Yale Forward

🌎 Climate action • 💰 Endowment justice • 🗣️ Inclusive governance | Elect @maggiethomas315 to the Yale Corporation.

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

BREAKING: Climate expert Maggie Thomas has a plan to move @Yale forward.

🌎Climate action
💰Endowment justice
🗣️Inclusive governance

She’s running for the Yale Corporation -- Yale’s governing body -- to make it happen.

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

Yale, Stanford and MIT’s fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say https://t.co/gn75lndPyV

[FossilFree5 @FossilFree5]

BREAKING: Student divestment campaigns at Yale, Vanderbilt, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford file legal complaints with state Attorneys General, claiming that investing in fossil fuels violates the UPMIFA. Read more @washingtonpost.

https://t.co/rQyphGIigM

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

On the heels of the highest engagement with Yale’s governance in a generation, Yale’s Board of Trustees ended the 150 year tradition of allowing alumni to petition their way onto the ballot for the Yale Corporation. Sign the petition to bring it back: https://t.co/fhJWtzpTPo

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

Maggie Thomas (FES ‘15) is a climate policy leader who can help move Yale forward! Join us now at https://t.co/2Di1QSAzXS

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

Iceland meets 89% of its primary energy supply and almost 100% of its electricity using clean energy. With an endowment 1.5x as large, Yale should commit to going carbon neutral by 2030 and to fully divesting Yale's endowment from fossil fuels. https://t.co/ochcXfrkm8

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

TOMORROW: Join @YaleWLI and @YaleDems for a Conversation with @maggiethomas315! 6-7 PM!
https://t.co/5ZPoFsB3I6

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

It's Giving Tuesday! Please support Yale Forward’s mission to bring climate leadership to the Yale Corporation by chipping in to support Maggie's campaign. Thanks to a generous donation, all contributions will be doubled through 12/31! https://t.co/3gwPofwZvA

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

Help us add petition signers to our mailing list! Join us from 5-7 PM EST tomorrow for a virtual phone banking event! DM for details.

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

Exciting news! We are thrilled to announce that until December 31st, all donations will be doubled up to a total of $15,000 thanks to a generous gift from Steve Scolnik (YC '68). Please help us reach our goal today at https://t.co/3gwPofwZvA

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

Students and alumni are delivering the same message to the @Yale administration: Yale must grasp the opportunity to lead on climate change, which starts on campus. If the whole world must decarbonize before 2050, Yale should surely be ahead of the curve, not behind it.

[Joseph Winters 🔶 @josephbwinters]

Yale students say the university must decarbonize by 2030, not 2050. "How can we ask the whole world to change their ways of life if the richest and wealthiest institutions are unwilling to do so themselves?" My latest in @grist:
https://t.co/a4HyS0ZzJp

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

@JimStLeger @maggiethomas315 @ayanaeliza Jim, the Yale Corporation is simply the formal name for Yale's governing body, as established in the 1701 charter. It is sometimes also called the Board of Trustees, and is ultimately responsible for Yale's finances, leadership hiring, investments, academic direction and more.

[Maggie Thomas @maggiethomas315]

A carbon neutral @Yale by 2030 is exactly why I am running to be the first climate leader elected to the Yale Corporation. Join us at @YaleForward!

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

We couldn't agree more. Our climate action and endowment justice plans lay a path to a carbon neutral @Yale by 2030, which we will achieve by listening to our scientists, thoughtfully allocating our endowment, and investing in our host city of New Haven. https://t.co/N3RKrejGi4

[Sunrise New Haven @SunriseNewHaven]

Great op-ed on how @Yale (sitting on a $31 billion endowment!!) is only planning to go carbon-neutral by . . . 2050. Slower than less wealthy schools and a generation too late. Time for a plan to rapidly decarbonize & create green jobs for New Haven! https://t.co/3t7kT9nR3I

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

We did it! Our petition to nominate @maggiethomas315 to the @Yale Corporation closed last night, and pending official verification, she will be on the ballot in next April's election!

We're far from done, but for now, we celebrate.

Read the op-ed 👇
https://t.co/nR19IZNSKE

[Law Students for Climate Accountability @LS4CA]

THREAD: We just released the Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard, the 1st ever study of top law firms' role in the climate crisis.

A large majority of top law firms are on the wrong side of history--and we have the data to prove it (1/8)

#ClimateScore

https://t.co/ixlULvRh2Y

[Daniel M Kammen @dan_kammen]

@Harvard & @Yale wake up
and listen to @HarvardForward & morning @YaleForward

- Dan
@Harvard '88, @Yale parent

[Maggie Thomas @maggiethomas315]

Hey @YaleAlumni - Today is the last day to sign the petition to get my name on the ballot for the 2021 @yale corporation election. What are you waiting for??

https://t.co/572ltAsclq

[Andrea Di Turi #FacetheClimateEmergency @andytuit]

+++ Cambridge University to #divest from #fossilfuels
https://t.co/VZHO5LOAAc
https://t.co/sSX4XUnqti #divestment @HarvardForward
@YaleForward @EllenD35 @Clara_Vondrich @gold_lgold @jamesbuchanan28 @stephentrew @tomasinsua #climatecrisis #climateemergency

[Krista Shennum @KristaShennum]

Hey @Yale, you next? @YaleEJC @YaleForward #divest #ClimateActionNow

[Yale Forward @YaleForward]

A good omen for the last day of our campaign: if Oxford and Cambridge can divest from fossil fuels, then so can we!

Sign the petition by midnight tonight to nominate climate champion Maggie Thomas to the Yale Corporation 👉 https://t.co/qPlhEnPZxF
https://t.co/zEO1qh4s6c