Symposium keynote: Diversity in the Environmental Movement
| Date/Time: | Monday, 21 Feb 2011 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Diversity Lectures Live Green |
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After observing the negative impacts of industry pollution on primarily poor and minority communities along the Gulf Coast, Jerome Ringo became a vocal advocate for clean energy as well as increased minority participation in the environmental movement. Ringo has served as board chair for the National Wildlife Federation, was a representative at the 1999 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference, took part in the 1998 Kyoto Treaty negotiations, and appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. He currently serves on the board of directors at Apollo Alliance and is the Senior Executive for Global Strategies with Green Port.
Jerome Ringo will also deliver the keynote address for the University Symposium on Sustainability, The New Color of Green: A Collective Voice toward Change, Tuesday, February 22 at 8:00 a.m. in the Memorial Union Great Hall.
The keynote address is free and open to the public. Advance registration for the other symposium activities is encouraged and free for Iowa State University students, faculty and staff: www.livegreen.iastate.edu/symposium/2011/