Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
Have you ever thought about how to reduce the ecological impact of having a child? Ana Carolina gives us some excellent advice about how to do so.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
The Ideas Club explores how internship programs for at risk youth who had previously left school can remotivate them and inspire future careers.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Nicaragua
Acclaimed financial blog author, Elaine Miranda, gives us some tips to manage our personal finances and get out of debt, particularly in January following the financial excess that often accompanies the holidays.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Nicaragua
Financial blog author, Elaine Miranda, explains that while there are different strategies to get out of debt, the method one chooses is less important than the ability to change the habits of consumption that got that individual into debt in the first place.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Nicaragua
Financial expert, Elaine Miranda, tells us about scenarios in which credit cards can be both helpful and hurtful for individuals attempting to gain control over their finances.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Nicaragua
Elaine continues to talk about personal finances, including the Fifty-Two-Week Saving Challenge and how to talk to kids about finances.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
De consumidor a persona means “From consumer to person,” and that’s a transformation of psyche the world may need to undertake if it’s going to survive peak ecological crises. Un Solo Mundo Produciones is a production company in Granada, Spain that produces engaging films revolving around social and environmental themes important to the planet as a whole.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Is organic farming still ecological when excessive resources are spent to ship goods halfway around the world? Why are ecologically-oriented producers more subject to government oversight than those using environmental contaminants?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Reducir, reutilizar, y reciclar: most of us have heard it in English, and here we hear it in Spanish. These women explain to us the “three R's” to combat the excessive amount of waste that we generate.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
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.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
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.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Can an educated public really create a kinder, gentler, consumer society? Do informed buyers make decisions more sensitive to their world? Can you have your cake and eat it too? Some activists think that voracioius consumers need not be subdued, but only that their desires be tweaked, redirected…
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Do those who control the wealth in a society also dictate its desires? In this segment we’re able to listen in on the discourse of Spanish intellectuals critical of the modern consumer culture, which they see as something of a Svengali-like oppressor and manipulator of the masses.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Can a consumer-driven market be replaced by an informed system of mutual cooperation by a like-minded populace? Is the market always at odds with the well being of the planet? Is it true that otro mundo es possible? Let’s find out what some experts think…
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Meet a group of Mexican workers who arduously labor on the construction of a new building while they share with us some of the ins and outs of their task.
Difficulty: Beginner
Mexico
Meet a group of Mexican workers who arduously labor on the construction of a new building while they share with us some of the ins and outs of their task. This is part 2 of the video.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
In Madrid, more than twenty co-working spaces provide an alternative to the traditional office work concept. Today, our host, José, will take us to visit one of them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Ireland is one of the most important producers and exporters of seafood. People in Europe depend on it to obtain delicacies such as salmon and sea urchin.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
As Spain celebrates its 25-year anniversary as a member of the European Union, let's take a look at its evolution over those years.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
The European Parliament's decision not to extend the fishing agreement with Morocco comes as a hard blow to the Andalusian fishing industry, whose workers are left jobless for months and demand compensation from the European Union.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Open Europe covers such diverse stories as the Mediterranean Corridor, the death of Gaddafi and European poverty.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
The Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) is a regulation which aids Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to establish themselves more quickly, simply and with less capital than was previously possible.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Meet Juan Luis Quiroga, an oenologist at Pablo Quiroga Winery in Rioja, Spain who explains to us a bit about the types of wine produced there as well as the production process.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Libia from the Castell D'age Winery in the Penedès region of Catalonia, Spain shares with us about the industry and production of some of Spain's great cavas and wines.
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