Swiss School

Sustainability Management School (Video 1)

This video is about the SUMAS  or the Sustainability Management School. The video talks about what the school is about, and what it offers to the students. It is located between Geneva and Lausanne at the shores of Lake Geneva. This school offers the bachelors and masters degree in business administration in sustainability management. It is the only school in Europe that offers this. They look for students who have excellence, great quality of content, and expertise in delivery. The students who are in this school will learn where does the biggest impact occur in sustainability and they will be guided during the process of making sustainability come to life in a business environment.

Sustainable consumption and production (Video 2)

This video starts of by talking about the different aspects of human society that are damaging the Earth. For example: transportation, buildings, CO2 emissions, waste, etc., are destroying the planet and cause Global Warming, and they produce 80% of global impact. The video mentions how we will need twice the Earth's surface to absorb the waste by 2050 if we keep the same conditions of production and consumption. Next it talks about the European Union making projects to make the products sold to costumers better and more ecological. Markets and stores are encouraging consumers to buy more green or ecological products. 

An Inconvenient Truth (Video 3) 

This is a trailer of a film or better called documentary. The documentary is about how global warming is destroying Earth at a very rapid rate. They talk about how 2005 was the hottest year in the history of Earth, how snows in mountains are disappearing, how storms are bigger and more aggressive, etc. They mention how in a couple of years the poles and mountain snow will disappear causing major disruptions around the globe. 

Video 4

This video is about the men who flew the airplane powered by sun came to a university graduation ceremony to give a speech. I couldn't see the rest of the video due to the fact that I ran out of time. 

Video 5

This video is about the solar impulse plane project. It shows how this project was financed by companies that were not from the aviation. This airplane was able to fly with solar energy and not with fuel across America. This plane was launched in the state of Arizona. 

Assignment.

After looking at all the websites offered, I chose Alpina because my father works with that brand and I am interested to know how sustainability works in this company. They have developed a plan of sustainability were they will try to be in harmony with the communities  and use natural resources around them. They want to achieve sustainability in the environmental, economic, and social aspects. To do so, Alipna  has identified 7 obstacles they have to overcome. This are the seven obstacles: dialogue, economic value, Alpinistas (workers), the environment, nutrition, sustainable  business, and social value.
-Dialogue (Its says they want to promote trustfull relationships with their groups of interest.)
-Economic Value (Alpina wants to economically grow for their shareholders and investors.)
-Alpinistas (They want to create a good place to work.)
-Environment (They want to garanty the proper and eficient use, as well as the preservation of the natural resources which are necessary for them to operate.)
-Nutrition (Alpina wants to stimulate a healthy diet by offering products that are nutritinous and good quality to a large number of costumers.)
-Sustainable Business (Strengthen the sustainable businesses of their strategic allies.)
- Social Value (They want to generate social value with the communities in their area of influence.)
Alpina wants to get involve their groups of interest which are many. They want clients, the state, Alpinistas, communities, consumers, media, investors, shareholders, etc., to be involved so their sustainability plans works in an efficient way. This is what they say: "...should be built upon a strong base of permanent dialogue, transparent and profound with our groups of interest."