What kind of a world are you invested in bringing to life? Subsidies and investments fund climate destruction, but you can take a stand for a just future by aligning your personal investments with your climate values. Learn the basics of how to reach your financial goals while protecting our climate in this climate-friendly personal finances workshop!

This interactive Zoom event will feature presentations by Patrick Costello, a Certified Financial Planner™ specializing in low-carbon investment portfolios, and Andrew Montes, who works to create interactive climate-related financial transparency tools to empower people to uncover the climate impact of their finances. The event will also include time for questions and an opportunity to connect with other people to continue your climate-friendly financial journey. All are welcome, including those without prior knowledge about personal finances.

Thanks to Fossil Free California for supporting us with this event and for their work on eliminating fossil fuel investments from CalPERS and CalSTRS, the largest employee pension funds in the state.

About our speakers

Patrick Costello is a Certified Financial Planner™ who has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay area since 1998. Through his company Green River Sustainable Financial Services, he helps individuals, business owners and non profits REDUCE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT of their investments – without sacrificing performance! In addition to his professional expertise, Patrick is on the Steering Committee of 350 Marin and serves as the Board Treasurer for Fossil Free California.

Andrew Montes is the Director of Digital Strategies at As You Sow, where he helps design and build data-driven websites as a product manager, programmer, and data analyst. Andrew works on interactive climate-related financial transparency tools like Fossil Free Funds, combining skills in team management, financial analysis, and Python and JavaScript development