I fast today in solidarity with the 200 Harvard students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members and other supporters around the world. Yesterday they began a five-day fast, calling on their university to cease their endowment’s investment in the fossil fuel industr...

October 22, 2014

Climate change for many people is abstract, something to philosophize about.  It is a new challenge for us.  But the ways in which it affects people are not new.  Disease, poverty, violence, insecurity, hunger.  Lives of lost opportunity.  These are t...

Divest Harvard is a movement that challenges the inconsistency between Harvard’s financial investments and its stated commitment to address climate change. As our faculty and researchers provide research and teaching on the extreme costs of inaction, the University con...

Dear Divest Harvard,

Thank you for giving me and many others an opportunity to show our solidarity with your effort to divest Harvard's endowment of fossil fuel investments. I'm grateful, and want to acknowledge, that my access to plentiful food allows me the chanc...