Hello everybody!
We finally posted our project about the impact on climate by book sharing on dontwastemy.energy.
Go have a look! Here you can find the direct link to the post:
https://dontwastemy.energy/2020/05/19/book-sharing/
We would be very happy about a short feedback, thank you!
Best regards
Deniz and Maria
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 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
Hello everyone,
It’s clear for all of us that book sharing is a great way to save wood, which is good for our environment. In our opinion, we all should do something for our environment. Sometimes it’s difficult, but to make it easier for you we wanted to share an option to share books with you:
There is a tree library inside a tree in a forest in Hinwil. People can cycle or walk to the place and take some books out of it or bring their own books for free. This is a great way to share books and it’s very supportive for our environment too.
Our idea:
You could take a book from this library and write a few word on the first page of it. Maybe some requests or greetings. It would also be an option to write down the phone number or E-Mail address to exchange the opinion of the book. Everyone who read the book should write a few words after reading it. It would be very interesting so see how many people read the same book and you could also talk about the quality of it. We definitely will try it out! You could give it a try too. J
So if you’re interested in visiting the tree library, let’s take a look! There are a lot of advantages of book sharing.
Best regards,
Deniz and Maria
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Hello everbody,
we asked ourselves whether a book or an iPad (eBook) is actually more environmentally friendly. We have created a small chart to compare this.
An iPad needs about 15 KG of minerals to produce while a book needs 0.3 KG. A book also needs a large amount of sand and gravel and 9 litres of water. For the battery and circuit board of the iPad 300 litres of water are needed. As far as energy is concerned, the iPad needs more, namely 100 kilowatt hours and the book only 2 kilowatt hours. Also the CO2 emission of the iPad is higher (33 KG). With the book the emission is 100 times smaller!
If transport and the entire period of use of the book is involved, the iPad can show its advantages. A book can be read for 2-3 weeks and an iPad can be owned for longer. If you order a book from Amazon, it causes environmental pollution that is about half as big as the pollution that was used to produce the book. Emissions for buying a book in the online shop are close to zero. If you take into account the listed raw materials, i.e. water, energy and minerals, an iPad is worthwhile from 40 to 50 books read. If you take an average of one book read per month, it takes a whole 4 years until the iPad is ecologically profitable (the older the iPad is, the longer the time span).
We hope we can find more interesting information.
This is the source we used.
Do you prefer a book or an iPad to read?
Thanks and best regards,
Maria & Deniz
Hello together
We would like to share Task 7 with you as we answered some important questions concerning the project:
1 ) Goal of the project, Motivation (Intro - keep it very short!) - Was wollen sie? Wie (Methoden)? Zielpublikum? Wirkung - Wieso braucht es das? =>Vorteile Wirkung bzgl. Mensch & Umwelt
Goal: To show, if it’s worth to share books (concernant energy and other ressources). For example the sharing of our economy books with other apprentices. We would also like to introduce the tree library of Hinwil to you. Book sharing is for everyone, it doesn’t matter how old you are.
2) State of the art - Projektstand bis heute
We’ve finished the research (Befter step 2). We already posted the Befter step 1 and wrote about our aims. As well, we’re almost finished with the energy calculation and we cycled to the forest library in Hinwil. This was an interesting experience.
3) Your next steps - weitere geplante Schritte (gem. Konzept/Projektplan, sollte ersichtlich sein)
Now we would like to calculate how much energy we could save through book sharing. When we’ve finished the calculation, we would like to compare it to an E-book. For step 3 we want to cycle to the tree library of Hinwil to show you the quality of the books. We want to show different ways to share books, so people could treat our environment better.
4) Team work: Does it work? Are you organized reg. work load? Communication?
Our teamwork works very well. We separated the tasks as it is difficult to work through “teams”. We always show our results to each other before we post them. We both have different ideas which is great for a good teamwork to complete each other.
Best regards,
Deniz and Maria
Hello!
As we mentioned in our "goals of today", we made some researches today. We would like to share some of them with you. We also wrote down our knowledge about it and experiences with book sharing:
Our ideas: More...
Hello everyone,
We've decided to do the project about book sharing. Our goals for today are:
- to do the imagination step 1
- to start the research (step 2)
After these lessons we're going to update our goals. And we're going to tell you how it worked.
Best regards, (würsch bitte da no es komma mache)
Deniz and Maria from homeschool ;)