How green is your money?
If your money isn’t in a sock under your bed, it is very likely being used to fund climate breakdown. Thanks to these new websites, it is now really easy to check and to make your money work for good.
NB: Banks have made it easy to switch current accounts – direct debits will be moved over automatically
The Big Bank Switch
All you need to know about why and how Christians can check their bank’s ethical credentials and make the switch is in one place here.
If you are switching banks or even have already switched, do pledge that you have done it/will do it with the Big Bank Switch so we can witness Christians’ collective action away from fossil fuels.
Use a switching platform
Bank.Green was founded by a group of volunteers in late 2020. Each of them had been working on ways to raise awareness about the climate crisis, without paying much attention to their money. They became united by one, almost ridiculous question:
Are we working to help the environment, while our own money is simultaneously destroying it?
They set up Bank.Green to help all of us work together to force our banks to defund fossil fuels.
How about your church?
JustMoney Movement has a regularly-updated Greener, fairer banking guide on ethical banking for churches with all you need to find out if your church’s money is helping to fund the climate crisis and what options you have to change.
How about your diocese or cathedral?
Christian Climate Action has a banking campaign for dioceses and cathedrals to challenge them to switch away from the big five fossil-fuelling banks.
Comments on "How green is your money?"
Alan Ramage:
I have been contacting the charities and NGOs we support to tell them about Bank.Green and inviting them to use it to check out their bank. All have responded with interest, most saying they will refer this to their finance department, and some saying they will use it to review their bank. Harry Barton, CEO of Devon Wildlife Trust, has forwarded the information to the other Wildlife Trusts in the country. I hope they will spread the word to their supporters. There have been surprising revelations about some major national NGOs and their choice of bank. Very few people I have spoken to have considered this dimension of a low carbon emissions lifestyle but all are going to look at the site.
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