{"id":771,"date":"2020-02-10T05:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T10:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=771"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:27:25","slug":"something-big-is-shifting-as-georgetown-announces-fossil-fuel-divestment-students-across-us-demand-their-schools-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/10\/something-big-is-shifting-as-georgetown-announces-fossil-fuel-divestment-students-across-us-demand-their-schools-follow-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Something Big Is Shifting&#8217;: As Georgetown Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment, Students Across US Demand Their Schools Follow Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-10-at-5.07.51-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-772\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-10-at-5.07.51-AM-908x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-10-at-5.07.51-AM-908x1024.png 908w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-10-at-5.07.51-AM-266x300.png 266w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-10-at-5.07.51-AM-768x866.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-10-at-5.07.51-AM.png 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The university&#8217;s decision came after a sustained pressure campaign from Georgetown University Fossil Free (GUFF), a student group which submitted multiple proposals to the Georgetown Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility before the panel recommended the divestment this week. The school community also voted on a referendum regarding divestment on Thursday, withn more than 90% voting in favor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/02\/08\/something-big-shifting-georgetown-announces-fossil-fuel-divestment-students-across\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Something Big Is Shifting&#8217;: As Georgetown Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment, Students Across US Demand Their Schools Follow Suit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The university&#8217;s decision came after a sustained pressure campaign from Georgetown University Fossil Free (GUFF), a student group which submitted multiple proposals to the Georgetown Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility before the panel recommended the divestment this week. The <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/10\/something-big-is-shifting-as-georgetown-announces-fossil-fuel-divestment-students-across-us-demand-their-schools-follow-suit\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}