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After a year of tumult in which I moved house to another country, this year I hope to be more settled, maybe even get a cat. This means I want to review and consolidate my investments. The checklist below will be expanded upon over the course of the year ahead. Feel free to drop a comment if you feel so inclined, since I do wonder who else out there is even considering ethical investment. The checklist currently includes:

• get my investments out of Ethex – they are not a serious organisation
• sort out my IFISA for this tax year – halfway now
• sell off some smaller investments {{done}}
• probably consider and again discard the next step up in investing
• invest in renewables – eg Grimsby Community Energy and Bath & West community Energy
• world peace

Brighton Energy Co-operative offers the opportunity to invest in the construction of community solar projects through nontransferable shares with an investment return of 5%. This was one of my easiest investment choices since it ticked all my boxes. It was:

Local (i lived in Brighton at the time)

Renewable energy

Constructing solar arrays

Community pr

A good rate of return

I’m quite happy with this investment, things were a bit Brighton-style chaotic at the beginning but nowadays there is a company managing the investments and it is chugging along just great.

Website

When i head that it was possible to invest in Good Energy i jumped at the chance. I was using them as my utility supplier for gas and electricity since their early days and I was happy to support them in their quest to be 100% green.

Buying the shares was a bit odd, they are listed on a special exchange and I needed to use a broker to buy

Wow this is a really great post by Fernando over at YourGreenWealth . The Best Impact Investing Platforms for European Investors investigates ethical investment platforms available to European investors. now i’m very familiar with abundance and energise africa, but I’d never heard of Trine for example so this was worth a read.

If I had come across a post like this two or three years ago it would have been superhelpful, it’s great that truly ethical investment is FINALLY becoming a bit easier. What’s also nice if you go through the YourGreenWealth site you can get some discounts!

From reading a comment at the always interesting DIY investor UK blo I heard about the big exchange, an investment project inspired by the Big Issue. Sounds interesting but as ever the devil’s in the details.

The project suggests curated bundles of investments in an ISA, JISA or GIA (General Investment Account – what to use when you’ve used up your ISA allowance apparently) but you can also pick your own investments. Without logging in you can check the available funds here.

I gotta say on first glance I am wondering how they gold-rated the FP WHEB Sustainability Fund, so this requires some more investigations.