Cambridge, Mass. - With climate change policy deadlocked, there’s a rapidly growing movement on campuses nationwide to convince universities to yank their investments in fossil fuel companies.

And at Harvard—where the nation’s largest, $30.7 billion endowment makes it the top target—student activists are seeing what they hope are signs that the administration might budge on the issue.

The university this month agreed to meet with students about the endowment’s investments in fossil fuel companies, and separately announced it would create an alternative university fund dedicated to socially responsible investments. The administration has made it clear that it still has a “strong presumption against divestment,” but after two successful student referendums pushing for responsible investment, student leaders are hoping there’s a crack in the door.

BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - “Burning carbon is the whole point of digging it out,” said Naomi Klein, during the advocacy group 350.org’s "Do the Math" tour stop at the Orpheum Theater in Boston on Thursday night. The five top global oil companies made a profit of 137 billion dollars in the past year, according to visuals on 350.org’s slideshow. Bold words on the screen continued by reading, “The fossil fuel industry cheats,” winning nods of approval from the audience.

Klein, an author and outspoken critic of corporate globalization, was in Boston to present her views on attacking the fossil fuel industry at 350.orgs newest campaign- a national tour called “Do The Math. “ The focus on the tour is to promote divestment of funds from fossil fuel industries, and to promote awareness about the seriousness of climate change with “simple math.”

BOSTON/Government Center - About 50 climate and #OccupyBoston activists marched to U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s Boston office Thursday to protest his co-sponsorship of a Senate bill introduced last week that would give Congress the power to approve the contentious Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline, bypassing the Obama administration.

Cambridge, Mass. - Over 50 student activists from the Harvard College Environmental Action Committee and allies held a protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline on Tuesday - on the occasion of a closed-door presentation at Harvard University's Kirkland House by President Barrack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina.

BOSTON/Government Center - About 40 environmental activists on bicycles converged at Government Center on July 7th to let Massachusetts residents know about Sen. Scott Brown's vote “to gut the Clean Air Act.” To show their unity they wore red t-shirts, chanted the slogan “Scott Brown let us down,” and carried puppets of Scott Brown with "fat cat lobbyists."

BOSTON/Chinatown – A driving rain couldn’t prevent about one hundred activists, government, union, and business leaders, and curious passersby on Tuesday November 9th from attending a kick-off ceremony in front of the Chinatown Gate launching the first in a series of home weatherization pilot programs for cities and towns around Massachusetts.

BOSTON/State House - Over 75 people gathered in State House Room 437 on Tuesday for a press conference called by the Green Justice Coalition - the Massachusetts affiliate of the Apollo Alliance - to announce the release of a new report, "An Industry at the Crossroads: Energy Efficiency Employment in Massachusetts." According to its mission statement, the Apollo Alliance is a "coalition of labor, business, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs." The Green Justice Coalition is a similar grouping on the state level and is spearheaded by Boston-based Community Labor United.

BOSTON/Government Center - Over 25 people congregated on a rainswept City Hall Plaza Monday at a rally called by the Massachusetts Mobilization for Climate Justice. The action aimed at pressuring politicians to push for more far-reaching policies to deal with the negative effects of climate change. Organizers also commemorated the 10th anniversary of the mass protests by labor and environmental groups against the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle - which were widely-credited with effectively shutting down the proceedings and forcing a public reevaluation of corporate-driven global political and economic agendas.

BOSTON/Government Center - A large conference room at the 100 Cambridge St. headquarters of the Mass. Department of Energy Resources was packed by over 125 people on Tuesday - most of whom were members of several of the labor and community organizations that make up the Green Justice Coalition, a new grassroots formation aiming to ensure that the rising "green economy" in the Bay State will create quality jobs in disadvantaged communities.

GJC organizers said that they had brought dozens of activists out on only 8 days notice to comment before the latest meeting of the Energy Efficiency Advisory Council - the deliberative body brought into being with the passage of the Green Communities Act by the state legislature last year, and tasked with "designing and approving the Commonwealth’s utility- and municipal aggregator-operated energy efficiency programs" according to Council documents.

Local organizations working on labor, environmental, and community issues plan to announce the formation of a new coalition this morning in Roxbury. The ambitious agenda of the "Green Justice Coalition" includes efforts to address both the climate and economic crises; especially in lower income neighborhoods and communities of color.