Divestment from fossil fuels

Moving from Fossil Fuels

Divestment movement articles:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/08/fossil-fuel-divestment-a-brief-history

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/fossil-fuel-divestment/

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/does-divestment-work

http://justandstable.org/ Students for a Just and Stable Future

GoFossilFree

http://gofossilfree.org/commitments/

http://gofossilfree.org/#blog

Go FossilFree has listed a growing number of institutions committing to divest from fossil fuels.

The commitments page lists a growing number of commitments from colleges and universities, cities, counties, religious institutions, and other institutions.

Visit their site and click on each name for more information -- and model language -- about the type of commitment they’re making.

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Divestment News

26 August 2014

Divestment from fossil fuels

• "Stranded asset" concerns

Hong Kong and London reports – Oil, gas and coal companies make up one of the world’s largest liquid asset classes, with a combined stock market valuation of nearly $5trn. In the past two years, dozens of public and private institutions have announced plans to divest their fossil fuel holdings because of environmental concerns, ethical investment strategies, or worries that assets might become “stranded” by emission regulations...

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List of Divesting Orgs

A growing number of institutions are committing to divest from fossil fuels. This page lists the commitments from colleges and universities, cities, counties, religious institutions, and other institutions. You can click on each name for more information about the type of commitment they’re making. Colleges and Universities College of the Atlantic Foothill-De Anza Community College Foundation University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Green Mountain College Hampshire College Naropa University Peralta Community College District Pitzer College Prescott College San Francisco State University Foundation Stanford University Sterling College Unity College University of Dayton Cities Seattle, WA San Francisco, CA Portland, OR Eugene, OR Berkeley, CA Richmond, CA Santa Monica, CA Boulder, CO Santa Fe, NM Madison, WI Bayfield, WI State College, PA Ithaca, NY Truro, MA Provincetown, MA Providence, RI Cambridge, MA Northampton, MA Ann Arbor, MI Boxtel, the Netherlands New London, CT Amherst, MA Sudbury, MA Concord, MA Framingham, MA Dunedin, New Zealand Oakland, California Örebro, Sweden Oxford, United Kingdom Eugene, OR City of Brisbane, CA City of Moreland, Melbourne, Australia City of Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia Ashland, OR Counties

San Francisco, CA Dane County, WI Religious Institutions

United Church of Christ – National Massachusetts United Church of Christ Minnesota United Church of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Oregon First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, UT First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, MA Portsmouth South Church Unitarian First Unitarian Church of Pittsfield, ME First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, WI First Presbyterian Palo Alto, CA Uniting Church, New South Wales & ACT, Australia Dover Friends Meeting, Dover, NH Melbourne Unitarian Church, Australia Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst, MA Anglican Diocese of Wellington, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Waiapu, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, New Zealand Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia Anglican Diocese of Perth, Australia Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Australia Anglican National Super, Australia Brighthelm Church, Brighton, UK Society for Community Work Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, MA Maine Council of Churches, ME Trinity St. Paul’s United Church, Toronto, Canada Quakers in Britain Diakonia, Sweden Colorado Ratnashri Sangha First Unitarian Church, Ottawa Union Theological Seminary, New York City First Religious Society of Newburyport, MA Unitarian Society of Northampton & Florence, MA Unitarian Universalist Association Central Philadelphia Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Lansdowne Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Westtown Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Lehigh Valley Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Old Haverford Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Newtown Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Haverford Quarterly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, NY, USA World Council of Churches Community Friends, OH, USA Uniting Church in Australia Assembly, Australia Franciscan Sisters of Mary, MO, USA Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, MA, USA Church of Sweden Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County (UUCSC), RI, USA First Unitarian Church of Portland, OR, USA Mountain Vista Unitarian Universalist Congregation, AZ, USA First Universalist Church of Pittsfield, ME, USA Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, NM, USA Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, CA, USA UU Fellowship of Corvallis, OR, USA Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames, IA, USA Lake County Unitarian Universalist Church, WI, USA First Parish (Old Ship Church), MA, USA All Souls UU Church, MA, USA Unity Temple UU Congregation, IL, USA First Parish Church UU, MA, USA Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church, VA, USA Church of England Diocese of Oxford, United Kingdom Foundations

Divest-Invest Philanthropic Group Sierra Club Foundation Wallace Global Fund Jubitz Family Foundation The Educational Foundation of America Park Foundation The Russell Family Foundation Compton Foundation KL Felicitas Foundation The Chorus Foundation Singing Field Foundation Nia Community Foundation The John Merck Fund The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Solidago Foundation Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Granary Foundation The Schmidt Family Foundation Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Pax Fund Ross Knowles Fund Madden Sainsbury Foundation Earth Welfare Foundation McKinnon Family Foundation The Hunt Foundation Pace Foundation Mullum Trust NSRC Fund Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation

Other Institutions

Santa Fe Art Institute New Progressive Alliance Council of Canadians Santa Clara Valley Water District Students’ Society of McGill University (pdf) Island Institute, Maine, US British Medical Association Oregon Environmental Council

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