The Shareholders Vs. Exxon
Series: How to Save a Planet
Publisher: Gimlet Media
Episode number: 40
Length (minutes): 52
Description:
In our first episode on green investing, Are My Retirement Savings Invested in Fossil Fuels?? Help!, we talked about how to get your retirement money out of fossil fuels. Now, we’re looking at a different strategy – keeping your money IN fossil fuels, and using those investments as leverage to force companies into changing their behavior. Companies like Exxon Mobil, the poster child for a big, bad fossil fuel company. Because of its size and power, taking on a company like Exxon could seem kind of hopeless. But recently, an unlikely coalition of people have done just that — a coalition that included a group not typically associated with revolutionary behavior…Wall Street investors.