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Guide to Social Investing and Better Banking 2017

Summer 2017: Special Issue: Guide to Social Investing and Better Banking

You don’t have to be rich to be a social investor. All you need is the will to use your money to support your values—and the kind of world you want to see for the future. People who bank and invest in a socially responsible manner arguably have never been more important to the health of humanity and the Earth.
Featured Articles:

You Can Invest in Change: Pick an Issue
Vote with Your Investments for a Better World
Does Social Investing Affect Performance?
Social Investing at Every Age
How Karen and Joe Greened Their Investments
Anatomy of a Proxy Ballot
Divestment: A Powerful Tool for Change
Break Up with Your Megabank in 10 Easy Steps
Five Cool (and Free) Tools for Financial Wellness
Shareholders Take Action

cover for Unraveling the Fashion Industry

Winter 2019: Unraveling the Fashion Industry

It’s easy to ignore the huge influence garments have on workers and the planet. Luckily, activists and businesses are working to make the fashion industry better. If you wear clothes, you can too.
Featured Articles:

Unraveling the Fashion Industry
Unpacking Toxic Textiles
Regenerating Cotton Solutions
Worker Tested, Worker Approved Social Responsibility
Bringing More Color to Green Fashion
From Fast to Fair Fashion
What Really Happens to Unwanted Clothes?
Being Closet-Conscious with Elizabeth L. Cline
Are These Trends Green or Greenwashed?
Big Banks Leaving the Private Prison Business

Fall 2019: Your Green Life

We're all learning how to be better to our Earth. Here, we share tips on how to make the greenest decisions that affect your home, family, and community, and hear stories from people who have already put their Earth-conscious ideas into action.
Featured Articles:

10 Ways You Can Fight Climate Change
Your Top 10 Plastics Questions, Answered
Toxic Pink Packaging
A Day of Dressing Ethically
Green from the Start Baby Registry
Questions for Your Farmers
5 Simple Steps for Starting an Organic Veggie Garden
The Green Gift Guide for Earth Lovers

Summer 2019: The Green Economy at Work

The Green New Deal is a call to create a truly green economy. But there’s no need to wait! Here’s what’s already happening around the country.
Featured Articles:

Green American Feature: The Green Economy at Work
Green Industrial Jobs Energize Cities
Bringing Renewables to Coal Country
Be Your Own Green Boss
Renewing Hope by Curbing Waste
These Banks Fund Communities, Not CEOs
The Sweet Taste of Sustainable Jobs
Could the World be Powered Fully by Renewable Sources?
Explore Widely, Tread Lightly
9 Smart Money Tips for Students Starting College

Summer 2019: Guide to Socially Responsible Investing and Better Banking

Vote with Your Dollars for a Better World
Investing in Change
Break Up with Your Megabank in 10 Easy Steps
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Needs to Refocus on Consumer Protection
Taking Stock of Divestment Movements
Staff Picks for Balancing Your Budget
Social Investing at Every Age
Anatomy of a Proxy Ballot

Spring 2019: Your Home, Detoxed

Chemicals in everyday household products have been linked to serious health concerns. Getting rid of toxicants can mean a healthier life for all.
Featured Articles:

You Home, Detoxed: Green American Feature
13 Toxic Chemicals Lurking in Your Home
The Room-by-Room Home Detox Guide
Planting Seeds for Clean Air
6 Simple Steps to a Safer Home
Turning Crisis into Creation with Green Affordable Homes
Swap Out Toxics to Green Your Home
Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine...and Then Recycle
Ready Your Finances for a Climate Disaster

Winter 2018: Healthy Soil, Cool Climate

A widespread switch to regenerative agriculture won’t just heal the soil. At scale, it can actually reverse the climate crisis.
Featured Articles:

Heal the Soil, Cool the Climate
Regenerative Agriculture 101
Turning “Food Prisons” into Gardens
Farms That Harvest the Sun—Twice
Real Gardeners, Real Climate Action
From Slash and Burn to Regeneration in Ghana
Plant-Based Investing, for the Good of Animals
Breaking Down Barriers to Composting
Eating in a Warming World

Summer 2018: Hidden Workers Fighting for Change

Our economy rests on the backs of workers who are practically invisible, toiling in fields, mines, warehouses, and factories under unspeakable abuses. They’re fighting to change the system—and everyone can help.
Featured Articles:

The Immigrants Who Feed the Country
The True Cost of Two-Day Shipping
On Sale Now: Prison Labor
Green Tech’s Underground Workers
A Life in California's Strawberry Fields
Investing in Common-Sense Gun Safety
Mining on Sacred Ground
Life in an Electronics Factory

Spring 2018: New Green Tech: Promise and Pitfalls

For better or worse, a vast array of new technology is becoming smarter, more interconnected, and able to churn out mind-boggling sets of data. While some of that tech is merely interesting or adds convenience (and waste!), some might help make our lives greener in the years to come.
Featured Articles:

Smart Tech for a Greener Life
Green Tech for the Future
Smarter, Safer Energy Savers
The Bright Future of Solar Power
A Living Building? Challenge Accepted
Climate-Friendly Fridges That Are Truly Cool
Smart Homes and Privacy
Staying Connected the Old-Fashioned Way
At Home with a Green Architect
The Color of Justice
Plant a Garden, Cool the Planet

Winter 2017: Climate Change: 100 Reasons for Hope

Bestselling author Paul Hawken and a team of 200+ experts have created a detailed plan to not only curb but reverse the climate crisis. And yes, they say, it’s possible.
Featured Articles:

A Plan to Reverse the Climate Crisis
Top 10 Solutions to Reverse Climate Change
Power to the People: Fueling the Revolution for Energy Justice
In Search of Ethical Fashion
Social Investing Victories of 2017

Fall 2017: Drinking Water at Risk

Water supplies across the US have become contaminated by toxins from the energy, mining, and agricultural industries, among others—wreaking havoc on vulnerable ecosystems and human health. But local communities are taking action to ensure clean water for all.
Featured Articles:

Protect Our Water
The Back Forty Mine: Is It the Next Standing Rock?
Back 40 Mining Company Responds to Water Protectors
Detroit Fights for Fair Water Access
Get the Frack Out!
Keepers of the Water
What Does Sewage Have to Do with It?
ReZpect Our Water
Pushing Out Pipelines
13 Ways to Save More than 65 Gallons of Water a Day
Bottled Water vs. Tap: Which is Best?

Green American cover with Pramila Jayapal

Spring 2017: Economic Action Against Hate

A burst of over 1,000 hate crimes and incidents have occurred since Election Day, and the President's words and actions are only making perpetrators bolder.

With white supremacists in the cabinet and anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of the White House, we need green, people-centered solutions that bring people together—and don't depend on Washington.
Featured Articles:

Hate Has No Business Here
Finding Jobs and Finding Justice for Trans Workers
Muslim Activists Build Bridges
An Organizer in the House
A Sign of Inclusion
Sacred Resistance

Green American cover with women shopping

Winter 2016: Tackling Food Waste

Forty percent of the food we grow in the US never gets eaten, it gets tossed out somewhere on the path from farm to table. That's billions of pounds of food that uses up land, water, fertilizer and pesticides, packaging, transportation, fuel, and more. For nothing.
Featured Articles:

Waste Not, Eat Well at Daily Table
5 Ways to Fight Food Waste
Are meal kits recipes for fun, or waste?
She can’t stand food waste, so she’s educating the world about it.
Expiration dates don’t mean what you think
Investing To Support Standing Rock
Unplugging for the Holidays, for Your Family's Health

Summer 2016: Rethinking Recycling

In our latest issue of Green American, we look at how to do recycling better. It's not only important to reduce, reuse and recycle: it's important to do it the right way.
Featured Articles:

Americans are really bad at recycling. But only because we’re not trying very hard.
9 Ways to Take Your Recycling to the Next Level
Dirty Recycling Systems are Trashing Communities of Color
How recycling works and why it’s so often done wrong
Rescue Your Recycling!

Spring 2016: Climate Justice for All

People of color are on the front lines of the climate crisis, and are leading the call for equitable protection and meaningful action.

Green American published this dedicated to amplifying the voices of those on the front lines of the climate crisis, working to protect the most vulnerable areas around the world. No matter what your background is, it’s vital to join the…
Featured Articles:

People of Color Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
Black Lives Matter in a Changing Climate
The Power of Latino Voices on Climate
Native Leaders Lend Strength to the Climate Change Fight
Mohamed Nasheed: Climate Champion for the World’s Most Vulnerable
On the Duties of Privilege
A Discussion Guide for Climate Justice
It Doesn’t End with Flint

Winter 2015 Issue: Soil Not Oil: How Organics Can Feed the World

• Regenerative, Organic Agriculture: Cool the Climate, Feed the World
Can organic farming feed the world and curb the climate crisis? The nonprofit Rodale Institute, PA, has one of the longest-running field trials showing that it can.

• INFOGRAPHIC: Living Soil vs. Dead Dirt
95% of our food is grown in soil. But one-third of the world’s soils have become degraded—turning…
Featured Articles:

Regenerative, Organic Agriculture: Cool the Climate, Feed the World
Hasbro and Disney:Protect Toy Factory Workers!
Living Soil: Vandana Shiva on the Triple Climate Crisis
Living Soil vs. Dead Dirt
Recycled Green Gifts for the Holidays

Fall 2015 Issue: Detox Your Closet: The Search for Less-Toxic Clothes

Creating clothes from field to factory can result in toxic chemicals being unleashed on workers, on the planet, and even on you and your family. Here’s how you can avoid fashion disasters and start your search for less toxic clothing

Featured Articles:

The Trouble with Nano-Fabrics
Detox Your Closet!
7 Tips for Less Toxic Clothing
Make Do and Mend: Reuse at Home
Why You Should Be Wearing Organic Underwear
Dollar Store Items Found to Be Riddled with Toxins
Stay Vocal CEO Launches Reuse! Documentary
The Road to Toxic Clothing
9 Toxic Ingredients to Avoid in Personal Care Products

Summer 2015 Issue: Investing Can Change the World

If you think you don’t have enough money to become a socially responsible investor, think again—for the health of our planet.
Read "Investing in Change" »

• The 5 Coolest Calculators for Financial Wellness
From Retirement, to saving for a child's education, to mortgages, find the calculators you need.

• Invest For Your Future and a Better World
Three strategies to help…
Featured Articles:

Invest For Your Future and a Better World
Investing In Change
Investing in Resilience: Interview with Michael Kramer
The 5 Coolest Calculators for Financial Wellness
5 Green Ways to Save More Than $8,000 a Year
Green Your Intimate Moments

Spring 2015 Issue: A World of Hurt

21st century sweatshops produce goods for unsuspecting consumers. Here are 6 common things made with slave labor. Read "A World of Hurt"
Featured Articles:

8 Things You Didn’t Know Were Made with Sweatshop Labor
The Ghost Fleet
Investors For Bangladeshi Worker Rights
10 Herbs for Topical Healing
Green Your Intimate Moments

Winter 2014 Issue: The Green Economy's Best Year Ever!

This issue of the Green American marks our 100th issue. While we’ve had some terrific victories over the years since we published our first issue (then called Building Economic Alternatives) in 1985, we’ve been seeing more rapid results in recent years to our action campaigns, most markedly in 2014, where our campaigns enjoyed their most impactful year yet. Read "7 Green…
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