Electric cars are considered to be particularly environmentally friendly, some even praise them as "emission-free". But is this true? Are electric cars really the salvation of the environment or just a billion-dollar business for the car industry?
A film for WDR by Florian Schneider and Valentin Thurn
This film was produced in 2019. All statements and facts correspond to the state of affairs at that time and have not been updated since then.
More infos to the video in German (daserste.de)
Germans still prefer to go on holiday in their cars. Without good tyres, nothing works. A booming market, a billion-dollar business. In Germany alone, more than 50 million tyres are sold every year. Where does their most important component, the rubber, actually come from? (video by Michael Höft, 2019)
The largest producer of rubber, natural rubber, is Thailand. More...
My questions regarding the junk food are:-
1. What is junk food?
2. What makes junk food different from the regular food we consume?
3. Why is it gaining popularity these days?
4. How is it affecting our lives?
5.In this 21st century is it possible to live without junk food?
6. Should we stop consuming junk food?
7. Can junk food be made healthy? If yes, how?
Norway manages its oil revenues in the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. But the fund is now withdrawing billions from fossil industries and investing them in renewable energies. An MP from Oslo explains why.
To the full article (spiegel.de, in German)
"We cannot have a climate policy"
The National Bank's billions also flow into oil and coal. According to director Andréa Maechler, this must be the case.
To the full article/video (srf.tv)
Who doesn't like the beautiful lights during Advent season?
Walking from school back to the train station we relalized the beautiful winter lights made of recycled material - what a great idea, isn't it?
As we enjoyed them pretty much on our ways during the cold, dark evenings we wanted to share it with you:
Wishing all of you a wonderful Christmas time!
Warm wishes from Wetzikon,
Tamara, Simone, Stefanie
Hey everyone
We already learn something about foodwast at weddings. So in this case we gain our knowledge from catering organisations. It is very interessting how they manage food planning. It is also impresive, how they treat the food.
Furthermore we learn how to colaborate with other people form other countries. It is a chance to improve and use our english skills.
Best wishes,
Julia and Selina
Hi everyone
We prepared our text for the post on dontwastemy.energie. For now it is in german but we will translate it to english for the post.
Best regards,
Shana & Rahel
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Hello guys
Attached you will find our provisionally Word file in german, which will be looked at by Martin the brewer. Then we will post the final copy.
Have fun!
Michel and Simon
Bier.docx (13,71 kb)
- Do the interview with the local farm shop
- Read the "Taten-statt-Worte" Guidelines and pick out some good informations
- Write new parts from our contribution on befter
Best wishes,
Anja and Nathan
Hello everyone!
We found a collaboration with Praveena, she comes from India.
We answered the questions for swiss weddings and Praveena answered the questions for indian weddings. We agreed with her to exchange the following questions:
- What is food wastage?
When you cook for all the people of the wedding and after the wedding you have some food left which you put into the bin instead of using it again on another day.
- How is food wastage and swiss weddings related?
The preparations and the amounts for the food run with the mind.
- What happens to the leftover food in swiss weddings?
They give the leftover food either to the people who participate at the wedding or throw it away into the bin.
- What is the average amount of food waste?
We can’t say this exactly but across Switzerland a total of 2.6 million tons of food are lost each year.
- How is it linked with climate change?
You need a lot of energy to produce food and that is really damaging for the environment. When we just throw it away, it is even more wastage of energy.
- What is people’s call on this? How are they discarding the waste generated in present scenario?
It depends on the person. Everyone reacts different to this scenario. Some are more interested in this topic than the others and some want to do something against it. When they cook dinner and have some food left and eat it on the next day and throw it away.
- What can be some alternatives to wastage generated?
Maybe calculate the amount of food better and think realistic by planning the menus. Another alternative is to give the leftover food to people who haven’t enough food.
- Why isn’t the quantity restricted to as much as required?
Because the caterings don’t want to be bad and in case of that have enough food for weddings.
- Was the idea of limiting expenditure of swiss weddings right or wrong?
Wrong, because in the end everyone should make his or her wedding as much perfect as they want and it is one of the wonderful celebration of your life!
Best wishes,
Julia and Selina