Environmental Issues

NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice

NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice

NYU’s Divest campaign met with senior university administrators, providing a faint glimpse of hope for a movement that’s been spreading quickly at other unive...

Apr 18, 2013 / StudentNation / Melissa Cronin and StudentNation

An Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust An Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust

"It is intellectually inconsistent for Harvard to invest in fossil fuel companies while our faculty publicize the consequences of inaction on climate change and continued foss...

Apr 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

Join Bill McKibben in signing The Nation's open letter urging Secretary Kerry to consider his legacy and to find the courage to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.

Apr 12, 2013 / NationAction

Harvard Vice President Reluctantly Accepts Signatures for Fossil Fuel Divestment

Harvard Vice President Reluctantly Accepts Signatures for Fossil Fuel Divestment Harvard Vice President Reluctantly Accepts Signatures for Fossil Fuel Divestment

The Divest Harvard campaign achieved a small but not insignificant victory this morning.

Apr 12, 2013 / StudentNation / Alli Welton and StudentNation

Do the Math: The Movie

Do the Math: The Movie Do the Math: The Movie

The Do the Math Movie tells the story of the rising movement trying to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis and fight the fossil fuel industry.

Apr 10, 2013 / Peter Rothberg

Brown University Investment Committee Recommends Divestment from Coal

Brown University Investment Committee Recommends Divestment from Coal Brown University Investment Committee Recommends Divestment from Coal

The committee has recommended divestment only three times in its entire history.

Apr 10, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What is Student Power? What is Student Power?

Right now, Barnard Columbia Divest and 255 other college divestment campaigns across the country are building student power through work on one goal: destruction of the fossil fuel...

Apr 9, 2013 / StudentNation / Daniela Lapidous and StudentNation

Why the Climate Movement is Historically Unique

Why the Climate Movement is Historically Unique Why the Climate Movement is Historically Unique

Never before has an issue involved every single human being on this planet, and never before has the window for action been so short.

Apr 4, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and StudentNation

One Million Comments Against Keystone XL One Million Comments Against Keystone XL

The Keystone tar sands pipeline will create just a handful of jobs, won’t improve US energy security, and just isn’t worth the potential cost to our health and our clim...

Apr 3, 2013 / Peter Rothberg

John Kerry’s Fateful Decision on the Keystone Pipeline

John Kerry’s Fateful Decision on the Keystone Pipeline John Kerry’s Fateful Decision on the Keystone Pipeline

Four decades ago, he spoke out bravely against the Vietnam War. Will he show the same courage today, in helping to end the fossil-fuel era?  

Apr 3, 2013 / Bill McKibben

x