500,000 people switch accounts to ethical banks in UK.
"Since January 2012 Move Your Money UK estimates that 500,000 people have switched their current accounts to ethical alternatives such as Co-ops and mutuals."
Source: Move Your Money Blog. "Half A Million People Have Already Moved Their Money. Join Them." July 18, 2012. http://www.moveyourmoney.org.uk/blog/half-a-million [LC: originally read in The New Internationalist October 2012] [verified 4/17/14]