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Jerome Ringo is an American environmental activist and former president of the Apollo Alliance. He was born in Louisiana and raised in the small town of St. Joseph. He attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, where he earned a degree in political science. Ringo has been a leader in the environmental movement for more than two decades. He served as the executive director of the National Wildlife Federation from 1997 to 2001, and was the first African American to lead a major national environmental organization. He was also the first African American to serve as president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, and environmental groups that works to promote clean energy and green jobs. Ringo is a vocal advocate for environmental justice and has worked to ensure that communities of color have access to clean air, water, and land. He has also been a leader in the fight against climate change, and has spoken out against the Keystone XL pipeline. Ringo is 65 years old. He stands at a height of 6 feet and 2 inches. His physical stats are not available. Ringo is not known to be dating anyone at the moment. He is a married man and has two children. Ringo has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his career as an environmental activist and president of the Apollo Alliance.
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| Age | 69 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | 2 March, 1955 |
| Birthday | 2 March |
| Birthplace | Louisiana |
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Zoetic secured a Power Purchase Agreement with Ghana in January 2016. He has promoted hydrokinetic technology to ministers and leaders of countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.
"The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change," Ringo told Mother Jones in 2005.[1]
In 1998, he was the sole African-American delegate at the Global Warming Treaty negotiations in Kyoto, Japan, where he delivered an address. He also has spoken at the Central American conference on sustainable development in Belize City, Belize. He has addressed many historically-Black colleges and other universities, including the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment and at the University of Oregon's Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.
In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the board of directors of the National Wildlife Federation, a seventy-year-old conservation organization which comprising 4.5 million members and over 700 employees. Since becoming chairman of the board the in 2005, Ringo has sought to further the NWF's partnerships with other organizations, particularly those involved with combating ecologocial dangers in poor and minority neighborhoods. He spearheads programs that reach into urban and minority communities, including schoolyard habitat programs such as Earth Tomorrow, which focuses on minority kids in elementary, middle, and high schools.
Ringo was transferred to Malaysia, and during one of his return trips to the United States in 1994, he was offered early retirement. After accepting the offer, he committed his life to full-time work on behalf of people beyond the refinery fences lines.
Eventually, Ringo decided to help educate the people in communities affected by petrochemical pollution, teaching them how to effectively stop the discharge of chemicals into neighborhoods around refineries, leading to the beginning of his environmental activism. Ringo began his environmental activism in 1991, by becoming member of the Calcasieu League for Environmental Action Now (CLEAN), an affiliate of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Among the 20,000 members of the statewide group, he was the first African American ever to join.
Ringo attended college, planning to major in education at both Louisiana Tech University and McNeese State University. Before earning a degree, however, he decided to take a job in the petrochemical industry in 1975, lured by a high salary.
The name of the alliance was chosen to pay homage to John F. Kennedy's Apollo program, which successfully put a man on the moon in 1969. The Apollo Alliance has been endorsed by leaders of the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA, the National Wildlife Federation, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the NAACP and other activist groups.
Jerome C. Ringo (born March 2, 1955) is an environmental justice, clean energy, and quality jobs advocate who founded and chairs renewable energy developer Zoetic Energy.
