Was once the. Weather. And all the. Unforgettable memories but also save the involvement in the process. Of. These special wedding flowers were brought to me. Instead of importing them. To create a more environmentally friendly indian wedding. Since the lipan began her career shes not just a significant shift in what couples now want on their perfect. So i have been doing this for about 6 years now when i started this i have always been conscious of the choices that theyre making so really have tried to implement it here in there and sometimes clients didnt know or we and we did inform them that by going to choose Something Different so i would say probably about 30 percent of the 6 years ago probably less so i guess 20 percent to wanted something ecofriendly but now im surprised myself to see so many people coming forward saying that they want eco friendly so i would see probably like about 70 to 75 Percent People are kind of conscious and want your friend the right things. Traditionally indian families celebrate marriage with pomp and show. A wedding is a display of wealth and tradition. While there is an encouraging green trend among urban indians lipan says it comes with a lot of challenges. People always thing that an eco friendly wedding is equal to being cheap so that has been a challenge trying to get people away from that concept of eco friendly being cheap so there are many different aspects for an eco friendly wedding it can do a simple thing as having people or see people or even a digital invite for the in ways that you give your guests even as a simple thing like having chalkboard for your site and then getting a flex printed which is again a one time use in terms of your trousseau as well i would recommend probably using for one they went out with your grandmother sorry your mothers wedding sobbing probably to you or some jewelry years ago. Said months food is another green entrepreneur and. She founded ben especially these shop. She says that western duction is trendy but it isnt a new concept in the country. We used to live in a very easy to list in india and i think in a lot of. The scores you with narrative that honestly dont even buy a western rhetoric that were trying to recreate and i think essentially its going to be used to do with its not that novels so i think it is can be very accessible it can be very are my me very average of india and. So i think it can be for everyone and its just about making these small little micro light choices and then it just adds up. Workshops on the weekends to improve accessibility and get the Community Talking and thinking about reducing waste. She also publishes a d. I. Y. Ideas online with the idea that small changes can drive a bigger movement. I think sometimes gets a bad rep about being too expensive or inaccessible and thats why we do all of these talks and workshops so honestly we. Just need a kitchen or your backyard and you can mostly make a lot of these products within like 20 rupees. But the idea is essentially you know to make it just even accessible so thats a very very transparent about at recipes at all on our website so if you want to make yourself toward you go for it because the ultimate aim is just for less waste to be held up in the knowledge im optimistic that its going to really change automation to put waste. And sustainability for the better. Eco friendly living is often seen as a privilege of the rich but with. Championing small steps and improving peoples access to green ideas indian consumers have increasing opportunities on their doorstep. Lets take the example of our Rising Energy needs. As an emerging nation with the worlds 2nd largest population the soaring demand for energy is in india most of this demand is met by burning fossil fuels today with the government is pushing more and more people to buy into the promise of the nubile energy like solar power the actual switch is a very tedious process. Of Building Contractors so shell share most hard work has paid off in 2015 he bought a house where his family of 4. Its a big house complete with modern kitchen and air conditioning. The electricity bill is around 10000. 00 rupees a month over 100. 00 euros. To save money he decided to make the switch to renewables. He knew we had heard of the government solar dog and we wanted to contribute also i saw my neighbor mr go had also installed a who thought solar system and. Thats where i got the idea of installing one in my house which is from the. His 200 square meter roof is ideal so shell share my installed a rooftop solar system in 2018 it meets the household entire energy needs. India is home to a growing urban middle class experts say that of the trend continues the countries but Capita Energy consumption is said to quadruple. Over things in question. Has been was and of mission where you know consumes only 6 forcing a lot of ways for a movie and. All. Of this energy comes from you know also 70 percent of indias electricity generated took hold and in that mixing and just looking house gases so if this is to remain in the future. In mind you know also means that oracle amount of energy coming from. This means every particle of Greenhouse Gas emissions officially the government is backing and Energy Transition it has set a target of 100 installed capacity of solar energy by 2022. 40 go what will come from rooftop Solar Systems thats the equivalent output of 10 large school fire power plants but so far its achieved only fraction of the stargate the field is also you know this is it imports and companies are using their. Friends who. As you say in maintaining of a tedious process or a rationing so many times to finance the solar level of hers and consumers in the segment as we know it and so on and the banks are a little lol. The company my son specializes in Rooftop Solar Panel systems it also helps clients navigate the people work involved. The indian state subsidies the installation but the country is still a long way from reaching its clean energy targets. The real revolution of solar be only when people like you and i are businesses are those buildings industries corporates Hotels Everyone starts using solar because everyone has roofs i mean. So you have millions of buildings. Wherever you have buildings you have potentially a space for a solar setting up as all of our projects for so shell share mine the investment was worth it in the last 2 years his 7 kilowatt Solar Panel System has produced 22000. 00 units of electricity which most of the biggest benefit for me was that of the cost of rupees 4. 00 and a half luck i was able to pay in installments of a piece. Sometimes my legacy bill would be worth more than that i didnt have to pay anything extra and made this shift for free. As indias middle class continues to grow the countrys Energy Demand is soaring especially in the cities but if more families switch to renewables as the show must have done indias growth want to be at the expense of the environment. A great idea often needs the right time to come to fruition for bicycle enthusiastic london. Proved to be the onset of the pandemic look i dont know why this crisis has meant fewer cars and a lot more bikes on the citys streets and this could help make a big policy pushed once turning into a bicycle friendly city. I dislike hosting the cost to be quite comforting. When you work with the road one days if you are competent cyclist is not really much of a problem but you have to be going that more or less the speed of the traffic a new presence on the road has to be quite strong. Philip jones and rides his bike everywhere he cycle some 20000 kilometers e. M. Caltex finished films and his family are pleased that more and more londoners are discovering the joys of cycling. The role of cycling enthusiast from the time they were young the children grow that fights to school. Thats still something of an. Event that could soon change. For events they get people cycling. The next generation i think the bethany be more confident that on the buy a person living they should just go ahead and close 50 percent. Side streets just. Good cause dont need to go on 50 percent so give us access to everybody. Close as much as possible. Those kinds of demands get londons taxi drivers will riled up the citys cabbies are among scientists the racist critics. Who dont get rid of old and. They would and then issues the traffic at the moment is terrible. Row. So whatever Michael Moore sorcha license is just going to make the traffic even worse study dress itself the people who saw it drug the marmot dont know the high wire colors and the small percentage i do know the highlight charge is age. So there should be some sort of a test for cyclists and yes londons in a city is currently swarming with bicycles. As the quran the crisis in a new age of mentality. Cyclists now have some powerful supporters behind them there will be a huge amount of planning going into helping people to get to work other than by mass transit and this will be i hope and of the my right arm for one of the former secretary of transport i would agree this is what should be a new government age for psychic but they must act fast when commuters return on mass it wont be enough buses or trains to accommodate them and take it to social distancing missions if even a small percentage of these commute to start using cars instead london will be fixed with 10 children. The temptation to get into medical will be very very strong and understandable so i think weve got a short window of time to reach out to both to the politicians and to the public a large to say there is a better right after this. That is the city londons financial district is leading the way. Im joined by deborah access is restricted to process and bikes only. And sidewalks are being widened to give pedestrians more room. And in some residential districts streets are being flumist to 3 traffic drivers are having to find other bricks. Oh well. This just in these few weeks there is an amazing opportunity to connect. A lot of the unconnected parts. The local councils on board to get the local roads placing those who are cycling events is this true universally. During the corona crisis london fields have become more like bike friendly amsterdam. Philip johnson and his family hope it will stay that way. They this new golden age for cycling seems almost too good to be true. When the cycle find struck eastern india in me 2020 the World Heritage site but this wasnt. Located in the bay of bengal it constitutes the largest mango for this on earth and is at the receiving end of many mental calamities local communities are now putting their Heads Together to find Long Term Sustainable Solutions to improve the Living Conditions in a place they call home. Like then unpin had barely come and gone when help arrived in this and advance. Volunteers from the quarantine Students Network set up pumps to expel the salt water that had collected in the fish ponds. The immediate aim of the Emergency Assistance was to enable locals to return to fish farming and also prevent an outbreak of disease. Public health and hygiene are seriously disrupted here and need to be restored stagnant water is dangerous as it can lead to gastro intestinal diseases as well as skin conditions and then there is the often ignored issue of snake bite thats a snake bite. This fish farmer however no longer sees a future here for herself and her family. And what can we do we are dependent on relief now once a lockdown is lifted we will have to leave this and there are plans to find work there is nothing left here. This in advance is home to 4000000 people its located in the delta formed by the confluence of the brahmaputra ganges and magna rivers and has a unique ecosystem but the region is frequently hit by storms it took years for the residents to recover from cyclon iowa in 2009 before being devastated again in may of this year. And neil is at least relieved that this time his home was not destroyed by supercycle and his family also survived and hers. Were given to the family lives in a part of the same divans where a large section of protective levees has been erected. I wish. Of already been built inside jelly on lara poorly these areas have traditionally face tremendous damage due to. The will surprisingly this time they were saved because of the environment. Next to our village and rang a bell. Which used to suffer a lot because of the storms but this time the concrete embankments have saved the day. Its been 11 years since the Indian Government decided to build a cinder vans and bank means but just 5 kilometers have been completed to date that section withstood the recent storms and also proved useful for transporting emergency aid so people here now have construction will continue at a faster pace the to go society for Rural Development is an ngo thats been helping local residents since the 1970 s. Mama said you will not go on in. The lives of the people in this delta are always hanging on a thread. One really knows what danger awaits them. Are they. Predictable and they will get worse we need to be properly prepared by quins our best bet. But the embankment still cant stop the salt water from getting into the fields and neil knows he has to adapt by farming his land differently. In some of his fields has now planted more durable plants. Were going to go out now then youve got an organization based in delhi helps us with farming certain pulses can grow even in storm prone areas where salt water frequently enters i dont want to want to do it down i was not going to the last 5 years weve been growing a range of lentils and pulses across 200 hectares a lot because this can prove to be more sustainable for cycling prone regions like ours. The future of the People Living in the city buns will depend on how quickly they can change which crops they plant and how and how soon the embankments can be completed because the cyclons will return with growing frequency and intensity. When faced with the natural calamity not only humans but animals need support to survive to female orangutans for example breeds and produce only 45. 00 offsprings during their lifetime when the mother dies and the younger offspring. To survive with the wife and Animal Welfare project in sumatra even during the pandemic is teaching these. Towns to do just that. Humans have to keep their distance from a ring of things to even at lunch time. Because both species are at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. These are rang a tangs are under lockdown and have had to stay in their cages for months. This is Yellow School is closed you can train them to fire and introduce them to get them for it so we bring in the forest for them so its like. Right. Thermites and all this for. So they can learn that its their meals are delivered wrapped in leaves so they have to figure out how to get the food useful practice when theyre later released into the wild. Cages or disinfected twice a day. Hygiene is of crucial importance. The teams who care for the animals rotate every 3 weeks before they start work staff have their temperature taken another coronavirus precaution they shot the video for this report themselves we talked to the head of the project by video call. Or were going to. Argue with. Our long time d. N. A. Is 97 percent identical to the out of humans so theyre extremely susceptible to all our diseases especially those affecting the risperidone tract. You know thats the main reason why weve imposed such a strict quarantine to make sure theres no transmission of a virus replicating in humans to a population in the wild. It would probably have no immunity atoll to such a virus. The effects could be devastating. Dr beller has been reporting on this project for years through the aim is to prepare rang a tank for survival in their natural jungle habitat in the book pollute rain forest in central sumatra. Many were rescued as orphans often held captive as pets under terrible conditions they had forgotten or had never learned how to move through the tree tops forage for food and build nests their keepers at the Jungle School teach them all these skills usually out in the forest itself. Rantings enjoy piggyback rides many of them dont like to walk much this was before the coronavirus pandemic. So no exercises in the forest for now even though they have so much to learn things. Probably the most important item on the curriculum of Jungle School is learning about fruit trees what they look like and when they bear fruit. In which season or in which years. In order to survive every rung in town has to develop a 4 dimensional map in their head covering space and time it takes time to learn all that but weve got to suspend the learning process where the trees and when do they bear fruit as the iraq get on top to stay in their cages. The lockdown can only be relaxed once the pandemic has been contained this is not good for the animals their fitness deteriorates and they become bored even the target not the best preconditions for release and survival in the wild. Those that have already been set free currently lead better lives keepers go on patrol to check on them and provide extra food if need be. Here too social distancing applies. Our work. Money. So. Yes. Yes they. The school is located in the book rain forest and releases its graduates there its a very remote location. So should any rang it hangs here catch the coronavirus they wont pass it on to other ones in the wild. Whats more they tend to be naturally self isolating creatures anyway and dont hang out in big groups. The team faces the challenge of protecting their wards from possible infection while also training them for release this video was shot a couple of years ago there is no guarantee that a selfsustaining population will emerge here again over the past half century 80 percent of the regions rain forests have been cut down to make way for vast plantations. On our last visit paid to pa to stress the importance of saving the forest and teaching the orangutans survival skills. And you. If the orangutans are able to survive here and all the other animals in the rain forest Animal Community will be to the tigers eleph