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Students, faculty ask UM to divest from fossil fuels – Burlington, Vermont – 100 percent of its electricity now comes from renewable sources

Advocates for renewable energy gathered outside Main Hall at the University of Montana on Tuesday to call on school administrators to wipe the university’s endowment portfolio clean of fossil fuels.

Holding protest signs and singing folk songs, the advocates – more than 100 in number – said the time has come to write a new chapter in the university’s history, one that doesn’t include fossil fuels.

"We can choose to continue to invest in an antiquated, dirty system that we know is irrevocably changing the face of this planet and our very life-support system, or we can choose to invest in cleaner, renewable technology," UM alum Bryony Schwan told the crowd.

By Martin Kidston

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/local/students-faculty-ask-um-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/article_dcccdbe8-3de1-11e4-9b59-2f26fcede17d.html

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Burlington, Vermont – 100 percent of its electricity now comes from renewable sources such as wind, water and biomass. http://www.matr.net/article-62167.html

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