Swarthmore College, the epicenter of student protest last year over investment in fossil fuels, has budgeted $300,000 as part of an ongoing commitment to improve energy conservation on campus. The college’s board of managers, at its meeting last weekend, approved the expenditure as part of a $160 million budget.
Today, @UofT recommended #divestment from fossil fuels. RT if you think our politicians should follow! pic.twitter.com/Dyq7tbUGQk
The following letter was written collaboratively by students forming a Jesuit network for fossil fuel divestment. Most Holy Father, We write to you as young people, as constituents of Jesuit institutions, other Catholic, Christian, and religious institutions, and non-religious institutions as people of goodwill, on behalf of an entire generation.
As the Board of Managers held their first meeting of the academic year, members of Mountain Justice staged a protest in response to the publication of a paper by the Industrial Petroleum Association of America that cited divestment cost estimates put forth by the Board in their decision not to divest last spring.
The New Yorker: The Weight of the World The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or U.N.F.C.C.C., has by now been ratified by 195 countries, which, depending on how you count, represents either all the countries in the world or all the countries and then some.
The president formally unveiled on Monday his administration’s plan to cut future carbon emissions from power plants.
