CREATING A MARKETING STRATEGY WITH PREFERENCE FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTION AS A FACTOR OF INFLUENCE ON THE BIRTH RATE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THE POPULATION
The specifics of organic production suggest use of safe and healthy food, ecosystems protection, sustainable use of natural resources, improvement of social status and development in rural and urban
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2014
• #Environment and Nature
Seduction by contract
In this accessible and well-structured book Bar-Gill takes a close look at the credit card, mortgage, and cell-phone markets. He shows why contracts in these markets look the way they do, what is
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07/10/2019
• #Data Protection
Capitalism unwrapped
In a compelling paper that appeared in 2007, Slavoj Zizek recounted the following anecdote, funny and disconcerting at the same time: Italian leftist journalist Marco Cicala had confessed him that
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07/10/2019
• #Executive Responsibility
Ease of repair as a design ideal: A reflection on how open source models can support longer lasting ownership of, and care for, technology
Last spring, a series of online newspaper and magazine articles highlighted the story of the American farmers, who were hacking their tractors using Ukrainian software bought online (Naughton, 2017).
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07/10/2019
• #Customer Protection
Spelman cups: Attitudes to the past
Technically there are five of you, but actually only four. Really you are three and one other. None of you are really broken, but all are damaged, bar one. Small, glazed, white, glossy. Three old,
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07/10/2019
• #Awareness and Visibility
Music, desire and affective community organizing for repair: Note for the piece ‘Le désir est un exil, le désir est un désert…’
This note is part of an assemblage of which the main part is musical. If, as Nietzsche (2003: 6) puts it, music doesnt need any extra-musical material to acquire meaning, this text aims nevertheless
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07/10/2019
• #Culture and Lifestyle
Repeating brokenness: Repair as non-reproductive occupation, improvisation and speculation
Repair is commonly associated with improvement, with making better, with fixing. But what happens when it is impossible, and even undesirable, to fix what is broken? Or when we are not only incapable
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07/10/2019
• #Political Initiative
The right to care: Entering outside in the southern European crisis of welfare
In these notes, we share the questions and challenges around care and health that emerged in the research project Entrar Afuera (Entering Outside, 2016-2018), a multi-site and multi-format dialogue
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07/10/2019
• #Public Health and Welfare