farmland and for Mineral Resources or even sometimes to hunt alternately the economy reasons are driving the threat to many primates who fortunately people are going more and more where of how important it is to protect these unique animals that are. Similar to us in so many ways for many ways and they will get to learn just how similar we are in about a second and our next story takes us to our is in not then zambia but is providing sanctuary so one hundred chimps but they dont leave exactly as they would in the wild. Time for lunch in the wild life of an age. A gathering in the trees close to the feeding station. The stuff you prepare meals for the eps twice a day. Innocent morning the heads up that you want to resolve hes known some of the kings since he was a child. Of. The fortys south of the station on the edge of the forest the system is designed to make sure all of the animals are fit. For fifty or more such impulses because that want to separate the male as it from the females and they dont want because the males are going to and always wanted it everything so this is why it is a positive. Aside from the feeding times the chimps live just like their counterparts in the wild defense in close around one hundred fifty hecticness much of it undisturbed rain forest. If the fence is there to protect the animals from humans for just of the chimps and west enemy for the core idea really is for these chimps that to have a good home that is this is why we have courts or these big enclosures that for them they can hear what forty seven of them will and we are there to provide protection for them because in the well into the one hundred fifty but they are civil as long as they stay inside the can function inclusions back in the forests the originally inhabited the anymore wouldnt survive long for most of the chimpanzee is the tool for she come from or congo which is like a thousand kilometers from rhea. Im so these two. Porches and before theyre doing push me a tree. That you can see one left off and it will sit up in one nine hundred eighty played by a funny couple argument on top and what later took over financing today his family continues to ensure that the people here profit from the project. For example with a school for the children of the sentries employees. Good morning for a. Week what are we kasi that work for the chimps and really you guys law school anyway mia so in two thousand and seven we were brought to school so that their children can have a decent education too for shes was just about chimpanzees there but also about the humans and this is why this project is looking at the helping the children get to quite education. That costs money which is wide for that reason he bought a nearby farm on its grounds hoot and ropes and had listed to help feed the chimps while cattle raised to provide income. Also helps take care of the animals. I jump on she shes brazilian and has been living and working. And we need to take opportunities like this of doing in richmond or offering Something Different to be able to see all of them to have a good eye on it to check for whos coughing who is needing who is losing weight. Anymore and forced to interact with humans if they dont wish to the idea is to live them live lives as free as possible from human interference but some gyms need help and attention. She point has a complicated past. Like the other in his cage he was unable to integrate into one of the bands here. Tele trust bins as much time with him as she can. Get to and get tickets. Yes. The fun is the phone the pets he was with the family for very long so he doesnt really know how to fit in the chimp family how to behave like a puppy a chip he has the need to be with people and also to have some kind of interactions she forms group is slated to get their own large social inclusion in the coming months just look at the chimpanzees the telephone the new home of the two for wildlife an age. What great project they call inspiring to see how it has created jobs and been fooled by the help and yes i did seems to be just what people need to make them more environmentally conscious thats all we do here from a period it is time for us to go even bizarre hunger episode must come to an end sharon was great having you here in nigeria in hoping to get out the little ingrates to be here thank you for the opportunity to is absolutely amazing i wish you could do it every day and i hope that oh i didnt in africa in europe although wherever else africa can be seen enjoy the top of much as i did well well see you again next week with the more we might hear this im sure they enjoyed it but if you want more information about also go to our website or check out our social media pages of all of us here in lagos we do appreciate your feedback and any comments you have concerning our show. From both of us on the crew here and we go hijacking. The. 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