Equal india. Magazine with stories not only from india but across asia and europe that i could. Report the story of an inspirational comeback history books not just the color integral has a troubled past in india the die for which its right was a major source of exploitation in the british raj the colonizers commission on indian. Food crops which led to hunger and despair in farm was a big cultivating. But a collectible farm i think. Of the crop. Something magical that describes extracting pigment from an indigo plant 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. It when youre citing an. Affinity for indigo today it is hard to imagine the fun and vision and then die. Really 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 a chance opportunity led him to the species of natural dying with indigo. It is a physically strenuous process which requires scientific position and artistic ecstatic both of which has not and must. Just part of a himalayan movement that is by nearing the revival of its nonpolluting natural diet through a sustainable supply chain that has been built around producers like him. Obviously is a social enterprise that creates commercial opportunities in textiles and die making for natives of. The region it began using indigo as a way of connecting the people with the mountain ecosystem and years ago. Also learnt the dog history of within this process we understood that it was a crop of exploitation specially during the british time when it was obliged by the British Government the farmers had to go into gold as a contractor crop a percent theirs off their crop had been tical 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 but indigo i had people just telling me. That hole cannot even poop about. Mahatma gandhi considered the father of modern india was among foment to lead a revolt against forced indigo cultivation in 1918 this wall was the 1st of its going to provide a clear direction for indias freedom struggle culminating 30 years later and sought out on independence from the british coloniser. Today and he hopes to transform the idea of the colored indigo as one that resonates with prosperity empower them and 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 gave the film to go evil it has been planting a small patch of her farmland with indigo together with paddy crop once a year by 2019 she earned 10000 rupees the plant also keeps wild animals away. That she knew were boarded air i began growing indigo because i know it would have some magic farming rice for example meant having to keep on a constant lookout for wild pigs monkeys and other pests damaging the crowd. Ive always worried about whether thered be anything left for me and then my live but. Compared with the synthetic bush the organic garden is much cost but also more eco friendly the crops i can last about 90. 00 days. 10 to 20 days of live and nearly guarantees and provided the crop isnt damaged by unseasonal rigs or other effects of climate change. What began as a small experiment has blossomed into a sustainable and african sea 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 partnerships are seen by people around the country a member digitalisation of our hard work and we are really proud of and i know it feels good to know that people appreciate and. You. With the himalayan indigo project the pigment seems to be bringing in a new kind of. Healing the wounds inflicted by the british east in here come on the community in the land where it is going. Now like many grassroots organizations across india embodying an ocean of connected Decision Making and Self Determination the notion which was the guiding principle during india. And badminton this curious connection and finding solutions so that more and more people and organizations. Get benefit from it. So these are all the moments where people have actually tried to claim that for all my toes that affect our lives we should be the ones who are taking decisions all be central to the Decision Making we cant believe it through governments and corporations and so on. What i was actually a very ordered concept in india comes from the ancients good shows and then doing the inventions movement against the British Colonial rule it was spoke to the eyes by many different movements such as put in since the moment done on the needle and others where the british were trying to beat them fold over our Production Systems on agriculture and so on. And then gone the bracket especially in his book ins what i was and then in the movement 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 than a communities or dont know me and freedom but in responsibility to other peoples and other communities autonomy and freedom which means it encompasses a deeply ethical well being of living it encompasses myself restrained so that i dont impinge on the rights of others to live. In india the concept of development has been taken all the same from the west in their. Since and we have imposed it all successive governments have been boys did either to state socialism or now increasingly to capitalism it 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 will appear an unfortunate lean modernized development we seem to think of ourselves as apart from nature we have to figure out how we are actually part of it please insert ourselves understand that other species have their own right to exist that everything around us has as a spit out of being or a 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 swaraj for instance Women Farmers in different parts of the country claiming food so were going to be which means complete control over everything to do with food you know the seeds the land the water the knowledge all movements to reclaim Community Control over of forests in central india and other parts of the country. Build in the notion of swaraj 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 the course what odds but also a radical ecological democracy in the sense of trying to rescue the word democracy from its current 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 are competition but cooperation the value of working with nature has of commons an artist 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 despair your ethics and your ideologies and your beliefs and feeds 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 ottoman advertise 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 privatization. With requests what i would show many many things happen one is that for instance we make the centralized 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 on the 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 is the sins of all can we expect industry for example to use this as a guiding principle a company in indonesia buildings. Here only outskirts of thunder 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 and are showing others contain medicine allegiance here they are the raw material for an innovative kind of textile. Mushroom is superior to become Sustainable Future leather the curious cruel mycelium original piece part of your fondness can mean making perfectly like a letter without paying me be your p. C. Or any can we call on time race material how do you raise a new growth comes from a family of mushroom farmers in 2012 he and some colleagues founded a startup. But they quickly changed tack to focus on my feeling they are committed to developing a sustainable animal friendly fashion industry compared to animal in their minds hillary is having a really huge advantage in Environmental Impact for example we can share much less water we dont have to kill. We can move vertical farming so we can save some species and its also a really last carbon emission they feed the mushrooms with organic waste such a sort of just. Company micro tech sources that locally whats waste for the witch mill 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 lots of production less than 110th. This has caught the attention of holland he makes and sells shoes many of course a made of leather 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 forward and as the cells grow we keep damaging the environment and then it came to a realization that we need to find a so sustainable solution at 1st he bulked at the notion of mushroom lover but his team have now learned how to work with it. My seem 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 psyllium shoes still have a long way to go though not yet widely available they are not yet a mass Market Product that has 3 or higher costs 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. At 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 myself for a year over the money some really huge so we need to double down our capacity in order to keep up with demand. The company is growing it used to have just 5 employees now it has 38 monitors carefully the quality of it so i would put even testing samples to destruction. New girl and his team still have some way to go but they hope the mushroom leather alternative is at the least a good step forward. The idea. Is responsible for ourselves our community and of abundant is quite wonderful but in reality this is not an issue because the project in the netherlands thats a little good for the and bob didnt really think it but some. Light. 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 1076 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 corral them was right because of getting rid of the suffocating blanket the slick. We make so i o o roof through with the soil thats causing the problem. One of the islands is now open to the public it has a functioning harbor for 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 new land at 1st reeds and 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 of man lake in one stroke Monica Wagner we dont have a problem with the market. 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 net worth of the parrot not 5 so then we tried to go outside to the north sea we adapted to boats for that but really theyre too small we tried for years to go out there in spring to get back on our feet. All because a lot of the run. In the struggle to allocate land and seen in the densely populated netherlands nature has won this time the fish have returned to the market mallaig and for one. That only being hunted by the birds. And lot of profit on the world may not be familiar with the work or. Boarding interactions a writer portumna. Wont want to bring more diversity to the end but mental. Damage so she found a black and bomb in that how to find out about the behind her motivation. Drives you to campaign what you wrong leads you to change the way you live is emotional so called set. Deeply positioning yourself quite differently in relation to nature so they identify with his main and i think if i was damaged this is something that the western organization 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 Environmental Movement in this country was purely white people and the group of friends including myself we got together you know what this i sit round having dinner talking to each other they say dont we notice that actually this no black and i think minorities say 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 in this something in 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 is not like the glitzy thing its now known to be it was the era when people were pouring in the cross a border from china because of the unrest that my parents ran the china so we were very poor my parents came from nothing and taking nothing with them and all that but nature will stay in the show was such an amazing thing. As a child i was in movies and the chinese so 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 of blows across the world doesnt stay where it is and actually a lot of our pollution that the moment though it was germany and causes acid rain in the black forest is doing it but you cant change the patterns of nature so these people were very environmentally conscious of the world are more open to working with people of the world that can as it now ne are intrinsically local and Global People are constantly ringback in touch with their countries of origin so in a way they have more investment in environmental themes global themes than anybody else they are connected they are Global People. I hope to be sceptical has given you enough for port. Arthur mission ship with me and bob went to david. Ill see you again next week until then. Good care of yourselves your loved ones. With. The. Little. Blue. Crest big diesel engine. A single sense of triumph. 3 miles in the entry. 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