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New Report Highlights Harvard’s Dirty Energy Ties

January 21, 2016 By thegreenmiles 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Divestment, harvard, harvard-university

Mass pension system blows $500 million by ignoring collapse in fossil fuel stocks

September 21, 2015 By bmass 9 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, coal, Divestment, oil, pension, PRIM, stock

Globe Launches Monthly “Cranky Old Columnists Lecture Climate Activists” Series

June 16, 2015 By thegreenmiles 16 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, Divestment, energy, environment

Why I’m Banned from Harvard, and Why I’m Coming Back Anyway

April 10, 2015 By betterfuture 11 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, Divestment, harvard

Harvard Business School’s Oldest Alumni Propose a New Climate Project

April 3, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Academia, business, cambridge, climate-change, Divestment, ecology, education, environment, harvard, Harvard Business School

CDM’s New Year’s Resolutions

January 20, 2015 By CollegeDemsOfMA Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #PWFA, Ben Downing, CDM, college-democrats, Divestment, Healthy Youth Act, millenials

MIT at Flood Level

May 3, 2014 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, climate-change, demonstrations, Divestment, ecology, environment, flood, mit

At the Harvard Divest Rally

April 30, 2014 By gmoke 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, Divestment, harvard, mit, political demonstrations

James Hansen at MIT

April 20, 2014 By gmoke 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: carbon tax, climate-change, Divestment, fee and dividend, james-hansen, methane, mit

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
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This won't do at all.

John Lerner 🌲❄️🌎🌹🗽⚖️🌲@johnflerner

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This is horrible

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/national-guard-troops-vacate-capitol-461220

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They did the same with Obama and the economy in January '09.

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Yesterday Hannity was ranting about how it’s awful that Biden hadn’t solved the COVID crisis yet, hours after he was inaugurated https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-attacks-president-biden-not-having-covid-pandemic-under-control

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amywesterveltAmy Westervelt@amywestervelt·
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My mother is very proud that I’m the one dropping an f bomb in this bitch. Seriously though, it’s time to widen the lens of climate accountability. Big Oil relies on enablers, and they shouldn’t escape scrutiny https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1352389540334481410

Bill McKibben@billmckibben

Ad agencies and PR agencies are renting themselves to the fossil fuel industry, supplying the creative juice necessary to wreck the planet. Please--do something different with your talents!

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brianr2600Brian RIstuccia@brianr2600·
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@BostonDotCom Seventeen speeding tickets, at least 7 wrecks, and 6 license suspensions. Why do we need to wait until someone dies before permanently revoking the license of a driver who has repeatedly demonstrated that they can't be trusted to operate an automobile safely? #mapoli #ZeroVision

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erik_griswoldErik Never Forgets@erik_griswold·
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@bluemassgroup @BostonGlobe More details not behind a paywall:

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