College of the Atlantic looks toward divestment

by Lucas Burdick (originally posted on gofossilfree.org)  College of the Atlantic is in many ways a college like any other. Similar to many colleges, we have student committees, dorms, clubs, environmental commitments, engaged students actively working to do something about the climate crisis we face, and an endowment made up largely of stocks and bonds of companies we’d rather not associate...

Carbon Markets

by Joe Perullo Lately, the phrase Carbon Markets is what comes to me when I hear the word “controversial.”  Much of the literature I have read on them mentions how the markets are "a horrible distraction from real emission mitigation strategies" and how they "redefine the problem to fit the assumptions of neoliberal economics."  I wouldn’t say I disagree with these statements, but...