Get enlightened at an unusual meditation on Friday January 30, 12-1pm in front of Day Hall. Join a 40-minute sitting-and-walking outdoor meditation led by an accomplished meditator to the accompaniment of ceremonial sounds and activism scrolls. We will be joined by an exclusive group of Cornell trustees and corporate administrators.
Join us in meditation against fossil fuels. Because we deserve a fossil-free degree! Imagine. Resolve. Act.
Learn more and RSVP here. RSVPs are optional but will help us better prepare for your serenity amid climate breakdown.
An unusual event co-sponsored by Cornell on Fire, Sunrise Cornell, Cornell YDSA, TIAA-Divest!, and the Cornell Chapter of the AAUP, inspired by Oli Frost and Cornell’s fossil entanglements.
When: Friday, Jan. 30, from 12-1pm
Where: Plaza in front of Day Hall (Cornell campus)
Who: You, us, and an exclusive group of Cornell corporate bosses
How: Dress warmly! Cushions and seats will be provided. Outdoor winter meditation is renowned for its capacity to sharpen thought. Prepare for contagious enlightenment.
Why: Business-as-usual is causing ecocide. Contemplative meditation is necessary to confront society (and Cornell’s corporate bosses) with uncomfortable truths and disrupt the status quo. Our public meditation will call satirical attention to Cornell’s morally reprehensible ties to fossil-fuel funding while publicizing our resolution for dissociation from corrupting fossil-fuel money in research, donations, and retirement funds.
EXPLORE MORE:
Read the resolution for university-wide dissociation from fossil-fuel funding
Learn why we demand a fossil-free degree
Check out our first action for a fossil-free degree in May 2025 with Kevin Young and Bill McKibben
Check out our graduation protest for a fossil-free degree (also in May 2025)
Read the press coverage here
What we ask: Cornell agreed to divest the endowment in 2020 on grounds that fossil fuels represent a morally reprehensible and injurious investment – now it’s time for them to apply that moral framework to the rest of their lucrative fossil-fuel financial ties. Fossil-fuel funding continues to corrupt research, weaken university climate action, and steal our futures through retirement funds. In response, we are advancing a resolution for university-wide dissociation from fossil-fuel funding in research, donations, and retirement funds. We delivered the resolution to Cornell senior administration in May 2025 and are now working to pass the resolution through all five university governing bodies. We celebrated our first win in December, with the Student Assembly’s passage of the resolution!