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- Hello, everyone.
- Today we are reviewing some incredible gadgets
that are literally changing the world.
- And they should be arriving any minute.
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- Morning, guys
- Royal Mail.
- I brought you some Earthshot bits and pieces.
Barry, those are for you. - Yep.
- Don't drop them.
(Barry grunts) (they laugh)
He does need to go to the gym.
(they laugh)
I don't know if you guys have
heard about the Earthshot Prize
but it's an initiative I started two years ago now,
although it's been about four years in the making.
I had hair when it started. (they laugh)
And it's designed as an environmental prize,
tackling the world's greatest environmental problems.
And so the Earthshot was born out of the Moonshot
which was JFK's idea to put a man on the moon.
And at the time everyone thought he was nuts
and this was never gonna happen
and this was too big a concept.
And so we liked the idea that this is a big deal.
This is like something we really need to aim for.
But it's about saving the planet, not taking us to the moon.
And there's many people out there
who want us to move to the next planet already.
And I'm like, hang on, let's not give up on this planet yet.
I think we're all, you know,
- We've got a pretty good one. - This is nice.
Yeah, we've got a good thing going here.
Let's not just like give up on it just yet.
So I think coupled with this all together,
it's just trying to help accelerate change
and elevate people who are doing incredible things here
up to this level where their impact
can be better and greatly more delivered.
I think once you start seeing the impact
and the differences, people get on board with that.
Because if you're always being told how bad everything is,
and when there's no chance of changing,
we all get despondent and everyone's like,
"well, I'm not gonna bother." - Give up, yeah.
- Yeah, "I give up."
I think urgency and optimism equal action
and that's the spirit of the prize.
It's trying to get us moving forwards and get us, you know,
really tackling stuff and going,
do you know what? We can do this.
So have a play, have a test.
Enjoy. Tell me what you think.
I'm off to set up and I'll see you in a minute.
- Yeah. - We'll catch you later.
- See you later. - See ya.
- [Ben] Thank you.
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- You need to read your emails.
(they chuckle)
- Right, so the amazing team here have given us some notes.
Lift the cloche on one.
- Oh, that's not what I was expecting.
- That's not a gadget.
- Vegg-etables.
- Vegetables. Okay.
So this veg is typical of what would be grown
in Kheyti's Greenhouse-In-A-Box.
Kheyti's Greenhouse-In-A-Box is designed
for small hold farmers and the crops they grow,
offering shelter from unpredictable elements
and destructive pests.
Of the world's 507 million farms,
over 80% cover less than two hectares,
the size of three football pitches.
These small hold farms produce a third of our food.
That's a lot.
But those who farm are amongst
the poorest people on the planet
and the most affected by climate change.
This is where Kheyti comes in.
Plants in the greenhouse require 98% less water
and yields are seven times higher.
Doubling the farmer's income, helping them invest more
in their farms and their children's education.
A flat pack greenhouse.
- Except they're huge. - Off the scale.
- [Jamie] Well, this isn't your kind of greenhouse
that you have in your garden.
- I now understand why we haven't been given the greenhouse.
(they laugh)
- You think about like huge, huge farms
producing vast quantities of our food.
But you don't think about the vast number
of smaller farmers who actually collectively make up,
what was that? A third of the food we eat.
- Yeah, I had no idea of that.
- I mean we've spoken to so many farmers over the years,
and they've talked about yield.
Yield, yield yield is what it comes back to.
- Okay. Should we put some of this to use?
- We use this
- A mouli. Absolutely
- A Mouli.
- So what's the plan, Ebbers?
- I'm gonna peel a mouli and slice it up.
Slice up a cucumber
and combine both into a pickled slaw.
- I might use some of these herbs
and a vegan mayo to make a herby vegan mayo.
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- [Ben] Simple ratio.
So like three water, two vinegar, one sugar.
- So Earthshot award prizes in five categories.
There's the Protect and Restore Nature.
Clean Our Air, Revive Our Oceans,
Build a Waste-Free World and Fix our Climate.
And this solution won the Protect and Restore Nature Prize.
They basically give the prize winners a million quid
to upscale their operations, reduce costs
and get it out to more people
- [Ben] Into our pickle I'm gonna do some fennel seeds,
some coriander seeds and some chilli flakes.
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- [Jamie] I've got a herby mayo
- [Ben] Greenhouse pickle, and greenhouse mayo.
- [Jamie] Lovely.
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- Okay, next one.
Lift the cloche.
- This one doesn't fit under a cloche either.
- No.
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- It looks like a chimney, almost.
- Like a, yeah.
Like a stove of some sort.
Fire's gonna go in there.
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- [Barry] This is the Mukuru Clean Stove.
It provides cleaner burning stoves in Kenya
to reduce unhealthy indoor pollution
and provide a safer way to cook.
It was won by Charlotte who won the Clean Our Air Prize.
- [Mike] So rather than burning dangerous solid fuels,
Mukuru Clean Stoves are used to process biomass
made from charcoal, wood and sugarcane.
This burns cleaner, creating 90% less pollution
than an open fire
and 70% less than the traditional cook stove.
Gotcha. Okay, cool.
- It's not just burning cleaner,
but it's also burning more compact amounts of fuel,
as opposed to having to tend to an open fire
where you lose also a lot of other heat elsewhere.
This is concentrating that heat into-
- Like a chimney. - Like a cooking plate.
Yeah, like a chimney.
- Guess how much one of these costs in dollars?
- I've got no idea. - I couldn't, I couldn't.
- $10.
- $10. - 10?
- $10.
- And the fuel cost is half.
- $5.
- No, not of that.
Of the wood they're burning otherwise.
- Right. (they laugh)
- So, nice, compact, lots of airflow.
Our biomass fuel in there.
Pot on top.
So maybe we think about a one-pot cook
using more of the veg in the greenhouse.
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So we'll blend up some garlic, ginger, chilli,
chop up loads of veg and then cook it all together
into a dish that's kind of Indian
meets East African inspired.
So Kenyan-Indian spicing, altogether
and smashed together with potatoes.
- So I've just... (mixer whirs loudly)
So bearing in mind that this company's
only been running for six years.
There's 200,000 people in Kenya
using the Mukuru Clean Stoves.
- That's amazing. - Wow.
- Impressive but it also shows you the scale of the problem.
- Well, yeah.
- And they're just scratching the surface.
- Yeah. - But that's the thing.
If it is, you know, $10 for one,
it means it's a relatively scalable solution.
And then you save money in the long term
on the fuel as well.
- They reckon they've saved $10 million
in fuel costs across those 200,000 people.
- Which does two things.
One, it's saving the kind of health
and wellbeing of the people who would otherwise be cooking
over that dirty fumes, inside on regular fuel.
But it's also saving the fumes for the planet.
- Yeah.
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- We've moved to the window because, well,
you know that we've got a very sensitive fire alarm.
We've loaded up the stove with the cleanest briquettes
that we can get here in the UK.
A couple of fire lighters,
we'll get it going and then we'll cook.
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- [Ben] So we're toasting off cumin seeds in oil
and then going in with Jamie's garlic, ginger and chilli.
Then a whole bunch of the harder veg I chopped up
and let those sweat down.
Then we'll add in the beans and the cauliflower.
Some of that masala blend.
Keep cooking it down.
- That smells incredible.
- Good right? - Really, really good.
- What did you think of the stove?
- Like in terms of the smoke that was coming out of it?
I know we weren't using the exact biomass fuel,
but even just using the cleanest we could find here,
it worked.
- What next, Ebbers?
- We're gonna crush some potatoes that are cooked
and that will bind all the veg along with fresh coriander.
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- That has got a lovely spice to it.
Just a little warmth.
It's beautiful.
- Happy, Ebbers? - Yep.
I think that is the star of the show.
And now we've got condiments and slaw
and bits and pieces to go around it.
- Sorry, we get Prince William into a video
and he calls a potato mixture "the star of the show."
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- Boys, lift the cloche on our third and final product.
Oh!
- Burger boxes. - Boxes.
Except Jay...
- Seaweed not plastic.
- Yes, that's right!
This is Notpla-stic.
It's not plastic.
- Notpla. - Notpla.
- Notpla. - Genius!
(Barry laughs)
- Wow. So this is a circular solution,
creating an alternative to plastic packaging
from seaweed and plants.
So they won the Earthshot Prize
for Build A Waste-Free World.
So traditionally, packaging akin to this,
takeaway boxes et cetera, is coated in a plastic film.
This is coated in a seaweed film.
Does it taste like combo? - What's he doing?
- Why are you licking it? - What's he doing?
- No, I mean it's got no,
it's got no additional taste to it.
(they laugh) - Were you expecting that?
- What does it normally taste like?
- If it tastes of seaweed then it might put people off.
It doesn't, I think it's genius.
- I see what you're getting at.
(Mike laughs)
- But it's true, 'cause it says on the side
unlike most takeaway boxes, it would be covered.
'cause there are alternatives that are plastic-free already
but that's basically paper and that's not good
for putting anything that's oily, greasy, liquidy,
gonna have spillage.
You do need that kind of non-porous film.
And then it says, "when you finish,
throw it in your home compost."
- That's good 'cause lots of stuff has become recyclable,
which is one thing, which is a brilliant step forwards.
- Yep. - But this feels
like the next stage.
- So they've now got a huge range of these Notpla boxes.
They've got loads in circulation right now.
- With Just Eat, one of the companies they're working with.
- That's how it gets to scale.
- Yes. And speaking of recycling,
it says that just 9% of all the plastic ever produced
has been recycled.
And 12% has been incinerated.
- And the rest is just still in circulation.
Filling up landfill, in our oceans causing problems.
Okay. What I like so far about these three prize winners,
is one is helping the producers,
one is helping like home cooks and families
and communities on the ground,
and this, I feel is more useful for industry.
So hospitality and retail.
So like they're actually tackling
so many points of the food system,
but all in a positive way.
- Let's make burgers.
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- Well, it looks and smells great.
Get into it.
Whoa, oh wow.
- Zingy! - Mm-hmm.
All the flavour, all the textures.
- Perfect amount of spice.
And the pickle.
- [Barry] That's an exciting burger.
- Lads, great effort.
(all applaud) Superb.
What a video, what a burger.
If only there were a way to get it to more people.
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- Hi folks, come and stand here.
Gather round our Earthshot burger van.
- You alright? - Great to see you
on this sunny day. Who's hungry?
- Me, definitely. (they laugh)
- Is there a chance we could get you an Earthshot Burger?
- There is. - Yes, absolutely.
- Excellent. Can we have four
Earthshot Burgers please, chef?
- Coming right up.
(diners gasp and exclaim)
Morning, everyone.
- Thank you very much.
Yeah, that's Prince William.
(they laugh)
- Wow. - Hi.
- Obviously Prince William's here because,
well, he founded the Earthshot Prize.
- It's an environmental prize.
Basically we're trying to repair and restore the planet.
- I was shellshocked, like I froze.
We're still shocked.
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- [Ben] So as you might have gathered,
this is Prince William.
- Can we have four Earthshot Burgers, please, chef?
- Four burgers. Lovely.
(diners gasp)
Morning, everyone.
Nicely cooked. Ready to go.
- Of all the things I was expecting, it was not that.
- It was founded by... You could probably give a bit
of a better introduction than I can.
- No, I think you're doing a good job.
So for these of you who don't know,
the Earthshot Prize is there to repair
and regenerate the planet.
Everything you see here
comes from the winners from last year.
So the box you are about to eat in
is built from a company called Notpla
and there's no plastic involved.
They've come up with a seaweed coating.
The ingredients inside the burger
are grown from a greenhouse in India
from a company called Kheyti.
And last but not least, where we've cooked them
has been on a thing called Mukuru Clean Stoves.
And that is designed by a lady in Kenya
who came up with a concept to reduce air pollution
and health pollution.
Can't vouch for the taste and the quality.
But that's up to Kush and Ebbers who-
(all laugh) They designed the menu.
So I'm rolling with it.
But come and grab your burgers.
- It's all plant-based.
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- What just happened?! (they laugh)
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- My brain took like three seconds to buffer.
Am I dreaming?
Have I had enough sleep?
- I was lost for words.
- It's thinking about, you know,
the environment, the planet,
how our food's made, how our packaging is made.
- This is something that everybody needs to know about.
- The burger was so good. We loved the burger.
- It is honestly the best burger-
- Yeah. - That we've had.
- Scooped up all of the little bits
that fell out as well. It was... (kisses)
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- [Mike] So, that happened.
If you want to cook up the burger yourself,
the full recipe is over on our Sidekick app.
I would highly recommend it.
And to keep up to date with all the exciting,
innovative work the team and the amazing prize winners
at the Earthshot Prize are doing,
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