The electronic tragedy

"The electronic tragedy" is a documentary that reveals how, every year, developed countries produce up to 50 million tons of electronic waste: computers, televisions, mobile phones, household appliances. About 75% of this waste disappears from the official recycling circuits and a good part of it is illegally exported to dumps in the Third World. It is a world trade fueled by greed and corruption.

Guide to work on Social Responsibility and Environmental

Guide created by the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2015 for the development of transversal skills with the aim of facilitating the integration of the learning of these skills within the subjects. It want to be a support for teachers, offering general guidelines and possible strategies to integrate the training of this competence in their subject.

Full guide: https://oa.upm.es/35542/1/Guia_Responsabilidad_Social_y_Ambiental-V2-1.pdf

The ecological footprint of electronic products

Technique that intends to provoke reflection on the ecological (and social) deterioration that the consumerism of electronic products entails. To achieve it, it is shown the real need for what we buy and the frequency with which we renew these devices, or the importance of moderation in consumption (especially in the permanent renewal of new products ahead of time), reuse and recycling. In more general terms, this technique can also provoke reflection on the limitations of technology as the only solution to environmental problems.

The objetives are:

• Be more aware of the ecological and social impact that the consumerism of electronic products is associated with.
• Critically reflect on the limitations of new technologies as a solution to environmental problems.

Link to the course: https://tiempodeactuar.es/blog/la-huella-ecologica-de-los-productos-electronicos/

The Story of Stuff

The history of "The Story of Stuff project" started with a documentary published in 2007 regarding the current "consumption-crazed culture" called "The Story of Stuff". Nowadays, the project carries out different activities such as the creation of videos, the organization of information campaigns on specific topics, questionnaires, among others, in order to create a positive impact on its online community through its website: https://www.storyofstuff.org/

The first documentary "The Story of Stuff" can be watched on YouTube:

Measuring Sustainable Development - Course

Opencourse of edX launched in 2015 about the measuring of progress of sustainable development and the SDGs. Tools like SDG Index, Dashboards and databases are presented and explained in order to understand how the use of them can help to make important decisions about development policies. 

Different resources, such as videos, readings, activities and quizzes, are used in the course to facilitate learning of the objetives, which are:

• Know the value of measuring progress on the SDGs.
• Learning to apply the SDG Index and Dashboards for understanding SDG progress in the environment of the student. 
• Manage data sources and differentiate between different types of data.
• Understand the steps to construct an SDG Index.

More information: https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:SDGAcademyX+SDGi001+2T2020/home

COLTAN: Science and society

This website cluster information about coltan, its aplications and problems and conflicts related to the mineral. News, videos and articles are published in the website to raise awereness about the reality of this mineral.

More information: http://tierra.rediris.es/coltan/