Environmental Issues

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

Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn’t Get Us, Climate Change Will

Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn’t Get Us, Climate Change Will Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn’t Get Us, Climate Change Will

The growing threats of nuclear war and environmental catastrophe make it hard to bet on the survival of our species.

Mar 28, 2013 / On The Earth Productions and The Nation

Will California’s Cap and Trade Be Fair?

Will California’s Cap and Trade Be Fair? Will California’s Cap and Trade Be Fair?

Allowing polluters to trade carbon could keep poor Californians breathing unhealthy air.

Mar 20, 2013 / Feature / Madeline Ostrander

GOP Begins Throwing Up Roadblocks to the EPA Nominee

GOP Begins Throwing Up Roadblocks to the EPA Nominee GOP Begins Throwing Up Roadblocks to the EPA Nominee

The first Republican attack on Obama’s nominee to the EPA reveals the party’s fundamental beef with the agency as a whole.

Mar 19, 2013 / George Zornick

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