Going green with your money

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Want to make a difference with your money? In this episode, host Yanely Espinal speaks with author and financial educator Kara Perez about how to align your money with your values. Perez gets into the ways that you can spend, save, and invest based on what matters to you.

Think you’re financially inclined? Dig deeper into making change with your money:

Learn more about sustainable investing from Harvard Business School
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Find more on ethical banking from NerdWallet

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0:00.0	Hey parents and teens. This episode of Financially Inclined is presented in partnership with Greenlight, the debit card and money app for teens. Having green and being green don't have to be mutually exclusive. Today, we're learning about the ways in which you can align financial behaviors like spending, saving, and investing with environmental values.
0:22.8	Greenlight can make it easy to manage your finances in an eco-friendly way.
0:27.6	Take control of your money journey.
0:29.9	Get $10 by signing up at greenlight.com slash inclined.
0:36.9	What's up everybody? I'm Janelli Espinal, and this is financially inclined for Marketplace.
0:42.2	We're sharing money lessons for living life your own way.
0:59.8	There's a lot of talk out there about living your life according to your values.
1:02.4	But what does that mean for your money?
1:05.8	How can you use your money to make a difference in your community?
1:17.7	Today, I have writer and financial educator Kara Perez here with me to explain her take on how you can spend, save, and invest your money in ways that matter to you.
1:28.3	As an environmentalist, her work is all about making financial choices to support a greener and more sustainable future and not sacrifice profit while doing it.
1:34.0	She recently wrote a book called Money for Change, How to Reduce Waste, Build Welf,
1:36.4	and Create a Better Future for All.
1:41.3	That's why I knew she'd be the perfect person to ask about this topic.
1:43.7	All right, let's get into it. Okay, Kara, I noticed that like over the past
1:46.7	few years, it has been blowing up this trend around talking about green money, right, and investing
1:52.1	or budgeting or things smarter with money in terms of the environment. And so why do you feel
1:57.0	like this shift has been happening, and especially for younger and younger generations?
2:00.8	I think that younger and younger generations are really living through a lot of the climate change
2:06.9	that on the older end of generations, we're simply told would happen. But now we are really
2:12.8	seeing storms coming in way stronger. We are experiencing longer periods of drought and hotter summers.
2:19.5	Like every summer, I feel like everyone's like, it didn't used to be this hot.
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