SubjectCommerce and Markets
Ensuring that everyone eats with dignity
As a rule, the word sustainability in relation to food is understood to be linked to the concepts of local, seasonal, organic, fresh produce and even...
Tackling climate emergencyLiving in proximity, the 15-minute city
The year 2020 has been a pivotal year in which two crises have been intertwined: the climate and the health emergencies, with the COVID-19 pandemic. At the crossroads...
Tackling climate emergencyThe Amazon effect: The Seattle lessons
The city of Seattle changed the day Amazon decided to set up shop there. For better and for worse. It changed conventional retailing, logistics, the environment, and...
“Us independent publishers bring diversity”
Laura Huerga
The publisher Laura Huerga (Barcelona, 1978) is an unusual case on the Catalan literary scene. With professional beginnings far removed from the cultural world, it...
Sant Jordi versus coronavirus. Rescue bookshops and save books
23 April 2020. Like every year, Sant Jordi [St. George] has to slay the dragon, but this year the story has taken a different path and the enemy has mutated into a...
The city after the pandemicAntivirals for the new political times
The coronavirus pandemic, despite the economic impact that many predict, will not generate a widespread crisis of disaffection such as the one triggered by the Great...
The generational gapYoung people’s consumption and the climate crisis
Something is changing in young people’s consumption habits. The current economic situation of precariousness and the evidence of the climate crisis have heightened...
Reinventing work in a more humane and ecological society
Thinker of reference in the study of work, Méda impresses with her passionate, direct, documented and rigorous discourse in defence of work in general and of wage...
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