Author: Kai Orans

On Saturday, April 12, Pitzer College committed to divesting 99 percent of its endowment from fossil fuels. It will reduce its carbon footprint by 25 percent in the next two years and establish a fund within its endowment to promote campus sustainability and implement environmental, social, and governance screens on

We’ve all heard how daunting climate change is and, regardless of what we do, the situation is hopeless. I challenge those who use these perspectives as justification to relegate climate change, the moral issue of our time, to the back burner. For inaction, too, is a choice. The problem is

We’ve all heard how daunting climate change is—that regardless of what we do, the situation is hopeless, and that eventually the emergence of clean technology will solve all of our climate problems. I challenge those who use one or all of these obstacles as justification to push climate change, the