{"id":173,"date":"2007-07-11T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/07\/11\/green-financial-products\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:11:34","slug":"green-financial-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/07\/11\/green-financial-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Financial Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/eco.png\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Recycle\" \/>There&#8217;s an excellent article over at Motley Fool entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.co.uk\/news\/your-money\/manage-your-finances\/2007\/07\/10\/dont-buy-green-products.aspx?source=ioowfeml0040008\">Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Buy Green Financial Products<\/a>.  There have been a few of these recently: credit cards that give some proportion of their profit to green causes; mortgage companies that plant a few trees if you stick with them for several years; etc.  The Fool goes into the maths a little bit, but it basically comes down to the fact that it is usually better to shop around for the cheapest product (credit card, mortgage or whatever), and give the resulting saving you&#8217;ve made to green causes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They mention a credit card with a rewards scheme for money off with gas\/electricity companies, and say that the same applies, but I think for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotricity.co.uk\/\">ecotricity<\/a> it is a bit different.  This electricity company really does seem to be genuinely building out the UK&#8217;s wind farming capacity, and they aren&#8217;t particularly expensive.  In fact, my monthly bill has gone down slightly since switching to them (but probably I&#8217;ve been watching my electricity usage more closely too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an excellent article over at Motley Fool entitled Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Buy Green Financial Products. There have been a few of these recently: credit cards that give some proportion of their profit to green causes; mortgage companies that plant a few trees if you stick with them for several years; etc. The Fool goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Green Financial Products - PRINT HEAD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/07\/11\/green-financial-products\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Green Financial Products - PRINT HEAD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s an excellent article over at Motley Fool entitled Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Buy Green Financial Products. 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