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Fall 2021

Your Green Life

Your guide to making your life more sustainable for people and the planet.

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gsri socially responsible investing and better banking magazine

Summer 2021: Guide to Socially Responsible Investing and Better Banking

In these challenging times, it is more important than ever to use every tool available to protect people and the planet. Can your financial life—beyond charitable giving—make a difference to struggling communities, corporate conduct, and the environment? Yes, it can! With this guide, we want to show you how.

Strategies to “vote with your dollars,” as we call it, can be…

Featured Articles

How To Use Your Finances For A Better World
Does Social Investing Affect Portfolio Performance?
Social Investing at Every Age
These Banks Invest In Community
Shareholders Take on Climate Policy from Inside Companies
Break Up With Your MegaBank in 10 Easy Steps
How Green is Robo-Investing?
Taking Stock In Divestment Movements

We Love The Outside Guide Green American Magazine

Summer 2021: We Love The Outside Guide

We're all yearning to get outside. After a year indoors, the sun coming out as hundreds of millions of Americans receive the COVID-19 vaccines hold promise of reuniting with loved ones and feeling unbelievably hopeful.

Featured Articles

We Love The Outside Guide
How to Support Anti-Racist Corporate Policies
Choose Green, Not That: Natural Skincare for Summer
The Toxic Problem with Pesticides and Fertilizers
Native Growers Decolonize Regenerative Agriculture
Access to Green Space is an Environmental Justice Issue
5 Steps To A More Sustainable Backyard
Lawn vs. Garden: How To Stand Up To Your HOA For A Healthier Yard
Forage to Fork: Eat Local with Wild Foods
What I Wish I Knew As A Beginner Gardener

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Spring 2021: Building a People-First Economy

COVID-19 didn’t create the systems whose flaws became glaringly evident in 2020—disparities between the rich and the rest of us, racism that took lives through COVID and violence. Our systems may have broken down, but when we listen to and uplift those who are already rebuilding, we’ll be building a stronger, greener, more equitable future for the generations to come.

Featured Articles

Building a People-First Economy
Out of the Loop: Exposing Corporate Power
Defunding Dystopia, Reimagining Peace
How We Heal from Here
Who Feeds the Farmworkers?
More than the Minimum: Why We Need a Liveable Wage
The Real-Life Costs of Economic Racism
5 Steps to Start Your Climate Victory Garden

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Winter 2020: Make a Difference from Where You Are

The intensity of the 2020 general election exposed the frustration so many Americans feel when our needs go unheard by government and corporations. It also showed the disillusionment we often feel with our political system, as many Americans wondered whether a new presidential administration would truly make a difference. Though we are often pitted against each other,…

Featured Articles

6 Reasons to Support Black-Owned Businesses
Shareholders on Mute: Inequity in Virtual Meetings
How We Can All Make a Difference From Where We Are
Grow Climate Solutions for a Better Food System
Getting to 100% Clean Energy, Equitably
Follow the Worker-Leaders
Local Groups Take Bold Climate Actions
What COVID-19 Is Teaching Us About the Fight Against Climate Change
Write an Effective Letter to a Company

Fall 2020: Your Green Life

2020 has thrown everyone for a loop. But Green America has been steadfastly advocating for a just, inclusive, and green recovery from the pandemic economy. Our vision is the same as ever: We work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the abundance of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come.

Look to…

Featured Articles

Mutually Inclusive
6 Ways to Protest in a Pandemic
5 Day Waste-Less Challenge
To Get Inspired, Read
5 Foods to Boost Your Immune System
A Beginner's Guide to Activism
#BlackandGreen Body Care
Green vs. Greenwashed: Hand Hygiene
The Fight for Food Justice
DIY: Indoor Worm Compost
Your (Kids') Guide to Staying On Task
Meet Our Members: Interview with Brady Quirk-Garvan
Green America's 2020 Victories
Your 15-Minute, $15 Garden
Refrigerators: When To Hold 'Em and When To Fold 'Em

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Summer 2020: Communities on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis

The warming climate is already affecting families from the oil fields of North Dakota to the rising waters of the Gulf Coast. But climate warriors are reclaiming spaces and fighting for our future.

Featured Articles

Communities on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Conversations with Climate Leaders
Our Neighborhoods vs. Big Oil
When Earth is on the Ballot, We Need Everyone to Vote
Mother Earth Knows Best: Finding Disaster Resilience in Nature
Rising Seas, Rising Rents, and the Struggle Against Climate Gentrification
What a Green New Deal Would Mean for Kentucky
Unearthing the Legacy of Black Farmers
Invest in Food, Reverse Climate Change

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