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Students call on parents to divest from fossil fuels
2015-02-14 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Campaign group Push Your Parents has released a video showing students calling on their parents to email their pension funds about divesting from fossil fuels. The video has been released to coincide with Global Divestment Day. In the video, one student asks, Dear Mum and Dad, did you know your pension is gambling with my future? The video aims to start a conversation about climate change and the role pension funds, which often invest in fossil fuel companies, play in rising greenhouse gas emissions....
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Climate of Opportunity: New School Divests From Fossil Fuels
2015-02-13 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The crisis of climate change presents us with daily reminders of how the world's runaway temperatures are getting worse. From the drought in California to ice shelves collapsing in Antarctica, it's not hard to acquire a feeling of existential dread when thinking of the present, let alone the future. How are we going to address this problem? How are we going to cope? Are we going to make it? But in these trying times a new and positive trend is emerging: Human beings are rising to meet the challenges...
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Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels Is a Bridge to Nowhere
2015-02-10 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Saturday I joined a panel at the Munich Security Conference in Germany and talked about global security and energy security. You might be surprised to see Greenpeace at a security conference. The room was full of members of the strategic community, people who are not the crowd we normally engage with; they are the crowd we have historically challenged with our peace campaigns. However, I appreciated having the opportunity to be a dissenting voice and to talk about what I consider is the path...
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Norway: First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up
2015-02-06 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Back in 2012, Bill McKibben with fellow activists including Naomi Klein, Winona LaDuke, Josh Fox and Reverend Lennox Yearwood began a nationwide tour to promote fossil fuel divestmentthat is, selling off your shares in fossil fuel companiesin an effort to combat climate change. With action in Congress impossible, McKibben saw college campusesknown for being laboratories of democracyas ground zero in the campaign for divestment. With his Do the Math campaign in sold-out concert halls...
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Historic opportunity: Renewables start competing with fossil fuels
2015-02-06 09:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RT: The cost of supplying wind and solar energy has been plummeting since 2010, with accelerated deployment putting it on par with the costs of fossil fuel energy generation in some of the areas, says the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Hydro, biomass, geothermal and wind power are now competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, despite oil prices are falling , according to a IRENA report. The IRENA study called Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014,...
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