Is it possible to help the planet and save cash – and would a Prius make you happy?

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This is Money

Business News, Business, Investing, News

4.1 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We haven't glued ourselves to train carriages, politician fences or the London Stock Exchange.

No, this week's This is Money podcast opts for a less confrontational approach to the environment, with useful tips and tricks that are good for the planet as well as your wallet.

Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce and Georgie Frost look at the green movement and what it means for the financial industry and businesses. Are they doing enough?

Alongside that, we look at what we - the consumer - can do to help the environment and save money along the way.

Simon has three places you can make a big difference by adding pressure or changing behaviour, from picking green energy deals, to what to do about flying.

Meanwhile, the hybrid car of choice, the Toyota Prius, isn't just for Uber drivers and eco-conscious celebrities as it tops a survey of most satisfying motors to drive.

Elsewhere, outside of the green bubble – we look at where a pair of 40something business owners with no pension should invest.

We continue to puzzle over the baffling state pension top-up system and ask: just how far over the limit could you potentially drive in your area before being issued with a ticket?

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0:00.0	Welcome to This is Money in partnership with NSN. I'm Georgie Frost and while I don't have a 16-year-old Swedish girl with me, I do have a no less opinionated editor Simon Lambert and assistant editor Lee Boyce in the studio because today we're going green. We won't be gluing ourselves to trains or politicians' fences, don't worry about that.
0:25.0	We will be doing something far more useful. We'll be giving you some useful tips and tricks that are good for the planet as well as your wallet. We'll be also looking at why the hybrid
0:29.8	car of choice, the Toyota DePrius, isn't just for Uber drivers and eco-conscious celebs.
0:35.3	Plus, we look at where the 40-something-year-old business owner with no pension should invest.
0:40.2	We continue to puzzle over the baffling state pension top-up system
0:43.7	and ask just how far over the limit can you drive in your area
0:47.6	before being issued with a ticket.
0:49.8	Don't forget you to stay up to date with all the latest breaking money news.
0:52.1	Just go to this ismoney.com. .uk or download the app.
0:56.9	This is Money, brought to you in partnership with NS and I, giving your little ones a head start
1:02.7	with our junior ISA.
1:05.1	But first, the media has been saturated in the last couple of weeks by the Green Movement. First,
1:10.5	we had extinction rebellion, causing chaos in the capital. And then Greta Tunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl climate activists, gives lectures to our MPs. But what's been lacking is perhaps some good practical guidance about what we could all do to help the environment.
1:27.7	So without fuss, the This Is Money team have done it for us, how to save the planet and, of course, your cash.
1:33.6	But firstly, Simon, fresh from a holiday, which I'm sure was totally carbon neutral.
1:40.1	What have you made of all the climate stuff going on? Are they right? Is the government dragging its heels?
1:46.0	Well, actually, funnily enough, just before I went away, I think our final podcast I recorded before I went away, or one of the final ones,
1:54.0	we were talking about investing to help the environment and the things that we could do as consumers to put pressure on businesses
2:00.9	and why being eco-friendly you didn't have to be an anti-capitalist
2:07.7	that actually you could put your money to good use, you could put your consumer pressure to good use.
2:12.1	And also you don't even really need to necessarily believe in climate change to care about the planet that we live on.
2:17.7	I mean, I'm sure that even those people who say that they don't believe in man-made climate
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