¡Solo tenemos un planeta!

Nous n'avons qu'une seule planète !

There is no planet B!

Di Pianeta ce n'è uno solo!

Wir haben nur diesen einen Planeten!

Mamy tylko jedną planetę!

Concern for the climate is driving people onto the streets. Young people in particular are committed to a sustainable future, thus challenging many existing patterns of thought and behaviour. How do they experience the current situation and the answers provided by politicians so far? What does sustainability mean to them in concrete terms and where do they see a need for action in state and society?

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When you think urban gardens and vegetable patches, you might think locally produced food and self-sufficient cities, but feeding a whole city with just a few rooftop vegetable gardens was never going to be likely. So why are more and more of them springing up? Could these green spaces also be used for education, therapy and social integration? Laetitia Limmois investigates.

This programme by France.tv Slash is part of the European Collection, a joint initiative from European public service media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR, RTBF and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Urban gardens are unlikely to feed a city, but could they be used for education and social integration too?

Urban Agriculture

A quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture. Factory farming and extreme use of fertilizers and pesticides pollute our air, pollute our water and destroy our soil. Every year, 24 billion tons of fertile soil are lost worldwide. In Spain, two-thirds of the country is affected by desertification. But there are also soils further north that are similarly desolate. In this episode of Roots, science journalist Pierre Girard meets Remedios Arres in Andalusia and Johanna Häger in Brandenburg, the sandbox of Europe.

Fighting Desertification

What should Europe do about its damaged and depleted soil?

Roots

Vertical indoor farming, algorithms that create precise climate conditions and LED lighting to stimulate growth: The Netherlands is preparing to feed the world's growing population with high-tech agriculture. The small country is already the second largest exporter of agricultural produce in the world, just behind the USA.

Vertical farming, algorithms and LED lighting to stimulate growth: The Netherlands wants to feed the world with high-tech agriculture.

Re: High-tech Food In the Netherlands

In France’s coal-producing regions, locals had come to turns with the closure of the coal industry. But since the energy crisis this winter, coal power-plants are reopening as France burns fossils fuels again to the keep the lights on.

With the energy crisis this winter, France has decided to start burn fossils fuels again to the keep the lights on.

Re: French Coal Comeback

A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Water

 A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Good News From Our Planet

Change is afoot in the Scottish Highlands. In an effort to fight climate change, some wealthy landowners want to rewild their huge estates. They are convinced that the Highlands will then be able to absorb more carbon.

In an effort to fight climate change, some wealthy landowners in the highlands want to rewild their huge estates, 

Re: Rewilding the Scottish Highlands

Sweden is planning a green industrial revolution in the arctic north of the country. A huge battery producing facility is being built as well as a hydrogen powered steel works. But all this activity is not good news for the Sami people whose traditional way of life is under threat.

Sweden is planning a green industrial revolution in the arctic north of the country. 

Re: Sweden's Energy Revolution

Wolf populations are increasing across Europe, in forested and mountainous regions and wolves have been sighted venturing into urban areas. With a rise in attacks on cattle, farmers and shepherds are having to deploy greater resources to keep their animals safe. A report from Switzerland and Germany.

With wolf populations increasing across Europe, farmers and shepherds are having to deploy greater resources to protect their animals.

There is no planet B!

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