Batteries are just one of many reasons, including electric vehicles, smart grid, solar and wind power (including pass HB 57 and you can profit by getting financing for your own solar panels), plus massive savings on health care and electricity bills; batteries are one of many reasons that fixing climate change will save us all […]
The fossil fuel opposition is the child and grandchild of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. With their nonviolence, truth, and action as a model, we shall overcome. Bill McKibben, The Guardian, 25 August 2011, Martin Luther King’s legacy and the power of nonviolent civil disobedience: In opposing the Keystone XL oil pipeline, […]
In the first big win for the fossil fuel divestment campaign, Stanford just did what campaign-founder Harvard has not yet: announced it would divest from coal-mining companies. Here’s Stanford’s PR dated today, 7 May 2014, Stanford to divest from coal companies, Acting on a recommendation of Stanford’s Advisory Panel on Investment Responsibility and Licensing, the […]
Pretty much everyone I know (regardless of political party, religion, or financial status) likes clean air, clean water, and clean food, and being able to use their own property without having fossil fuel corporations gouge a pipeline through it. Most people don’t like their property flooded or polluted or having their tax dollars going to […]
A major big city daily? A local newspaper of record along the proposed pipeline path? Nope: the Valdosta State University student newspaper, The Spectator, has done what its bigger newspaper colleagues have not dared: oppose the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and demand renewable energy instead. Where students lead, maybe their elders will follow. Editorial […]
Another observer gets it that green solar power is winning. Letting a fracking deliver company turn us into “stakeholders” in a white elephant methane pipeline would be an even huger waste after the pipeline stopped being used in a decade or so because sun, wind, and water power everything by then, winning like the Internet […]
LTE in the VSU newspaper, The Spectator, today. -jsq To the Editor, Climate change is the defining issue of our time. Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree that humans are the cause. S.A.V.E. believes that it’s time for people to become the solution. Globally, we are feeling the impacts of record-setting temperatures, most notably in the […]
Maybe that’s what the VSU Foundation wants to tell SAVE when they dine Monday: VSU gets it (even if Harvard doesn’t) that fossil fuels are a bad investment and solar is where the profits, students, and investors are. Diane Cardwell wrote for DealBook 30 January 2014, Foundations Band Together to Get Rid of Fossil-Fuel Investments, […]
The VSU Foundation has invited SAVE to dinner Monday. No agenda is known, but the Foundation gets four attendees and SAVE gets two. Foundation attendees are to be: Wayne Edwards, Chairman, who responded to SAVE’s fossil fuel divestment request with “your well-intentioned request is impractical”. According to Georgia Secretary of State, he is also the […]
Reminding everyone of what they do and what VSU President McKinney said, Students Against Violating the Environment has a new website. S.A.V.E. is an environmental activist organization based on the campus of Valdosta State University (VSU). It is composed of students from all majors, and any VSU student is welcome to join regardless of race, […]