Dec
29
Fair Trade
December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
One of BBC’s best documentaries this year has been “Our Bitter Sweet World.” * It’s about the profit-driven chocolate industry that allows slavery and child slavery among cocoa producers. Fair trade does not seem to exist in their vocabulary.
If you like chocolate and care about fairness, buy fair trade chocolate. It’s available in every bigger [...]
Dec
28
Improve your vocabulary and help the poor
December 28, 2007 | 1 Comment
Yes, you can do something to do both at the same time. You should visit Free rice, a website whose owners give 20 grains of rice for each word you get right in their game to the United Nations World Food Program. The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names can be seen [...]
Dec
16
Climate change
December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Climate change causes changes in travel patterns across the globe. Tourism itself, plays a major role in polluting our environment and contributing substantially to climate change. As future tourism professionals you need to know what climate change is and what can be done to stop things from getting worse.
I’d like to direct you to a [...]
