Funding Your Future

So, we’re busy putting money aside into superannuationCombination Safe or retirement funds to that will pay us in retirement.  Or, if we’ve already retired, our superannuation or retirement funds are now paying us.

Either way, we put our hard-earned money in the funds to be invested so that it will grow…hopefully faster than other options like leaving it in the bank.

We trust our fund managers to make the right decisions by us…to make investments that will grow and generate income for us over the long term.

But how many of us know exactly where our money for retirement is invested? Continue reading

A Bank For The Future

People have been asking me how I have goneBank - Young Woman Using ATM about being conscious about the sustainability of what my ‘big’ money is doing.

So…over the next few posts I’ll tell you…exactly.

This week we’ll cover banking. Continue reading

Solstice = time for a home energy efficiency check-up

It’s the middle of winter where I live in the southern Electricity consumption neighbourhood comparisonhemisphere.

We’ve just past the winter solstice and today I’ve been to a funeral.

Appropriately, the weather has been cold, gloomy and raining.  Continue reading

Getting across town – practical sustainability?

Sometimes it’s just too hard.Metropolitan bus interior - blue seats, yellow poles 🙁

Doing things a sustainable way, that is.

Especially in our current society…which is still mainly geared for the non-sustainable way of doing things.

At least it is in Australia, with our spread-out cities and towns…and public transport that is slow, or infrequent, or non-existent…especially at weekends. Continue reading

Just How Much Sustainability Bang Do You Get For Your Buck?

One of the keys to living sustainably when you lead a Money - pile of gold barsbusy life is knowing where to put your effort…where you can get the biggest ‘bang for your buck’.

In fact, just how much sustainability bang do you get for your buck?

Are you aware of how much influence your money can make? Continue reading