INDEX: Week of March 1, 2013

Originally Posted on The Yale Herald via UWIRE

256
Colleges with current movements for fossil fuel divestment.

$19.3 billion
Total size of the Yale endowment, second largest of any American university after Harvard.

6.7%
Segment of the endowment the divestment movements are targeting, since fossil fuel associated companies are likely in Yale’s portfolio.

946
Signatures submitted online for the Fossil Free Yale petition as of Feb. 22 (not including signatures collected on paper).

40,000
Estimated attendees of the Forward on Climate rally on the National Mall, including a group of Yalies.

Sources: 1) gofossilfree.org 2) Yale Investments Office 3) fossilfreeyale.org 4) Max Weinrich, BR ’16, Fossil Free Yale 5) huffingtonpost.com

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