Our Reflection
In our imagination step, we mentioned that we don‘t think very positiv about water in agriculture. Sadly we have to say that our fears have been confirmed. More...
We conducted an interview with Dr. Eva Waiblinger. She is Zoologist, science journalist, author of horror, science ficion stories and mathematics teacher at the WKVW & BMZ.
Summary of questions and answers
1. Close your eyes and describe the world in 100 years according to your personal imagination and research knowledge
The earth will get warmer, the avarage temperature will increase. There will be several weather pattern and the sea levels wil rise. Eventually humans will die out. If the insect mass continues to decline, all birds that depend on insect for brood care will become extinct. If humans survive, there will be a population collapse (food shortage, wars).
2. How will the plants change/develop?
Due to the extingtion of pollinatior insects, many flowering plant will die out. Short-lived plants will survive and long-lived plants, like trees, disappear.
3. Compared to the last years, there are more forest fieres, plants that disappear and other things?
Yes, drought and forest fire are increasing.
4. What effects can be expected?
Crises in the supply of food. Increased risk of resource wars.
5. What are the causes and what could be done about it?
Climate warming through greenhouse gases and insects die. Plant all avaiable areas with native plant species. A mixture of incentive systems (direct payments, tax reductions) for low carbon behaviour and high taxation of CO2 emissions, in private life as well as industry and agriculture.
You can find the whole interview here
Emanuela D'Andrea and Vanessa Nauer
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Our project is drawing to a close. In order to that we would like to do a reflection and talk about the teamwork and how we experienced it.
We've chosen a project, which we thought would be very interesting. That's why we felt very motivated from the beginning. We researched a lot about the topic and we talked a lot with our family and friends. That's how we got all the knowledge to this project. The teamwork was great. We often split up the work and if we had any questions, we could always ask one another. In order to that, we had to trust each other, especially in relation to our english-skills. We both are at the same english level and that's why it was fun to work with each other. Occasionally we had different opinion. Maria for example wanted to live vegan for one week, while Deniz thought vegan would be enough. But in the end, we always found a solution, which made both of us happy. That's what we think is extremely important while working in a team.
Sometimes we had time issues, as we also had a lot to do with the other school subjects. As well, we had to write our graduation work, which took us a lot of time. But as well, we managed it to create a project that we're very happy with.
Best regards, Deniz and Maria
Today we put all the researches and interviews together to one text. Now we're almost ready to publish our post. But before this step, we want to shape the post by correcting some grammar mistakes and by forming the sentences correctly. To shape it, we wrote an introduction at the beginning of our 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
We conducted an interview with Mrs Fabienne Michel. She studied food science at the ETH and is now doing a doctorate at the institute for environmental decisions and consumer behavior.
Summary of questions and answers
1. Close you eyes and describe the world in 100 years according to your personal imagination and research knowledge
Most buildings will be renovated to store heat in winter and keep out the heat in summer. Via sensors in the body we are informed if something is missing or unusual happens. Personalized nutritional recommendations will enable us to provide our body with exactly the substances it needs at any given time.
2. How will the food develop?
In the future, nutrition will be more personalised than today. Everyone will know exactly how many carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and other things their body needs. Your own needs for these substances will be covered with drinks and food specially produced for one. In order to limit climate change, to take care of the environment and out of the conviction that animals should not suffer, the majority of people will eat vegetable food.
3. Do you think the insects will play an important role in human nutrition?
The insects wil not prevail as food in our culture. But it can be for the production of dog and cat food. So that no other animals would have to be slaughtered for this feed.
4. How will artificial food develop and will people in the future eat more and more of this kind of food?
For her as a food scientist it is difficult to answer this question. Because the term "artificial food" is very difficult to grasp. For example, it will be possible to buc meat from the laboratory. Provided that the laboratory meat is cheaper, tasted at least as good and if possible healthier than conventional meat.
5. Could you imagine it will develop in a completely different direction? If yes, which?
With the current ecological efforts, it could be that more people will grow and cook their own food again. In this way, awareness of food and its ingredients is increased and the responsible use of food is promoted.
Here you can find the whole interview.
Emanuela D'Andrea und Vanessa Nauer
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As part of my project work, I have opened my own Instagram account named the_use_of_water More...
We quickly realized how important communication is in a teamwork. The goal was to work together with our team members in India, which unfortunately was not achieved in the beginning because it was difficult to establish contact. Therefore we had to start alone. We both could throw in our ideas, discuss and show our own strengths. Since there were "only" the two of us in the end, we quickly got into stress, because we lost a lot of time. Nevertheless we managed to find and write down the necessary information. Also the survey with the family went without any problems.
What did we learn regarding teamwork during this time?
- Time management is very important
- In order for the team to work, we have to listen to the other person and also accept other opinions
- In teamwork there is a give and take, i.e. the tasks must be divided fairly and attention must be paid to each other
Of course we found out a lot of interesting facts and information about our topic. The post will be published soon.
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In my holidays, I did something that I never would have expected to do. For one whole week, I only ate non-animal food.
Usually, I eat at least one time a day meat and one snack a day which contains milk. So it was a very rough start. More...
For our project research we used the following links:More...
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In this lesson we transfered our text for the post from german to english. We asked Elizabeth from India how far she have been coming with her part of the Project and she wrote, that she will finish it soon.
Our text is now ready to publish, we only need some pictures and the part from Elizabeth of course.
Unfortunately we coudn't visit a chocolate factory but we found lots of interessting facts in the internet which we could use.
Best regards,
Shana & Rahel
Here is our text for the post:
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Today we changed our instagram name from
@where2where
to
@dontwaste_myenergy
Kind regards,
the marketing team