Hotstuff Chillout Diary

Climate change in the medias

daisy.franz@hotmail.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:01:50 +0000

On Saturday, 07 October, there was an interview with the CEO of the company “Swiss Climate”, Werner Halter, published in the newspaper BZ. The purpose of the company “Swiss Climate” is to connect ecological progresses with economical gains. It analyses the consumption of energy and resources of other companies and shows how they can reduce this usage and at the same time save money. For example: to reduce paper waste in the service industry, turn off computers automatically after the end of work etc. Werner Halter says that also big concerns can save lots of energy in many simple ways. The problem is that most people think, doing something for climate protection is expensive. But W. Halter is convinced of the contrary: Saving energy can also be an economical advantage. So he assures that the investments, which “Swiss Climate” suggests to the companies will be profitable after two or three years.
Furthermore, he says it would be important that the Kyoto- protocol would be carried on after the “climate summit”. Otherwise, people will maybe forget the importance of climate protection. Well- we will see…

New Projects!

angi_wy@hotmail.com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:35:23 +0000

Today, we have finally decided on our projects.
We're gonna do a show, with music, and we'll inform people about climate change. The money we'll gain will go directly to myclimate, and they'll give it to other projets! We're also gonna visit grade school and go see some of the children there... It'll be great.
I'm so looking forward to seeing how this'll all work out^^ We'll eventually post some pictures, so you'll be able to see what we did.

how our project is avancing

alina92lopes@hotmail.com — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:50:17 +0000

right know we start looking for ideas for our class project. Our partner classes aren't ready yet, but in about one week, we will get them to know,for what I' looking forwards to!

Can we do something for the climate?

marianne_spring@msn.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:43:30 +0000

Yes, we can! That's the answer. Maybe we can't do something which change the world in one day, but there are many things we can do also here in Switzerland! Propably you're wondering: what the heck does she mean! I will tell you. Today I have read some article in the book which is called "How to reduce your carbon footprint". For example: Always turn off the light when you leave the room. Turn off the computer during the night. By the way it's better using a lap-top than a normal computer. So you can save till 90 percent of the energie. And please, please don't trash your old computer. There are organisations which repare and use it again. Don't buy frequently a new cellphone and display the charger. If you don't need your cellphone anymore bring it back to the shop! Take a shower instead of a bath. Eat less meat and fish because so you can save much CO2. Try to avoid milk products as well. There are many other possibilites for us in Switzerland to protect the climate! Why don't you inform yourself and try it? Marianne & Anja

melanie_haldemann@hotmail.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:12:28 +0000

Last week we went in a little group in the city and asked some people what they think about the climate change. We espected some good answers, but the answers of some people were really shocking: "when it's warm in Switzerland, we don't have to go in summer holidays, so I think its good...." or "yeah, well the climate change isn't really my problem, because I can't change anything and when it will getting worse I'm not alive anymore.." Especially the young people gave this answers, and I think that is really bad that they know nearly nothing about the climate change...

HELP!

angi_wy@hotmail.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:05:32 +0000

Hey all the others out there!
This is my second entry, but sadly my first one has never been released.

I wonder, today I’m already wearing long trousers again, although we still have approximately 25°C over here... If you want to, please write what temperature you have where you live!

It’s quite cool to work on this project, and since we live in a wealthy country, we all have computers for our own to work on and we got two lessons per week to do so.

Actually I’m starting to get really angry at people. We all walk on the same Earth, we all use up its resources, we all hurt it by our self-serving behaviour.
Why then is it so rare that someone tries to give back a bit of what we steal, instead of taking even more?
I believe, that it is us, the young people, that need to help change something. We can elect our politicians here in Switzerland, we should really try to elect people that are conscious of our Earths problems.

For every single individual, too, it would be so easy to do better. And if that is too much to ask, why can’t they just start with caring for their children’s future? They all say „We won’t be affected anyway.“ Well, how is it that they can’t see that they already are being affected? It keeps getting warmer, ice melts, the water rises, the air gets worse... Don’t they feel the difference when they get in or out of a city?

I really hope that something will change in people’s minds. Maybe we’ll be able to save our world. I sure hope so. Who knows what’s gonna happen if we keep abusing her like that.

Freaking wird.. and totally schizophrenic..

saelithil@hotmail.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:59:29 +0000

Since one week we're here by hotstuff - chill out and I really like it! Having contact with classes all around the world is great! Today I wrote a letter to someone in Tanzania and India and I hope I'll receive an answer, which would be great! Oh my gosh, today it's sooo hot.. The hottest day in this year (34°). Just too hot to work ;).. My brain is already dead:)

One thing which really annoys me: politicans talk about stopping the climate change, we have to act and blah blah... Nothing against this; but the same people don't do anything against the climate change, the contrary is right: they always fly with the plane, heat their beautiful big houses while the sea level rises more and more.. I know. Not all the politicans are like this.. But a lot. And they have so much money so they could do SO MUCH! But having big houses and a lot of cars is of course much more important. This is really freaking weird, isn't it?

And another thing: Everybody knows we have to act.. Everybody knows that we can't live longer like this.. I had a huge argument with some friends 'cause I talked to them about the climate change, and they also agreed we have to change the way we're thinking.. But don't heat the house that much? Nooo, then it could be too cold.. Please, they won't have cold, really not.. Or plant a tree? Nooo, it could take too much place in future.. Oh meeen, DO SOMETHING! I don't care what, but every little sign is better than just talking or knowing about the climate change..

Our world is sometimes really schizophrenic...

It's not a lot I'd like to see from our politicans.. They should be just a little bit more active.. Support programs.. or just plant trees.. Just ANYTHING..

Why we took part in this project

marianne_spring@msn.com — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:44:41 +0000

Our class knows already much about the climate change. We studied this topic last year in geography. We learned why the climate change is happening and what the world should do to stop it! We also tried to do little things for our environment. One of us decided to take shorter showers, another promised to buy only whole food and the third wanted to take the bike to come to school instead of the moped. And last week we have started with this project Hot Stuff - Chill out! We want to change the world and we hope we can do something really useful for the world.

Hottest day of the year

manuel.zolliker@hotmail.com — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:40:23 +0000

Today is a very hot day (about 35°C, which is very hot for Switzerland). In the news they said that it’s the hottest day of the year. Maybe this is because of the climate change, but we think it’s just normal that we have some hot days here. This was already like this in the past. In the morning we had chemistry in a classroom facing the south... we were just sweating for two hours. But only one half of the class had to sweat – the others could sleep 3 lessons longer in the morning, they will have chemistry next week. This afternoon (after the PE lesson of the boys) we will probably go swimming in the lake or in the river. We wrote letters for our partner classes in Dar es Salaam and Dharamsala and they will arrive in the next time. Joram & Manuel