Joseph Fusco: Economic prosperity in climate change solutions

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Joseph Fusco, a vice president at Casella Waste Systems Inc. who is chair of the Climate Economy Action Team, a group of stakeholders convened by the Vermont Council on Rural Development.
There has been a fascinating conversation taking place in Vermont over the last several years – a conversation about whether “environmentalism” and “entrepreneurialism” can exist together. It is a conversation driven, in part, by the antic