Join us from 12-1pm on Friday, December 5, for a meditation action in front of Day Hall for a fossil-free degree. A 40-minute sitting-and-walking outdoor meditation will be led by an accomplished meditator to the accompaniment of ceremonial sound and activism banners. Learn why Cornell needs to cut fossil-fuel funding ties, meditate upon the implications, and resolve to act. Together, we will use meditation to deliver a contemplative message to Cornell senior administration: We deserve a fossil-free degree!
Learn more and RSVP here. RSVPs are optional but will help us better prepare for your serenity! An event co-sponsored by Cornell on Fire, Sunrise Cornell, Cornell YDSA, TIAA-Divest!, and the Cornell Chapter of the AAUP.
When: Friday, Dec. 5, from 12-1pm
Where: Plaza in front of Day Hall (Cornell campus)
Who: Activists, friends, and anyone! You will join members of Cornell on Fire, Sunrise Cornell, Cornell YDSA, TIAA-Divest!, and the Cornell Chapter of the AAUP. RSVPs are helpful.
Why: Business-as-usual is causing ecocide. Contemplative meditation is necessary to confront society (and ourselves) with uncomfortable truths and disrupt the status quo. Our public meditation will call 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.
Dress warmly! Cushions and seats will be provided. Outdoor winter meditation is renowned for its capacity to sharpen thought. Prepare for contagious enlightenment.
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.