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Students Push College Fossil Fuel Divestment To Stigmatize Industry
2015-04-11 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WBFO: In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change. The campaign has had some notable wins in the past year. But at tiny Swarthmore College, outside of Philadelphia, where the movement was born, students have been staging a sit-in for nearly a month to try to make their voices heard. On the first day of an extended sit-in at the elite liberal arts college, dozens of...
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Students Push College Fossil Fuel Divestment To Stigmatize Industry
2015-04-11 15:52:45| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change. The campaign has had some notable wins in the past year.
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If We Dig Out All Our Fossil Fuels, Heres How Hot We Can Expect It to Get
2015-04-09 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: World leaders are once again racing to avert disastrous levels of global warming through limits on greenhouse gas emissions. An agreement may be in reach, but because of the vast supplies of inexpensive fossil fuels, protecting the world from climate change requires the even more difficult task of disrupting todays energy markets. The White House last month released a blueprint to reduce United States emissions by as much as 28 percent by 2025. The plan lays the groundwork for the formal international...
Universities should keep leading Australia's push to divest from fossil fuels
2015-04-09 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In the UK, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has demanded that his alma mater Kings College London sell off its fossil fuel shares and Oxfords former finance director threw his weight behind calls for divestment by helping to take over a university administration building. In the US, Harvard alumni including Star Wars actress Natalie Portman have backed student calls for civil disobedience later this month. At historic Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, 44 students have been occupying the presidents...
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Top academics ask world's universities divest from fossil fuels
2015-04-07 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is both unethical and untenable for universities around the world to continue to invest in fossil fuel companies whose plans to prospect for more oil, coal and gas endanger future global prosperity, according to an influential group of academics. That statement from, Academics Stand Against Poverty (Asap) a global group of about 2,000 researchers who study poverty and development urges universities to follow the lead of institutions like Stanford, Syracuse and Glasgow that have all committed...
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