Abstract
THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL Society has a key role as the leader on sustainability in the chemical enterprise. Goal 3 of the ACS Strategic Plan states: “ACS will be a global leader in enlisting the world’s scientific professionals to address, through chemistry, the challenges facing our world.” The ACS position statement titled “Sustainability and the Chemical Enterprise” and the ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement’s white paper “Increasing ACS Sustainability Leadership” both emphasize the need to improve sustainability literacy among ACS members, educators, students, industrial leaders, policymakers, and the public. A recent editorial on growth and sustainability in the June 28 issue of Chemical & Engineering News elicited a wide range of responses, clearly demonstrating the need for further education about the importance of sustainability among a variety of stakeholders (C&EN, Aug. 2, page 6). Although some letters to the editor agreed with him that “Growth is a religion … that flies in the face of phy...
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