After repeating SAVE’s request for VSU to reinvest in more socially responsible options, Danielle Jordan, President of SAVE, gave one reason why SAVE supports fossil fuel divestment: In our fiscally globalized world, our actions don’t stop here. Everything we do affects people half a world away. So anytime we use coal or natural gas we […]
SAVE president Danielle Jordan posted on SAVE’s facebook page about an hour ago: BIG WIN, SAVE! The faculty senate voted, unanimously, to support our divestment campaign. They also voted to condemn and reject the BOT response letter. Way to go, everyone! We’re making progress!
S.A.V.E. never gives up, and the VSU Foundation provided fuel for the fight. -jsq November 13, 2013 Dr. William J. McKinney President Valdosta State University Dear President McKinney, Thank you very much for agreeing to be a part of our ceremony for the new solar canopy this Friday. We are excited for it, and we […]
Dr. Richard posted this letter to the editor of the The Spectator, VSU’s student newspaper, on SAVE’s facebook page today. I added the links and the images. -jsq To the Editor: I would like to address the VSU community with this letter. VSU Students, faculty, and staff, did you know that many of the clothes […]
A copy of what the VSU Foundation called the “ “well-intentioned request” by Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.). I added the links and images. -jsq October 17, 2013 Dear VSU Foundation and Board of Trustees, Recent years have brought climate change to the forefront of public discussion. A newly released report from the United […]
The VSU Foundation knows more than 98% of climate scientists, and also sneers at former divestment from tobacco and apartheid companies. Nevermind that fossil fuel divestment is going faster than either of those. Is it good fiduciary responsibility to stay invested in the stranded investments of fossil fuel stocks while solar stocks are skyrocketing? Is […]
SAVE‘s fossil fuel divestment request made the front page of The Spectator at VSU, and Danielle Jordan of SAVE was pullquote about fossil fuels in another front page story, about solar panels on the Odum Library. The student government didn’t vote to support SAVE’s request, but many senators said they didn’t understand the subject and […]
Fossil Free Valdosta, a facebook page just launched by members of S.A.V.E. (Students Against Violating the Environment), under VSU’s new solar canopy: A student campaign calling on Valdosta State University to freeze any new investments in the fossil fuel industry immediately and divest within the next five years. You can help divestment by signing their […]
Divest Harvard summed it up: Our investments ARE political. And that’s just as true at VSU. Not even Tim DeChristopher put it more pithily than that. Samantha Caravello wrote in the Harvard Law Record 7 October 2013, Pres. Faust, There’s Nothing Neutral About Investing in Climate Wreckage, noting that Pres. Faust’s excuses were actually in […]
Drew Faust wants us to believe Harvard can’t figure out how to power its own campus and vehicles on renewable solar, wind, wave, and tidal energy? Come on, pull the other one! President Faust wrote that divestment would make Harvard appear “as a political actor rather than an academic institution”, that Harvard might not make […]