Climate activists say CU Boulder is falling behind
Climate activists at the University of Colorado Boulder say the university's new plan to decarbonize lacks ambition and transparency, and that CU Boulder is rapidly falling behind in climate action.
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Climate activists at the University of Colorado Boulder say the university's new plan to decarbonize lacks ambition and transparency, and that CU Boulder is rapidly falling behind in climate action.
Students have begun to petition and gather a year after Fossil Free CU's call on the Regents to divest from fossil fuels. By Isabella Hammond
How PhD student Brigid Mark joined the fight for environmental justice after spending four years battling a pipeline that she says taints clean water, worsens climate change and erodes native treaty rights.
Academics March 8, 2021 To travel across the ocean to Spain, to eat lunch surrounded by prime ministers and presidents, to protest climate injustice with youth activist leaders from around the world, then to publish a peer-reviewed journal article - this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Each year, the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University take about 20 students to the United Nations Climate Conference, where world leaders negotiate climate change policy. In 2019, Corrie Grosse, an assistant professor of environmental studies, taught a two-credit Global Climate Polic...