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2025-02-19 | Sonia González
'Shop like a billionaire'

An ad jumps on my mobile in a long time. He promises to color my world. They say that with this app I will be able to buy like the millionaires. Cheap products, very cheap, even free. They have played on the marketing target that the sociological historical moment demands. This... [+]


Activities, talks and round tables against Black Friday by the Navarre NGOs
The cycle march against consumerism has been organised between the NGO Setem and the Critical Mass.  

Amazon announces the construction in Navarra of two "large-scale" PV plants
The multinational has announced that it wants to build two 72 MW solar parks or macro-solar power plants on foreign territory, but has not reported their location. The billionaire Jeff Bezos is one of the most polluting companies in the tech industry, and with the excuse of... [+]

2023-11-08 | Bea Salaberri
Last or extinguish

When we tried to break the washing machine from home and repair it, the repairer told us we had to buy in another. That we could make it cheaper, no, that it would cost us much more to buy a new one. If it was not obvious at first, we were told that yes, that in the medium term... [+]


Google designs chromebooks for short time
The US organization Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has concluded that Chromebooks with very extensive educational use are designed for a short time. Programmed obsolescence is considered unacceptable, and if each student has a device, it is considered necessary that they... [+]

2023-01-25 | Sukar Horia
Champagne and petroleum

It was December, we entered in January, so it has already been a few weeks since the beginning of the winter in the northern hemisphere, with temperatures as warm as worrying. Our ancestors, in the winter solstice, worshipped the alternation of day and night, the cycle of the... [+]


Jon Etxebarria 'Txonorain'
"We can celebrate Christmas without entering religion or consumerism"
In order to find a new way of celebrating Christmas, the gorliz Jon Etxebarria Txonorain has recovered one of the ancestral traditions of the Basques. He says that in the winter solstice, "in the winter," they burned logs to give strength to the sun and kept that burned wood that... [+]

2022-12-14 | Ula Iruretagoiena
Territory and architecture
Ecology of affections

It's the representation of a building as a body. Installation pipes like veins, columns and beams like skeleton, facade, a skin fiber. And the soul and the vital beat of the building are influenced by people, as they use and care for space.

An abandoned building. Both from the... [+]


2022-11-25 | ARGIA
99% of the Black Friday sales are fraud, according to the OAU
In the last month, the Spanish Consumers Association OCU has researched 16,000 products from large online companies, mainly electronic and household appliances. Prices swell and then they fall down, but not as much as they rise: on average 3% the goods are expensive for Black... [+]

5,300,000,000 mobile phones converted this year into waste
According to the International Association of Electronic Waste Producer Organisations (WEEE Forum), in 2022 we will stop using 5.3 billion mobiles. These overlapping devices would reach a height of 50,000 kilometres. It's the same length as the four Earth planets. The WEEE and... [+]

2021-11-25 | ARGIA
EH platform Kapitari Planto calls Black Friday to celebrate No Shopping Day
Euskal Herriak Kapitari Planto! The platform, which brings together trade unions and social partners, has concentrated on 23 November in front of the Primark and Zara shops in Bilbao. This platform has denounced that over 5,000 small businesses have closed their doors in the CAV... [+]

2021-09-07 | Aritz Galarraga
THE GREAT MOMENTS OF HUMANITY
Amount of light

I went from these columns to the vacation, commenting on the trips I wasn't going to make. But in the end, we've traveled more than we thought, to unsuspected places: hypermarkets, malls, department stores; I don't know if children are already a little sleepy, at the beginning of... [+]


AEBek irabazi, McDonaldsek galdu

Los Angeles, 1984ko uda. XXIII. Olinpiar Jokoak AEBetako hirian egin ziren eta McDonald's frankiziak marketin kanpaina berezia prestatu zuen horiei lotuta: "Urratu eta irabazi" moduko txartelen bidez, bezeroek Big Mac bat jasoko zuten doan AEBek urrezko domina... [+]


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