Such a basic need for all of us and cities today we may not always know how it works yet we cant really imagine our lives without it but if we thought of botany professor in the city of whom we invest in india has never used electricity in her life in the twenty First Century how does this really work lets take a look at this fascinating story. Like. A family hard. To believe. You are just really ripping it would. Mean the thing. To me. As you do this to electricity you know. It all go home. She so conditioned to have enough life that she hasnt quite realize. Ficci has achieved. I am living without electricity since my but do you think i would not more here be in some hospital when i was abroad already at bedtime also they were morally. And still it is not the city mindset has become like that that i haue not may want to talk about i mean. All of that accompanies. Botany professor by profession seventy nine year old sonny received a piste by studying in candlelight shes also the author of seven academic textbooks for graduate students in india. I completed my ph d. Thesis on a small lamp to me. I was writing that he sees in the month of may so we thought it would be hard so i used to be very small to me. If you had to put a lifestyle in context an average indian consumes a little over eight hundred kilowatt of spectra city per year an average american consumes nearly thirteen thousand kilowatt of electricity by year and sunny consumes nearly zero. Knowledge im coming this is here because this trend even at this age shes setting an example for us to live by the resources we have shes the one preserving them she keeps reminding us do not waste water do not waste electricity why do i really need. This electricity is ridiculous we should preserve energy what will relieve behind for our children getting. Our ive. Son who lives alone in her crumbling ancestral home in one of the citys most bustling neighborhoods. Her busy surroundings are in complete contrast to her tranquil home. Day begins with morning cause sun his deafness is enviable even at age one shes done its peeping her frontyard she washes her clothes on her own and even draws water from a well thought that these needs. Looking at her the absence of electricity inside his home is hardly churning. Is there any go like. You know theyve been prepared you know i. Mean that would be real good good lord what a clue. We dont go by the games. And. No one. Has a string off as a dozen students who come to her to learn to seek advice or simply for a quick conversation guy and i. Like google for. It she doesnt have electricity or computer or smartphone. She has endless knowledge on so many subjects. She helps me with a lot of things like if i have to write an article or if i have to make a presentation. We are both passionate about. But that doesnt mean that we talk about. We even talk about hindi cinema and its songs and she has wonderful snippets of information about this to. So many of my db im going to cry im so thats the memory. As evening follows home asleep with condoms or lamps on some other news. She sits beside atlantan to compute her latest book this one consolations son has written more than twenty books in the light off on the internet. Not in a war driven by fast beast and excessive consumption one content but wonder about the ten she has created by just being herself unapologetically. Everyone so how hes on ideas home tonight i cannot say i cannot fathom that my needs are you know im the environmentalist i dont have you need done claims that done. My life feels like these are like. What a legacy to leave behind just imagine dr sunnys footprint and how much less so it would be compared to many of our was talking about Carbon Footprint nearly forty percent of the food produced in india is restrained or lost food beast that ends up in landfills produces make a dangerous Greenhouse Gas worse than Carbon Dioxide the Robin Hood Army in delhi is trying to put an end to this to help the environment and stamp out hunger in the country with one ninety million undernourished people lets find out how. This is how good the canary spends most of her free time ever since she joined the robin hood on like two years ago. The Group Leftover food from restaurants and distributes it to those who need it just like in this slum on the outskirts of baby. The volunteers are a mix of students and professionals they call themselves. This way if you want to be or added to it to your so i really want people to enjoy insulting and also ignore this in the fact that there are a lot of things in the world witnessed beauty and hunger is. A good thing you know but still. Its everywhere. The groups busiest period is during indias hectic wedding season and. Venues around daily are booked out months in advance for extravagant parties and events. Guests list can run into several hundred people and there has to be enough food for them. Almost always vast quantities go on each of those and i simply thrown away after the separation. Tonight nicky was a marketing professional by day and a federal robins are invited to the wedding reception of another are a change wanted to. Give four hundred yards the main break for five hundred out of these Anonymous Sources in india since im part of i would say i know the board in mr we have decided that its been distributed in the dark michael. For nitty and a federal robin says its going to be a long night at this food left over theyre going to make sure it gets to the hundred. Its midnight and the partys over. The robin stick stock of the situation. Its bad. To estimate this food left over for about five hundred people around eight hundred people were invited to the wedding. That means all hands on board the auditor is special nineteen pitches in. The food needs to be distributed before it goes stale. Its past one am the auditor is driving toNight Shelters in delhi where many people sleep hungry. Enough to wake them up for the for. The men at this Night Shelter dont seem to mind being pulled out of bed into the cold some are drug addicts and alcoholics others are ill or disabled. Mostly profit the streets in summer. This food is a lifeline for many going to sleep hungry. We. Want to ensure. You know. Youre going to go this food is much more feeling than the cheap squeak i can afford. Or to cover that for the robins this late night food drive has been well worth the effort but the knowledge more needs to be done. To find people is gone i think the number is there its going to be. I wish it was not. Doing this because there is a problem like that you just wish this problem was not there. Until then the Robin Hood Army is staying true to its model taking from the rich and redistributing it to the poor. Shifting focus now a scottish and German Company together have developed a Floating Tidal Energy power plant hydro kind of take energy is a valuable resource but it takes advanced technology to harness it all scalable and sustainable can it prove lets take a closer look. Its winter and icy cold out on the water in the west of scotland not very cozy but a good spot for testing a floating title energy power station that was launched in these waters and twenty sixteen david started scott has been working on the project for three years one of its aims is to discover whether the turbines are robust enough to function in water for long periods of time without maintenance with this platform we can swing a turbine up out of the water we can inspect it we can see if the blades are damaged the turbine needs cleaning we can run tests on it and its completely necessary we can change our whole rotor. To get the rotors spending for the initial tests the Floating Tidal Energy platform required a very specific Marine Environment one that has regular power for. And swift currents like the ones found in this bag the currents are driven by tidal forces every day huge volumes of water rushed out to sea from the last through narrow straits and then back in again started scott and neils not from the German Company involved in the project searched quite a while before finding the spot for a trial when we were together investigating which would be a good demonstration site weve found this place here which is if you will to it in terms of flow in terms of accessibility also for the for the Marine Operations but also for the operation of the platform later on so this is a very its like. The trial went well in twelve months of full time operation the turbine generated enough electricity to power eight hundred thirty households. The successful planning phase getting the plant up and running has shown that the technology could be rolled out on a wider scale. The power it generates can be fed into the electrical grid on land adding another arrow to the quiver of Renewable Energy sources that will long term help cut fossil fuel use and climate damaging emissions Scottish CompaniesSustainable Marine Energy built the platform german firm shuttle hydro made the turbines and rotors they merged during the project to help deliver on its title Energy Ambitions the shuttle group specializes in marine Propulsion Systems including water jets like these. This old pebble steamer has been fitted out with jets built by the company. Its in service on the rhine river here in germany. The steamer regularly passes by shuttle headquarters. Engineer needs is building on the groups proprietary Propeller Technology and this newly formed Sustainable Marine Energy company says its title Energy Power Plants have huge potential especially if the conditions are right which is the case off the coasts of japan korea and the western coast of india. This is a unique opportunity for me personally and for the entire team were almost all engineers so its a joy to have the opportunity to develop a new product. But in addition were helping to create a new market its like it was with wind energy twenty five years ago from us on the down. On this little excursion lunger and starter and scott are pitching the technology to potential customers from all over the planet. Jerome bring go is a Renewable Energy project developer from the us we. Play it because we recognize that hydro kinetic is the next best thing to producing electricity specially in developing card for use of fossil fuels are not the best option because to fully utilize the overall of all resources the rivers that are there all this technology is a perfect fit for what we needed now africa to meet the electricity demand but first more research is needed recently the platform was shipped to nova scotia in canada the developers are evaluating environmental impacts and performance of the technology they hope that their power plants will soon replace diesel generators and many remote off grid locations. Plastic is a top contender for the worst inventions in the Twentieth Century because of the massive scale of palm it has begun to cause the planet is specially the oceans not surprising as it may sound a French Company has found a note on a fifth of plastic that could be produced with algae that grow abundantly in these video shoots lets see how. Every hour more than three hundred tons of plastic are tossed into the worlds oceans and it will take hundreds of years for the plastic to decompose. But there seems to be an alternative that comes from the sea itself. Its the source material for an eco friendly plastic made by algo pack a company in southern france. Using a natural polymer found in brown algae they produce granules that is then used to make everyday items. But the good thing is its completely biodegradable. The not so good thing the bio plastic costs twice as much as regular fossil fuel based plastic. That is demanding creases the price will likely go down. Our final story this week is about how women artisans who are part of provisional Patriarchal Society are having the chance to be financially independent for the first time in centuries saga a local organization is helping them build on their individuality in their families and communities and holding them to be role models for their children lets take a look at how this is change their lives. Its the to clock in the morning. Making breakfast and getting her children to school she also soon be leaving for work unlike most other women living in indias rural areas she has a regular job the family cannot survive in water husband owns is a day laborer in the local quarry. Thank you all thats very difficult because my husband had to take care of all the bills and expenses thats why i started working now be a fine because i can help as well being. Is a small town in the indian province of rogers town in the northwest. The streets are filled with men going about their business but women on a rest site they traditionally tend to stay in the background. But times are changing and kalash is one of the women who represents the change. Shes on a way to work but first drops off a sign six year old crush want has just started school. For a few years now kalash has had a job at. A cooperative that employs over seven hundred women in the region and uncle depor. New organization teaches the women all the skills they need for the job the clothes this us old on line and in a dedicated shop the profits are split their wage isnt based on their working hours but on the output. Game with or settles down the fact that there is a design is easy to get the worked on real fast. Meet. The national get three pieces done a day. Thirty kilometers south of the of our allies a beautiful city for their. South downs at quarters are located here as is the shop which sells a range of accessories and fabric as well as clothes while yet. Man. But in truth thirty years now the corporative is enabled women in the region to earn their own income as a consequence the women feel more confident about their place in society. We think it. Comes with financial independence. And the woman is able to own something. She has a status in the family otherwise the family members were looking down on that she didnt have a say in the family of the didnt didnt really believe in some womens they themselves im educated that children are starting professional calls like medicine. In certain places were finding three generations of women working with us. Just how much societys changing can be seen in the town of delgado in the past women of different castes would have never sat next to each other but working together has fostered Mutual Respect and brought more equality weve got the poor pretty of these women would have most likely never met her dad on. The man. That the local government has of them bad luck again whether i can get work from the outside and work at home in our family were not allowed to go out and work. So we set up this group of family members a totally in order never will be initially we were nine of us women then we invited others to join us and now were seventeen to eighteen. But he argued with a good idea of bills that are tired and you. Can do good and have sod now have come a long way to have Health Insurance coverage and i little for bank loans and scholarships for their children and their boss has plans for further improvement she wants a seamstresses to see themselves as entrepreneurs and be open to further education for example study design and investment that would certainly be off in the long term. So right now i would say sideways at a stage where there is a stagnant seen it in something in designing the ancients have to really ramp in new well theres artisans are very good in quality and techniques but those designs have to me and then wherever the government. There the market would like to buy. Are you. Expecting the artisans to invest. For designs and everything is always going to be a challenge. Its a challenge that can last for one is ready to embrace she wants to be a role model for our children specially her thirteen year old daughter niece or. Im going to do this to her mother says belief will help me believe in following her own dreams. She wants to become a doctor one day. Like we continue to bring your many more inspirational stories every week i hope you had many takeaways from all that we had for you on the shore to see you next week were back. Here in. Good shape. Our topic this week keeping fit while growing up. So you might ask why am i not on the treadmill or supreme vegetable soup. Because people enjoy life is longer well. Thats astonishing what else can do to stay. Good should. Women empowered globally. They come from very different ones. What a day knowledge is like. How do they resist oppression. Women shaking their heads. And International Womens day special on global three thousand and sixty minutes d w. Stuff. Costs and extravagant when it comes. Down to hosts who really know their stuff. With good chance to finish home for. The party and chat with musicians from around the world. Groups every week on t. W. 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