By Lucy Cummings On 29 January 2015 In Divestment, Re-Investment, Take Action

March 5 Waterloo Event: Exploring Fossil Free Investing

Stop Funding Climate Change: Exploring Fossil Free Investing

Is your investment portfolio contributing to climate change? Whether you have $1,000 or $1 million, you can profitably invest your money without relying on stocks in fossil fuels. Join us on March 5th to learn how! Hosted by Divest Waterloo and Community Renewable Energy Waterloo (CREW).

March 5th, at Kitchener Public Library Central Branch [map]

Doors and displays open at 5:45 pm

Do The Math screening at 6:00 pm

Main program starts at 7:00 pm

Speakers:

Timothy Nash (“The Sustainable Economist“) is president of Strategic Sustainable Investments, and the lead researcher for Ethical Market’s Green Transition Scoreboard® research report. He teaches economics at Sheridan College in Toronto.

By Lucy Cummings On 2 December 2014 In Divestment, Resources

Dec 3 Webinar: Free on-line workshop on faith divestment

Religious organizations of all stripes are a big part of the divestment movement. It’s time for people of faith to speak up about the fate of our planet, and time for religious institutions to divest from fossil fuels.

Reverend Fletcher Harper of Green Faith will explore the rapidly growing faith divestment movement.

Dec 3, 5:30pm PT, 8:30pm EST

Sign up here.

New Canadian Resource: “People’s Climate March Outshines UN Summit”

Kairos’ Policy Briefing Paper #40 “contrasts the urgent and achievable demands of the climate justice movement with the slow UN process that risks allowing the world to slide into catastrophic consequences of climate change.”

Thanks to John Dillon for his excellent work on this paper.

You can download the paper here.

By Christine Boyle On 10 November 2014 In Divestment, Resources

VIDEOS: Divestment or What? Toronto, 2014

Fletcher Harper of GreenFaith (USA) explores the rationale for faith-based divestment with a focus on historical roots for contemporary action.

At the 6th Annual Green Awakening Network/Greening Sacred Spaces forum on March 1 2014. With an introduction by the David MacDonald.

Should Canadian faith communities be “faithfully disruptive” and divest from the fossil fuel industry?

Christine Boyle of Spirited Social Change addresses this question at the 6th Annual Green Awakening Network/Greening Sacred Spaces forum on March 1 2014.

Q & A panel with presenters at the 6th Annual Green Awakening Network / Greening Sacred Spaces forum.

Jane Ambachtsheer, Christine Boyle, Mike Brigham, Fletcher Harper, & Monica Resendes address questions related to faith communities and fossil fuel divestment. David MacDonald moderates.

By Christine Boyle On 9 November 2014 In Divestment, Re-Investment, Resources

Fossil Fuel Divestment Hits $50 Billion

September 22 2014 — “Over 800 global investors have now committed to divest their holdings in fossil fuels. New signatories encompass a broad diversity of sectors and regions— including foundations, individuals, faith groups, health care organizations, cities and universities around the world. Their pledge was revealed at a news conference in New York today, and will be presented tomorrow at the United Nations Climate Summit where over 120 world leaders will gather.

A leading advocate of the movement, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, called on institutions and people of conscience to divest in a video recorded for the

announcement: “Climate change is the human rights challenge of our time. We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow, for there will be no tomorrow.” He called for a freeze on all new fossil fuel exploration as the companies cannot safely burn 75% of known reserves.

The fossil free Divest-Invest movement has grown explosively since its launch three years ago. Today’s announcement includes over 650 individuals and 180 institutions, including 50 new foundations added to the 17 who pledged in January. Together these institutions hold over $50 billion in total assets. Signers pledge to divest from fossil fuels over five years, taking a variety of approaches.

The foundations announced today include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, whose original endowment comes from wealth generated in the Standard Oil Company. The Fund will be divested first from coal and tar sands by the end of this year, with more to come thereafter.”

For the full Sept 22 2014 press release from the global Divest/Invest coalition, click here.

By Lucy Cummings On 8 November 2014 In Divestment

Nov 14 Ottawa Event: Climate Change & Fossil Fuel Divestment

Friday 14 November 2014
1 – 2:30 PM
Tory Building, Room 208
Carleton University

CARLETON FOSSIL FREE FACULTY

Climate Change and Fossil Fuel Divestment

Desmond Tutu and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have put their moral weight behind the fossil fuel divestment movement, calling it an appropriate and even necessary response to climate change. Is the climate situation really so urgent? Does fossil fuel divestment make sense? Is it even possible to divest from fossil fuels?

Join Carleton Fossil Free Faculty, along with Tricia Spooner of Wood Gundy, for presentations and discussion on why and how to divest from fossil fuels, and reinvest in renewable energy.