A Financial New Year’s Resolution

A Financial New Year’s Resolution

On Nov. 26, a group of witnesses, citizens, journalists, and elected officials filed into a public hearing in Washington, DC on how the government might divert taxpayer dollars from supporting the most polluting fossil fuel companies. Are you surprised? Do you think...
A Better Grip on Climate Change

A Better Grip on Climate Change

Earth to climate change deniers: The vast majority of Americans are worried enough about global warming to want our government to help stop this scourge. This good news for people who believe science should drive our climate policy comes from a series of surveys...
Cleaning Up Our Portfolios

Cleaning Up Our Portfolios

Climate change may one day cause us to run low on food. Scientists don’t like to talk about it, but there’s a chance that the disruption we’ve caused by burning fossil fuels may even render life on Earth no longer viable for the human race. Sure,...
Carbon Divestment

Carbon Divestment

President Barack Obama is on a rhetorical roll on the issue of climate change. “The 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15,” Obama pointed out to Congress and the American people in his State of the Union address. “Heat waves,...