We believe we have found a topic that could be very interesting for an international project.
When we walk through the aisles in the shops today, we notice that more than half of the products come from abroad. This raises the question: Where do these products come from? And how did they find their way to our shops? We would like to focus our attention on the transport of food by sea.
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Are you interested to work with us on that topic? Then join our team and contact us!
Kind regards,
Matthias and Jeannine from Switzerland (Wetzikon)
We had an interview with mother nature about the plastic problem in our world.
We invite you to listen to our interview here:
Because we are interested in bio packaging we'd like to learn more about this topic.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to join our project team.
Authors: Claudia Betschart, Sharon Sommer
Hello everyone!
We have an interesting project idea: the life cycle of a local product. In our view it is very important that we support local farmers and buy regional fruits and vegetables.
We would like to show the different steps from how an apple tree got planted to how and when the apples will be picked from the tree. We want to find out how big or small the ecological footprint of this production and its impact on the climate is. In conclusion: What is needed that such a popular product ends up in the grocery store?
We look forward to find some other people who are interested in joining us and do the same project in their country so that we can compare our results. If you are interested, please comment this post and we will contact you as soon as possible.
Tamara Keller and Simone Etter, TZ 19
We are pitching the following project idea:
No food waste at home! We challenge YOU to make sure that you don't waste any food that you buy, cook or eat for a week. Additionally, we would like for you to buy food on sale, meaning food that would be thrown away in a few days because of the *insane* expiration date or because they don't look appealing enough to sell. This way you can save money, food and our planet!
We thought of a few ways to help you achieve this awesome project:
- store leftovers and eat them the next day
- calculate the amount of food you Need to cook
- feed leftovers to your pets (unseasoned meat for the dog or salad for your rabbits)
- find new recipes to include your older Food (e.a. ripe bananas = cooked chocolate bananas or old bread could be toasted)
- subscribe to your local supermarkets Newsletter to be updated About the sales they have
We would love if you joined us on our journey and shared your experience with us. We will create a survey and insert the link here as soon as our Project is approved.
Kind regards,
Aìna and Melisa
Do you ever wanted to know how fresh Airplane food is produced? Stay tuned and support us to explore the airplane food!!!
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Best regards,
Jeffrey and Loris
Green walls for a green city!
We love the idea of a city full of houses, which have plants on their walls. Our vision is it to make the polluted cities cleaner with a lot of plants. We think that the air in the cities would be much cleaner and the living conditions would rise. Furthermore it looks awesome when you are passing a street full of green houses. In addition it is a fact, that green is the colour of luck and we are convinced that people in the city would feel much better by the coulourful impact of their neighbourhood. Moreover we would create a living room for a lot of insects and for example some herbs directly under the windows.
If you are also interested in our idea please don't hesitate to contact us! We would like you to join our team!
Anja, Raffael and Manuela
Photo taken by Raffael Hofmann in Paris
We had the task to track every meal, make a photo and load it up into the «KoBo Toolbox».
It is a very interesting exercise and it is astonishing, what we eat the whole day if we just think about all the ingredients. It isn’t just the food we have to think about, it is also the whole process, from harvesting to packaging and transporting it to us.
For me this KoBo Toolbox was quite challenging because i forgot to take pictures and write a short report very often. Usually right after having a meal or in the evening when I got to bed it came up to my mind: the toolbox. I asked myself why is it so hard to remember this little thing and I just had one answer; habits. It takes a long time until new actions turn into habits so it is totally normal to forget these things if there is no routine at all. If you would like to know more about routine and habits, take a look at the article here or the study here.
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A lot of our food is packaged in plastic. Plastic is bad for our environment because it is not biodegradable. A better alternative to plastic packaging is bio packaging: More...
Origin: Middle east, Asia (great variations in China), Europe
Edible parts: seeds, leaves (eaten as vegetables mostly as side dish)
Family: Cabbages – mustards
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Hello everybody
We would like to give you some Information about the plant "appletree".
But first, why have we choosen this topic?
It was our first idea! At the break before some other students ate some apples. That is the way how we found our topic.
« AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY! »
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We had the task to do a research about a plant which we use to eat. We decided to do a search of a plant which is known mostly as a drug.
Although this plant can be used for about 60'000 different things rarely one knows; one can use it for cooking as a superfood. It isn't just a drug, it is also used in the pharma and textile industry and we find the plant hemp in form of seeds, oil and flour. Hemp is a very healthy plant because it contains a lot of vitamins and mineral nutrients, much protein and a lot of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids.
The parts of the plants which are used for cooking are the seeds. Normally, the blossoms aren't used for cooking.
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