Useful Organisations |
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| Bank of England | Bulletin: Money in the modern economy – an introduction; explains how money is created, if you find it difficult to believe |
| Ethex | helping people invest in socially-beneficial businesses and projects, and receive a better return than from a bank |
Ethical Investment Research Services |
independent research into the social, environmental and ethical performance of companies |
| Ethiscore | rates companies and products against a range of environmental and ethical criteria |
| Fair Pensions | campaigning to ensure that pension funds do not invest in unethical practices such as child labour |
| FEASTA | exploring possibilities for a sustainable economy |
| institute for Leadership and Sustainability | IFLAS run a regular MOOC (massive open online course) about money – it’s free and very enlightening |
| International Movement for Monetary Reform | Network of organisations in several countries educating their populations about the corrupt monetary system |
| Monneta | charity founded by the late, great Margrit Kennedy, to promote alternatives to the current financial system; lots of useful resources |
| Move Your Money | not-for-profit organisation working to raise awareness about the broad range of financial institutions available to customers in the UK |
| New Economics Foundation | radical think tank challenging the dominant global economic ideas |
| Positive Money | Group that explains the money system well – lots of information on their website; their solution is to take the power to create money out of the hands of private banks and to give it to a public body. |
| Wedge Card | loyalty card for local shops – only in London at the moment |
Blogs & information |
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| (not saying we agree with everything they say, but they’re all very interesting) | |
| Alastair McIntosh | Article on the history of usury prohibition |
| Automatic Earth | Nicole Foss’s blog |
| Bernard Lietaer | advocates currency reform, especially complementary or local currencies |
| Debunking Economics | Steve Keen’s website – critic on neoclassical economics, and one of the few who predicted the 2008 crash |
| the Ecology of Money | read Richard Douthwaite’s book online |
| Exorbitant privilege | the benefit US businesses get from the dollar being the global reserve currency; other countries need dollars, especially to buy oil; the dollar maintains a high value; raw materials and products from overseas are relatively cheap for US businesses and consumers |
| Islamic Finance | debate on usury-free banking |
| Michael Hudson | analysis of the geo-political machinations of global economics |
| the Money Project | all the world’s money and markets in one incredible visualisation |
| The Role of Money – what it should be contrasted with what it has become | full text of a book by Frederick Soddy, critical of economic growth and fractional reserve banking |
| Rolling Stone | Famous Matt Taibbi ‘giant vampire squid’ article about Goldman Sachs’ political influences |
Low-impact banks & financial institutions |
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| Abundance | invest in renewable energy rather than ISAs etc. |
| Climate Sure | carbon-neutral insurance |
| Ecology Building Society | ethical savings, and funding for sustainable building projects |
| The Ethical Investment Co-operative | co-operative dedicated to ethically and socially responsible investment |
| NatureSave Insurance | specialise in insuring environmental and not-for-profit organisations; 10% of premiums invested in environmental projects |
| Triodos Bank | finances companies, institutions and projects that add cultural value and benefit people and the environment |
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