A new report from the Energy & Policy Institute warns many of America's universities continue to be hooked on dirty energy funding, with Harvard University highlighted as one of the top offenders: Universities and professors, funded by … [Read more...]
Mass pension system blows $500 million by ignoring collapse in fossil fuel stocks
The Massachusetts public pension system -- with $61 billion -- has been refusing for years to look at the question of fossil fuel divestment on the grounds that selling fossil fuel stock would be a violation of fiduciary duty. Now it turns … [Read more...]
Globe Launches Monthly “Cranky Old Columnists Lecture Climate Activists” Series
Alex Beam's latest column is titled "Divestment is an empty gesture," which is apt since Beam's entire effort is empty - Tom Keane wrote essentially the same column in the same space six weeks ago. What is it about the fossil fuel … [Read more...]
Why I’m Banned from Harvard, and Why I’m Coming Back Anyway
I am banned from Harvard University. I was banned from Harvard University on Friday, May 30th, 2014 after I stood in front of the stage where President Drew Faust was about to speak to an audience of several hundred Harvard alumni. Along … [Read more...]
Harvard Business School’s Oldest Alumni Propose a New Climate Project
Boston, MA, April 2, 2015--Helping to kick off Harvard’s first annual “Climate Week,” centenarian F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., and 97-year-old Del Markoff, Harvard Business School’s oldest living alumni, are calling on the school’s alumni, … [Read more...]
CDM’s New Year’s Resolutions
The mad frenzy that comes to characterize election season has at long last come to a close, and the College Democrats of Massachusetts look to join Democrats and Republicans across the Commonwealth in moving forward this spring with the … [Read more...]
MIT at Flood Level
On Friday, May 2, 2014 FossilFreeMIT (http://www.fossilfreemit.org) declared a flood zone all around their campus at Hurricane Sandy strength plus projected 2050 sea level rise to publicize their divestment campaign. It was also a good … [Read more...]
At the Harvard Divest Rally
Went to the Harvard Divest rally this morning which took place in front of Massachusetts Hall where the President, Provost, Treasurer, and Vice Presidents of the University have offices. There was a constant crowd of about 100 people coming … [Read more...]
James Hansen at MIT
James Hansen visited MIT on April 15 and April 16 and gave two public talks. One was for Fossil Free MIT (http://www.fossilfreemit.org), a new student group concerned with divestment, on the politics of climate change, "Combatting the … [Read more...]