How Google found a fossil free fund for their 401(k)

What to do if your bank is financing the climate crisis

When you put money in the bank, it doesn’t just sit in the vault. You may be surprised where it ends up.

The Earth has set heat records for 13 straight months - but Big Banks continue to finance fossil fuel expansion

Fossil Free Funds has updated our Fossil Fuel Finance ratings with new data on bank lending and underwriting

Is Your 401(k) Invested in Bomb Makers?

An analysis of 55 retirement plans found companies linked to nuclear or controversial weapons in their top holdings, with RTX Corp, Boeing, and GE Aerospace among the most frequent investments

Tech Employees’ $5 Billion Fossil Fuel 401(k) Price Tag

Workers are bearing the cost of their employers’ decision to offer retirement plans invested in high carbon industries

Our retirement savings own one fifth of U.S. fossil fuel stocks

The hidden link between your retirement nest egg and the fossil fuel industry

Cluster bombs, landmines, nuclear weapons found in largest 401(k) fund managers

Investing in companies involved in producing controversial weapons is a risky business

As You Sow engages companies to safeguard employee retirement savings from climate change

As we reach the end of another shareholder season, investors remain concerned about the climate risk prevalent in 401(k) plans across the U.S.

Are your 401(k) savings financing fossil fuel expansion?

Bonds in employer-offered 401(k)s directly provide cash to fossil fuel projects adding risk to portfolios. Our newest tool is here to help.

Vanguard, protect our finances from climate risk!

Vanguard has a responsibility to help safeguard clients from growing climate-related financial risks

These 200 clean energy leaders outperform dirty energy investments

The Clean200 identifies clean energy opportunities as investors turn away from the extractive economy

Defund gun violence in your 401(k)

Climate change isn’t the only risk facing your savings. Retirement funds are also invested in gun companies profiting from mass shootings

The Federal Reserve is already a climate policymaker

The Fed wants to wash its hands of the climate crisis. But through inaction, it's contributing to worsening economic risks

Finance and insurance ratings added to Fossil Free Funds

Banks and insurers that financially support fossil fuels may be hidden in your retirement portfolio

Does the BlackRock LifePath ESG Index reduce climate risk?

BlackRock has released sustainable versions of their popular LifePath target date funds, but investors question if this new fund series truly reduces climate risk, or if it’s just greenwashing

Which Vanguard Fund is More Sustainable, VTSAX or VFTNX?

Vanguard’s VTSAX fund is investing in the climate crisis, but there are sustainable alternatives that avoid climate-related financial risk

Urge asset managers to adopt a No Deforestation policy

Mutual fund managers are among the world’s top investors in agribusiness companies responsible for destroying our tropical rainforests

401(k) plans are forcing people to invest in fossil fuels

While companies talk up efforts to reduce emissions, their employee retirement plans are heavily invested in coal, oil, and gas

ESG ratings for target date funds

We’ve added a new group of funds commonly found in company 401(k)s to our database

Updating the Invest Your Values rating methodologies

Changes to how funds are assigned fossil fuel grades, deforestation grades, and more

Defining Sustainable Investments

Fossil Free Funds is now using a more selective definition of 'sustainability mandate'

The world’s largest asset managers have failed to prevent the global forest fire crisis

A guest post from Jeff Conant, Senior International Forest Program Managers at Friends of the Earth U.S.

Finding the right fossil free fund for you

Searching for top-scoring investments on deforestation, gender equality, and more

Now you can compare fossil free funds to index funds

New feature enables side-by-side comparisons between mutual funds

Webinar: Opportunities and Risks of Fossil Free Investing

Join us Wednesday, April 22 to learn about fossil free investing

From fossil fuels to forest fires: Tracking deforestation risk in investments

Healthy forests are an essential part of the global climate solution

Introducing the Sustainability Report Card

Bringing together data from As You Sow’s Invest Your Values tools

Fossil free investing and financial returns

There’s a common myth that says moving your money away from increasingly risky fossil fuel investments means having to sacrifice returns. But it’s not true.

BlackRock must invest for the Paris climate agreement

BlackRock has billions invested in companies with business models that are not in alignment with keeping global warming well below 2˚C.

Carbon polluting coal plants? In my retirement savings?!

Burning coal for power is a huge problem for climate change. It could be a problem for your 401(k) as well.

Measure the clean energy impact of your savings

Fossil Free Funds is adding Clean200 screening. Now each fund is scored on how it invests in clean energy leaders.

Vanguard’s quarter-trillion in fossil fuel investments

The investing giant Vanguard plays a major role funding carbon polluters.

Simple guide to fossil free investing

What if your savings could help save the world?

Your hard-earned dollars, invested in climate-killing coal power

Fossil Free Funds is partnering with Macroclimate to expose hidden investments in coal power plants.

Are your savings supporting clean energy or fossil fuels?

U.S. fund managers have far more invested in coal, oil, and gas than companies with green revenue — but a few are bucking the trend.