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Major Fossil Fuel Divestments Strengthen Renewable Energy Movement Worldwide

Major Fossil Fuel Divestments Strengthen Renewable Energy Movement Worldwide

TckTckTck Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund and life insurance firm, has announced it has divested from 19 fossil fuel companies. Announcing the move, the group’s head of sustainable investment, Christine Tørklep Meisingset, said it had gone down the divestment route to “reduce fossil fuel and CO2 [carbon dioxide] exposure and ensure long-term stable returns” for […]

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    Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy

    Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy

    EcoWatch Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Dr. Ernest Moniz as the new Secretary of Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). President Obama selected Dr. Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his choice to run the DOE. His confirmation has received mixed responses from health and environmental advocates. […]

    New Buycott App Makes Voting with Your Dollar Easier Than Ever

    New Buycott App Makes Voting with Your Dollar Easier Than Ever

    EcoWatch Voting with your dollar has never been easier. “Have you ever wondered whether the money you spend ends up funding causes you oppose?” Thanks to the new Buycott app, you can organize your consumer spending to support causes you care about, and oppose those that you don’t—all by using your smart phone. The program […]

    Greenpeace Activists Board Ship in Protest of Australia’s Coal Export Boom

    Greenpeace Activists Board Ship in Protest of Australia’s Coal Export Boom

    Greenpeace At sunrise, the six activists left the Rainbow Warrior on inflatable boats and drew up alongside the MV Meister, a ship carrying thermal coal loaded at Abbot point in Queensland. Using steel ladders, they climbed the side of the ship and 18 hours later remain on the vessel. Greenpeace boarded the ship just after […]

    35,000+ March at Forward on Climate Rally

    35,000+ March at Forward on Climate Rally

    350.org Sierra Club Natural Resources Defense Council Today, during President’s Day weekend, more than 35,000 people marched to the President’s doorstep to support immediate action to contain climate change. People from more than 30 states across the country whose land, homes and health is being threatened by the climate crisis, as well as students, scientists, […]

    How Factory Farming Contributes to Global Warming

    How Factory Farming Contributes to Global Warming

    Ronnie Cummins Today, nearly 65 billion animals worldwide, including cows, chickens and pigs, are crammed into CAFOs. A growing number of organic consumers, natural health advocates and climate hawks are taking a more comprehensive look at the fundamental causes of global warming. And its led them to this sobering conclusion: our modern energy-, chemical- and genetically […]

    DEBATE: McKibben vs. Epstein—Are Fossil Fuels a Risk to the Planet?

    DEBATE: McKibben vs. Epstein—Are Fossil Fuels a Risk to the Planet?

    After one hour and thirty-nine minutes of watching Bill McKibben “debate” Alex Epstein on whether fossil fuels pose a risk to the planet, my daughter and I were outraged that Epstein is capable of taking such a humanistic, anthropocentric position on the issues regarding the health of our planet. Nothing could better demonstrate Epstein’s complete […]

    Activists Unfurl Giant ‘End Climate Silence’ Banner in Times Square

    Activists Unfurl Giant ‘End Climate Silence’ Banner in Times Square

    350.org A big crowd of volunteers joined 350.org in Times Square yesterday afternoon to unfurl a giant parachute with the message “End Climate Silence” and an image of a hurricane.  “Meteorologists have called this ‘the biggest storm ever to hit the U.S. mainland,’ which is a reminder of how odd our weather has been in […]

    Scientists Predict Imminent Planetary Collapse

    Scientists Predict Imminent Planetary Collapse

    University of California – Berkeley A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide tipping point that would have destructive consequences absent adequate preparation and mitigation. “It really will […]