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An Energy- and Resource-Project. Questions were answered by student research teams.

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Category: Lifestyle

Food & Climate 19/20, Lifestyle, Mobility1 Comment

Airplane Food facts

January 8, 2020February 1, 2020 Befter20 Airfood

In the name of our Technology and Environment classes we had to think about a topic which includes the environment and food and make an article about it. We are Loris Hitz and Jeffrey Medina and our goal is to … Continue reading Airplane Food facts

Befter 18/19, Electricity, Lifestyle3 Comments

Doing sports in an energy-efficient way

January 25, 2019February 18, 2019 Befter19 Sports

Hello everyone, We would like to introduce you to our project about doing sports and saving energy at the same time. In this decade it has become a huge trend for people all over the world to visit a fitness-center … Continue reading Doing sports in an energy-efficient way

Befter 18/19, Lifestyle2 Comments

Is Upcycling Fashion Fashionable?

November 9, 2018February 18, 2019 Befter upcycling

Hello everybody, For our Projectino Befter we chose the topic Upcycling Fashion. We wanted to know how sustainable clothing is made. We contacted Karin from Animazul … Continue reading Is Upcycling Fashion Fashionable?

Freechos, Lifestyle, Recycling, Resources4 Comments
Fairphone-picture

Can FAIR Phones make the world a better place?

May 31, 2018February 17, 2019 Freely Team Fairphone

Nowadays there’s a lot of e-waste because many people don’t care or don’t think about what happens if they always buy the latest smartphone. With our project we would like to make people aware of the fact that our resources … Continue reading Can FAIR Phones make the world a better place?

Climate, Lifestyle, Recycling, Resources, Scenarios Z.B. 182 Comments

The «yellow» side of aluminium

May 28, 2018February 17, 2019 ZB Team Aluminium

The aim of this post is to show the readers which effects the use of aluminium have. Especially we show you the consumption of Zurich and … Continue reading The «yellow» side of aluminium

Food, Lifestyle, Scenarios Z.B. 184 Comments

Could we nourish the citizens of Zurich with food waste?

May 28, 2018February 19, 2019 ZB Team Foodwaste

The story to our scenario In the city of Zurich something unbelievable happens on a Friday morning. Suddenly the earth starts to tremble (beben). The houses begin to shake and the people run helplessly and screaming around the street hoping … Continue reading Could we nourish the citizens of Zurich with food waste?

Lifestyle, Recycling, Resources, Scenarios Z.B. 181 Comment

Made of 200 million years old organics – plastics

May 28, 2018March 31, 2019 ZB Team Plastic

Story “Plastic Prohibition” It’s the year 2035. People have changed and so has the environment. Kids grow up with social media and everyone holds a mobile … Continue reading Made of 200 million years old organics – plastics

Climate, Fabrication, Lifestyle, Resources, Scenarios Z.B. 187 Comments

Paper production through hemp – an alternative?

May 28, 2018February 17, 2019 ZB Team Hemp

Hemp as an alternative to paper made out of wood Before we start with our explanation you can watch our introduction video:  Paper use in general and paper production from wood After we did some research we discovered that … Continue reading Paper production through hemp – an alternative?

Electricity, Lifestyle, Scenarios Z.B. 181 Comment

Protecting nature by bike

May 14, 2018February 20, 2019 ZB Team Movement

3 bicycle scenarios Our scenario is how to protect the environment through riding a bike in different ways. Furthermore, it is also positive for the humans’ health. They are more motivated for the movement when they safe money. No one … Continue reading Protecting nature by bike

Lifestyle, Resources, ZürIzmir 17/188 Comments

Water Pollution

January 26, 2018February 19, 2019 Team ZurIzmir Water

Introduction Water is the beginning of life. Especially sweet water, which makes our planet so unique. Life is only possible with its existence and we couldn’t survive without. Only three percent of the water on earth is sweet water (or … Continue reading Water Pollution

Food, Lifestyle, ZürIzmir 17/184 Comments

Buy Fair, Be Fair – Fair trade

January 26, 2018February 19, 2019 Team ZurIzmir Fairtrade

Introduction The conditions that sadly still exist in developing and emerging countries in the 21st century are repulsive. There are to this day plenty of workers that receive despite their hard work a salary that just isn’t fair. That made … Continue reading Buy Fair, Be Fair – Fair trade

Lifestyle, ZürIzmir 17/183 Comments

Pollution is an eye-catcher!

January 26, 2018February 18, 2019 Team ZurIzmir Visual

Have you ever made the experience of walking through a street or a place in your city where you didn’t feel confident because of the surroundings? On the contrary hopefully everyone knows locations where they feel relaxed and happy. We … Continue reading Pollution is an eye-catcher!

Food, Lifestyle, ZürIzmir 17/184 Comments

Sustainable Food

January 26, 2018February 17, 2019 Team ZurIzmir Food

Introduction Hi everyone, We began a project with a school class from Izmir, Turkey. A new challenge for all of us. Food is food and everyone … Continue reading Sustainable Food

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Izmir Sustainable Food Project

January 26, 2018February 17, 2019 Team ZurIzmir Food

Interview Organic Food Project Hello, my name is Dogukan, from the Izmir team. My group mates and I did an interview with the school’s literature teacher who is responsible for all the work about the sustainable and organic food. Also … Continue reading Izmir Sustainable Food Project

Climate, Food, Lifestyle, Resources, ZürIzmir 17/189 Comments

Palm Oil

January 25, 2018February 18, 2019 Team ZurIzmir Palmoil

Introduction Nowadays palm oil is one of the most popular oils that we people love to consume. Not only is it very harmful for us, it is also destroying our environment rapidly. It is known that palm oil is grown … Continue reading Palm Oil

Climate, Lifestyle, ZürIzmir 17/182 Comments

Glacier melting & Floods – Climate crisis’ Effects

January 24, 2018August 12, 2019 Team ZurIzmir Climate

Introduction Today all people around the world are talking about climate crisis, melting glaciers and hotter temperatures. What are the problems in Switzerland and in Turkey? With this article we want to present you our video and diagram about some … Continue reading Glacier melting & Floods – Climate crisis’ Effects

Lifestyle, Recycling, Resources, where2where 16/174 Comments

An alternative to the common doggy dirt bags

January 26, 2017February 19, 2019 Team w2w54

Introduction A plastic bag is used on an average of just 25 minutes. Its production consumes petroleum and requires a lot of energy, dioxin is released … Continue reading An alternative to the common doggy dirt bags

Lifestyle, Recycling, where2where 16/178 Comments

The story behind fashion

January 26, 2017April 22, 2019 Team w2w44

Overview We chose the LifeCycle of the H&M clothes as we are both very interested in fashion and want to know where our clothes come from. H&M promotes a huge recycling project. The H&M stores collect old clothes and according … Continue reading The story behind fashion

Fabrication, Lifestyle, Recycling, where2where 16/172 Comments

The everlasting tarpaulin bag

January 23, 2017February 17, 2019 Team w2w36

Interesting fact: All the materials of our product «a bag made out of tarpaulin» is recycled. They have a never ending lifecycle, because the idea of the bag is to use it for more than a life time without getting … Continue reading The everlasting tarpaulin bag

Fabrication, Lifestyle, where2where 16/175 Comments

The journey of shoes

January 20, 2017February 18, 2019 Team w2w52

Introduction We noticed that at lot of People think that Timberland boots are too expensive. Therefore, we wanted to find out how much the production cost and how much profit they get. Furthermore, we were very interested in the materials … Continue reading The journey of shoes

Lifestyle, Recycling, where2where 16/174 Comments

What’s behind the coffee capsule?

January 20, 2017February 19, 2019 Team w2w13

What’s up coffee Lovers? In our T&U class, we decided to take “Coffee Capsules” as our website project subject. We specialized our project on Nespresso coffee capsules, because Nespresso is one of the leading coffee brands and also owned by … Continue reading What’s behind the coffee capsule?

Lifestyle, Recycling, Resources, where2where 16/1713 Comments

Plastic Bags – only used for 12 minutes

January 20, 2017February 19, 2019 Team w2w50

As plastic bags are controversially discussed these days, we chose the topic plastic bags. We would like to find out whether the use of plasitc bag causes great pollution or are environmentally friendly. To find out how other people think … Continue reading Plastic Bags – only used for 12 minutes

Fabrication, Lifestyle, where2where 16/174 Comments

See, the story of a mirror

January 19, 2017February 19, 2019 Team w2w47

Mirror We have choosen an object, which we use every day and we actually don’t know a lot about it. So we decided to take the mirror, because every morning in the bathroom or when we drive by car, we … Continue reading See, the story of a mirror

Food, Lifestyle, where2where 16/1715 Comments

Festival Waste Management

January 13, 2017February 17, 2019 Team w2w45

We, Kim and Cécile, decided to do our work about the waste management at festivals like the Openair Frauenfeld or the Royal Arena. We have both visited these two festival more than once and we thought it would be interesting … Continue reading Festival Waste Management

Lifestyle, Resources, where2where 16/173 Comments

Check the watch!

January 12, 2017February 19, 2019 Team w2w10

In this project, we would like to report about some materials that are often used for making a watch. For us it is noticeable that many … Continue reading Check the watch!


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