So the next thing we are going to do is talking to our community about our project idea. Because Carmen is working for our community she is going to ask them, if there are some documents we could use for our project. Furthermore she is going to find out a little bit more about the planned project, which they‘ve had in mind.
Gracias!
We have chosen the topic corals. This because corals are an important part of our lives and almost nobody knows about their extinction. Our goal for this project is to create awareness. We all need oxygen to live, but most of us don't even know where we get our clean air from, not to mention how to keep up this standard of living.
70% of the oxygen you breathe comes from the ocean. Reefs are the foundation of ocean health and without them, marine life would stop to exist. No coral reefs, means no oxygen from the ocean.
Pamphlets_Home Composting.pdf (216,59 kb)
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Ulza & Chantal
Hello everybody,
We are looking for someone who would do a collaboration with our project.
Our project is about changing the future. We want to see how our environment would change if everyone would only drive electric cars in the cities. We have already done several interviews, but we still want opinions that are not in the same country. We want to know what people think who live in a different country, where the circumstances are also different than in Switzerland.
We are also working on a survey to obtain several opinions.
We would be interested to hear other opinions.
Nils and Dylan
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.