Dirty Energy, Dirty Money: Universities’ Move To Divest from Fossil Fuels Rolling Along, But Encounters Bumpy Terrain

Here’s a video on the travails of the young people at Yale University (pictured) and their organization “Fossil Free Yale.”  These folks are working hard to get their school to follow the lead of other top-level institutions like Stanford and divest from oil, coal, and gas.  Last week, however, a Yale committee refused to consider going in this direction, putting a damper on the works – at least temporarily.

From a Huffington Post report:

“You can’t reduce your emissions on campus and yet profit off emissions elsewhere,” (said) one of the movement’s organizers. “We want Yale to use its clout in the investment community and as a university. We have a privileged position here in the Ivy League. Yale should use that and say, ‘We’re not going to profit off environmental degradation and the exploitation of vulnerable communities.'”

Keep fighting, guys.