“Back to School” Financial Tune-up: A Checklist for Gen Z
Now that the seemingly endless summer days are almost behind us, it’s a perfect time to shift attention from beach days, concerts, and (vegan) BBQ’s to a different kind of adventure: your lifelong financial journey.
A Single Tree Is Helping This Small Business Benefit Its Community
One tree, abundant across the Northeast, Midwest, and South, is revolutionizing the work of TS Designs, a screen-printing company offering unique and sustainable t-shirt designs.
Saluting the Retirement of Maggie’s Organics Founder Bená Burda
After 30 years of dedication and hard work, Maggie’s Organics founder Bená Burda is retiring. Maggie’s Organics has been a member of the Green Business Network for nearly three decades.
Attacks on Sustainable Investing Are Third Stage of Climate Denial
On June 6 a subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold the second in its series of hearings against investing using Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles).
3 Ways Green Businesses Can Help Your Mental Health
Consider these three areas in your life and how re-evaluating them might help you show yourself grace and compassion.
Big banks Are Driving Climate Chaos – But Your banking can support people and planet
The world’s 60 largest banks have plowed $5.5 trillion into fossil-fuel financing, including expansion projects, tar sands oil, Arctic and Amazon oil and gas, offshore drilling, fracking, liquified natural gas, and coal mining.
Green America Supports Expansion of Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guides
Green America participated in the Federal Trade Commission’s 2023 public comment period on the Green Guides, formally endorsing the continuation and expansion of these important guides.
The Battle in the States for Freedom to Invest Responsibly
So far this year, 138 bills and four resolutions have been proposed in 33 states that would roll back the ability of fiduciaries to consider ESG factors in investment and contract decisions.
Two threats from big banks: Lobbying for deregulation, financing the climate crisis
Of all the banks in the world, mega-banks Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are the biggest funders of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Congress Targets Socially Responsible Investing
The recent Norfolk Southern train derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, illustrates why socially responsible investing is so important.