Urban Gardening is the horticulture in cities, which is mostly small-scale. Typical examples in the city are courtyard and roof gardens. Urban Gardening has always existed, but the importance of this horticultural use of urban areas is growing. It's about sustainability, about the vegetables on your doorstep, also about cost reduction and last but not least about the important ecological aspects.
We want to teach our class members and other interested people how exactly such a garden works. On the internet you can read a lot about urban garding. During our project work we could perhaps interview a landscape gardener and learn more about the cultivation. We want to publish this information in order to motivate as many people as possible to run such an ecological garden.
Link: www.gartenbau.org
Simon Leuzinger & Luca Hofmüller
Animals in the city - How do they affect our environment?
We want to research the topic of animals who start to life in the city. Us humans take away their habitat and as a result of that action, they have to evade to our cities and our enviroment. How do they affect us? Can we do something to change it back to the way it was before?
We plan to do interviews with people involved in that topic and maybe even go on tours to see the impact and the consequences with our own eyes.
Anabel & Joelle & Sandra
What is our goal and how can it be achieved?
What exactly is the effect that our group wants to trigger with our action?
We want to show people that green houses are a service to our urban environment. Leaves and branches act as natural dust filters for the city air. Green roofs are therefore a real contribution to ecological building. People should not underestimate this.
By which methods / tools should this effect be achieved?
We would like to get more information on this topic by interviewing people who already have experience with greening roofs. We also want to prepare ourselves for the topic with internet research.
With which strategy should this effect be achieved?
We would like to pass on the knowledge we gain through interviews and research to the population, especially to companies. It should encourage them to More...
To reduce CO2 emissions in cities, I believe that urban traffic must be reduced.
To achieve this goal, I believe that various measures can be taken.
- Reducing access to the city or charging a fee.
- Reduce parking in the city
- Creating a car-free zone or even a car-free city
- Only allow certain vehicles into the urban area (electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles, etc.)
In my project I would like to find out which of these measures make sense or where are the strengths and weaknesses of the respective variants.
Perhaps, in the course of the project, there will be other possibilities to keep traffic away from the city.
To cope with this, I would include a city in my project.
Our Topic
How can we improve the city climate?
Our Goals
In our project we want to show you, how you can improve the city climate. Another goal is that we want you to start thinking about our environment in general and especially in cities.
How should the effect be achieved?
First, we have to study for ourselves, so we may could get in touch with an expert. When we have the required knowledge, it is easier to reach our goals.
Our Ideas
- City trees
- Renewable energy (for example solar panels)
- E-cars
- Public transport / bicycle
Who is the target audience?
Everyone.
Petar and Leandro
Who?
Fabrizio Roncoroni & Yanik Schwarz
What?
On which way does a city park help the city climate?
Our goal is to show off that the city parks are a necessary part of a city and aren't just for the pleasure of the people.
Possible parts in the project:
- The Location of a park
- Structure and content
- Examples of environmentally friendly parks
How?
We gonna do deeply researches on the internet and if possible some interviews with experts on this topic.
The project will be planned in the «IPERKA»-Method and will use only professional deposited sources and carefully done studies.
Audience
Young people whose intentions are to move to a big city like Zurich in the near future and people in general who are already living in a city.
I would like to make a project about sustainable investing. It would be an interesting topic, because the investment market is huge and it would be better for our world if the investors would put their money in companies, which have a healthy mindset about our ESG (Environmental, Social und Governance). That would give the companies opportunities to improve their strategies.
This project would fit me perfectly because I still work in a bank in my afternoon-off (tuesday, thursday, friday) and I am really interested to make a connection to my work and the environmental & technologies in a project. I also have the enquired needs for doing a project like this.
I want to make a investment suggestion like in my work. For example a customer who wants to invest his money, but only in sustainable companies (also called futura companies), he tells me he has 500 thousand francs to invest. My goal is to make a suggestion with many futura companies and his money splitted up, because diversity is really important if you wanna invest your money. Then I will would present the companies in this suggestion and why they are sustainable.
I want to keep this investment suggestion in swiss companies, so I dont see it neccessary to cooperate with people abroad.
All these diseases occur in the city of Zurich:
- Asian longhorn beetleMore...
- Beautiful coralreefs
- they are destroyed because of trash in the ocean and some unresponsible people
- its the home of many species
- dirty air (China)
- Its important to protect the corals because they are important for a clean air and enough oxygen which is essential
With this project I want to tell people about different diseases from trees and what is so dangerous about them. I think it is very important that people know how to help trees and their enviroment because we all need trees to live and they are also used for a lot more. It's necessary that trees can live and grow safely and that it always has enough trees in the nature and around the world.
This topic is very interesting and helpful for your own use because a lot have a garden with plants and trees and it's very bad if any of these would have a disease. With more knowledge about this topic you can look better after you garden.
Steps:
We will make a presentation with the following topics:
- most common trees in the city of Zurich
- diseases which are common in the city of Zurich (with danger, damages, etc.)
- foreign plants, animals an their danger
Eventually we are going to do an interview or an survey but we don't know yet.
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