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.

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…

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.

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…

The game of brisca uses 40 cards known as the “Spanish deck.” One aspect of play involves using body language to reveal your hand to your partner. This is why the gentleman says “we blink an eye and we do like this…” He is making a joke about this body language/cards relationship when he says “your head aches when you have the ace of oros.”

The feisty Sevillian María La Mala Rodriquez talks about her career as a Spanish hip-hop artist. True to her “southern” roots, she often drops her “s” sounds, the way Carolina mentions in her clip on the various accents of Spain.

Manuel speaks to us about Maragata, an old-time Spanish dance that originated among rural people and represented a way in which men and women could couple up both in the dance and in life.

Isabel and Paula continue to tell us more interesting things about the fine arts department at the renowned Complutense University of Madrid, including the fact that art has even pervaded the bathrooms!

Paula and Isabel describe the Fine Arts Department at the Complutense University of Madrid, which has its own characteristic energy and traditions. Let's find out more!

In part three of their video about public transportation in Spain's capital, Isabel and Paula tell us about about the different transportation card options, including available discounts for certain travelers, as well as the possibility of certain embarrassing subway situations.

In this last part of the interview with Cristina from the music group El Columpio Asesino (The Killer Swing), we will discover some of her memories from the old days, including some very special ones that include her lifelong friend Fermín.

In the third part of her interview from her farewell tour, Cristina from the group El Columpio Asesino [The Killer Swings] talks to us about what she and the band will miss the most about performing and hanging out together and to whom they are dedicating their final performances.

Ferrán, an employee at Casa del Libro, one of Barcelona's most important bookstores, takes us inside as well as explaining to us about his passion for writing, reading and books.

From their farewell tour, El Columpio Asesino's [The Killer Swing's] lead singer Cristina talks about what the band has meant to her, the formats for their final dates and her mixed feelings about the band's dissolution.

Javier Buil, owner of the motorhome company Love Caravaning, introduces us to the star vehicle he is displaying at Barcelona's renowned Caravaning Show, pointing out many of its outstanding features.