Opposition to Fossil Fuels: A Study of Divestment Facts.com
By Larry Coble, 350 Chicago Overview Opposition to Fossil Fuel divestment campaigns developed a new front in April of 2015. In an effort to delegitimize groups such as those affiliated with 350.org on college campuses and active in American cities seeking the elimination of fossil fuel assets from university endowments, city operational budgets, and municipal (More...)
WHAT WILL BE CHICAGO’S LEGACY ON CLIMATE CHANGE?
By Kyle Burkybile Reposted from DoGood4Chi Humans have been able to eradicate diseases that threatened to wipe us off the planet. Most of us have supercomputers that fit in our pocket and allow us to contact friends and family across the globe in just seconds. We are able to see and document (More...)
Scott Pruitt: Insult, Injury, and Iniquity
REPORTER ON NEW EMAIL DUMP THAT REVEALS SECRET INNER WORKINGS OF THE EPA May 9, 20182:05 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air TERRY GROSS New York Times reporter Eric Lipton says the response to a recent FOIA request shows that Scott Pruitt and his staff have gone to great lengths to keep the public and (More...)
Blacks In Green: Village Hiring Hall
Interested in a clean energy career? Join us on May 8th ~ apply for our free solar installation & maintenance training course new market & equitable development overview placement & retention services included one year free membership in industry networking club Also learn about other clean energy career tracks ~ technology, design, development electrical & (More...)
Fossil Fuels Trump Water
Reposted for Poor People’s Campaign, Demands Ecological Devastation Did you know 13.8 million U.S. households cannot afford water? Federal assistance to local water systems is currently 74 percent below its peak in 1977. This has contributed to the inability of public water utilities to address failing and aging infrastructure. It has also prompted utilities (More...)
Renewable Energy Panel hosted by DePaul and Chicago 350
Join us for a panel on Renewable Energy to hear from Activists and Industry Leaders about how we can transition to renewable energy in the City of Chicago. We will hear from the following panelists for the first 45 minutes and follow up with a Q&A and discussion for the final 45 minutes: Larry (More...)
The Fiscal Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
By Larry Coble and Joe Antoun, CFP Executive Summary Human civilization is swiftly proceeding toward the culmination point of a long-developing and holistic revolution in the energy sector for power generation, transportation and storage technology. With renewable energy sources, such as Solar PV and Wind generation gaining market share and experiencing dramatic price drops (More...)
City of Chicago Skirts Divestment Commitment
Chicago Treasurer Kurt Summers (Chicago Tonight file photo) Chicago Treasurer Kurt Summers unveiled a plan Wednesday to redirect city investments toward companies that prioritize environmental responsibility and an array (More...)
#FossilFree in Germany: Consumers paid to use surplus wind energy
Our first post in a new series on 350.org‘s new #FossilFree campaign. We will be highlighting initiatives around the world that are stopping fossil fuel projects and/or shifting our energy consumption to renewable energy. Here is a story about how Germany saw an extended period of negative energy prices due to an influx of wind energy. This wasn’t (More...)
Personal Divestment Resources
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu Why Divest? The main culprit of climate change is fossil fuels. Divesting from the fossil fuel industry takes away its social license to operate. And reinvesting those funds in (More...)
