The UU Common Endowment Fund and Climate Change
The Unitarian Universalist Common Endowment Fund (UUCEF) and Climate Change The Socially Responsible Investment Committee (“SRIC”) of the UUA has endorsed the fossil fuel divestment resolution on the ballot at the 2014 General Assembly. If passed, this resolution will allow the UUCEF to continue a process begun years ago of reducing climate-related risk to our investments, […]
Chevron Shareholders’ $55 Billion Dollar Answer
Chevron’s 2014 annual shareholder meeting was remarkable in one respect. It was not marked by what happened. Instead it was notable by what did not happen. This year, Chevron’s management was clearly hoping for a better reception from it shareholders regarding its legal troubles in Ecuador. Chevron even showed a new video to shareholders that […]
The Road to Midland, Texas
Holed up in a hotel, I’m reflecting on what has brought me to Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting in Midland, Texas. I first learned of Texaco’s decades of oil pollution in the Ecuadoran Amazon in the early 1990s. As I was first organizing shareholders to oppose Texaco’s partnership with Burma’s military junta, other shareholders were starting […]