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  Take Back St. Louis from Fossil Fuels!

  We need our city to stop subsidizing the climate crisis. This summer, St. Louis experienced exactly what continued carbon emissions will feel like for our region – triple-digit heat waves and extreme drought. We cannot continue to subsidize the fossil fuel corporations responsible for this crisis. Right now, the City of St. Louis gives massive tax breaks to giant corporations downtown under the premise that these companies will create jobs, but these corporations usually fail to create what they promise. We’re left with consistent unemployment rates and millions of dollars stolen by these corporations away from the St. Louis Public Schools. These corporations do not need our money. Instead, we need to shift those taxpayer development dollars into renewable energy sources and sustainability initiatives that will create green jobs in a new local, sustainable economy. www.takebackstlouis.com

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  Created by Arielle Klagsbrun
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  Fossil Free Newton

  Newton was the first community in the Commonwealth to adopt the Stretch Code for building efficiency, and now it is time for Newton to lead again by divesting the city from companies producing fossil fuels. Divesting puts a stop to the status quo - promoting new fossil fuel exploration. Doing nothing equals promotion of fossil fuel infrastructure, like the Keystone XL pipeline, and the new pipelines delivering Fracking gas to Massachusetts. Divesting will not lead to a collapse of our fossil-fueled society, because we still pay at the pump, in our grocery stores, and for our home utilities, providing plenty of profits for fossil fuel companies while we move our investments toward truly clean, non-fossil energy.

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  Created by Nathan Phillips
• Divest Austin from Fossil Fuels!

  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. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on the City of Austin 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 the City of Austin will not only be a sound decision for the city’s financial portfolio, but also for the well being of its current and future employees and residents, who deserve the opportunity to live in a city not defined by climate chaos.

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  Created by Anna Derengowski
• Divest Arlington Ma from fossil fuels

  This is a national campaign to address global climate change to divest funds from the companies who are contributing to greater climate problems and we need to start with our town.

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  Created by Margaret Ryding
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  Washington DC: Divest from fossil fuel investments

  There's a new movement of individuals, colleges, religious institutions, companies, and cities divesting from -- taking their money out of -- fossil fuel stocks, bonds and other investments. Investing in oil and coal companies was once a safe bet -- and an accepted part of most American's investment portfolios and retirement funds. But with the immense threat of climate change and a range of new, cost-competitive energy options available, investing in oil, natural gas, and coal is not only financially risky -- it's unethical. Washington, DC is a national leader in a larger sustainable city movement. In 2011, under the leadership of Mayor Vincent Gray, city agencies organized the Sustainable DC initiative, crowdsourcing a plan to make DC "the healthiest, greenest, and most livable city in the United States." And in March 2013, the DC government -- already a leading national consumer of green energy -- signed a contract to use wind power for 100 percent of its electricity needs. In short, it's safe to say DC gets it. They just need support and guidance to take this next step. The time for a renewable energy transformation is now. Climate scientists say that carbon emissions need to level off by 2016 and decline thereafter to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change (not even bad the ones, which most experts expect). Washington DC, a green city leader, "capital of the free world," and a likely victim sea-level rise, has every reason to lead the country and the world by withdrawing its investments from the companies that are heating the Earth, causing increasing extreme weather and flooding. The fossil fuel lobbyists have made it clear they're not leaving willingly. If the federal government won't turn off the tap of fossil fuel subsidies that fuel more and more extreme weather, cities can and need to take their investments out of fossil fuels -- perhaps giving the White House and Congress the courage they need to do the right thing for Americans, present and future. I love this city. Let's give the Mayor and City Council the support they need to divest DC's investments from fossil fuels.

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  Created by Matt Grason
• Divest Atlanta From Fossil Fuels

  As we respond to Climate Change, some companies will adapt and prosper. Other companies, whose business model is at odds with stabilizing and reducing carbon emissions represent latent weakness in their business model. These businesses will no longer be wise investments, and a fiduciary duty to City investment funds will increasingly require less investment in these companies, rather than more. Companies heavily invested in fossil fuels will have a structural problem adapting to a Carbon Constrained World. Why? Because they count as part of their company wealth the underground oil, gas and coal deposits which, if released into the atmosphere, will cause greater and greater climate change. The sooner the City divests from these companies, the better.

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  Created by Sam Collier
• Divest Worcester, MA From Fossil Fuels

  We have a responsibility as stewards of our natural resources to protect them and preserve them for our future generations. Up until this generation we weren't aware of the harm we were visiting on the ecological environs. Now that we know, it's time to correct our adverse impact and pursue with fervor alternative energy sources that work with nature, not against nature and mankind.

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  Created by E St. John