Speakers

Jerome Ringo is president of the Apollo Alliance, a broad coalition working to catalyze a clean energy-based economy that will reduce the United States’ dependence on foreign oil while creating three million green-collar jobs for American workers.  In 1996, he was elected to serve on the National Wildlife Federation board of directors, and in 2005, became the Chair of the board.  In so doing, he also became the first African-American to head a major conservation organization.  He  was the United States’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan.  In addition to being  the only black US delegate at the Kyoto Treaty Negotiations in 1998, he represented the National Wildlife Federation at the United Nations’ conference on sustainable development in 1999.  He is a member of Newsweek’s Environment and Leadership Council, serves as an official advisor to the Sundance Channel’s “The Green.” And also serves on the Board of PlanetGreen, Discovery Communications’ television network dedicated to the environment, and the National Parks Conservation Association