Video #1:
• Is an innovative unique business school that is focused
only on sustainability.
• Sumas is located in Switzerland, in the town of Gland.
Gland is on the western side of the country, near Geneva and the border with
France.
•It divides it’s education between regular business
management education and scientific knowledge for sustainable development.
• Students from SUMAS arte being taught the importance of
sustainability and how that can be applied to business management (bringing
sustainability to everyday life jobs). It is the only business school in Europe
that offers both the bachelor and the masters of business administration in
sustainability management.
• They are also taught hands-on guidance on how to bring
sustainability to the business environment. They need to understand the life
cycle analysis to be able to start in the learning process at SUMAS.
• SUMAS also provides a great variety of freedom to their
students. They are offered all kinds of sports (including water sports that are
practiced in the lake).
Video #2:
• The Case Study in this video is that the world is slowly
deteriorating because of the innovations of the human race. There is a system
called the Ecological Footprint Calculation, which tells you the surface are
needed to produce the resources we consume in daily life and also to absorb the
waste generated by the use of these resources.
• If we do not make any changes to the way we produce stuff,
by 2050 we would need twice the surface area of the earth to be able to absorb
the wastes and the carbon dioxide produces.
•We need to make sure that people are now using ecological
sources that we can recycle, and most importantly, that people do.
• The European Commission has decided to put on a mayor
action plan. They include a range of proposal and additional measures that
focus on improving the products in the market for consumers; they need to make
sure that whatever they label is understandable to the consumers. That is why
the “Eco” label in Europe is so important.
Video #3:
• The 10 hottest years in the history of the planet have happened
in the last 14 years. The hottest of all was 2005. The scientific consensus is
that humans are causing global warming.
• They talk about how the ice caps and the snow in Mount Kilimanjaro
for example are melting each time faster. The increase of temperature is causing
stronger storms every year. Hurricane Katrina for example was one of the most devastating
hurricanes that had struck in a very long time.
• They make a study about the melting of the arctic and the Antarctic
and how the sea level would increase for at least 20 feet. They show many
populated parts of the world that are at sea level and how they would be
flooded, they also talk about the amount of refugees.
Video #4:
• They are mounting and flying a plane that can technically
fly forever because it is powered by solar energy. All of the technologies that
the airplane contains come from companies that do not belong to the aviation
world. It was launched in the NASA.
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Activity #2:
I live in Bogotá, Colombia. Bogotá is not only the capital of
Colombia but also its largest and most industrialized city. Industrialized
cities can be very helpful for the economy of the country, but also they can be
damaging to the environment. Today, Bogotá is ranked one of the most polluted
cities in South America and even worldwide because of all the pollution emitted
from transportation systems, factories and even from animal pollution from the
farms that are located in the outskirts of this huge city. The problem that
Bogotá has is that its corporations and companies do not take into
consideration the amount of sustainability that it actually has. As a
consequence, it takes everything to the extreme.
Sustainability can be implemented in
Bogotá in many different ways. The systems of transportation can be fixed
because about 100% of public transportation belong buses that pollute a lot. It
can also take the ideas that other cities have implemented in the area of public
transportation. Some of these ideas are: trolleys (Helsinki, Finland), subways
(NYC), cable ways (Medellin, Colombia) and many others that exist around the
world that have been proven to be sustainable and to lower the level of pollution.
Also, they could disperse the factories to other areas of the department to at
least have a sustainable territory within the city. Bogotá is located in the
middle of the country, in a region of farmland (mainly Cundinamarca) so
factories can be dispersed around this department to be able to have a more
sustainable Bogotá.
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