In 2025, Let’s Unleash 3,143 Climate Opportunities Across America
In my new Sustainable Brands article, I explain how visionary state and city leaders across the US can lead the fight against climate change and create green jobs at the local level.
In 2025, President Trump will mostly likely withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement for the second time, just as he did in 2017.
Trump will also weaken or roll back major federal laws and national policies including the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) aimed at slashing emissions, building a clean energy-powered infrastructure, and creating millions of green industrial jobs.
I, however, believe that behind every major crisis lies a historic opportunity.
For the US as a nation, the return of Trump signals the end of the Big Federal Government.
But 2025 may also mark the rise of the Mighty Local Government.
There are 3,143 counties in the US.
These 3,143 US counties — and their leaders — should reframe the climate crisis as a generational opportunity to build a durable future.
In this article, I offer two recommendations on how US policymakers at the state and local level can join forces with academic, nonprofit, and private sector partners and citizen groups to unleash and capture 3,143 climate opportunities across America.
As I explain in my new book The Frugal Economy, LOCAL leaders in the US must pick up the baton from federal institutions and boldly implement thousands of “hyper-local” climate solutions across America that would become the envy of the world.
Read my article: https://sustainablebrands.com/read/3143-climate-opportunities-us
