Adriana chats with her best friend Laura to ask for her advice on starting a business. From her own experience as an entrepreneur, Laura points out several things that one should initially keep in mind.

From her own experience, Sarita from Ecuador gives us some insightful advice when it comes to starting one's own business.

Arancha, who works in a second-hand clothing store, shares with us her passion for all things second-hand. Her home and wardrobe are full of treasures she has found in specialty stores.

Comercio Justo, or “Fair Trade” products are often seen in “socially conscious” retailers like health and “whole” food shops. It presents a novel approach to doing business that takes into account social and environmental factors in its pricing to consumers and directly compensates commodity food producers, like coffee and cocoa farmers. Here proponents explain the philosophy from several different vantage points.

Transgenic, or genetically modified, crops are a marginal issue for most people in the United States. This is not the case in Europe, where the issue of transgénicos is very much in the forefront of the public's mind.