The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Imagination in 100 Years

Hey!
Today we asked ourselves the question how the maritime transportation in 100 years looks like.

we think the ships are not going to get bigger, because in the ports and canals (Suez and Panama canal) it would be tight for maneuvers. However, we believe that the ships will be using more sustainable fuel. Thus could be dispensed with heavy oils.

 

We could imagine that goods would also change because the world will continue to develop and become more interconnected during this time.

 The fact that the sea level will rise rapidly in the next few years, we can assume that the increased water, new trade routes for shipping arise.

Even the autonomous driving on the oceans could be or become an issue. However, it might be difficult to give the necessary security. When the barges are so alone on the oceans, they are as lost as they are.

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Jeannine & Matthias
Team Transportation / TZ 19

 

Futur imagination

We wish the food waste problem in 100 years would be resolved completely. It would be great if the food could be distributed evenly in the world to cure world hunger and stop the huge amount of food waste. In an ideal situation the world would use its food recources wisely and without harming the enviroment and the animals. This way global warming can be fought and hopefully resolved. We hope that people will change their minds and care more about their habit about food.

In terms of concepts on how we imagine the relisation of no food waste we have a couple of ideas:

  • stores and restaurants should be obligated to give away the food for free or discounted for the less fortunate
  • there should be fees for food waste in private households. We imagine that the food has to be thrown away seprately and is weighed. Depending on the weight of the food waste a fee is calculated. This money could be used to invest into the climate emergency.
  • food which can be stored for a longer period of time should be cheaper to motivate people to buy food smarter
  • the expiration dates should be calculatede more accurately
  • YouTubers who eat 3000 gramms of pasta just for clickbait should be charged with a fee and it should be forbidden

We would love to see these changes in the future... let's see if our wishes come true!

Best wishes, Aìna and Melisa

 

04.12.2019 | Our goals for this lesson of T&U

What are your today's goals? Who is responsible?

  • This post, definition of our goals for this lesson (Simone)
  • Do the imagination-step (Stefanie)
  • Answering e-mails
    • to our teammate from India (Stefanie)
    • to Strickhof, Lindau (Tamara)
  • Typewrite questions 1 to 5 of the interview we made with a local farmer (Simone)
  • Finalize questions for the survey we have planned (Tamara)


At the end of the lesson we will check if we reached our goals:

Goal achieved
Goal not achieved -> we achieved every goal! :-)


Tamara, Stefanie, Simone
Zurich, Switzerland

Step 1 - Imagination: Local Product

Our ideas work like a "multiplicator-effect" as they go hand in hand..

In our future, there will be more local production raised everywhere in Switzerland, hence, short paths of distribution will be given. Therefore, also direct purchase from farmer to clients will be more promoted than today. Encouraging national products - swiss apples - incstead of imports, will not only help increasing the amount of growing apples but also gross domestic product (GDP/BIP).

Tamara, Simone and Stefanie

Instagram account "where2where"

Hello Everyone

If you didn't know, we have an Instagram account where we promote the projects of our class. We would really be happy if you give us a follow with your Instagram account. You won't regret it.

Check it out :)

link to the account: https://www.instagram.com/where2where/

Name: where2where

Thank you in advance and best regards,

Rezon and Deia

Challenge for no food waste

Hi everyone,

I need your help. We did a survey draft to collect our first data. The key in our project is, that as many people as possible join us. The thing is that we have a little bit of difficulties how we can encourage people to do the challenge. I thought that we can do a kobotoolbox with the gender, if the person bought or made it and a before and after pic of the food. Also important is if they were successfully this day or not. 

Here the link. https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/#0nSv6iUc

Please comment your thoughts and ideas.

Current status of our project & Experience

Today we had the possibility to make an interview with a specialist for renewable packaging of the development department of the company Wipf AG.

We prepared the questions carefully before and gained very much new knowledge. We also had the chance to take some pictures and make a video of a part of the production process which was very intersting to see.

Our next steps will be to bring our interview in form and edit our taken video before we post it. We also want to take another video in a store to show the differences between the production part and the purchase part. We want to show that it is possible to do the shopping more or less plasticfree.

Stay tuned!

Best regards

Claudia & Sharon

Geen Walls Part 1 Ready to publish

What is a green wall?

A green wall is a wall covered with greenery. It can be indoor or outdoor. And most of the green walls have an integrated water delivery system.
It depends if the green wall is indoor or outdoor. The plants have to be matching to the surrounding location.

The difference between the green walls and the green facades is, that green walls have soil overall face of the wall. Green facades only have soil on the ground.

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