At the End of the Rainbow, a Movement to Divest?

Lovely picture on the front page of Le Devoir today: a little girl walking along the railway track in Lac Mégantic with a rainbow in the background.

The symbolism is probably good for the folks there: they have to resume their lives as best they can.  For the rest of us, it might give us the courage to find the way to less reliance on petroleum.

Because the question way, way, in the background in all the discussion of the explosion at Lac Mégantic and the weird weather is: how can we get over our dependance on petroleum?

There is no simple answer, but the first step will be to convince those in power/controlling industry to give us alternatives.  That is why this story from The New York Times about student groups urging their universities to divest themselves of investments on petroleum concnerns is so important.   "Divest" is a very interesting strategy.