Who are you and what is your relationship with Sosterra?  (0:19)
When, where and why was Sosterra born? (0:53)
Why this name? (2:42)
How many members are in Sosterra? (3:38)
What type of products do you have in this space? (4:28)
Are you providers for a school or a social center? (5:18)
For a lot of the collectives and efforts I’ve been speaking with, 15M has signified a moment of reorganization, of (re) inventing and strengthening. What has signified this moment for Sosterra? (6:25)
This is an “association of critical consumption, a collective space where we can rethink what planet and society we are consuming and what types of social environmental alternatives we are capable of putting in practice to change the devastating capitalist dynamic of nature and humanity.” What legal structure did you choose for this project and why? (8:20)
How are decisions made in this process? (10:37)
Are there people working in a salaried capacity in this process? (13:17)
What does it mean “work” for Sosterra? What labor philosophy do you want to practice? (14:48)
From Sosterra, you work in the implementation of a “social economy.” Can you explain this concept (“social economy”) and how is it related to the model of sustainable life that you’re exploring? (17:00)
What does critical consumerism mean to Sosterra? (20:01)
Is Sosterra’s paper on “critical consumerism” linked to the idea of “prosumers”? (22:43)
Can you explain what sustainability and living a sustainable life mean to Sosterra? (25:00)
Do you bring up the concept of “social ecology” when talking about your labor?(27:09)
Thinking of Sosterra’s practices, you describe your work on your website as the following: “Constructing responsible and sustainable alternatives, reclaiming our rights, carrying out our obligations, without giving up on a combative consumerism that denounces and transforms the impacts of our way of life in towns and cities.” What rights and obligations are you referring to when you state this? (30:30)
Can you tell us about the relationship Sosterra maintains with the institutions and under what conditions this “relationship” becomes important?(33:50)
Would you say that Sosterra is in a way an informal educational project? (37:12)
What are the challenges of Sosterra?(41:31)
Thinking about the crisis of trust in which we are living as a society and in the necessity of building relations of trust to set up communities that sustain themselves and sustain us and serve as references for others, how does Sosterra knit these bonds of trust?(45:13)
Does Sosterra work in networks with other collectives or social employers? What relation do you have with Ecologistas en Acción or with eco-social employers such as ARGOS? (51:52)
Taking into account the climate of political discontent and insecurity in which we live, can you tell us how you sustain hope as a motivating ‘motor’ in Sosterra? (54:30)
What does growth mean for Sosterra? (56:30)

Sosterra is an association for responsible consumption that was created September 2017 in Colindres, Cantabria, in the eastern zone of Cantabria. Sosterra is a community of practices where people work with themes like sustainable living, while at the same time creating a network of people and groups where the value of their goods, services, and knowledge are highlighted, as they help to spread various projects. Sosterra is also a project that forms part of the network of social and solidarity-based economy that tries to promote prosperity within its own region.” Source: (The Constellaltion of the commons)

Sosterra is a place where consumption is collectively humanized, a space where the minimum necessary is purchased, and done so with quality, choosing sustainable products and producers, covering the majority of our needs in an ethical way. We are an association of critical consumption, a meeting place where consumers can reflect about the environmental effects caused by our lifestyles. Using a perspective that is local, social, and environmental, we seek to unite a sufficient amount of neighbors who are interested in knowing what is behind what we consume, the stories of who produces it– the people who nurture our food– and learning the implications this has on our surroundings. Sosterra’s doors are always open. Source