Bank of England changes base rate
The Bank of England has announced a further 0.50% increase in its base rate from 1.25% to 1.75% with immediate effect. This follows a series of increases made since December ...
4 August 2022 Read more
We’ve Expanded And Enhanced Our C-Change Mortgage Discounts
Ecology has been pioneering green finance for over forty years. Our unique C-Change mortgage discounts are designed to incentivise and encourage our borrowers to build their home ...
Earth Day: Reclaiming The Climate Conversation
This year’s Earth Day calls on all of us – people, governments, institutions, businesses – to #InvestInOurPlanet and push aside the barriers to progress that have been ...
22 April 2022 Read moreCOP26: From Last Best Hope To Least Worst Outcome
Our Sustainability Lead, Alison Vipond shares her personal reflections on COP26. Hopes were high for COP26. Would world leaders finally wake up and take urgent action to put the ...
Measuring What Matters
Alison Vipond, Sustainability Lead at Ecology, co-chairs the UK Residential Lending Working Group of PCAF UK to improve measurement of financed emissions from mortgaged ...
Financing The Future We Want – Change Is Coming
Alison Vipond, Sustainability Lead at Ecology, on Banking on Values day, how we need to mobilise finance to support the transition to net zero. Ecology Building Society is a ...
COP26 – Why We Must Have Hope
Alison Vipond, Sustainability Lead at Ecology, explains why COP26 is so important and her hopes for this critical conference. This weekend, COP26 begins. It’s been described ...
A Warm Hello From Lucia
Lucia Pollan, who is studying Sustainability and Environmental Management at the University of Leeds, has joined Ecology as our Sustainability and Communications student placement ...
Go Together, Go Far…..
At the Green Horizon Summit on ‘The Pivotal Role of Finance’ earlier this month, Mark Carney, underlined the importance of the financial sector working together to ...
The UK Government’s Ten-Point Plan
The Prime Minister has unveiled his ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution, seen as a crucial part of levelling up the economy and delivering the Government’s target of ...
19 November 2020 Read moreCharlotte & Alex’s Self-Build
To mark this year’s Right to Build Day (30 October 2020), Ecology borrower, Charlotte, shares her story of building a new energy-efficient timber-framed home in ...
Financial Activism – Use Your Money For Positive Change
How do we face the astonishing challenges that 2020 has brought into stark relief? We have known for many years that our ever-increasing consumption, and the resulting demand for ...