http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/20/wellcome-trust-loses-millions-as-its-fossil-fuel-investments-plunge-in-value?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 Fossil fuel divestment Keep it in the ground Medical charity sold off two-thirds of its investments in Shell but lost an estimated £175m in the last year due to falling share prices in the fossil fuel sector The Wellcome Trust, Euston Road, London. Photograph: Graham Turner Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian The Wellcome […]
With thanks to Janet Eaton: Richard Heinberg concludes: It is probably not within the capability of philanthropic foundations to avert all the human impacts that will accompany the end of economic growth, nor the environmental impacts of past growth. Nevertheless, the strategic application of some of society’s accumulated wealth toward solving the problem of systemic adaptation […]
2012-04-01 How the Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn the U.S. (and Canada) into a Third World Petro-State http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4894 2007-05-19 TARSANDS: Backlash against a whistle-blower Globe & Mail, Andrew Nikiforuk http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4917 2007-06-06 VIDEO: Help “Get the Shell Out” of the Sacred headwaters. (Add to original: call on CPP to disinvest.) http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4897 2009-09-26 […]
Alan Rusbridger is another who will go down in history. I think his actions are pretty amazing. Test your conclusions against mine: Interview with Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian newspaper, CBC Radio. (re “Keep It in the Ground”, ) Share the link. I am sending it to you, and to people who have, or […]
RELATED: 2015-04-02 This $1.2 billion news organization just pulled its money out of fossil fuels. Climate Change. The Guardian. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
Fossil Free gofossilfree.org Church of England divests from dirtiest fossil fuels Amazing news! The Church of England announced yesterday that it will divest its holdings of £12m in thermal coal … Divest Fossil Fuels | We Are Power Shift www.wearepowershift.org/campaigns/divest It’s wrong to wreck the planet and it’s even worse to profit from that […]
The move follows the launch of The Guardian‘s own climate change campaign, in partnership with 350.org, to press two of the world’s largest charitable foundations to stop investing in oil, coal, and gas companies. Click here to join the call for the world’s largest charities to divest. The chairman of the Guardian Media Group called the […]
Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the Wallace Global Fund and another key figure . . . : “I think at pivotal moments in history we have seen editors and media outlets stand up and take unprecedented action. One could think of the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement in the US and I […]
From: Sandra Finley Hi Andy, It is party, party time for Larry K and others: The Nuke Waste Mgmt Organization is taking leave from Saskatchewan! The Committee for Future Generations won the battles at Pinehouse and English River. NWMO announced today, they are pulling out of the last community, Creighton. (Their reason for leaving is […]
Dear Sandra, You’ll never believe what a leaked RCMP memo from last week says about you. If you oppose the furious rush to build pipelines and expand the tar sands like I do, then you’re considered to be a “violent anti-petroleum extremist.” The Harper government will stop at nothing to bully and silence its critics. […]