My daily routine includes listening to podcasts as I drive to work. I'm an avid outdoors enthusiast and educator, and this year I'm teaching climate change, world history and personal finance. So, color me excited when I hear this podcast from Outside, "The Banks Growing Money on Trees" wow -- it was like all of my worlds collided! And what this podcast discussed really blew me away -- how the investments that banks make (with our deposited money) are used to fund so many projects that may not necessarily align with your personal goals. The lead presenter challenged her banking institution ...and it went about as well as you might think.
I used the bank.green site to check my financial institutions -- my local credit union doesn't have enough data to be analyzed and my online bank (SoFi) is at low risk for fossil fuel lending. I'm excited to add this quick investigation aspect to both my personal finance class's Comparison Shopping lesson and my world history classes' climate units. It could be a great do now or extension activity for your students.
Have you found any other intersections of climate and other classes? How have you included these into your classes?
