Hello everyone
We're looking for a collaboration partner for our project about climate-changing measures.
In our project we want to show, what people think about climate-changing measures, what they already do to implement them and even more questions. For that we made a survey. The link will be posted soon. Another big question for our project is to find out where costs would arise, if we don't do anything for our climate. We hope that an expert can answer us this specific question.
More information about our project is posted on the Horse.
A cooperation to see a different point of view would be very interesting.
Lukas, Julian and Livia
On thursday, the 12th november, I've done an interview with Mr. Peter Hofmann. He's the project leader air polution control in Zurich.
I've asked him the following questions:
- What is his area of responsibility?
- How realistic does he think it is to have only electric cars in the city of Zurich?
- Importance of electric cars in the city of Zurich?
- What does the city of the future look like for him?
- Personal opinion on electric cars? - Does he own one himself?
(in progress)
Sketch on paper from Nils and Dylan
Our experience so far
Review and assessment of things done and still to do
We have completed all orders that are important for the horse. Furthermore, we have already had a very exciting interview with the apprentice of an urban gardening shop.
Link to the post of the interview: https://2021.the-horse.education/post/interview-shop-urban-gardening
In the collaboration, we could start with Reshma and Ashish from India. We could already give each other tips and had our first google meeting. It was very exciting and funny. For our survey, we could also ask several friends and families from other countries.
Link to the post of the collaboration: https://2021.the-horse.education/post/collaboration-urban-gardening
The only thing we have to do until our presentation is the brochure about our topic and the preparation for the presentation. We also have to evaluate the survey and post it on the horse.
Experience on don't waste my energy:
Our researches went quite well and we informed ourselves quickly. It was interesting to find all these interesting facts about urban gardening and how it already is in progress, so we made up a few ideas on how we all can improve and increase urban gardening, especially for cities.
It was a bit harder to make the survey and collaboration. We had a little while to figure out the survey tool, but we handled it quite fast. The hardest part of the survey was to motivate the people to fill it up and share it.
The collaboration was great we had interesting ideas and tried to realize them. Time differences made it hard to communicate with our team in India and with a full and stressful timetable it seemed to be impossible to not miss the deadlines, but with chatting instead of video calls we solved our problem.
We made a working hypothesis, which was hard to prove. We couldn’t find any information, so we only assumed.
The good thing is we planned an interview. In the beginning, we were a bit scared, that it wouldn’t work, because of the Corona situation and that maybe the garden shop owner wouldn’t be so open about it. We still went for it. We prepared our questions and went spontaneously to a gardening shop. To our surprise, they were totally open to our questions and we also proved our working hypothesis.
With a lot of planning and good communication and preparations, it all went really well.
Debora and Melane
(picture taken by us)
In "Technology & Environment" Jennifer Bilang and Carmen Rakeseder dealt with the topic "Local Food". On "The Horse" they have published a post about which vegetables and fruits you should plant when, and where you can plant it even if you life in a small flat in Zurich. They have also created a list with all the local food markets in zurich so you can buy the food that you can't plant by yourself.
Because we don't have a lot of experience in this subject and how we would have to plant the vegetables and fruits we made an interview with Carmen's aunt, Angela. She plants her own vegetables and some fruits on her balcony.
Carmen: "Which vegetables do you plant every year?"
Angela: "Normally I plant different herbes, carrots, onions, pumpkins, different salads, potatoes, leeks and radies"
Carmen: "How many different vegetables do you plant?"
Angela: "about 12 different vegetables and a lot of herbes like chives, parsley, Basil and many more.
Carmen: "Which vegetable does grow the fastest?"
Angela: "It's definitely the salad. It only takes about nine weeks until you can harvest it."
Carmen: "Can you also grow fruits on your balcony?"
Angela: "Yes, of course. you can plant different varieties of berrys. If you have a enough space you can also grow a plum or apple tree in a pot.
Carmen: "Whats the easiest fruit or vegetable to plant?"
Angela: "I really think that growing a plum tree is very easy to plant if you have enough space."
Carmen: "What is important that a plant grows?"
Angela: "You have to look that you water your whole garden enough, so the plants and the soil around it don't dry out. Of course the plants also need a lot of sunshine and the clima has to be right. It is logical that you can't plant a pineapple or mango in switzerland because the clima is not the right one but you can't influence that."
Carmen: "How much effort do you have to put in?"
Angela: "In summer you have to water your garden everyday and you have to do some gardenwork at least once a week."
Carmen: "Do you taste any differences between self planted or buyed food?"
Angela: "Definitely. the taste of the self-planted food is much more taste intensive than the food you buy in the store."
Urban gardening
Do you know urban gardening or do you already do it? In our project, we want to explain to people what this is and how you can do it yourself. Urban gardening has become more and more important in the last years and brings life into the home. All that is needed is time, interest, and the right equipment.
It is for everyone and is a healthy investment and can be practiced even when space is limited.
We spoke to an apprentice of an Urban gardening shop to find out more. This was a very exciting interview. We also want to do a survey and will make a small handout which you can download later. Thank you very much for filling out our survey and you will find our whole project at the end on Don't waste my energy.
Debora and Melane
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.
[Please always use the File manager for photos in the future. TechNick.]
Our idea is to calculate how many trees the city of Zurich would need in order to be able to call itself climate-neutral. With an interview and a survey, we would like to clarify this