For me and many others, divesting their investment portfolio from fossil fuel companies is a moral issue. Like the Sierra Club Foundation, that manages a $35 million investment portfolio, we did not want to be deriving our incomes from an industry who’s output was destroying the climate. Sure, we still need gasoline and fossil fuel powered energy, at least…
A couple years ago there began a movement for investors to divest from coal and other fossil fuels similar to the movement 40 years ago to divest from South Africa stocks and products to protest apartheid. I will admit that initially I didn’t think much of this effort as I didn’t believe it would gain any traction or have any impact…
I love the following article because it really portrays how the efforts to combat climate change (warming, disruption or whatever other name you prefer) are taking hold. While I believe in the science and evidence that I have seen that indicates that adding CO2, methane and other elements to our atmosphere is heating up the planet and only beginning to cause…