Earlier this month, ExxonMobil published a blog post presenting its position on the burgeoning international fossil fuel divestment movement — unsurprisingly, they do not look favorably on it.
Claiming...
In anticipation of a meeting of world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit on Tuesday, over 400,000 people — double the expected attendance — participated in the People’s Climate March in...
The past year saw everything from a new mascot to a multitude of snow days. Take a look at some of the biggest headlines on campus:
Georgetown University Student Association
While this...
Just over a year ago, University President John J. DeGioia led presidents of other Washington-based colleges and universities in taking the District of Columbia College and University Sustainability Pledge,...
To chants of “climate change now,” more than 1,000 people, most of whom were college students, marched from Georgetown University’s Red Square to the White House on Sunday, protesting the construction...
As a fiscal goal for Georgetown, divestment has been labeled as many things, from morally imperative to practically impossible. Last week, GU Fossil Free proved that divestment is not a pipe dream but...
The Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a resolution to endorse GU Fossil Free's proposal to mandate the university's divestment from fossil fuels Sunday evening.
The bill passed...
GU Fossil Free — a student campaign asking Georgetown to divest from investments in fossil fuel companies — has gathered 1,400 signatures on a petition to hold a student-wide referendum on the issue...
The new student group GU Fossil Free made waves on campus in January by advocating for full university divestment from coal and fossil fuel within five years. Now, these same students, frustrated by administrative...
GU Fossil Free, a student lobby group allied with several other campus organizations, submitted a proposal Wednesday outlining a plan for the university to abandon its suspected investments in fossil fuel...
A student group, GU Fossil Free, is currently advocating for the university to divest from corporations that deal in fossil fuels. This bold proposal — which is too new to be assessed on its merit or...
The intentions of GU Fossil Free, a group demanding that the university retract investments from all coal and fossil fuel companies, are admirable. They are not, however, in the best interest of Georgetown...
