Big news yesterday from Wall Street as BlackRock Inc. of New York and FTSE Group of London announced the creation of a fund that excludes fossil fuel companies. This is significant for divestment movements around the world as these are the first major global investment houses to acknowledge both the moral and financial viability of fossil-free indexed funds.
This is a fund the Pingree Board should study seriously.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
First Night of our April Movie Series
About twenty people gathered last night in the HUB to watch 350.org's Do The Math movie. The 42-minute documentary presents the "terrifying" math that adds up to inescapable climate change (We'll exceed and 2-degrees celsius rise in earth's temperature if we burn 565 more gigatons of carbon. Fossil fuel companies have 2795 more gigatons in their reserves and plan to extract and burn it...) Bill McKibben also presents the case for and call to a fossil fuel divestment movement.
After the screening, there was conversation about the film, about divestment, and about the divestment movement at Pingree. Pingree alums Jimmy O'Hare and Matt Colbert (both Pingree '12) skyped in from Pitzer College, where both were active in the recently successful divestment initiative there.
The next movie is Bidder 70, which we'll air at 5:00 in the HUB on Thursday, April 24. Come join us!
After the screening, there was conversation about the film, about divestment, and about the divestment movement at Pingree. Pingree alums Jimmy O'Hare and Matt Colbert (both Pingree '12) skyped in from Pitzer College, where both were active in the recently successful divestment initiative there.
The next movie is Bidder 70, which we'll air at 5:00 in the HUB on Thursday, April 24. Come join us!
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Pingree in (Divestment and Climate Justice) Action, Spring 2014
Here's Sean Keith on a fossil-fuel-divestment panel sponsored by 350MA on March 29, 2014. When 350MA North Shore Node chair Sue Kirby learned of Sean's work at Pingree, she invited him to join the group of other experts.
Here's a five-minute video of Sean's words:
Here's a five-minute video of Sean's words:
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
3 movies nights @ Pingree coming soon!
Movies will include:
Bidder 70:
"At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principples, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow..." - Tim DeChristopher
Gasland:
"I didn’t know if I could trust these groups. Were they crazy environmentalists? I wanted to find out on my own. What I found out was the actual reality was ten times worse. The people out West that were in the film were all about saying their lives had been destroyed. They said, “Our water is contaminated. Our homes are valueless. Stop this before it happens to you.”" - Josh Fox
Movies will include:
Bidder 70:
"At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principples, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow..." - Tim DeChristopher
Gasland:
"I didn’t know if I could trust these groups. Were they crazy environmentalists? I wanted to find out on my own. What I found out was the actual reality was ten times worse. The people out West that were in the film were all about saying their lives had been destroyed. They said, “Our water is contaminated. Our homes are valueless. Stop this before it happens to you.”" - Josh Fox
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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