The Horse 2020/21

Environment & Technology

What’s our goal and how can it be achieved?

What exactly is the effect that the group wants to trigger with your action?

We want to give people an understanding of the diversity of trees and which trees are in danger in the city of Zurich. We will explain what diseases exist, which trees are involved and what the outcomes are. We also want to show how bad it can be when foreign plants come to Switzerland and make people aware that no foreign plants should be planted.


What are the means by which the intended effect should be achieved?

We want to share facts and knowledge and encourage people to take a look around the city of Zurich themselves and maybe have a closer look at the plants in their own garden. Maybe we will make an interview with an employee form the "Stadtgärtnerei Zürich".


How should the effect be achieved?

Through facts and knowledge from experts. The website from the city of Zurich has a lot of information about this topic and is very interesting and useful. 


Who is the target audience?

Everyone, because everyone is affected. We all need trees and plants to live and it doesn't hurt to look after your plants in your own garden.

 

From Kevin & Tamara

 

Oxygen generated by the ocean - Coral Reefs

In Our Project, Naomi and I would like to know more about the coral reefs.

Land plants only produce 1/3 of the oxygen we breathe, the rest comes from the ocean. The dying of the coral reefs affects all species from marine life to human kind. We would like to to do a comparison to a City Tree in Zürich and calculate the amount of oxygen which is produced by the tree compared to the corals in the ocean. Further we would like to get to know more about how exactly corals affect us and the air we breath. Another aim is to get in touch with an Organisation who deals with replanting of corals and the restauration of coralreefs. We also thought about covering some other questions. For example how to prevent all coral reefs from becoming extinct by 2050, or is it possible to restore the riff like before and are there any statistics that show how the reef is doing at the moment?

Urban gardening

What is our goal and how it can be achieved?

What exactly is the effect that the group wants to trigger with your action?
- We would like to bring urban gardening closer to people and introduce them to this type of gardening. We want to use this type of gardening to bring green spaces back into the cities.

With what methods should the intended effect be achieved?
- In order to achieve these goals, we would like to ask the inhabitants of the cities what they know about this topic and, if necessary, inform them. For this purpose, we would also like to give them a prospect, which we have produced ourselves. It will give them a short summary of what urban gardening is and how they can make the cities greener. Maybe we can also do an interview with a shop manager or with the city of Zürich.

How we can achieve our impact?
- With various opinions and advertising, we would like to make our target audience aware of how everyone can bring a little green, back to the cities themselves.

Who is the target audience?
- People who live in the city, as well as teenagers, adults, and senior citizens.

Debora and Melane

Transport

Transport

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Bringing the reefs back to life

In the last three decades, half of the world's coral reefs have died and if we don't act now those oceans 

treasures will be completely gone by 2050. It would be the destruction of an entire ecosystem, and with it, ourselves. That is why Naomi and I thought it is important to do something against this threatening thing that happens with these reefs! There is a group of people that started to replant reefs, that fell off in the ocean to ensure the survival of them.  

 

 We want to find out more about this project and how they proceed. How does the replanting work? Does it  make a difference or is it all for nothing? How much time will it take to replant enough reefs to ensure their survival and with it ours? 

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