Former National Wildlife Federation chair to speak on 'New Color of Green'

Jerome Ringo, former chair of the National Wildlife Federation board of directors, will give a lecture, "The New Color of Green: A Collective Voice Toward Change," at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 24) in Pfendler Hall, Deans Auditorium (Room 241).

The lecture, co-sponsored by the Black Cultural Center, College of Agriculture and the Indiana National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is free and open to the public.

Ringo has served as senior business officer of BARD Holding Inc., a clean-technology development and production company. He also was president of the Apollo Alliance Project, which promotes investments in the clean-energy economy.

A United States delegate to the 1998 Global Warming Treaty negotiations in Kyoto, Japan, Ringo also was a McCloskey Fellow and associate research scholar at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of California-Santa Barbara's Bren School of the Environment and has co-authored "Diversity and the Future of the U.S. Environmental Movement" and "The Green Festival Reader."

"Jerome Ringo is a respected business leader who boasts a lengthy career in top environmental organizations," says Renee Thomas, director of the BCC. "He is one of the most influential environmental speakers in the United States and is dedicated to expanding minority participation in the green movement and to growing green business."