Notes:
SUMAS
- SUMAS is located in Switzerland and students like it because they have a lot of festivals and parties. It is also a very safe place to live in.
- SUMAS is located in the green IUCN Building in Gland
- It offers an MBA in Sustainability Management and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Sustainability Management.
- Students leave that school with a deep knowledge of sustainability and how to bring it to life.
Case Study
- Buildings, cars, foods, waste, co2 emissions make 80% of the environmental impact.
- Measured with ecological footprint.
- By 2050, if we don't make changes to our ways of producing and consuming, we will need twice the earth's surface to absorb waste and the co2 that we produce.
- starting to make ecological products.
An inconvenient truth
- hottest year was 2005
- humans are causing global warming
- it increases every year
- temperature increasing causes strong storms
- if the Antarctic melts, many places will drown.
Flight Moffett to Phoenix
- they can use things like refrigerators to reduce the energy they use by half.
- they could fly a plane with solar energy.
Arizona State University
- it was a challenge
- many things went wrong but they saw every problem as a challenge to make it better.
- they think that you have to start thinking about creating a new future and that now is the perfect time to start.
Sustainable consumption in Bogota:
- School should use solar energy for all of their technology part.
- Avoid printing many copies of paper (use more technology)
- Solar energy for transportation.
- Make more bike routes and walking paths so people walk more and ride bicycle more instead of always using cars.
- Educate the teenagers and kids so they understand sustainability and apply it in their own lives.
- start recycling more
- Sell ecological products.
