New! The 2021 Edition of Your Green Life includes helpful information on Better Banking & Personal Finance. Learn how to set up a healthy financial life and use better banking options that reflect your values.
When you bank with mega-banks, your money is going directly to greedy, predatory Wall Street. Money from big banks funds fossil fuels, sweatshops, factory farms and other destructive industries.Â
Your money has power to create significant, positive change, or contribute to destruction and exploitation of the Earth and people on it.
Even $100, put in the right place, can make a difference.Â
Step 1. Find a better bank and a better credit card.
Step 2. Green your investments through socially responsible investing and divesting.
Step 3. Use your shareholder power to change companies from the inside.
Step 4. Find financial planners and advisors who are certified members of our Green Business Network here.
Green America’s Role
Green America focuses on economic strategies to solve social and environmental problems, as we aim to empower people to take personal and collective action as they can economically. In the finance sector, that means information and guidance for socially responsible investors (you).
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