BlogNews (August 8, 2022)
Green America welcomed the positive steps within the July 27, 2022 climate deal that is part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Calling for $369 billion in climate and clean energy investments, the bill would put the U.S. on the path to reduce carbon emissions by approximately 40% by 2030, bringing us closer to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. …
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BlogNews (July 11, 2022)
A country music festival in Las Vegas; the Pulse night club in Orlando; Sandy Hook Elementary School; a theater in Aurora, Colorado; Virginia Tech…And more recently Buffalo; Uvalde; and Highland Park's Fourth of July parade. The list of lives lost senselessly to gun violence in the United States is a long one. In addition to the prominent cases that make national news, there are…
BlogNews (July 6, 2022)
Banks Can Make a Real Difference on Climate; Will They?
The annual Banking on Climate Chaos report reveals how big banks are fueling the climate crisis through their financing, based on aggregated statistics from banks globally.
Banks are exacerbating the climate emergency by funding the fossil fuel sector including tar sands oil extraction, Arctic oil…
BlogNews (July 5, 2022)
Calling on Businesses to Stand up for Democracy
On the surface the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on guns, abortion rights, climate, religion, and Indigenous rights might not appear to have much in common. But they actually share an important trait: they will all cause the most harm to people who are already most disadvantaged or marginalized in our country: Black and…
BlogNews (May 26, 2022)
From the most recent issue of our magazine, Green American, where we update readers on the progress we've made over the last quarter on climate, finance, food, labor, social justice, and more.
Renewable Energy Must Advance Equity
This spring, Green America issued a major new report on energy justice: “Calling for a Clean, Just Transition” highlights how companies in the…
BlogNews (April 12, 2022)
From the most recent issue of our magazine, Green American, where we update readers on the progress we've made over the last quarter on climate, finance, food, labor, social justice, and more.
Green America: Leading on Climate
Wildfires, heat waves, and massive storms were just a few of the ways people across the globe experienced the climate crisis in 2021. Yet the United…
BlogNews (April 11, 2022)
States and municipalities raise money through issuing bonds, but they rarely fund green infrastructure or activities, and they are usually too pricey for most individual investors. But a new bond from Connecticut offers a new way for any investor to support clean energy.
In 2008, the World Bank was the first institution to issue a green bond—a bond designated for environmental…
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BlogNews (April 6, 2022)
As we know, where our money is invested it’s having an impact – either benefiting or harming people and the planet. If we’re fortunate enough to have a retirement plan, we also know it can be hard to know all the companies we “own” by investing in them and what their social and environmental impacts are.
Green America is pleased to partner with As You Sow to help you find…
BlogNews (March 16, 2022)
Industrial agriculture is a leading source of the climate crisis. Big Ag causes continual topsoil loss (costing the US more than a trillion dollars every year), and pollutes our waterways.
Restoring soil health and its natural ability to draw down carbon from the atmosphere to slow global warming is a critical step to addressing these crises.
Healthier soil also…
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