A new survey shows growth rates for green products and services are rising faster than conventional goods in America’s economy, outpacing the overall economy during the depths of the recession, and creating opportunity for the 88% of US businesses classified as “microbusinesses” with five or fewer employees.
Could divestment, the same movement that brought down Apartheid, be the key to ending America’s fossil fuel addiction and preventing the next great financial crisis?
Activists at more than 400 colleges, cities and states, and religious institutions think the answer is yes – and San Francisco may have given the fossil fuel divestment campaign its biggest win to date.
Climate issues are clearly important to today’s college students – in a 2013 Princeton Review survey, 62% of all college applicants said a school’s commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply or attend the school, and students have begun fossil fuel divestment movements at more than 300 colleges.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise then that the heads of America’s colleges and universities are listening to their constituents and leading some of the most significant efforts today to transition to a sustainable future through the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).
