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Legislative Session Wrapup

The 2018 Hawaii Legislative session is over.

Thank you all so very much for your contributions, perseverance and patience through this year’s session and the many emails we sent you. We did far better than the 10% chance the average …

Plans for the rest of 2018

350Hawaii’s strategy for 2018 is to promote

  • A fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
  • No new fossil fuel projects.
  • Not a penny more for fossil fuels.

To this end, we are working to pass resolutions in …

Democracy Awakening Phonebanking

Why hasn’t Congress acted on climate change?  Because oil and gas companies are big contributors to their election campaigns.  The biggest obstacle to climate action is political will, and one of the biggest influences on political will is money in …

ERS divestment op-ed

[Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, February 25, 2016]

Should ERS divest from fossil fuels? Yes, bubble will burst for carbon-coal stocks

By Anthony Aalto and Michael Kramer

February 25, 2016

Why is our state pension system betting against the …

SHARE THE PETITION: PROSECUTE EXXON

California Attorney General Kamala Harris and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman are investigating ExxonMobil for its decades of deliberate climate deception. We’re calling on Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Department of Justice to follow suit.

$2.6 Trillion

The divestment movement grew 50-fold in the past year and now represents $2.6 trillion in investments.…

Stop Funding Fossils!

Do you remember how President Obama and every other G20 leader pledged to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies? It was in 2009, right before the last major UN climate conference – the one in Copenhagen.

That pledge was great, there was …