The Horse 2023

Have you always wanted to know more about how gaming affects our environment?
Then check out our article about video games and the environment in Switzerland and India!

https://dontwastemy.energy/2023/05/23/video-games-and-the-environment-how-are-they-related/

By Damian & Christian

Für die IDAF konnte ich meinen Artikel auf diesen beiden Seiten veröffentlichen:

https://www.umweltnetz-schweiz.ch/

https://einfachweniger.ch/blog

Our project actually went pretty much as I had imagined it.  The detailed planning helped me to achieve my goals. I learned a lot from the project. In the future, I will be careful not to use the highest graphics settings when playing video games so that I don't waste energy unnecessarily. Also, in the future, I will question it more when I want to buy a new smartphone or computer, as I have learned how long the devices are used in India and as I can do something good for the environment.

Diffrence Between Vision & Imagination and Reflexion

"Vision and Imagination" outlines the broader goals and aspirations of making gaming more ecological, while "Reflexion" reflects on personal experiences and lessons learned from the project, focusing on individual actions and behaviors that can contribute to environmental sustainability in gaming.

What happened to you personally and/or to the team in between?

For me personally, it was a fascinating topic. The things I learned definitely opened my eyes. I am certain that just a few other topics would have been able to do it in such a manner. The people I have met during the process of creating were one of a kind. For example my friend Rudolf Isenschmid, a guy who has been with the Penan on multiple occasions, or the photographer Tomas Wüthrich, who kindly allowed me to use his phenomenal pictures. Additionally, I started to appreciate what I actually have and how good we have it here in Switzerland. The problems we are facing are almost non-existent in comparison to what the Penan face on a daily basis. It is almost incomprehensible for us, having to fight for our homes, for example.

What kind of knowledge and experience could you achieve?

I realized, that I do not need much to be happy. This might sound a bit like something a lot of people would say, but to see how the Penan live really opened my eyes. Through the interview, I was able to experience second hand what it means to interact with this special tribe. When I spoke with the photographer who was with the Penan in 2019 and took amazing pictures, which helped me to immerse into the project even better.

How biased has your perception of the “real world” been?

Really bias actually, the conception of my world in comparison to the life on Borneo is vastly different. The problems we face could not be more different. We feel like we got screwed over when the train does not come on time, but they fight for the home on a daily basis. They need to protect their home against the illegal logging, an issue they did not cause themselves but have to carry the consequences. Just because we, the rest of the world want the tropical woods and their own governments need space for agriculture. It definitely helped me to realize how privileged we have it here in Switzerland.

Did your guesses correspond?

Up to a certain degree for sure, but also not really. I have heard a lot during past conversations with my interview partner. But through the interview I started to ask questions I have not asked before, through that it has changed my point of view on the indigenous tribe from Borneo and on my own life. I fulfilled my goals for my project, I created something I can be proud of, something which can help to rethink and change the view of the world. At least a little bit.

* header pic

-format of the picture: image width: 1920 bis max. 2560px / image hight: 806 bis max. 1075px

 [Pic from T. Wüthrich]

* titles

-main title: short, crisp, meaningful; maybe a question, has the H1 format

-sub titles: take H2, sub sub titles take H3, etc.

[Penan from Borneo]

* introduction

-short exciting introduction

-maybe mention your collaboration team

[Introduction from Article maybe / Introduction of Rudolf Isenschmid]

* content

-structure text through titles, paragraphs, etc.

-check the spelling, have a look at the red waved words in your administration

(-maybe use colors)

[Working with interview and create a text introducing the penan / Corrections with languagetool]

* links

-link to external websites: meaningful link-text, main-domain (only) of the target in parenthesis after the link (, open the link in a new window (see settings)

-link to a wikipedia article: no main-domain after the link needed

-put links to other articles of contributions on dontwastemy.energy

[Links: BMF, Wikipedia, Tomas Wüthrich]

* media (images, videos, etc.)

-specify sources (who, where, maybe link to the source)

-images: always write a alt-text - this text is for screenreaders (people who do not see well) and for indexing the media through search engine (SEO, google etc.), maybe set also the title text (Einblenden des Titels bei Mouse-over)

>Example Image-details-for-wordpress

[Pictures from Tomas Wüthrich]

* interviews

-name of the person, where, when, short text about the person (who is she/he)

-inform the person after the article is live, maybe he/she does a comment

[I will do a short text for Rudolf Isenschmid]

* end

-name of the team-members, mention your collaboration team, links to the other article

[Yuri Dobler & Rudolf Isenschmid, Links will be added later]

* in the administration: fill in a short description so google will rate you better & it will be the text that will be shown by google in the search results

* propagation

-before & after going live: propagate on social media, send the link to people you know or ask for a comment

* Gallerien: Jedes Bild braucht eine Bildunterschrift (Caption)

* Nice to have

  >Interviews: Original text as PDF

In the spring holidays our group went an a trip to the Europapark in Germany and found something very interesting. Did you knwo that the Europapark already implemented a lot of green roofs in their buildings? These are some fotos we took at our stay:

In relation to Task 28, I have the task of sharing photos of all the participants in my project. Unfortunately, this will not be possible. There are two reasons for this:

1. for my project I could visit the wastewater treatment plant in Rüti. I already knew the people from my apprenticeship and they were also all very nice and explained to me how it works. However, they were and are not willing to provide their faces for my project. I can understand that very well. It is also not an option for me to ask again.

2. the other option I might have would be Ms. Kappeler. I have been trying to reach her for weeks. She could give me answers in an interview about the sewage situation in Africa. But for that, we have to reach out first.

For the reasons mentioned before, it will most likely not be possible for me to show other faces (than mine). 

(This post is related to Task 28)

- Start planing what we want to publish exactly on DWME
- Post an update to our IDAF
- Do the tasks

Our project is on a good way. We have everything we need and the only thing that is left, is the text that we want to publish on DWME. We have pictures for the project, from me and Damian but unfortunately the students from Kerala dont want to send us pictures of them. Only Advaith did send us one of him and his laptop. The others do not want a picture of them to be published. 

This post was published by Damian & Christian together.

Ich habe es tatsächlich geschafft. Für unseren IDAF Auftrag konnte ich erreichen, dass mein Text bei zwei Publikationsorganen veröffentlicht wird. Das einte ist eine Onlinezeitung und das andere ein Blog. Sobald der Link dazu verfügbar ist, werde ich diesen hier hochladen.

[Title] - 

[Picture] - self-drawn

[Introduction] - what is our goal?

[introduction of the interview partners] - who are they, where do they live, what are they doing

[Main body] - three main parts (information from interviews)

[electricity] 

[waste water]

[waste disposal]

[Experience, Reflection] -what was difficult, what could we do better next time

[Name of the authors] - Pascal Frischmuth, Marina Burkhard

- Start planning what I want to publicate on "dont waste my energy"

-Start creating the post on "dont waste my energy"

- Tasks

My plan for today is to get my text reday for publication and maybe start the proccess with wordpress. I already have my login information. Im waiting to get a short intro and explanation how everything works.