Where you put your money can change the world. You could be contributing to building destructive fossil fuel pipelines or supporting small businesses in your community. Whether you’re opening your first bank account, or keeping track of your mutual funds every day, you can ensure that your money works for both your future and healthier communities worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Regions, US Bank, Fifth Third, and Wells Fargo agreed to phase out short term loans with interest rates up to 365%. These “deposit advance loans” commonly as “payday loans” trapped people in ongoing cycles of debt. Green America and our allies mobilized to halt these abusive loans.
Building the green economy is about being informed about corporations AND actually supporting businesses that follow green practices, grow local economies, and pay suppliers fairly. Where you shop and what you buy when you do sends a direct message.
Did you know your retirement and investments are probably funding dirty fossil fuels? Switch to these better clean funds that support your values and our future.
As a shareholder, you have a unique and important role to vote on company resolutions that let management know you want corporate practices that support people and the planet.
Wall Street is pushing Congress to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect us from scams and predatory financial products and services.
Use your voice for people and planet.
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