University of Waterloo Board considers call for Divestment after Environment Students’ Divestment Vote By Yonatan Strauch @ydstrauch Why divest from fossil fuels? For most students at the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment that question answered itself. When a group of us with Fossil Free UW campaigned to divest the student-funded endowment […]
Banking on Divestment, a recent article in Alternatives Journal, explains how Canadian university students are demanding that their schools stop supporting fossil fuels. The article illustrates the important ripple effect that divestment from fossil fuels can have. “The dollars are important but the economic impacts extend far beyond this,” says Cameron Fenton […]
The Royal Geographic Society has recently put together an “Energy IQ” education program to be used nationally at all grade levels. Problem is, it’s funded by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). Anyone smell a rat? Two high-school students, Sydney Emo & Sophie Yamauchi, were quick to start this […]
