Swiss School

Sustainability Management School:

• Business school based totally on sustainability 
• It is the first one of its kind in Europe 
• It is in Gland, Switzerland
• It is in the building of the international union for the conservation of nature
• Teaches how to bring sustainability to life in the day to day work.
• Students go into many functions and apply sustainability into what they do, be it marketing, finance etc.
• It offers both the Bachelors and the Masters of business administration and sustainability management

Sustainable consumption and production: a greener world:

• transport, buildings, food, drink, waste, and CO2 emissions  are responsible for about 80% of the worlds environmental impact
• we have to change our ways of producing and consuming or by 2050 we will need twice of earths surface to absorb the waste and CO2 produced.
• there are products that are better it can be because they use less resources or require less energy when used or are recyclable, or reusable.
• Encouraging citizens to be responsible in their every day consumption and pushing industries to strive for more services that are friendly to the environment we can make a change.

Arizona State University: Graduation Ceremony:

• Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard are attempting to fly across america in an airplane powered only with solar pannels
• difficulties are opportunities
• It you only use the knowledge you have gained throughout these years of your life you will never be more successful than other people.
• If you want to be more successful you have to go beyond knowledge into exploration
• If you do this you will have a mind open enough to create and this is important because the world in order to have a brighter and better future needs creators and people who can change things who can fight poverty and fight for human rights but also who can create clean technology to achieve sustainability.

An Inconvenient truth:

• the 10 hottest years in history have been within the last 14 years the hottest was 2005
• we are causing global warming
• it is a moral issue
• the temperature increases is causing bigger, and stronger storms
• Our homes and ability to live is at stake 
• the attic is melting faster

Assignment

1. We can apply sustainable consumption here in many different ways. For one we can buy organic products because they were made with less or no fertilizers and chemicals so they did not harm the soil like the ones that were grown using chemicals and fertilizers. We can also buy local products because less energy is used in the transportation, than the amount used with products that are imported. Another thing we can do is recycle and reuse things. 
2. At Starbucks there are two main things going on that affect the environment in a positive way. First of all they are working on a project to make all their cups recyclable. They have stores in some cities where there is no recycling like Chicago. What they do is: they place trash-cans for the paper cups in the stores so the customer can throw out the cups there. Then they take out the trash like they normally do but these are picked up by trucks that take them to a paper mill and from there they are put in a pulper. Then that pulp is later used to make paper. So through recycling they can reduce their negative impact on the environment. Another thing they are doing is: helping the farmers. They help them run the business and with their crops, to ensure better quality of their products and less negative impact on the environment. All of this helps to minimize the environmental footprint that Starbucks makes.