Everybody if you are interested in the environment i mean issues from africa and europe and sit back and enjoy the next trying to six minutes or thereabouts heres what we have coming up on the show today. Went to zimbabwe where families are using that first trip to you when you change from the soil. In Germany School children are putting what theyve learned from the classrooms about the mental protection into practice. And in kenya where does it start off that makes eco friendly pencils and pens from recycled newspaper. First we had to zimbabwe after the land reforms many farmers there were unsure how to best work many still practiced traditional methods such as slash and burn which as we know has a devastating effect on the environment one man with a lot of experience set up a foundation for farming to teach the rule farmers how to work according to environmentally friendly methods the results higher yields and better so protection have a look. Old habits die hard. Because from us. The damage to the environment like slash and burn for deep climbing instead of making sweet more fun time gets you the opposite. And pollution to reduce the negative impact for both families and environment brand old reefs look for cannot even catch or methods the. This so instead. Theres a blanket of the earth and you see they start over from last year and this. Weeks. Saving start from two years ago and that builds up and thats a protective blanket and itll last the water to infiltrate and so your water table comes up and then the beatles in worms and ants in the system take that biomass on the surface into the soil which rehabilitates your whole structure which you destroy by trying all leaves Organization Foundations for farming was founded after he lost his own farm doings in buy with land reform back in two thousand instead of giving it he decided to share his expertise with other farmers its foundation teaches the basic principles of consolation agriculture and the best ways to optimize yields when using its methods a concept that also produces a lot of benefits for the farmers least have yes yes youre minimizing your production costs in terms of fuel you are minimizing your. This oil which normally comes from the plowing into the detector itself and this soil he also minimizing the loss of flaw water in some nutrients the foundations walk has been tremendously successful many Small Farmers who have employed bran middles have consistently increased the size of their cereal crops. Listening to four year old my good old son she found a community outside harare for conservation has really paid off. Maybe small but high heels of high she doesnt plow she only digs small holes for seedlings. And years to harvest so no more than three fifty kilogram bags of maize proceeds are in my field but after the training of the foundation i have listed ten bags from a quarter of an acre. Thats when they recognize the benefit to motivated me immensely and they never look back. When incisions generally last for a fortnight but group after twenty four months take part. Be focused mainly on so much of the culture techniques the farmers are encouraged to cultivate have the grains that are drought resistant and competitions plays a key role. Or reeves also convinces from us to use the gun extract lies are made out of natural materials like two president s. I win win situation for the farmers the environment and the soil you know living structure you can touch and feel. Like you smelled of life. Its beautiful. Moving over to ghana now to check in on a young entrepreneur who builds houses cheaply and sustainably felicia this young lady. Produced materials for houses right and its called a ramp construction the idea of using mud as a Building Material is becoming more and more popular across west africa one major advantage is that even when its hot outside the temperature inside the house stays constant so no need for expensive air conditioning but thats not all theyve got going for them. The technique is called rammed earth construction has been formed into a wall. This new house has been built close to ghana skeptical at using an old method common in rural africa now its becoming popular in cities. Clomid a year and joy and a sense founded the company in two thousand and sixteen they realized theres a demand for houses that are both affordable and eco friendly. In a country even a continent where a lot of things are various a fan of all we thought of little of ways that we can bring you a Natural Resources to build with most times and gone are the years you know of cement and materials are important so lets look to see what we can actually get in to building. Its a mixture of sand gravel and clay this is just a little bit of cement added the idea is there you know. Our grandparents our forefathers were already living in models before this came up even the china wall was built with dot when you go to mali. The mali empire most of the buildings you see there are all build with. Holes this is how the team builds a wall. They use different mud mixtures layered one over another that gives the house an interesting aesthetic theres a good exercise through you know. All the walls really solid enough. Is just like a sedimentary rock we are mimicking the third dimension rock by deformed thousands of years. Piling on top of each other over thousands of years but we are often in the process so. When for sunshine the word green after some time is because its like a manmade storm. The company has built for housing so far it started out with a little prototype building experimenting with different materials and techniques including using bricks made of around. This cafeteria a north and done i was more ambitious and scale. This residential project is the biggest so for materials at cheap its cost about one hundred fifty thousand u. S. Dollars thats about one third less than the price was invention new building and there are more advantages you get very very good in indoor air quality. The walls are ten million salinity of the red glitter Room Temperature termites cannot eat it up its proof due to the monolithic structure of the wall and hasnt got any water joints in them so when theres an egg recall theres the ground shakes you dont get them collapsing and the fact that they can stand up better to earthquakes isnt the only plus these buildings help save electricity the building foods cool you dont need to be seen even if you did you know the three days of the i mean its got to its going to be Minimal Health to. Sustain them by a moment to. Reduce our carbon prints. The companys business is booming but a sin and have Business Partner given back to society is well ok i think we are good to go we actually train the local people how to do construction so when we leave they also have a skill that they can use a bit at the end and also. If we need to get some more workers in last minute then we can and will then techniques. And creating a host of new jobs to hire herthas helping to lay the foundations for a brighter future. Sometimes its hard to convince people of the need for Environmental Protection but little muscle cars come up with a unique way of making children and teens more a way of the dangers posed by Climate Change and the need for conserving been vironment he creates superhero comic books that address the topic well finds it worrying that most zambians think that Climate Change is a problem affecting others all reports are met up with him in the german city of berlin. He said. Considering the fact that the reading code threw him for years really really bad people who just dont really read books and sue if you would give somebody a book with pictures in it i think its books their interest trying to create value its not just about entertainment alone where can you see people. In the. Street the majority of zambians think Climate Change is a foreign problem you know they really dont see that they get affected really easy when you talk about global so i believe. Easily guided because if you put something in it showed. There literally the next generation and the future generations come up to them and thats why i feel like its important to educate and what better way than literature. I think a go. Brings a different thing to the table if you know books for example you see that many superhero is a male and this is conversations that keep going around even with the should we make more female character what does this mean what does that. Stand for and if you follow my comic book you start to see that this character is not perfect life is miserable and she rises above all of that to save the world and fight Climate Change. And the. Perfect way of getting a message through. Is big its diverse doesnt matter whether you make music it doesnt matter with a draw or make comics. So the idea is to visit the schools first have simple question is for the kids after a few months go back to the screws with question is to see if the children actually learn from the Climate Change and just the question is itself a muscle creates in stuff like challenges for example we have a plan to treat challenge its more or less just the bow dialogue and being interactive and the comic books are just supposed to help us get the day a little grainy and so theres going to be a whole lot more coming next but i think people are already talking about it people are receiving warmly they love it and i believe its going to grow. In our next report well here about another way of getting young people interested in conservation a school in berlin has got a biodiversity to its curriculum what do you think they learned there into well felicia theyre learning how species inhabited i danger and what can be done to protect them but they dont just talk about it in the biology class who finds we see clued aspects of biodiversity in every subject it requires a lot of effort on the part of the teachers the pupils and the parents hopefully it would inspire others to do the same. Summer vacation is over its back to school. And the first lesson is taking place out in the school garden. For these berlin students spades and pruning shears or is important for school as books and pens. I am going for mothers calls my two other kinds of things but here weve got our garden on the farm and the animals its really something special. Plants and animals are an integral part of their education here the kids learn how an eco system functions. Their garden waste lands next door at the schools farm yard. The forum has a number of residents including ducks pigs and chickens. And then theres little the mule and the pony they graze in the schools former sports field. Theyre done lands on a compost heap and becomes the fertilizer that can be used for the next generation of plants. The school is gradually becoming surrounded with greenery the Main Building is pretty bare outside the playground out front as well but not for much longer the concrete is about to be turned into a bed of breeds like this part of the grounds. The green ideas are all part of a conscious move by the school to encourage biological diversity when germany launched the National Strategy on biological diversity back in two thousand and seven the schools teachers got together and thought about ways to anchor the idea. Biological diversity now has a fixed place in the curriculum. As well as the same subjects as other schools we have art physics sports foreign languages. But weve also incorporated biological diversity into the School Curriculum and as far as i know were the only school in germany that does. The star sat down and thought about what we need to do you know about the Current Situation in society and what we want to teach our students and they came up with their own curriculum. In the economics work in Technology Class students build wooden frames for the raised garden beds in math they measure and plan the beds and they also grow specific plants that can be used in chemistry lessons and they learn how to turn some of the things that grow into products like urban or were jamming. But its not just about practical skills they also learn about the advantages of diversity take the Three Sisters for instance thats the traditional name given to a mixed bag of squash corn and climbing beans the plants are grown together because they complement each other so well. That is just. What the students get to see how planting a mixture of crops is much better for the environment and its also good for a healthy balanced diet. But you know especially and then they begin to understand that the farming sector generally needs to move away from the extreme forms of monoculture weve seen and begin growing a wider crop mix so me at the mission. Before everyone goes home the goats have to be fed. There are keepers who tend to the animals but the students like to do it themselves if theyre able. To. And here biological diversity is a year round subject. But in winter were mostly indoors in the workshop this year weve built a beehive and an insect hotel. And theres always stuff to do like clearing out the animal boxes cleaning the yard giving the animal straw and hey its definitely more fun than sitting behind a desk in class. The ducks and chickens would agree the students and teachers are proud that their unique lesson plan has won them International Recognition and theyre now an officially designated european eco school. From schoolkids striving to protect the environment in germany for young student in tanzania seal sugawara was so fred up with used clothing that he developed a new Business Model he gives a second hand clothes a second life by turning them into completely new items and hes certainly doing his bit for the environment. And doris salaam tanzania up to ten million tons of textiles are thrown away and he with. The textiles are dumped in landfills. Meaning they can harm the environment thats because many clothes are produced with toxic chemicals. She says circle while the collects used clothes from his neighborhood. His Tanzanian Company remedy recycles hughes textiles. His team produces bags tissue holders and jackets. To give the products a colorful look they had little to keep tainted textiles. The twenty one year old entrepreneur employs five tailors. His aim is to have each of them make fifty bags a week. Bags cost between nine and eleven euros cecil wants to reshape the textile industry in tanzania. Like them. If youre also doing your bit tell us about. Our website or send us a tweet. During your big please share your story. Hey felicia how many pencils do you think youve already used up in your life to be honest ive never bothered to come out but im sure its a lot right. Well you wouldnt believe that more than fourteen billion pencils are produced worldwide every year thats a lot of trees and it has a major impact on the environment so kenyans come up with a clever idea they produce pens and pencils made out of recycled paper lets find out how all this magic works. Businessman Anthony Kirori his supply is he often comes to pick up the old newspapers this time thats nearly three hundred fifty kilograms he pays about sixty three years for his factory. About thirty kilometers outside the kenyan capital nairobi and city founded his Company Green pencils on his familys land along with an old friend ivan chang their ecologically friendly pencil business is a job creator and doesnt require more trees to be cut down most conventional pencils are made from the wood of oats. I think like most. Of us. But not. A lot of sense it took the true and electrical engineer about five years to develop the right formula for recycled paper pencil anthony came up with the concept when he worked as a waste collector and the factory cut up sheets of newspaper glued around graphite sticks then a machine rose them up tightly creating the basic on a pencil. The exact technique for finishing the newspaper pencil is a Company Secret only the factory manager and her bosses know it. The partners themselves come to the factory each week to do the finishing work that anthonys part are going to chang is in charge of marketing and legal issues. And. Theres a lot of disregard for intellectual property in africa especially and in some parts of asia so we have to guard our secret because if we dont. Do more or somebody else will do the same thing and the man behind the mama. Over the last five years orders have been continually creasing last year the companys sales amounted to around one hundred thirty thousand schools and companies all the biggest customers during peak season the company employs fifty people to produce half a million pencils in the quiet some months eight work is still smoke but censored in kenya for each family penned the figures as they stand slowly about one hundred and fifty million pass with a imported into the country so you can imagine if we only attain the two percent of the market theres enough for everyone right here kenyas Government Agencies import about ten million pencils each yeah anthony hopes to convince the government to consider using their recycled products. I want to get into politics. And i think that and that it and once they make it my main task will be. I did agree. To go and fight for the green space within government side that connect and be one of the role models for that region within the stuff we got it done and maybe even africa concern for the environment is something the truant to share aizen runs other businesses too but he says Green Pencils is closest to his heart this is the only planet that i know i can survive in so my so small contribution is good enough because it was perception everybody sits back and my job or somebody else is going to save this this planet its you with me heading back to nuoro be the Business Partner stop its am coppa a successful kenyan sausage to personally make the first and it read that. From now on Solar Energy Company will be enhancing its green creds with Green Pencils. So thats a lot of the story thank you very much for joining us i hope you have learned or at least experienced something new im finished and as were saying goodbye for now from johannesburg. 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