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Samantha Panchèvre
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Samantha Panchèvre is passionate about social justice and sustainability. As a climate change activist, she helped organize the student-led campaign that resulted in Georgetown University divesting its endowment from fossil fuels. She graduated in 2019 from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service where she studied international affairs with a focus on energy and the environment.
Catholic action on environment set for massive multiplication this Laudato Si' Week
… incorporating ecological themes into liturgies and education, defending all forms of life, divesting from the fossil fuel sector and investing in renewable energy. Kureethadam said the … event will turn attention to energy, the health impacts of fossil fuels and the question of divestment. Participants will include Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the Commission … Bill McKibben, who has led the international Go Fossil Free campaign. The latest joint divestment announcement by the Global Catholic Climate Movement is also expected during the week. …
EarthBeat Weekly: Continuing challenge for people of faith: turning climate concern into action
… after 87% of students who cast ballots in a referendum called on the Jesuit college to divest from fossil fuels . Roewe also had a story on a virtual panel discussion at Georgetown …
Marquette students call for fossil fuel divestment
… at Marquette University last week issued a resounding endorsement for the Jesuit school to divest its $693 million endowment from stocks in the fossil fuel industry, and now await a … Milwaukee school on April 22, Earth Day, undergraduates overwhelmingly supported a five-year divestment plan, with 87% voting yes. Roughly 24% of the 7,000-plus undergraduate student body … the university to revise its investment policy and partake in shareholder engagement while it divests, in an effort to influence companies away from the use of fossil fuels. In a statement to …
Were some saints mentally ill, or holy, or both?
… and eventually fell into a life of sin and debauchery. After her dramatic conversion and divestment of wealth, she practiced extreme forms of penance and reported numerous mystical …
EarthBeat Weekly: A Peruvian Holy Thursday when lightbulbs trumped candles
… risks with friends and groups on a regular basis. Finally, I would suggest considering … divesting … from fossil fuels. I agree that taxing the fossil fuel companies is necessary." She …
Care for Creation: Spirituality and Responsible Investment
… common home. Together, how can we focus on not destroying the Earth’s resources for profit, divest from companies harming the environment, and prepare for Earth Day on April 22, showing our …
US Catholic church is failing to respond to climate emergency, theologian says
… years students mobilized to pressure the Jesuit school and its board of directors to fully divest its $587 million endowment from fossil fuels, a move the university announced in January …
Rethink arms funding to protect vulnerable, say Vatican webinar speakers
… the nuclear weapons project of PAX, described the Don't Bank on the Bomb campaign to promote divestment in weapons-related industries, especially corporations involved in the manufacturing …
This Lent, let's change fasting from self-improvement to 'cultural spring-cleaning'
… friends? What if we fasted from building lethal walls around an imagined "America"? What if we divested our bodies and energy from rituals of militarism and from participation in cop culture? …
Largest day of multifaith climate protests presses governments, banks to end fossil fuel funding
… Increased financing for sustainability in agriculture, infrastructure and other industries; Divestment from fossil fuels and no COVID-19 recovery investments in that industry; A just …