While you’re intentionally reducing your greenhouse gas emissions, make sure your money isn’t working at cross-purposes. Whether you’re a high-earner or living paycheck-to-paycheck, financial institutions use the money you deposit—or the interest you’re paying on loans or credit cards—to fund other projects, including longterm investments in fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure. Without that funding, those projects can’t go forward.

• Use a climate-friendly bank. To find an institution that offers the services you need and doesn't fund fossil fuels, visit bankforgood.org or mightydeposits.com
• Join a local credit union. Credit unions are not-for-profit community-based financial institutions.
• When you move your account or cancel a credit card, let the bank know that you’re doing it because they fund fossil fuel projects.