The Horse 2020/21

Environment & Technology

Collaboration with NIKIN?

1. June 2021 Iain-Weder Project Tree Novice, Team Zurich TZ21 (1)

After planning my raw project ideas I started by writing a Collaboration Inquiry to NIKIN. NIKIN is a clothing brand from Aargau that has gained a lot of attention since covid-19. The start-up wanted to give something back to our environment. So they plant a tree for every item of clothing that is purchased. I sent them an inquiry hoping to team up with them and learn how they do everything. 

Following you'll be able to read my inquiry that I sent to the CEO. I got an answer that wasn't to positive put I was happy to receive an answer. They said the had enough ongoing projects already so they won't be able to do an exclusive collaboration, but they'll answer any questions that I would have. I really appreciate this opportunity and I've been staying in contact with them to learn more about the whole planting process they go through.

P.S be sure to check them out: https://nikin.ch

 

My Inquiry (in german): 

 

Sehr geehrter Herr Hänny

 

Ich habe mich bei Ihnen über Tiktok mit dem Usernamen «centerbender13» in den Kommentaren, bezüglich meiner Vertiefungsarbeit gemeldet.

 

Ich möchte mich erstens einmal für die Möglichkeit bedanken mit Ihnen direkt Kontakt aufnehmen zu dürfen.

 

Ich heisse Iain Weder, bin 19 Jahre alt, habe meine Lehre als Kaufmann EFZ 2020 abgeschlossen und absolviere momentan die Berufsmaturität. Im Schulfach Technik & Umwelt habe ich den Auftrag erhalten ein kleines bilinguales Projekt über ein Umwelt Thema zu erarbeiten. Doch statt einfach ein wenig Recherche zu machen und eine Arbeit schreiben, möchte ich gerne der Umwelt mit meinen Taten helfen und dies dann dokumentieren.

 

Mein Ziel wäre es Spenden zu sammeln und mit diesen spenden Bäume zu pflanzen. Doch als ausgebildeter Kaufmann fehlt mir einiges an Fachkenntniss um mein Ziel zu erreichen.

 

Dank der Social-Media Präsenz auf Instagram und Tiktok Ihres Unternehmens «NIKIN» wurde ich auf Sie aufmerksam. Nun wollte ich fragen, ob es möglich wäre mit Ihnen ein Interview zu führen, um einerseits mich mehr über «NIKIN» zu informieren und falls möglich von Ihnen Tipps zu erhalten, um mein Konzept ausführen zu können. Wo ich die Bäume kaufen sollte? Wo ich diese pflanzen darf oder wie ich die Genehmigung erhalte, um dies auszuführen.

 

Ich würde mein Spendenprojekt verfilmen und einen Bericht schreiben. Dies würde auf zwei Umwelt Websites publiziert werden und auch auf meinen Sozialen Medien.

 

Gerne würde ich mit dieser Möglichkeit auch in meinen Videos, Posts und Bericht für Ihr Unternehmen werben, da ich euer Konzept verfolge und gerne Unterstützen möchte. Falls Sie eine konkrete Idee hätten wie ich am besten für Sie werben könnte oder konkrete Vorschriften haben würde dies gerne mit Ihnen Besprechen.

 

Mit Freundlichen Grüssen

 

Iain Weder

 

 

ORGANIC WASTE

16. February 2021 Sivani-L-R Step 6 Publishing, The Horse (0)

1 ) How much organic waste is produced in India?

                   Urban India generates 62 million tonnes of waste annually.  43 million tonnes of municipal solid waste are collected annually, out of which 31 million is dumped in landfill sites and just 11.9 million is treated. About 31 million tonnes (50%) is dumped in landfill sites.More...

We got an answer from one of our specialists

1. December 2020 Lukas-Wyss Measures of CityClimate, Step 3 Experience, Communication, Team Zurich M18a (0)

We finally got an answer from the speciaist, Mrs Probst to the following question: "Where do you think most costs arise if you do nothing about our climate?"

Here's what she wrote:

"Ich habe eure Umfrage gestern ausgefüllt. Die Frage bezüglich der Kosten ist schwierig zu beantworten. Solche Voraussagen werden mit Hilfe von Modellen berechnet, die Ergebnisse sind aber nicht gleich je nach Studie, da unterschiedliche Faktoren berücksichtigt werden. 

Ich gebe euch aber absolut recht, dass erhöhte Kosten für das Gesundheitssystem (zunehmende Hitze in Städten belastet speziell ältere Leute), bei der Infrastruktur (Schäden infolge von Starkniederschlägen, die zunehmen werden oder Felsstürzen, weil der Permafrost auftaut, etc.), in der Landwirtschaft (Ernteausfälle infolge von Dürreperioden) anfallen werden. Es sind aber erhöhte Kosten in fast allen Sektoren zu erwarten, wenn nicht frühzeitig Massnahmen ergriffen werden. Ich habe euch noch zwei Artikel verlinkt, die für eure Arbeit interessant sein könnten:"

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/kosten-der-klimaerwaermung-klimawandel-wird-infrastruktur-massiv-stressen

https://www.umweltnetz-schweiz.ch/themen/klima/2706-kosten-klimawandel.html

Social media propagation

8. November 2020 Jana-Leuenberger Cycling, Social Media, Team Zurich M18a, IDAF20 (1)

 

Cycling for a better environment

Cycling is something that most people are able to do. Most people are able to ride a bike from a very young age and most of us aren’t too bad at it. So why not do it more often? It’s not just good for your health, but also for our environment. That is why we want to start this project and encourage people to use there bikes more often. We want to start with building new paths, new options for your bike tours and more options for your safety on the streets. Start now and help us to turn our idea into a project.

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Cycling for a better environment

23. October 2020 Jana-Leuenberger Cycling, Team Zurich M18a, IDAF20 (2)
The project idea we had in mind has to do with using bicycles to get around and how we could use more bicycles for transportation instead of cars. We think it is pretty clear that getting around with bicycles is way more economical than using a car, but of course there are still some questions that need to be answered.
  • How can we turn the idea into a project or better said into reality?
  • Are there already similar projects anywhere? 
  • What does it need for this project to succeed?
  • Renting bicycles or using your own?
Those are some of the questions we want to answer while working on this project. The reason why we chose this project is, that we think that this topic is going to be more and more something that many cities / countries see as an important step to reduce air pollution and it is also a very easy way to help our environment. The effort isn’t as big as the final earning we'll get.
 
[Please always use the File manager for photos in the future. TechNick.]
 
Carmen Deiss and Jana Leuenberger
M18a for IDAF20

Our projectidea

21. October 2020 Anabel-Burkhalter City animals, Project planning, Step 1 Imagination, Project Ideas, Team Zurich VZ20A (0)

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

Should disposable products be banned or limited?

4. October 2020 Sivani-L-R Collaboration, Communication, Project Ideas, Team Grade 12 Kerala (0)

Recently the buzz about disposable products has been high and with our current situation where resources are on a all time low, its time that we start discussing the impact of our actions.

Disposable products are usually used once or twice and are thrown away (often they are not recycled). In the case of plastic, we are aware that it is non-biodegradable in nature and yet we continue to use them. Plastic bags choke the wildlife and refuse to break down in oceans or landfills. They aren’t easy to recycle and make environment pretty messed up.

Every year, almost 1 trillion tons of plastic is used all around the world in forms of disposable products. After the issues surrounding this had come to light, many countries had taken action by either limiting its use or completing banning it.

Through this project I would like research on: 

  • alternate options
  • advantages and disadvantages of both limiting it or banning it
  • which one will work in the long run

What can we do?

7. September 2020 Melane-Mariathas Team Zurich M18a, Project Ideas (0)

There are so many different problems, if we think about the environment and there are big inventions, when it comes to technology.

 

- But how can we help?

- how can we reduce our water?

- what can we do to renew energy, save and use it again?

- are we locally using renewable energy? Or don’t? How can we change it?

- can we plants trees? 


- saving water is such a good thing we don’t even realize how much water we use and waste.

all about how to live more ecofriendly and do Little things in our everyday life to improve our enviroment.