Articles by Alex Standish
The Young and the Restless
On November 2nd young people turned out to vote in record numbers relative to previous years. Some 4.6 million more under-30s voted than in 2000, increasing the percentage voting from 42 to 51 per cent (1). This total of...
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The New Moral Tourism
A new book by Jim Butcher, The Moralisation of Tourism: Sun, Sand and ...Saving the World, illustrates how a pervasive culture of moral restraint has risen to dominate travel. The book argues that the Mass Tourist seeking sun, sand,...
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The Greening of Higher Education
This May a conference in New York City titled Integrating Environmental Ethics into Environmental Studies: Ethics, Science, and Civic Responsibility will bring together faculty from higher education institutions to discuss how they can "incorporate an understandin
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