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Divestment: over 300 churches vote end fossil fuels investment
2014-07-11 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The World Council of Churches (WCC), representing 590 million people in 150 countries, has agreed on divesting from firms blamed for worsening climate change, triggering hope that major religious institutions from across the world will follow suit. The WCC is fellowship of over 300 churches, which has previously taken a stance against nuclear energy as well, preferring clean and safe renewables. The institution is also holding an Interfaith Summit on Climate Change in New York in September. The...
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Barriers to Fossil Fuel Divestment at Tufts University
2014-07-10 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Cooper McKim is a rising junior at Tufts University fascinated by the dynamics of environmental work with policy, entrepreneurship and activism. McKim studies environmental policy and helps write a monthly newsletter for the environmental studies program. He has interned with Massachusetts Rivers Alliance, a New Jersey Congressman and the NPR affiliate station WSHU. In a liveleak video, an iPhone screen rises above the back of a chair showing a grainy image of a room full of prospective Tufts...
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Nonprofitquarterly: More Divestment: Wal-Mart and Private Prison Operators
2014-07-07 20:18:48| PortlandOnline
May 19,2014 | Rick Cohen
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Unilever completes divestment of Ragu and Bertolli brands to Mizkan for $2.15bn
2014-07-02 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods company Unilever has completed the sale of its North America pasta sauces business under the Ragu and Bertolli brands to Mizkan Group, for a total cash consideration of about $2.15bn.
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Unitarians Go Fossil Fuel Free With Divestment Resolution
2014-06-30 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Following in the footsteps of the University of Dayton, the first Catholic school to divest from fossil fuels, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) announced Saturday its resolution to do the same. The faith-based organization of more than 1,000 congregations has about 2.9 percent of their $175 million investment dollars in fossil fuel companies under their UUA Common Endowment Fund (UUCEF), according to the Providence Journal. Saturday`s vote was overwhelmingly in favor of divestment....
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