We have 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 i have a feeling that later on 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 this race take us. You. Know. I do do that and soon do we. Get into israel some place for me. The book. 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 from down from lagos 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 assets john yes when i look back we just did not have so much in the past but ive come to continents continue to get richer and to do the grow production and consumption having me my grandmother before they have more plastic more paper and even more new ways and in africa we have a way of finding new creative new good for the everyday items which otherwise would feel trust me and indeed sound theyll feel are transparent going. Yes well we have a knack of turning this creativity into our business like i make honiara and project the recycle points which uses and collecting on something hard to not to recycle while having the i dont benefit of creating jobs. The nigerian 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 okumu 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 the ticket contents and plug in our last field and drainage is and what always on the train our streets we can actually use them as raw materials. For a new product to cook me 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 they can redeem for Household Items every time they come from their point. Three or four pairs in them which is probably different from because theyre making a rule for the clear clean. One pet bottle for example because 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 the waste and crushed and so to recycling plants that allows the company to turn a profit turn in trash into cash is an idea. New hopes will catch on and she wants to raise environmental awareness we usually introduce community to come to different communities by force of all organizing what we call degree rallies where we you know. Clear drainage g. s and the streets restrained and clean and mean that we are committed realize about with your second starting the a way that we saw the ways that when 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 look who companies. As a bank who 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 point the with the huge amounts of which we do produce as a band ends up somewhere good more and more people are joining recycle points. The venture has been a success. We have about six thousand households where you start on our platform and thats on the house because we have more than house or a second skin the cup which is second skin under School Recycling scheme because we want this to the schools to be able to catch the young ones early as possible to start that core 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 clear that she recently won an award for have business idea she will be able to invest two hundred thousand dollars prize money. Mt did you know that kenya has the largest to 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 in the woods you know not in my country like the beach where we are and sometimes you get here and the winds are just amazing for instance well just. As much as it used to be usually into them to be 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 make a 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 Turkana Wind Power project is the largest private investment in kenya at six hundred seventy million u. S. Dollars and the largest wind farm in africa. And its owned by among others a number of scandinavian investors that has 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 our. Technician wellington or t. N. Or is making his daily routine checks. Cut interior of the government to go into full time operation but to given that were using the crewmates that needs maintenance and so on your check ups other than its quarterly the litter cups so we have all this maintenance. Sheets that we need to lose good to make sure our commits us if theyre healthy and ready 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 r. T. A. No the state owned contractor is behind schedule. But the substation that will distribute the electricity is already operational. After the collision this is the point where the power comes in so at this point we have the power the only thing we do at the premier substation is centrally to step up the voltage that we are 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 nairobi then that gives you almost the number of home states that the power that were going to would probably be giving cundiff took and it. Was families live close to the wind park sorry ma 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 kenyon Court 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 pokes arema to will get the clean and cheap energy helping the village to develop. Yeah thats me up 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 they 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 when 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 wild wide. Now were standing on africas second longest reach nearly twelve kilometers from and to end this technological feat not only come back to the streets but people as well speaking of good ideas when they also be one hundred doing youll be yes indeed if even hundreds doing your bit and doing your bit is just to segment when i was sure that we used to highlight the nice inventions and just little ideas about good for the environment absolutely and do remember leaf balls and place a med from latchkeys almost eighty Million People watched this video on our various social media top of all the one about the reef i cling and reusing concrete probably was what well deal with here and lets hope we can a once again please all of us 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. Food engineering student constantino man and his colleagues have created an edible straw. Its made from the leftovers of germanys apple juice production. 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 youre also doing your bit tell us about. This is it our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit we share your story. There we are back again and this. 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 deciding in the cities. We increase from fifty five percent to sixty six percent 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 cant farm very close to their houses so does the overview of what were doing protect also has been around for three years now and its clear that you want to stop the growing of the ozone hole but other sometime involved in auburn gardening and promoting Food Security how does all this as you sit together we need what you call so still. And we can only achieve. True. Participation actually protecting through the use of materials and also you know visions like fifty percent what are. You you so. You get the youth to be a part of it. Where does your funding. Passion its i mean one of the greatest resources we have in africa is not only. Will we actually open a dent or two opportunities you know we havent seen that ive attended Young African leaders initiate season stores like that so we create opportunities for them and i was touch and often we get so little. International organizations to help fight extreme security in the grassroots defeat security of the nation is the national security. So weve got talking about security 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 know its so that. To us and getting testimonies 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 we were affected a bit over seven thousand five hundred lives so want to. You know. Were actually looking. Oban farms that is back out farms in the city and also our facility were actually looking forward to the completion of the facility whereby we have moved use of agriculture as being proxies in the cities so that is what we are actually here. Thank you thank you for coming north again. Where you have it the boss is back of the work that brings us to our next favorite topic on the show wildlife and the next report is 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 you serious need of protection like many other animals in africa their habitat 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 thread to many primates who fortunately people are now growing more and more aware of how important it is to protect these unique animals that are. Similar to us in so many ways for many ways and we will get to learn just how similar we are in about a second and our next story takes us to a reserve in north and zambia that is providing sanctuary so over a hundred chimps but they dont leave exactly as they would in the wild its time for lunch in the wild life of an age in northwest zambia us more and more chimpanzees are gathering in the trees close to the feeding station the stuff you prepare meals for the eps twice a day. You know since. Hes known some of the kings since he was a child. Before the sound of the station on the edge of the forest the system is designed to make sure all of the animals are fed. We feed them in such a house because we want to separate the man was it from the females and the young ones because the males are dominant and they always want to get everything so this is why it is a pretty. Aside from the feeding times the chimps live just like their counterparts in the wild the finns in close around one hundred fifty head to much of it undisturbed rain forest. The fence is there to protect the anymore from humans for chance of the chimps and west enemy for the core idea really is for these chimps the two of a good home that is this is why we have courts or these big enclosures a few of them like in here with forty seven of them all and we have to provide protection for them because in the well into the one hundred fifty but they are civil as long as they stay inside they can function enclosures back in the forests the originally inhabited the anymore wouldnt survive long for most of the chimpanzee as a tool for shooting come from more congo which is like eighteen kilometers from here. Im sort of these two princes the. Porters and for what theyre doing push me trade. Looking for she was left often it was it up in one nine hundred eighty three by a funny couple. 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. For morning breath. Week what always causes that work for the chimps and really there is law school anywhere near so in two thousand and seven we bought this school so that their children can have a decent education too for shes with us about chimpanzees are but also about the humans and this is why this project is looking like the helping the children get it quite education. That costs money it is wide for that recently bought a nearby farm on its grounds fruit and crops on have listed to help feed the chimps while cattle are raised to provide income. Also helps take care of the animals. But jumping ship shes brazilian and has been living and working. And we need to take opportunities like this of doing an enrichment or offering Something Different to be able to see all of them to have a good eye on it to check for who is coughing who is needing who is losing weight. Anymore and in 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 sometimes need help and attention. She points as a complicated past. Like the others in his cage he was unable to integrate into one of the binds here tony trust me and as much time with you as you can im going to get you im going to get. Defined as a form of pet 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 puppet chip he has the need to be with people and also to have some kind of interactions. Group is slated to get their own large new inclusion in the coming months just look on the cheap one sees the telephone the new home of the two phone she what less often each. What waits project you call inspiring to see how it has created jobs and build tools that help then yes i need things to be just what people need to make them more environmentally conscious thats all we do here but im afraid it is time for us to go even bizarre hunger episode must come to an end. It was great having you here in nigeria in hoping to get the absolutely great to be here thank you for the opportunity to is absolutely amazing i wish you could do it every day and i hope that iowa dns in africa in europe wherever else africa can visit the and enjoy the top of much as i did