Despite recent setbacks in the nation’s sustainability efforts, including expected budget cuts to scientific research and environmental programs, the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, and a proposal to scrap the Clean Power Plan, the tone of the opening plenary talks at this year’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo was hopeful.
“We have to be vigilant [about sustainability], even when the world today is a cowardly place,” said Mahesh Ramanujam, the president and CEO of the USGBC, on Thursday evening at the Boston Convention Center.
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