My imagination about this topic
I understand urban gardening to mean the planting and cultivation of my own products. In this context, I also mean bringing green back into the cities and trying to live in an environmentally friendly and "green" way. Urban gardening can be a small garden on the balcony or can be taken over by the cities on a grand scale. For example with city parks and so on.
We are going to do a survey and have an interview with a shop owner. I hope that the interview will provide me with further and exciting information for our brochure. I also hope to get a clear picture of a possibility for my own needs.
From the survey, I hope that we can inform and motivate people. I am also very curious to see how urban gardening is used or applied in different countries and how well known it is.
In my imagination people already know a lot about it and do this urban gardening already without being aware of it. But you have to make people aware that this is a great contribution to our climate.
How can you get people to implement climate-changing measures?
What is our goal?
We would like to get people to implement climate-changing measures. We want to know, why some people do not implement them and what they'd need to change their opinion. Is lack of information? Financial reasons? Do we need laws? It would also be interesting to know where the costs arise above all from doing nothing about the climate. It would be really nice if we could find someone who could answer this question.More...
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.
[in progress]
When we close our eyes we see a city with a lot of grey surfaces. The materials are brought to our country by ship and airplane, which causes great damage to our enviroment. In summer the city gets hot and the air thickens. We imagine most buildings to be cost efficient and paired up in dense structures to save space.
But we can also think of a perfect scenario with buildings with green space on the surface to let the city breathe. Eco-friendly materiels like wood and natural stone are used for constructs and everything is well distributed.
We can already imagine how in our project we are going to compare these two scenarios and methods with each other. By visiting places which represent both versions of city fassades we are also going to see how much of our imagination matches reality.
Dario & Justin
The main part of our project is, to get to know if it‘s possible to have only electric cars in a city like Zurich. The find this out, we want to do some research in Zurich and also do an interview with the city council of Zurich.
The second part of our project is to do our own experience with electric cars, means we want do drive an electric car and do also an interview with people from the car industry.
in progress
In very densely populated cities like Zurich, the many buildings have an immense impact on the city's climate and the environment. Based on this knowledge, we see it as important to think about the previous construction of buildings.
In our project we would like to show the difference between the building material and the surface of different buildings. We investigate and compare common building materials with each other, as well as different possibilities of surface texture. From this, we create two models which are the best and worst combination and what differences they represent for the climate. The focus is on the lifecycle of the different building materials and the resulting consequences for the environment and climate.
Justin & Dario
We want to use a calculation to evaluate how many trees are necessary to make a city like Zürich CO2 neutral.
- What kind of trees convert the most CO2 into oxygen?
- How long does it take a tree to convert the full amount of CO2?
- Costs of 1 Three?
- How much space does a tree need?
- Is the number of the trees possible to compensate the whole CO2 emission?
- Is the number of trees required realistic in relation to the amount of space in a city?
We will illustrate our results with a benefit analysis and will explain it in a report. à (Costs, amount of space required, Purchase price, service costs needed)
We will make a survey with random people, friends, and our classmates. à About the CO2 emission per person.
We plan an interview with a person from an organisation, which want to plant trees or to regulate the CO2 in the air over Zürich.
- How much money it will cost, to make a city climate neutral
- What are the main goals?
- When should the target be reached?
- What are the possibilities?
