Something to think about from Sustainable Jungle:
"A new report reveals that since the 2016 Paris Agreement, the world’s top 65 banks have provided approximately US $7.9 trillion in financing to fossil fuel companies. Additionally, fossil fuel financing surged to $869 billion in 2024 alone, marking a $162 billion increase from 2023. Beyond the environmental cost, many major credit card companies have been involved in unethical practices like predatory lending, deceptive fees, intentionally complex financial jargon, and abusive targeting of low-income individuals."
9 Ethical Credit Cards You Can Use For Socially Responsible Swiping
Who can you trust? According to this shocking story, not Microsoft!
This article from HEATED is a must read!
Emily Atkin Jul 17, 2025
The investors who supported the fossil fuel industry are now predicting climate chaos, and a possible bright side! Here is a good article from Heated with an excellent video.
"Predicting climate chaos, Morgan Stanley touts air conditioning profit potential
This is disaster capitalism at its worst."
Emily Atkin Apr 10, 2025
https://heated.world/p/predicting-climate-chaos-morgan-stanley
How do you feel about investing your money with companies who use it do the opposite of what you believe in? Here are tips from Sustainable Jungle you might be interested in reading:
Mindful Money:
Tips for Ethical Banking & Investing
"Let’s talk cheddar, dough, cabbage, bones, paper, green-backs. AKA MONEY, honey!
The finance industry is rife with corruption, as brokerage firms and banks use your money to back things like oil refining, tobacco, and other damaging industries.
Fortunately, socially responsibly banking and investing is now more possible than ever."
This article showed up in one of my local online news sources, Axios Chicago:
"Chicago businesses teach "conscious capitalism"
A group of Chicago business executives is creating a free curriculum to teach future leaders how to become "conscious capitalists."
The big picture: Conscious Capitalism is based on the philosophy that aims to balance making a profit and leaving the world a better place.
The term was popularized more than a decade ago by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and business professor Raj Sisodia. Many leaders of the movement today focus on how their companies can reverse the impacts of climate change.
Driving the news: Chicago business leaders are crafting the curriculum with the director of "Beyond Zero," a documentary about Interface CEO Ray Anderson.
Anderson succeeded in his plan to make the manufacturing company carbon neutral by 2020 and became known as a "green business" pioneer.
What's ahead: The chapter hopes such conversations will inform what should be included in the curriculum.
While it's important for everyone to do everything we can to beat the climate crisis, both as individuals and as communities, we also must stand up to those with the most power and influence, who are contributing most to the problem. Sierra Club had this about that:
"Wall Street is using your savings to fund the climate crisis.
Every year, the world's largest asset managers, which manage our retirement funds, pour billions of dollars into fossil fuel companies and enable the construction of more dirty energy infrastructure. But we can stop them. Our new report shows that just five of the world's largest asset managers – BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street Global Advisors, Invesco, and JPMorgan Asset Management, which collectively manage more than $25 trillion – have continued to fund fossil fuel expansion, helping to lock us into a fossil fueled future and risking the returns of their clients' savings. "
Check out their website to find out what you can do about this: https://bankfwd.org/