From the Back Cover
In Green Money: How to Reduce Waste, Build Wealth, and Create a Better Future for All, sustainable personal finance entrepreneur Kara Perez delivers an actionable and fun guide to going green with your money. The author explains how to create a financial plan and community that breaks free of outdated advice and offers a new way of enjoying a fulfilling life.
In the book, you'll find valuable insights on how to approach your money and our environment. It's filled with stories gathered from around the world, cutting-edge research into green and sustainable finance, and money exercises you can complete immediately to help you take action today to improve your future and the futures of those you love.
From redefining thrifting to vanquishing eco-anxiety and doomerism, Perez's startlingly insightful and communal approach to personal finance is a refreshing change from old methods that have outlived their usefulness. You'll learn how to ethically invest your money, avoid financial greenwashing, and participate in environmental justice, even as you solidify and improve your financial outlook and the financial future of your community.
Green Money takes a hard, critical look at the trends negatively impacting our planet and our lives--including overconsumption and the overuse of fossil fuels--and offers fresh, relevant, and attainable alternatives you can start working towards immediately.
Perfect for young professionals and working people, growing families just getting started in the world, entrepreneurs, and small business owners and founders, Green Money is also a can't-miss resource for financial planners, family offices, and other professionals who help people manage and grow their finances.
Praise for GREEN MONEY
"A step-by-step guide to reframe our relationship from generational to ecological wealth that centers the well-being of a society, culture, and planet. In our pursuit to become environmentally conscious in our individual purchases, we must also extend ourselves into community care that builds resilient systems for the future of societies. Kara's book is accessible, fun, and relatable for people to create a sustainable future."
--ISAIAS HERNANDEZ, Founder, Queer Brown Vegan
"Green Money presents an easy-to-follow, encouraging, and actionable blueprint for building your own sustainable financial house."
--STEPHANIE SEFERIAN, author of Sustainable Minimalism
"Kara's book is a refreshing take on personal finance, focusing on sustainability and practical money strategies. It uniquely addresses how to balance our idealistic goals with the world we live in, offering clear steps to align our financial decisions with our values. This book is perfect for anyone looking to make their money work for a better, more sustainable future. Highly recommend giving it a read!"
--DASHA KENNEDY, Founder, Broke Black Girl
"The next time I'm in a financial-existential doom spiral, I'm going to curl myself around Kara's book. Kara does an incredible job of compassionately booping you on the nose with the truth, but then gives you tangible, creative action steps towards deflating the dark feelings. The biggest relief for me is that she isn't asking us to each build revolutions from the ground up; she lays out an accessible menu of options, from 'How to find free sh*t in your community' to 'Here's how to divest from Wall Street completely, for real.' Green Money is a map and a manual for how to do money and still sleep at night."
--BERNA ANAT, Founder, Hey Berna
