Can consumer power help the planet? Green investing, eco-travel, electric cars and your own back yard

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4.1 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It's fair to say environmental issues have moved to the forefront of the agenda in recent times – a large chunk of households in Britain are becoming more eco-conscious.

This week, editor Simon Lambert, assistant editor Lee Boyce and host Georgie Frost take a look at potential changes you can make to help the pound in your pocket turn a little greener.

Simon explains his rallying cry for us to be his acronym 'Layby' rather than being labelled 'Nimbys'. Layby – or look after your back yard – is a movement to look after the country we live in.

When it comes to investing, there is a growing movement where savers who want to combat climate change invest a small amount of money in the very companies eco-activists traditionally rally against, such as fossil fuel giants Shell and BP – so why?

You don't have to do a Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activist, and sail for two weeks to your holiday destination to lower your travel carbon footprint... what can you do to be a more eco-friendly tourist?

And finally… it's hard enough trying to predict how rapidly a normal car will depreciate, but estimating the loss of value of an electric vehicle is a whole other ball game. We reveal all.

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0:00.0	This is money in partnership with Switch, saving you time and money by automatically switching
0:05.5	your energy provider whenever a better deal comes along. I'm Georgie Frost and joining editor
0:10.2	Simon Lambert and I today is Assistant Editor Lee Boyce. And coming up from holidays to cars
0:15.3	to ethical investing on today's episode, we're looking at how consumer power and using
0:19.9	our pounds wisely
0:21.0	can help the planet too.
0:23.3	And Simon calls on us to look after our own backyards.
0:26.6	Don't forget you to stay with all the latest breaking money news, just go to this ismoney.co
0:31.1	or download the app.
0:33.7	But right, first, Simon, you are going to set out the stool for this podcast, actually,
0:39.4	because you've been tapping away on your keyboard, and the subject of your latest masterpiece,
0:44.4	a rallying cry for lay-byism.
0:47.7	Look after your backyard, apparently.
0:51.4	Now, you actually start, I rather like the article, you start pretty positively,
0:55.6	upbeat appraisal of the country, nice to hear these difficult times,
0:59.7	then you get to the local authorities and the businesses and then it doesn't sort of sound so upbeat.
1:04.3	But go. What are you talking about, Simon?
1:08.3	What I'm talking about is the fact that for a long time people have been
1:14.3	labelled nimbies if they oppose anything near them. Often they will oppose it with very good reason,
1:21.8	largely because they may not be convinced that it's going to be done very well or they don't
1:25.6	want the area or in which they live to be spoiled in some way. And this considered to be a bad thing because it stands for
1:33.3	not in my backyard. Now, I've always thought that one of the great things that you should
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