fossil fuel industry Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:16:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Community Organizations Lead in Divestment from Fossil Fuels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fossil-fuel-divestment-community-organizations/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fossil-fuel-divestment-community-organizations/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:16:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56756 Several celebrities, schools, and state governments have pledged to pull their investments from fossil fuel companies. Reversing funding for these oil and coal companies is called ‘fossil fuel divestment’, and it’s a movement that started on college campuses. Because of their diligent work, trillions of dollars will be taken back from these purveyors of dirty […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fossil-fuel-divestment-community-organizations/feed/ 0 56756 New Report: Effects of Climate Change to Cost $4.2tn https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-cost/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-cost/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:35:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55991 Unless the effects of climate change are mitigated soon, then private investors will lose an estimated $4.2tn by 2100. This is true even if the global average temperature remains at the current 2 degrees Celsius. If the temperature continues to rise and reaches 5C, then the estimate becomes $7tn, not adjusting for inflation. These numbers […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-cost/feed/ 0 55991 Wind Industry Say ‘No More’ to the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Bullying https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-industry-say-no-more-to-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-bullying-20130619/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-industry-say-no-more-to-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-bullying-20130619/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:54:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38536 Fossil fuel and nuclear lobbyists are doing their best to discredit the wind industry by intentionally perpetuating fallacies and misunderstandings about wind power, and things are getting ugly. In fact, a small group of anonymous activists took their anti-wind campaign to the Parliament House steps in Australia, leaving pro-wind activists to hastily create their own […]

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