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Climate Denial

Nathan Thanki February 16, 2013 3 Comments
by nathan thanki Climate deniers are everywhere. If we didn't already know that they were funded by Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Right Wing Billionaires (the Kochtopus has many tentacles) it would surely be a mystery as to how on earth they managed to make a living. At every level - town hall meeting, local paper, climate blog - these people pop up, often repeatedly, to cut and paste absolute...

College of the Atlantic looks toward divestment

Nathan Thanki January 31, 2013 0 Comments
by Lucas Burdick (originally posted on gofossilfree.org)  College of the Atlantic is in many ways a college like any other. Similar to many colleges, we have student committees, dorms, clubs, environmental commitments, engaged students actively working to do something about the climate crisis we face, and an endowment made up largely of stocks and bonds of companies we’d rather not associate...

Enbridge’s Northern Gateway to Destruction

COA Admin January 29, 2013 0 Comments
By Nimisha Bastedo The rally in Portland last Saturday does not and cannot stand alone. While we try to prevent Tar Sands oil from entering the Northeast, and the battle against the Keystone XL continues, the Alberta Tar Sands still show no signs of defeat. Over a million barrels of the world’s dirtiest oil continue to be extracted every day. Even if Canada can’t send its oil South, there’s...

On the way to the Rally

Katie O'Brien January 26, 2013 0 Comments
By Katie O'Brien I'm currently writing this post from my phone in a van on the way to the rally against the flow-reversal of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline. Thirty COA students are heading down, quite a few of whom are involved with Earth in Brackets. In the weeks since Doha, I have been trying to think of how to bring international climate justice issues into the dialogues and campaigns of...