Singers in historical dress equipped with thermal imaging cameras are leading walking tours through the east German town of Finsterwalde, to show just how much energy building renovations can save.

Botswana’s Chobe National Park offers a complete package for eco-tourists, including a renewable-powered hotel that recycles water and waste, and safari trips in silent, emission-free e-cars.

A Ugandan project is giving girls who dropped out of school a fresh start growing passion fruit. With a piece of land and 60 seedlings, they are well on their way to becoming successful farmers.

Romania’s Environment Ministry has banned bear hunting, shutting down a multi-million-euro industry. Some locals fear brown bears roaming the Carpathian Mountains may attack livestock – and people.

Cameroon’s Oku forest is the largest mountain forest left in West Africa, but it’s under threat from logging. Selling honey gives locals an alternative to felling the forest to make way for farming.

On this week’s show, living next door to bears in Romania, lions in Kenya, and bees in Cameroon. Plus we meet the young Ugandan women with a passion for farming, and go on an eco-safari in Botswana.

In many African countries people rely on dirty generators for power. Berlin start-up SunZilla offers an alterantive with its solar kits that can supply and store electricity for up to seven people.

Why buy a car when you can hitch a ride? Co-consumption is experiencing a commercial boom thanks to the internet. You can share just about anything - food, cars, boats, even gardens - through an online portal or app. And you can make a profit.

Nigerian social enterprise MitiMeth creates furnishings and accessories from natural fibres such as water hyacinth and banana bark. They also train people to use local resources to earn a living.

In Africa's greatest mammal migration, around 10 million fruit bats travel from Congo to Kasanka National Park in Zambia every year. But they are under threat from hunters and habitat loss.