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.
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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
Areas in Zurich:
9032 hectares (2018) --> 90.32 square kilometres
- Agricultural area 9.5%
- Forest area 26.4%
- Traffic area 14.6%
- Settlement area 47.7%
- Area of water bodies 1.2%
- Unproductive area 0.6%More...
Review and assessment of things done and still to do:
Overall, I think we made good progress but there is still a big amount of work ahead of us. Michael and I collected all the data needed and startedMore...
Collaboration with India
We have a collaboration with Reshma Rajesh and Ashish P John from India. We got in contact at the very beginning in class and we talked together via video. There we exchanged numbers and now we have a collaboration together.
On 26.10.2020 we had a short chat with Reshma. She will comment on our project and we also commented on her project. We think that we connect our projects well. We can also send her our survey and she will distribute it in her school.
We can also send our survey to America, Germany, England, Netherlands, Brazil, Austria, Sri Lanka, and India.
It will be a great survey of many different countries. :-)
Debora and Melane
Review and evaluation of what has been done and what remains to be done
We have drawn up a plan to realise everything we want to achieve
All in all, we hardly had any problems. The only thing that can be a thorn in our side is the coronary gland, which makes the survey and interview difficult.
We try to stick to the plan and work through everything step by step.
This week we will contact Andrea Gion Saluz to organize an interview. Maybe this will help us enormously in the other things
Laurice & Michael
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 humankind. We would like to get to know more about how corals affect us in our daily life. Isn't it worth it to safe the coral reefs for our own safety?
This is what Esosa and I would like to discuss in our project: Oxygen generated by the ocean.
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The aim of our project is to find out whether in a city like Zürich it would be possible to use electric cars only.
In the course of a self-experiment we hope to find out how electric-car-friendly the city of Zurich is today. With an interview we also want to learn more about the plans that the Zürich city council has regarding the electrification of its urban car traffic.
(in progress)