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Movement aims to curb climate change through divestment
2013-07-20 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A Milwaukee church and the cities of Madison and Bayfield are part of a fledgling national movement that has decided to fight climate change by pushing for divestment from fossil fuel companies. Students and climate activists in Madison are also pushing the UW Foundation to divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies. First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee -- part of the Unitarian Universalist Association, a national organization of the progressive-leaning church denominations -- says it is...
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Obama Embraces the Divestment Movement: From Apartheid to Climate Change
2013-06-29 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Twice in the last five days, President Barack Obama referred to divestment -- the controversial strategy to bring about social change by pressuring corporations to behave more responsibly. On Tuesday, Obama mentioned divestment during a major speech at Georgetown University outlining his plan to address climate change. And on Thursday, at a press conference in Senegal, Obama recalled his involvement during college in the anti-apartheid movement, which relied heavily on divestment to push companies...
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Why Students Are Clamoring for Fossil Fuel Divestment
2013-06-11 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: Claremont College students demonstrate for fossil fuel divestment in Los Angeles. For young people who believe climate change is the biggest challenge humans have ever faced, the time for debate has passed. Now they're aiming to hit fossil fuel merchants right in their market caps. The Fossil Free campaign, which claims activists on 300 campuses and was kicked off by an article in Rolling Stone last summer by environmentalist Bill McKibben, is targeting primarily university endowments to stop...
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Fossil fuel divestment campaign's victory in Australia will be a moral one
2013-05-21 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben is in Australia in June on his epic Do The Math tour, which aims to highlight the danger of fossil fuel company oil and coal reserves and encourage divestment. The tour was kick started by McKibben's Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, which argued that in order to stay below the 2C warming limit, the global economy has a budget of less than 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies have reserves...
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College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists
2013-05-10 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: At about 300 colleges across the country, young activists worried about climate change are borrowing a strategy that students successfully used in decades past. In the 1980s, students enraged about South Africa's racist Apartheid regime got their schools to drop stocks in companies that did business with that government. In the 1990s students pressured their schools to divest in Big Tobacco. This time, the student activists are targeting a mainstay of the economy: large oil and coal companies....
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