Its good to see you again my name is now outside and thanks for tuning in todays program will take us on a whirlwind tour of odd views of all continents africa and europe the shed some light on the environmental threats we face with ugandan eco activists been next on the cards in the wake of a troubling visit to the World Economic forum. We go to germanys krauts oberlin Aware Research of how to balance not plant based cement. How we go to kenya where fast growing type of grass could help farmers and the pride. When my billing is gone then plentiful negative winter there was a panic or an evil intent she was looking forward to hearing a lot of other young women up to be used and ended up on the bottom i am going to be about race and we present ation going up a 100 fold i know that theres a somebody on the league other young white knuckling on the 1st conference in st johns just thinking come out of a news agency local to you may also state of grace apologize in the mean value but up because the climate activists feel the need to even come on to all the way to voices are being raised from the climate debate not that it is going back home in uganda and it off because when by to visit. Oh. It was a moment of dread suddenly its miss america when she discovered that i was the only african she had been cropped out of the published group photo with other Climate Change activists the incident went viral in an Online Press Conference was cut to get back in the media other activists joined in solidarity including from south africa and the tune but from sweden. Youre focusing on tried activism from different corners of you know the western countries but what youre doing wrong is try as much as possible to says out and raise the voices from the global south it makes us feel like they activism and disasters in africa wouldnt be selling care for you. Mr mcateer lives in uganda she got involved in climate activism in december 2018 after her country was hit by unusually high temperatures the incident during her visit to the World Economy forum in switzerland has not be flayed to her ambition or commitment. Whats happened turned out to be a positive thing because of how we responded to aids as activists from africa and it has our work and most choose to stand up and rise up and demand for action as well as our pain media and the part about the dangers of Climate Change. Shes also taken hire activism into the classroom activist school in central uganda she wants to inspire the next generation to get passionate about the environment. And words cant even live here to protect their trees. I believe that every kid deserves an opportunity to be in such a class to clearly understand the importance of the things that they see in their environment these kids understand they clearly knew the importance of sophistry but if you come into that class and teach them and remind them that gets them our lot and our way out of the destruction that causes that that goes on in their environment and pushes them to call south and now shes ready to take her activism to the next level shes prepared. The proposal for the Ugandan Parliament how the goal is to get Climate Change. Introduced in schools i wish i had known about Climate Change at an idea age i believe that my impact would have been bigger than it is right now thats why i believe that it is important and for the president and the ministry of education to to include Climate Change as part of the curriculum in different schools the determined doc to be so also wants to see schools using community with support from how funny. She is now supplying Clean Cooking stoves to help schools reduce their consumption of food this will not only save trees and money but also give the children 1st time experience of using clean energy it is all part of lining up to protect claimed by the meat. Only a fraction of south africas west is recycling about 90 percent down took things from the crushed lish into the young people based on come be a source of disease and beef is well on its report picks up. And it sounds to young south africans thought it was high time to tackle this problem one of them said the other over cycling expert im likely to think well the 2 men have got together to create their own Waste Removal system thats it. Its 5 oclock in the morning. As the sun rises the stench of rotting garbage becomes unbearable. These 2 men are determined to do something about all the litter in their community. One solution is resettling because most of the things that you find here are a 2nd impulse saw saw 60 percent of feed can be repaired it 2 into recycling bongani p. D. Worked as a musician and taliban more to yani worked in Waste Management seeing the garbage piling up they both quit their jobs and started the initiative valid green like many villages in south africa cant afford Waste Collection so theres letter everywhere. The valid green team go from house to house to collect plastic glass bottles and paper then they sort it all. Most people in macau used to burn that waste so it wasnt easy to convince them to change their ways and keep things that can be recycled. If its only really all the way to seriously it was going to be a deal include recycling and it sells so when you tell the board recycling for them its the and thats they need easier than killing a youth of i am not go about to say. But to also started what they call the eco hero program to engage with young people about Environmental Issues once a week they go to the local Primary School to make music and dance with the students. Participation is voluntary but its fun to join them and that motivates the kids to become eco heroes. Here today i am sure you are in love with music and but now. With the environment in with all these things that i have a new Global Warming crowd the forest there is in pollution over rivers and pollution of our oceans so many you know what why not use my music and the little skills that they have and of course to. Study the environment and so what are we combine the 2 most need to create something that is unique and beautiful here martijn it also trains the local soccer team another opportunity to motivate young people to take part in clean up campaigns and teach their parents how to separate the trash. Rather green also helps people in the village set up compost heaps to make use of organic waste residents are grateful for all these activities and that makes them more inclined to take an active part in recycling what evil have learned. Its a Great Initiative it helps the children after school in these crucial 3 or 4 hours when they would otherwise just sit around. With all these projects in the community they can go to violet green and bongani entire bangle teach them how to take care of the environment or they can do other things that will keep them busy on the school. Day but in the valley green team take what they collect to a recycling station a major challenge for their Business Venture is transportation to recycling station pays about 80 euros for a load half the sum goes to pay the owner of the truck so period just 300. 00 euros a month in total. He says the solution is to grow the business and gauge a larger group of waste collectors who will sell them the things they find. Put it in as a private center so they come to us this is the result there was then. See this become pundits who fly in dreams who plan to say the words so do more volume we have no more when i see one plus post and leave it. For now p. D. And multi i mean a saving up to buy a professional weighing scale and eventually a truck of their own. Then they plan to employ dozens more waste collectors. To make and keep a clean place to live. And now and so this weeks doing your bit its hard to be margin on Infrastructure Projects anywhere in the world doesnt use concrete but producing cement for the concrete produces a lot of c o 2 emissions well a group of german scientists and the african partners in nigeria want to make a difference they want to make concrete production more sustainable theyve made on all standing discovery take a look at this. Africas building sector is booming the continent uses as much concrete for construction as europe does but making the cement that binds it produces a lot of Carbon Dioxide up to 10 percent of the worlds c o 2 emissions. Scientists from germany and nigeria are studying alternatives there are experimenting with remains of local plants such as kosov appeals that have been incinerated at certain temperatures. And are from the ash that we collect we develop cement like products they could be used in place of cement binder sold at local markets that would reduce the c o 2 footprint. From. Ash from rice hulls and other plant remnants are also showing promising results using plant based cements is an environmentally friendly alternative. Not only can an Endless Supply of organic waste be put to good use this is stable eco concrete is also much cheaper to produce. It may even be more stable and durable than conventional concrete. The scientists hope to see the 1st Building Made from kosov a concrete constructed as early as next year on the university of lagos campus. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. Tag doing your bit. We share your story. Feeling nigeria is a big. 200000000 people says its likely goes on i keep growing but can the environment really handle all this massive growth it may seem like an Impossible Task but our nomination close to showing the right way by taking small steps they are teaching the farmers how to grow organic food and how to take care of nature one patch at a time we have to think about all these old. Organisms all this things that live in the still use in this thats. Themselves. Training in organic farming has become a doer when they as main job he likes to teach out in the field. Like give you those chemical to do the salmon and see whether it comes it washes 70 delta the river goes down to pollute the river. Instead he courage is the use of organic fertilizer. And they should. Then very mentalist shows the farmers how to mix and apply it correctly his organic fertilizers made from the name tree and other quanta extracts. Now weve talked about Climate Change and the system that has been. Been a triscuit so wants to start up on the on aspect of agricultural to caution that. In trying to 12 he founded the Nongovernmental Organization farm awareness which advocates farming methods that dont harm the environment. The farmers also benefit from the training because using chemical fertilizers degrades the soil over time. Unlike those in the conventional method of chemical fertilizers alchemic we call. The natural metals of farming using the environment that use in things around us to form inputs to form fertiliser rather than you who arent they go to meet the farmers and different communities right here in with. The n. G. O. S supports farmers on creating cooperative and they provide training courses so since 2012 theyre trained around 9000 farmers. I dont want us our with thoughts but are good at it so most of us we have it with others if its a family that really does welcome it so great that when most of us so long this is actually as most of all we improve on our family system we have to from awareness also sells the organic fertilizer which is more affordable for the small scale farmers they need less of the liquid than chemical fertilizer and can buy it from the organization and subsidized rate of about 7 year olds later. Alexandra our hands started organic farming 2 years ago after training with farm awareness the season hes mainly planting the salmon easing organic fertiliser. He close the club into but hes already watch. So they made a 3 hour flight give me the results. The engineer would like to sell its fertilizer internationally but it wouldnt sound as an organic product because nigeria has no organic certification system so the group is still facing challenges to friends itself. We all know that mustnt wants is a Plastic Waste and up you know aussies luckily more and more people are coming forward with their own unique solutions to addressing the problem. Youre very right near to these young passionate sailors from germany and the netherlands felt about the plastic invasion and came up with a very innovative idea of intercepting the truss before it is washed away a seat and now this idea is being used in the dams what always take a look. At all kinds of daybreak swimming in this canal in amsterdam ends up in this catchment cage. A crew from the Water Company but annette comes by regularly to empty it every week about a 1000 kilograms of stuff accumulates half of it plastic this is how it works and there is pumped into a tube lay diagonally across the bed of the canal and escapes through holes in the tube the bubbles bring the waste to the surface the waste is then directed with the help of the current into the receptacle near the bank keeping it out of the north sea. Boats and fish can pass through the bubble barrier be extra oxygen is also good for the water. The great bubble barrier was devised by an amsterdam startup of the same name yeah right on at this point the great little barrier is responsible for the maintenance of the whole installation but that in it is going to start doing research so they will Start Research on how much less thick is being collected and also do research on. How easy it is to be emptied the Water Company has crews and a fleet of boats that go around and pull trash out of the citys waterways last year that included more than 40000 kilograms of plastic the hope is that bubble barriers will make the job easier and more effective. Thats what this test installation in operation since november should determine. The inventors spent years developing the bubble barrier. There were various challenges such as how to position the tube and resulting screen of bubbles so as to direct traffic to a collecting point and how to make best use of currents. The diagonal path is key. For people set up the company they now have a staff of 10. Theres been a lot of resonance the technology is not particularly complex or expensive and it should prove to be very scalable philip horne is one of the inventors of the system and hes continuing to develop it hes currently working on improving the catchment part of the process. Micro plastics are a serious problem worldwide and jeopardize the food chain none the less offshore it is in the European Union for example and yet obliged to clean their waterways of plastic despite the health risks we do see now in my capacity because thats a more direct threat to our health thats something when we start to wake up if its already hurting the environment is usually not urgent enough. But theres still the budget around to get plastic out of the water so its. Challenge for us as our society. Plastic trash is a global plague that bubble barriers could help combat the team see a lot of potential for expansion. Move towards europe within this years and 2020 but also move towards asia once you have a solidified partnership with parties in asia they hope to set up the 1st the bubble barrier in asia by 2023. What are Smart Solution for plastic pollution here is another great idea this one from kenya right next door often times people graze cattle in local woodlands which can have a negative impact but crowd version of more nutrient rich napi a grass could help ease the pressure on the forests as well as boosting dairy yields on cutting Greenhouse Gas emissions a win win situation. Green testi healthy and pest resistant mapi a grass. The hills around kenyas mouth forest offer ideal conditions for these highly nutritious plants which can grow several beaters tall. But the local farmers prefer to graze their cows on wild grassland. Kenya has 2000000 small scale Dairy Farmers with herds of 10 cows or less. All together thats a huge number of animals emitting a considerable amount of methane gas well they just in their food. And farmers are still cutting down forests to gain grazing land for their cattle the biggest problems were having now about Climate Change is Land Use Change and Land Use Changes where you are converting forests that are actually talks of carbon and this couple when it is released into the atmosphere actually needs to claim a change so when you cut down forests either to change it into a cropland or a for grassland for livestock then you are releasing a lot of carbon into the atmosphere which leads to Climate Change. Together with 2 european universities the center for International Forestry research has conducted a study in kenya to find an alternative that could benefit both the farmers and environment they compared while grasses forest grazing and silent forder led from locally grown maize there is such as investigated how the cows diet affects their mount of meth and they emit while keeping a close check to on the Animals Health and productivity. Glass is one that if you can use very good quality. Then it is a very good supplement that. Just a bill to the animals. Produced more milk being produced the next task for the researchers was to convince small scale farmers to change their habits by spelling out all the advantages of the nappy grass they succeeded even though many farmers still want to lead their cattle graze on matthew fields they are at least prepared to give them the and for. School in the old days we used to graze our livestock in the forest and on. The. Way now we feed them on the cuts not the grass and the productivities has improved. But you know. I can support my family as well as my. Examples with us you know were here with. The cows now provide about 50 percent more milk than before and the heart is also healthier overall. Of course if you did the cows its clean so very definitely diseases then these are decided they are some of the best. Most you get them from the grass its very hard to find the. Grass. Mapi a grass has shop aged leaves and secrets a slimy substance to trap pests when they learn from them. Healthier cows mean higher revenues and winning equation for the farmers and one with benefits for the environment too had feeding or not grass produced to want a half percent less Greenhouse Gases. Another reminder that looking after the environment always pays off sadly for you thats all we had for you today but thank you for joining us so long for me sunday to know you from kampala goodbye until next time by neo to. Buy for now sandra was a pleasure of course in the show with you im now as i was signing off from Lagos Nigeria see you again next week. Little. Girl. Little. These parents have fond memories. Hes up there and daughter has now a transition. In a sense of self did not agree with the body was assigned a 1st. Its a difficult trivia entire family. In the wrong body. Girl boy. Coming up on w. Life lawyer. Culture. Hair. Superman. Superfood stylish style icon dont let os. 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