One key to healing the climate just might be found in your bank/401k/and mutual funds statement. The well-known Wall Street big banks provide the funding which is the engine powering fossil fuel development. Bill McKibben of350.org wrote in the New
Yorker that “the key to disrupting the flow of carbon into the atmosphere may lie in disrupting the flow of money into coal and oil and gas.”
You can switch to a local credit union or
community bank by going to localfirstaz.com
Click on Find, then Local Banking.
Extra credit: tell the big bank why you’re
breaking up with them!
(P.S. This isn’t investment advice, but one more
way to do climate advocacy.)
The St. Francis Green Team