Posts by Jen Ann Simmons

Retired city attorney and long-time activist, Wynne Furth is also a direct beneficiary of CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, which invests approximately $30 billion of its $400 billion, in oil, gas, and coal producers. Wynne: “I’m a CalPERS retiree, and my husband was at the University of California where they have divested from…

Retired secondary English teacher and life-long environmentalist committed to a low-carbon lifestyle, Lynne Nittler advocates for a society freed from its dependence on burning fossil fuels. Lynne: Why are we in this extreme trouble now worldwide? What’s behind the climate change that we’re facing? It traces back to just one thing, it is not a…

Paul: “So we care about each other, we care about the world, there is a chance to turn this around, and now is the time to do it, I think everybody wants to have good challenges and a meaningful life and we won the raffle on that one, we get to be involved in one…

Professor of Geology Leonard Sklar, advocates for his pension fund, CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, to divest from fossil fuels because on climate change, finance and geology are connected. Leonard: “I have a great textbook that we’re using but it doesn’t talk about the linkage between resource extraction and climate change and how…

Career California school teacher Paula Buel recently spoke with a friend in the northwest U.S. forced to make sudden, heart-wrenching decisions about her horses during a wildfire evacuation, one example of how climate disruptions cause novel and traumatizing last-second decisions. Paula: “Look around you…. these climate disasters are happening all around us and we have…