‘CLIMATE CHANGE is our era’s defining challenge, but most of America’s universities are planning to sit this one out. Though students and faculty members at more than 400 colleges have called for administrators to divest from fossil-fuel energy companies, fewer than 20 have committed to doing so. Stanford recently divested from coal, but none of the other schools had endowments within the 150 largest in 2013.’
News: Archive for November, 2014
The Missing Campus Climate Debate – NYTimes.com
Sunday, November 2nd, 2014The Climate-Change Solution No One Will Talk About – The Atlantic
Sunday, November 2nd, 2014‘Studies have shown that improved access to birth control can be a valuable tool in slowing global warming, but many politicians are afraid to broach the subject.’
via The Climate-Change Solution No One Will Talk About – The Atlantic.
Time running out to reach 2 C target: UN climate panel – Yahoo News
Sunday, November 2nd, 2014‘Copenhagen (AFP) – Time is running out to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the UN’s climate experts warned Sunday, saying current carbon emissions were a potential path to disaster.’
via Time running out to reach 2 C target: UN climate panel – Yahoo News.