Fossil fuel free banking

[watervole]

If anyone wants to move their UK bank account to a bank that has zero fossil fuel investments (unlike the majority of big UK banks), then Nationwide currently have an offer of £200 for people who move their current account to them.  (and I don't regard this as unfair to existing customers, as they recently gave all their existing customers £200 for gratis - including me)

https://www.nationwide.co.uk/

I'm already with Nationwide - they're one of the few remaining building societies, so they invest their money in helping people to buy their homes.  No fossil fuels.

They also - at least where I live - still have more branches open than other banks do.

We left our previous bank several years ago, as First Direct is part of Santander which has large investments in fossil fuels.  We wrote and told them why we were leaving, but never got a reply...

If we want to try and save the planet, then one of the easiest steps to take is to change your bank.  Costs you nothing - or in this case, actually gives you real cash - and your bank has to do all the hard work of moving your direct debits and standing orders.

 

Wherever you live, you can find out which banks are deeply into fossil fuels and which are not via BankGreen

 

 

Comments

[vera_j]

It is not only the minefield. There are vast destroyed areas...leaking pipings, piles of wrecks...burned fields. It must be even more horrible for animals, the have no voice to call for help. There are areas of wasteland, total apocalypsa...people are resourceful and always manage to survive; but animals ...Sorry, I am not putting them above humans but this is the situation. The worst is that the conflict begins to grow... how to manage it without provoking the third world war? Russian green brains are crazy, they don´t care. And Putin is a puppet, I suspect...

[watervole]

Never feel guilty about sympathy for animals. They feel pain just as we do.

Besides, we are more and more aware that we need a healthy ecosystem for our own survival.

The whole situation is horrible and beyond rationale.