Dear all, we finally finished our post about the SHARING topic. This topic had been occupying our class for several months.
Our group has done it! The post on "dontwastemyenergy" is finally finished. You can view it under the following link: https://dontwastemy.energy/2020/05/15/share-it-app/
Showcase Carsharing
I took the topic carsharing and did some research about it. In my calculation I assumed, that two person can share one car. I calculated with the data of one VW Golf. To produce one VW Golf you need 22'000 kWh of energy. If you compare 10 people who do carsharing to 10 people who aren’t doing carsharing, you can see that we save 50% energy by doing carsharing. Of course not every person would be able to do carsharing, because he needs his car too much or he lives somewhere, where you can only get to by car. I assume that 60% of all the people which are having a car could also do carsharing. So in the real world we could save 30% energy by doing carsharing.
In the year 2019 67 Million cars where produced. If we do carsharing we would have produced 20 Million less cars. If we do the same calculation like we did before, we can see that we would save 440 billion kWh of energy. This is enought energy to supply switzerland for 7 years. As you can see carsharing could save a lot of energy.
Sources: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graue_Energie
Picture source pixabay.com
Audio: Audio-Showcase Carsharing.m4a (55.93 kb)
DOC: Showcase Carsharing.docx (23.17 kb)
Hello everyone,
besides the website and the tree library we found another useful way to share books. A high school graduate has created an Instagram account where books are sold at a fair price and are even partly new. The goal of this account is to recycle for the sake of the environment. The target group are high school students (Gymnasium, BMS, FMS, etc.) We looked at this account and realized that we could have benefited from it. Many books and readings that we had to buy for the school are sold here cheaper and used. We are a bit disappointed that we didn't discover this site earlier...But now we can advertise a bit and hope other students can benefit from it. Just search for "simplebooksclub" on Instagram. If you find a book you need, you can contact the admin (direct message or comment). Hopefully we can try it soon.
Have fun and best regards,
Maria & Deniz
Hello everybody
Another way to share books besides the tree library is the website book crossing (https://www.bookcrossing.com/about). Though the website you can exchange books and you can even get in touch with persons who already read the book. In our opinion it’s a great and modern way to reuse books. The book crossing website is available in 132 countries and there are 13'276'191 book which are crossing the world. Book sharing websites are very common in countries like the USA or Germany. All you have to do is to create an account on bookcrossing.com and you’re able to share your books.
Best regards,
Deniz and Maria
Hello everyone
Finally we did our calculation, the buissnessplan and the organigramm. We will publish these three things in two parts.
Everything is to be considered as if we were founding a company. Of course everything is only fictitious.
The calculation was not very easy because it is very difficult to find the exact number of grams of material in a necklace. Because of this, we did the whole thing in a text.
In any case, we assume that a neckless is made of 18ct, which corresponds to 3.6 g yellow gold. Carat describes the density of fine gold. In the picture below we describe how the process of winning gold might look like. If we now assume that these chains are sold ten times, the effort is logically ten times greater. On the picture you can also see a truck that transports rock. From one ton of rock 3-5 grams of gold can be processed. Let us assume that a ring with 3 grams of gold needs one ton. For 10 rings, it takes six tons of rock. Suppose a truck can transport one ton and has to go this way six times. By driving less, you can avoid producing less CO2, which is better for the environment.
Picture Source: https://philoro.de/expertenwissen/von-der-goldmine-zum-goldbarren
If you want to know how gold and silver are made, take a look at the link down below.
production of gold and silver
Julia and Selina
Hello
Working from home wasn't easy for us. We tried to do our best. With our car sharing project, we want to show you how you can save lots of materials by sharing cars. I mean did you know, that every car is made out of 10'000 different materials? Iron by itself has a average weight of 600 kg per car. By removing the carbon during smelting, it is hardened and processed into steels with different strengths.
It is very interesting, how many things you can save by not using a car or by using a car when you have to. With our car sharing app, we showed you how you can do that with just a few clicks. It is very simple. The app could be something that could change a lot in our environment. We did a sketch on how the app could look like.
Of course, not everyone can dispense a car. But everyone should at least try to drive not drive to everywhere they go. Use bycicles or go on foot when you can.
Hello everyone
We are still in the process. Nevertheless we want to share our experiences with you. The teamwork is going quite well, although we can only work from home.
It's not as easy as we thought, regarding to the materials of jewellery, the necklace comes in many different variations, moreover the exact materials are not always described.
But we try to do the best possible.
Kind regaredes
Julia and Selina
Hello everyone,
we are ready to publish our project "game sharing" on dontwastemy.energy.
Kind regards,
Deia and Rezon
Game-sharing-Deia-Rezon.pdf (454.33 kb)
(uploaded by teacher)
Hello together,
we actually had a good start. When the lockdown followed and we weren't sure for a long time what would happen with our graduation, communication and teamwork became more difficult. About a month ago we found out that there were no final exams. For this reason we were able to devote ourselves to this project without any stress. During the past weeks we learned how much energy it takes to produce an iPad and a book, that there is a tree library in Hinwil and what other possibilities there are to share the books. We will publish the report soon. But we can say that it was still an instructive and interesting time, although it was not easy either.
Best regards,
Maria & Deniz
We're putting everything together (research and own texts) to one text. Now we'er almost ready to publish. Our goal for tomorrow is to be ready to publish the project or even to publish it. But we'll see tomorrow. Another goal for tomorrow is to find a cover picture for the post.
We're very happy to see how our post is getting created step by step and how far we are now. Now we're getting closer to the end of our project.
Best regards,
Deniz and Maria
Hello everybody
Our project is drawing to a close. In order to that we would like to do a reflection and share our thoughts with you.
We've chosen the topic, because we both think it's a very interesting way to share. We're both interested in our environment. That's why we also tried to show another way to share books (tree library) instead of just giving it to a friend or family member.
We researched a lot (general facts and numbers for example) but we were able to share our knowledge about the project as well.
Our teamwork was okay. We often split up the work, especially because we've had homeschooling the last few weeks. That's why we weren't able to meet. But if we had questions, we could ask one another. That's why we talked a lot through teams to create the project. We're at the same english level, that's why we were able to trust each other in regard to grammar mistakes. We sometimes had different opinions, but in the end we always found a solution, which is very important.
We're very happy with the project we created and it was a great experience :)
Best regards,
Deniz and Maria