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Fossil fuel divestment campaign targets high street banks
2014-10-20 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Customers of Britains biggest banks are to demand that high street institutions stop using their savings and investments to finance the fossil fuel industry, in a major new divestment campaign launched on Monday. The Divest! campaign, launched by the ethical banking reform group Move Your Money, calls on customers to write to their banks and threaten to withdraw their savings, unless they pledge to cease investment in the polluting industry. A template letter available online gives the big...
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Divestment campaign urges customers to boycott banks which support fracking and fossil-fuel industry
2014-10-20 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Customers of Britains biggest banks are threatening to close their accounts unless the institutions cut all ties with coal, tar sands, fracking and other fossil-fuel industries as part of a new campaign launched today. The attempt to force Britains Big Five banks into ending their 66bn involvement with dirty energy marks a new direction for the growing divestment campaign, as part of which this month the University of Glasgow pledged to stop investing in fossil fuels. The new campaign...
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On campaign trail, Obama says GOP is peddling fear
2014-10-19 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Marching onto the campaign trail for the first time this year, President Barack Obama accused Republicans of peddling fear and cynicism on Sunday as he rallied voters for Democrat Anthony Brown's campaign for governor in a heavily black corner of Maryland. In front of a rowdy crowd of about 8,000 people -- plus an overflow crowd in a gym next-door -- Obama painted Brown as a champion for the American Dream during a rally that echoed many of the same themes as Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Echoing...
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Food giant General Mills' campaign against hunger
2014-10-19 01:44:46| Agriculture - Topix.net
Outnumber Hunger is a campaign in its third year that allows customers of General Mills to take a code from special boxes of the company's products and enter it online. For each entry, the company donates 55.5 cents to Feeding America to support food banks across the country.
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Kickstarter Suspends Anonabox Campaign
2014-10-19 01:02:30| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
Redditors and Kickstarter backers raise issues related to the device maker's claims that the original project took four years to make.
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