je.st
news
Tag: fossil
Can Fossil Fuel Divestment Prevent The Carbon Bubble From Bursting?
2013-04-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: Could the same movement that brought down Apartheid be the key tactic in convincing America to go fossil fuel free and preventing a new financial crisis? If you ask activists at the more than 400 colleges, cities and states, and religious institutions who have answered 350.orgs call to push for fossil fuel divestment, the answer is a resounding yes and San Francisco just gave the campaign its biggest win to date. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution...
Tags: prevent
fuel
carbon
bubble
What if we never run out of fossil fuels?
2013-04-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchills world. Their lack of knowledge is unsurprising; beyond the ranks of petroleum-industry historians, Churchills outsize role in the history of energy is insufficiently appreciated. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. With...
U.S. Cities Joining Push to Dump Fossil Fuel Investments
2013-04-26 23:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Nearly a dozen U.S. cities have announced their interest in withdrawing municipal investments from fossil fuel companies, joining a fast-growing movement among colleges and universities that supporters say is allowing citizens concerned with environmental degradation and global climate change to act in lieu of federal action from the U.S. Congress. On Tuesday, the San Francisco board of supervisors unanimously voted to recommend that the city's retirement fund formally "divest" of any oil-and-coal...
Tags: cities
push
fuel
investments
Richardson-based Fossil scores high on S&P 500 top company list
2013-04-26 17:18:35| Jewelry - Topix.net
Companies have been shedding workers since the recession, but a couple of Texas-based businesses are in the top 20 of companies in S&P 500 that have added the most employees over the last five years.
More US cities join push to sell off fossil fuel investments
2013-04-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: A move to turn fossil fuels into the new apartheid has gathered pace as a further nine US cities join a push to sell any investments held in the coal, oil and gas industry blamed for climate change. San Francisco; Boulder, Colorado; and Madison, Wisconsin, are three of the nine cities following Seattle, whose $2bn city employee pension fund this year started looking at selling its fossil fuel holdings following a request from the citys mayor, Mike McGinn. The move is the latest step in a campaign...
Sites : [171] [172] [173] [174] [175] [176] [177] [178] [179] [180] [181] [182] [183] [184] [185] [186] [187] [188] [189] [190] next »