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YOUTUBE "Uniting Adaptive Resiliency with Ethical Banking to Protect Our Planet and Our Freedoms" Part I: Standing at the Crossroads of Democracy, Climate, and Economy We are in an era where economic power and political dominance are more intertwined than ever. An authoritarian leader is now in power, supported by an unethical administration. This situation... Continue Reading →
STUFF YOU CAN DO 1) GET ON SOCIAL MEDIA and let these banks know you’ve had enough. Write a little note to tell them how you feel. Get creative. But maybe something like: 'Hey guy, I noticed you’re loaning billions of your customers’ dollars to the fossil fuel industry. I don’t like that. And if... Continue Reading →
Organizing and Equity Principles We are in a climate emergency. Stop the Money Pipeline coalition accelerates the movement to end Wall Street’s complicity in destroying our planet and harming our communities by demanding that banks, asset managers, institutional investors and insurance companies stop financing, investing in, and insuring climate destruction. We seek to end the... Continue Reading →
Some big wins, and some big campaigns launching! The next phase of the climate fight is going to center on the big banks that fund the fossil fuel industry. It’s going to be big, loud, and important—and there are signs this week that it’s already starting to be effective. Climate activists have been taking on... Continue Reading →
Received this email from Bill McKibben to all ThirdAct members mailing list I suppose, in any event I would like to share it with you. As 2022 draws to a close, so does year one of Third Act. It’s been a momentous one—thanks to your good work, we’ve managed to accomplish big things. Just a... Continue Reading →
HSBC Bank—Europe’s biggest by total assets—announced today they would no longer provide financing for new oil and gas fields. HSBC is not a particularly virtuous enterprise—it began in Hong Kong in 1865 with an early specialty in the opium trade; earlier this year it was censured for lying about its climate change efforts in its... Continue Reading →
March 21st will be a Tuesday, it will be the best palindromic day ever…And it will be the biggest day yet in the fight to shut off the flow of cash from Big Banking to Big Oil, a fight that is may be the most important front left in the effort to keep the planet... Continue Reading →
Official Title: Gather Up! We’re Sending Holiday Cards to Dirty Bank CEOs (sharing an email we received...) Throughout Third Act’s first year, you’ve heard how the big four banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo—are bankrolling the climate crisis. After the banks’ infuriatingly disappointing participation in the Egypt Climate Conference, where they worked to... Continue Reading →
Long championed by climate activists, the green bank would provide funding to expand clean energy use across the US . Buried on page 667 of the Inflation Reduction Act is a climate policy that has been in the making for more than a decade. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund provides $27bn in funding for projects... Continue Reading →
When Bill McKibben sought to put the fossil fuel industry out of business, he made his case in the media. Then he took his show on the road. Hitting roughly 27 cities in 29 days in the fall of 2012, the prominent American author, climate activist and co-founder of 350.org sold out venues across the... Continue Reading →
Money is pollution's biggest driving force -- particularly, the cash invested in dirty energy projects, says financial responsibility campaigner Lucie Pinson. She shares a three-pronged approach to stop banks from funding fossil fuel companies, including what she calls "collaborative blackmailing" (it's more ethical than it sounds). By demanding more accountability from polluting companies and encouraging... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 