Was once the. Process. Instead of importing them. To create a more environmentally friendly indian wedding. Since. Shes not just a significant shift in what couples now want to. That 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 we are making so really have tried to implemented here and 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 wanted something you could frame thing 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 things. Traditionally in your family celebrate marriage with form and show up a wedding is a display of wealth and tradition. While there is an encouraging dream trend among urban indians delete one 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 be a simple thing as having people or see people or even to distil invite for the in ways that you give your guests even as a simple thing like having a chalkboard for your science 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 event at least your grandmother sorry your mothers wedding sobbing probably be you or some jewelry years ago. Said month is another green entrepreneur and valuable she founded ben necessities 0 with shop. She says the duction is trendy but it isnt a new concept in the country. We used to live in a very easy to list we in india and i think in a lot of. The scores us narrative thats honestly gone maybe by a westerner. And i think essentially its going to be used to do with its not that normally so i think it is can be very accessible it can be very arm of me very average of indian. 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. Runs 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 big 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 address appears at all on our website so if you want to go south toward you go for it because the ultimate aim is just for less waste to be held up in a landfill or knowledge im optimistic that its going to really change automation took at least. And sustainability for the better. Eco friendly living is often seen as a privilege of the rich but with. The leap on championing small steps and improving peoples access to green ideas indian consumers have increasing opportunities on their doorstep. Lets take the example of Rising Energy needs. As an emerging nation with the worlds 2nd largest population the soaring demand for energy in ever to build in india most of this demand is met by burning fossil fuels to be who the government is pushing more and more people to buy into the promise of nubile energy like solar power the actual switch is a very tedious process. Building contractors are hard work has paid off in 2015 he bought a house for 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 he had heard of the governments solar dog and we wanted to contribute also i saw my neighbor mr go had also installed the roof top solar system in his house thats where i got the idea of installing one in my house system and. His 200 square meter roof is ideal so shell share my installed a rooftop solar system and 20 if it meets the household entire energy needs. India is home to a growing urban middle class experts say that of the trend continues the countrys bar Capita Energy consumption is set to quadruple. In wasnt of. Course and. All. Of this energy comes from you know 70 percent of initially being generated talk. And. Just. Guesses so if this is to remain in the future. In mind it also means that oracle amount of energy coming from. Officially the government is backing an Energy Transition it has set a target of 100 gigawatt installed capacity of solar energy by 2022 offer each party got what will come from rooftop Solar Systems thats the equivalent output of 10 large coal fired power plants but so far its achieved only a fraction of the star get last years otho you know the boards and Distribution Companies are using their. Friends. As you say. You know if you use process or allusions that when it comes to violence the. Level of. Concern and the banks early in. 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 will only come when people like you and i are businesses are those buildings industries corporates Hotels Everyone starts using solar because everyone has roof i mean. So you have millions of buildings. Over you have buildings you have potentially a space for a solar setting up a solar power project for so shell share mine the investment was worth it in the last 2 years his 7 kilowatt Solar Panel System has produced 22000 units of electricity. As most of the biggest benefit for me was that of the cost of a piece 4. 00 and a half luck i was able to pay in installments of a piece then told me sometimes my legacy bill would be working 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 which to renewables as a share must have done indias growth want to be of the expense of the environment. A great idea often needs the right time to come to fruition for bicycle enthusiastic london that 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 push towards turning london into a bicycle friendly city. To cyclists in london cost to be quite comforting. When you work with the road what days they were called produce cyclist is not really much of a problem but you have to be going at more or less the speed of the trough and 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. Up tech finished films and his family are pleased that more and more londoners are discovering the joys of cycling. That will be cycling enthusiast from the time when Young Children grow up that bikes to school. Thats still something of an oddity until that happens could soon change. In school. Then if they get people cycling in the next generation i think the bethany be more confident that on the buy a person were going to should just go ahead and close 50 percent. Sidestreets just close the lid cause dont need to go on 50 percent so give us access to everybody. Cause as much as possible. Those kinds of demands get unstuck drive as the riled up the citys cabbies are among cyclists the racist critics. Who dont want to get rid of oldham. They would and then this is the traffic at the moment is terrible. Row. So whatever Michael Moore sorcha license is just going to make the traffic even worse just i dress this off the people who saw it drag the marmot the high white collars on the small percentage of the you know the highlight charge. So this 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 ushered 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 i this will be i hope and of the book my writing for a while as a former secretary of transport i would agree this is should be a new golden age cycle 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 templates 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 writer to this. Than just the city londons financial district is leading the way. During the day access is restricted to uscis and bikes only. And sidewalks are being widened to give kids estrin small room. And in some residential districts streets are being clueless to street traffic drivers are having to find other groups 1. Oh all. 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 facing forward so i could do to stop this through luna rossa. During the corona crisis london feels a bit more like bike friendly amsterdam. Philip staunton and his family hope it will stay that way i think this new golden age for cycling seems almost too good to be true. When the cycle im fired struck eastern india in me 2020 the World Heritage site of the sun the bronze wasnt spared located in the bay of bengal it constitutes the largest mango for us 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. Back then unpin had barely come and gone when help arrived in the sunderbans. 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 destructive 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 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 in their bones to find work there is nothing left of 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 cinder where a large section of protective levees has been erected. I was coming along greeted by comments of already been built inside julia and lara poorly these areas are traditionally face tremendous damage due to psych loans on the wall surprisingly this time they were saved because william. Next to our religion 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 the same defense in 5 mins but just 5 kilometers have been completed to date that section withstood the recent storms and also proved useful for transposing emergency aid so people here now have construction will continue at a faster pace the tico society for Rural Development is an ngo thats been helping local residents since the 1970 s. And. The lives of the people in the stelter always hanging on a thread. So no one really knows what danger awaits the last. 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 fallen 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. An organization based in delhi helps us with farming certain pulses can grow even in storm prone areas where salt water frequently enter i do not want to what good is it going i was not going to last 5 years weve been growing a range of lentils and pulses across 200. 00 hectares. Because this can prove to be more sustainable for cycling prone regions like ours. The future of the People Living in the center 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 a natural calamity not only humans but animals need support to survive to female orangutans for example breeds and produce only 45 offspring stored in their lifetime. The younger offspring. The wife and Animal Welfare project in sumatra even during the pandemic is teaching these. Kids to do just that. Humans have to keep their distance from to even at lunch time. Because both species are at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. These a ring of tangs are under lockdown and ive had to stay in their cages for months. This is Yellow School if. You can train them. Financial system get them for it so we bring in the forest for them so its like. Right. All this for us. 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 talk. About a 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 response 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. Through has been reporting on this project for years 3 aim is to prepare a rang a tank for survival in their natural jungle habitat in the. Rain forest in central so much. 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. I rang a tings enjoy picking back 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 is. 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 a season or in which years. You can order and 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 the but weve had to suspend the learning process where the trees and when do they bear fruit as the iraqi towns have 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 though 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 to social distancing applies. Or. 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 of things 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 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 rainforest Animal Community will be to the tigers elephants and old the other species thats why its so important to protect them. The number of covert 1000 cases among humans in indonesia continues to rise. The project has a back up plan of the lock down goes on for too long it will release its orangutans into the wild before theyve completed their schooling but will then provide them with longer term support out in the forest its that way the will be able to settle and have offspring and their numbers can grow until the threat of extinction here is banished. I hope you had many takeaways from to be as sur