Swiss School

Sustainability Mangement School (SUMAS)

It's a school that is completely dedicated to sustainability. It's the only one of it's kind and is located in Switzerland.

Its goal is to have students that are business geniuses but are also good at sustainability. 

Offers both bachelors and masters in business sustainability (only in europe)

Switzerland is a great country for studying. 

Sustainable consumption & production: a greener world

The word is kind of in a bad place

This is because of humans. 

By 2050 we'll have no space for trash

We have improved compared to a few years ago

People try to reduce their carbon footprint. 

Europe is doing its best to improve the ecological place of the world for future generations. 

An Inconvenient Truth | Film Trailer | Participant Media

Of the last 14 years, 10 have been the hottest ever recorded, thanks to mankind. 

It's not about politics, it's about morals.

The whole world can flood and sea levels can rise dramatically.,

FLIGHT MOFFETT TO PHOENIX: BEST OF

Since there's no fuel, It can theoretically fly forever

The tech that the plane has should be used everywhere

The sun powered plane is very slow and big. 

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: GRADUATION CEREMONY

They want to fly around the world by 2015

It was very difficult

Every difficulty is a potential opportunity

To be useful and good to everyone you have to go beyond knowledge

We need pioneers more than ever

ASSIGNMENT

Bogota is a difficult city to be sustainable, mainly because of the huge population and the awful organization of the entire area. I'm sure that many mayors in the past have attempted to  begin projects that would improve this but as far as I'm concerned their tries have been unsuccessful. Nevertheless, there is an idea that I have that would work well towards a better future. 

The first one is to get rid (or replace) all the faulty public transportation systems. A great example of this are the famous "flotas", or buses. The first problem with them is that there are technically no rules regarding them.  They're all from the 80's, which means that they pollute ridiculously, as well as being dangerous, slow and unreliable.  And apart from this we have to remember that they're privately owned, which only translates to one thing: crowdedness. They're absolutely everywhere and since their driven by what seem to be blind quadriplegics.    

Growing Up Online

THINGS THAT DIDN'T SURPRISE ME

1. Without internet, some people don't know what to do. 
2. People are always connected, even on vacations. 
3. Schools are forced to be technological, because kids want that. 
4. Student don't read books, just spark notes and whatnot 
5. Students know more technologically than their teachers.  
6. Students fight online. 
7. Discretion and privacy aren't as important
8. People have relationships that are only online. 
9. People can have different people online. 
10. Kids are very secretive about their online identity
11. Parents are very scared about stalkers. 
12. Online predators are more dangerous than real predators. 
13. 90% of kids are connected every day. 
14. Kids use the internet to listen to music
15. Kids are commonly sexually harassed online. 

THINGS THAT DID SURPRISE ME

1. People used the internet to complain about parents, because I thought they did that in person.
2. Parents can monitor student activity on the web, because I didn't know that there were applications for that and they knew how it worked.
3. Students can control what their parents can see, because I didn't know you could do that.
4. Some teachers just don't care about sparknotes, because all my teachers do. 
5. Some teachers don't see sparknotes as cheating, because all of mine do. 
6. Myspace was VERY similar to FB today, because I thought it was different.
7. Fights were only online, because I thought they were in person
8. Sometimes fights start just because of online disputes, because I didn't know that kids cared so much about online disputes.
9. Girls that are as young as 14 post almost pornographical photos of themselves, I thought that it started when they were much older.                                       
10. Parents are very involved in keeping their kids safe online, because I thought they didn't care
11. Moms put computers in public places so they can watch everything, because I thought they didn't care
12. Kids had competitions about who can have the most friends, because that sounds stupid. 
13. Most kids know to ignore predators, because I thought they weren't smart enough
14. Girls have eating disorders because they want to be like someone they found online
15. People have forums and things like that to make a problem better and not so bad because of online support. 

THINGS THAT HAVE CHANGED SINCE THEN

1. People switched from MySpace to Facebook
2. People don't use email as much (personally)
3. Cell phones are a lot more connected\
4. The internet has lots more info
5. Kids put a lot more info of themselves on the internet. 
6. Laptops are more popular.
7. Twitter makes kids more addicted to the internet. \
8. Kids have tablets
9. Kids don't use text messages that much.
10. There are lots more websites and apps. 
11. Kids trust their kids more. 
12. People overreacted a lot more back then 
13. Kids can now be bought online. 
14. A lot more things are wireless.
15. There are lots more antivirus and things like that

QUESTIONS:
1. What topic do you identify most strongly with?
   The one that struck with me the most was the part where it talked about the kid whose parents were always trying to see what he was up to online. My parents also tried to do this when I was younger (maybe 10 or 11) but they failed, just like the dad in the film. It was easy for me to see what and when they were seeing my activity and avoid it. I'm not saying that I was trying to hide anything (because I wasn't looking at anything I wasn't supposed to) but I still felt a tad bit uncomfortable about them spying on me.

2. What topic did you relate the least to\

3, What are the biggest benefits of being online. 

GAFE

I got Google Maps and Google Earth.

Maps is an app that helps you move around town and find places. It helps you get around and get directions. 

But Earth is a tool that lets you explore the entire planet with super accurate 3D views. You can see anywhere and how things are. 

Google maps is very simple. You just put the adress that you want to go to (or the place ie. coffee shop or mall) and then chose your way of transport, be it public means, by foot or car, It also lets you know the traffic in the route and the time estimated. You can add multiple destinations and it lets you know the exact directions. There's a little person beside the zoom bar that you can click and drag to the map on the little purple squares, and this gives you the street view of that place. Pretty straightforward.

But google earth is a bit more complicated. You can see a 3D view of the planet, and you can spin is around and zoom in as you please. If you want you can also search any place you want, from your house to the school to the pyramids in egypt. It's almost like you're really there! You can even go close to the ground and see everything from and angle and it looks super realistic.A hidden feature that I found was that you can enter "airplane mode" where you can fly around in a plane. It's basically and airplane simulator.

Another cool thing is that you can check out the moon. You can visit the landing sites for all the space craft and take a 3D tour of the modules. Very cool. And you can do the same thing on mars. 

You can record tours, with your voice. This can be quite useful when trying to demonstrate where you went on your vacation.

We can use this tool in school to make projects. A great example would be a project  for our summer vacation and we can do a virtual tour of all the places you went to. But apart from that I don't see much else.