Divesting from Fossil Fuels

Many colleges and universities around the country are discussing divestment from fossil fuels, as a way of putting their money where their sustainability/green rhetoric is. This is a strategy that was effective in the 1980s in helping bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa, so it's not just symbolic (or rather, it is essentially symbolic, but it can be quite potent symbolism in generating the political will for fundamental policy change). Author and activist Bill McKibben here lays out most of the relevant arguments: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-case-for-fossil-fuel-divestment-20130222