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what's up sunshine I'm KY this is CNN 10
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along with a shout out for you and your
school all right we start today in
Canada where more than 100 fires are
burning across the country these fires
are approaching several communities and
have forced nearly 5,000 people to
evacuate their homes in Canada it's been
unusually dry for this time of year and
there wasn't a lot of snow over the
winter to help keep the ground damp in
some places fires from last year didn't
completely go out they stayed hidden
underground and came back when it got
warm these are called Zombie fires
because they come back just like a
zombie and a scary movie The Smoke from
these fires also is traveling into the
United States and affecting air quality
across the country if there is an air
quality warning in your area it's
important to stay safe and indoors until
the smoke passes red flag warnings and
air quality alerts are some of the many
benefits of living in a community right
but for some there's still an appeal in
trying to live off the grid that means
completely self-sufficient Gathering
your own food shelter Power and Water
it's not an easy way to live but it is
much simpler and those who do it are
saying that it can be tremendously
rewarding let's travel to the Welsh
Countryside where some people are
choosing to live off the grid we're not
saying all of this modern stuff and like
all Machinery is bad and all modern ways
of doing things are bad we're trying to
integrate ancient ways of doing things
with modern ways of doing things
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many of us might try to live more
sustainably to help the environment but
some take a more drastic approach aiming
to become
self-sufficient like these people living
off the grid in the Welsh
Countryside Brar is an intentional
Community which has currently got 23
people living on site of Ages ranging
between 2 and mid 60s started in 1994
I'll take you on a little look around
this
way intentional communities Eco Villages
housing cooperatives there are many
different types of these communities
around the world and they can be traced
back to the US and UK in the 1940s
inspired by the back to the land
movement and popularized by hippies in
the 60s and70s
two key elements that Define Bri deer
mau's way of living are being off the
grid and the community structure when we
talk about the grid we mean the Main's
electricity grid water sewage and waste
disposal we're not part of any of those
networks but that doesn't mean we're
completely cut off from society we're
about 80 to 90% self-sufficient on food
our water comes from spring on the
mountain Heating and cooking is done
with wood harvested from the land
electricity comes from solar panels
hydroelectric and a wind
turbine here's some goats we m the goats
twice a day we're also making lots of
cheese so we're going to be going up to
the Copus and starting on that roughly
100,000 people are living in similar
ways around the world according to a
2020 estimate from the executive
director of the foundation for
intentional
communities oh
she there we go and the number has been
rising in recent years
we are a non-h hierarchical community so
there's no individual in charge we make
our decisions by consensus we want to
have this balance where we're putting
more time and energy into working on the
land here and becoming more
self-sufficient as opposed to putting
all of our time into earning money
working for someone else and then
spending that money on the things that
we need to live like
food on average people work one to two
days a week doing the work because we
are paying rent here there are
challenges here but then there are huge
challenges in terms of what people are
going through in their everyday life out
there and anyone could learn the land
skills anyone could learn the decision-
making process anyone could choose to
live in a way where you're making being
in harmony with the land being in
harmony with the other people around you
the priority there are many many ways in
which people could live which would give
more to the world than they're taking
from the world this is just an examp
sample of
it pop quiz Hot Shots where do most
plants start their life cycle seed root
soil or
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leaves I was rooting for you but hate to
soil your party if you believe the
answer was root soil or leaves if you
said seed then it's time to turn up cuz
you are correct most plants started
seeds which contain a plant with leaves
stems and Roots now let's dive into the
fascinating world of medicine where it
all begins believe it or not a lot of
the medicines that we use started in
nature plants create special chemicals
to protect themselves from pests and
diseases and many of these same
chemicals can help us
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too plants are
everything they're what provide our food
our housing materials our musical
instruments our clothing and our
medicines when I look at a plant I'm
looking to its chemistry and trying to
understand the secrets that may unveil
new
medicines the use of plants as medicines
goes back to the very origins of
humanity 34,000 species have been
documented as being used in some form of
traditional medicine yet scientists have
only looked at around a thousand of
these
plants I've traveled to some incredible
places across the world in my search for
Nature's next
medicines we're looking for the next
type of
antibiotic the work that I do is deeply
personal to me I was born with multiple
congenital defects of my skeletal system
which required the amputation of my leg
at the age of
three I developed a hospital acquired
infection that nearly took my
life luckily back in the 1980s we still
had antibiotics that worked against some
of these really bad
bacteria today we're not so fortunate a
lot of our antibiotics have been around
for a long time and the pathogenic
bacteria continue to develop resistance
to them unless you come up with a
continuous supply of new antibiotics
acting by new mechanisms is not just
enough to have a new antibiotic over a
million people die every year due to
untreatable infections and so I've
dedicated my life to searching for new
medicines from nature to combat the
worst of these drug resistant
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infections we collect plants in the
field we press them and deposit them
into a herbarium which is like a library
of
life we also take samples back to the
lab where we pull out the chemistry from
the
plant some of our most exciting
discoveries have come from plants like
the American Beauty Berry the European
Chestnut and the Brazilian pepper tree
we've discovered molecules in these
plants that are very effective in the
treatment of the worst drug resistant
bacteria including Mera or drug
resistant staff we've also discovered
fascinating molecules from the American
Beauty Berry plant these molecules
restore the activity of antibiotics
against very dangerous resistant
bacteria the next phe of our research
involves moving these discoveries from
the lab to human clinical trials we
could see a scenario in 10 20 30 years
where many infections are not responsive
to any type of antibiotic and for that
reason Dr qu's work is is essential to
help prevent that from
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happening today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 is picture perect perfect these
are the finalists for the 2024 comedy
pet photography awards there's a little
bit of something for everyone we've got
pet and owner lookalikes a kitty cat
crammed in a crack followed by a high
kicking K9 and a headless horse which is
an illusion of course so stay vigilant
y'all in case your pets do something
silly cuz you could be the next winner
all right Superstars that ends our time
together before we go here's my favorite
part of the show this special shout out
goes to Mr week's class at Freedom High
School in South Riding Virginia fly high
Eagles this next shout out goes to
Riverside Middle School in Newcastle
Colorado let's keep learning today to
help us conquer tomorrow thank you for
watching us and we'll be right back
tomorrow remember to submit your vocab
words for hashy word Wednesday I'm Coy
wire and we are CNN 10
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