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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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