Trent BoG not doing enough for fossil fuel divestment
Last week, an editorial was published in Arthur shining a positive light on the Trent Board of Governors for not saying ‘no’ to Sustainable Trent’s fossil fuel divestment proposal. I’d …
Calvin Beauchesne
OPIRG and Sustainable Trent present: Divestment Week
OPIRG and Sustainable Trent have collaborated on a number of events from January 26-30 for Divestment Week. The week is to raise awareness for both OPIRG’s divest from Israeli Apartheid …
50 Trent Professors Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment in Open Letter
The below letter was created by Sustainable Trent. An Open Letter to Trent President Leo Groarke and Board of Governors, Climate change is a very real and serious issue; extreme …
Sustainable Trent: Environmental justice on campus
Trent University is consistently ranked as a leader for its environmental commitment in university reports by several media sources, from Maclean’s Magazine to the Globe and Mail. In addition to …
How to Avoid the Carbon Bubble: Divest from Fossil Fuels
How’s this for a new year’s resolution, Trent? Let’s become the first university in Canada to divest from the fossil fuel industry. If you aren’t convinced yet, you may not …
Fossil Fuel Divestment Makes Financial Sense
It is morally wrong to make a profit off the fossil fuel industry. While violating indigenous and human rights all over the world, these companies are planning to extract 5 …
An Update on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign
The Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign is just under a year old, and it has already made some serious progress. Students have started campaigns at hundreds of schools across America, including …
Trent University Must Divest From the Fossil Fuel Industry
The year 2012 marked record low sea ice levels, the most destructive wildfire in Colorado’s history, one of the most destructive hurricanes in New York’s history, severe drought across North …