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To: President Erickson & Board Members of the Northampton Community College Foundation

Go Fossil Free!

As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on Northampton Community College to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of our University will not only be a sound decision for our institution’s financial portfolio, but also for the wellbeing of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos.

Why is this important?

Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50 billion in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years.

Northampton Community College, 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem, PA, United States

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2015-02-24 12:59:36 -0500

100 Signatures!
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2015-02-24 12:20:20 -0500

100 signatures reached

2015-02-24 12:13:16 -0500

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2014-04-16 18:07:56 -0400

25 signatures reached

2014-04-16 14:13:56 -0400

10 signatures reached