September 20, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Minnetrista
Muncie, Indiana

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President, Apollo Alliance.

• Apollo Alliance is a national coalition of business, labor and environmental and community leaders who are catalysts for adopting clean energies, cutting carbon emissions and reducing the country's dependence on foreign oil. The alliance represents more than 17 million people throughout the U.S. and has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO and 22 international labor unions.
• Ringo has expressed the concerns of the alliance to more than 75 audiences, including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the U.S. Green Building Council.

• First African-American to lead a major environmental group. He served as chairman of the board for the National Wildlife Federation from 2005-07. He joined the NWF board in 1996 and remains active on the board as the immediate former board chairman.
• Only U.S. black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan.
• Ringo represented the National Wildlife Federation at the United Nation's conference on sustainable development in 1999.

• Ebony magazine named Ringo one of the most influential African Americans for 2006 in its April issue.
• Urban Influence magazine recognized Ringo as one of the Top 10 African American influences in the coutnry in May 2006

• Al Gore's Climate Advisory Panel
• Newsweek's Advisory Panel on Climate Change
• National Parks and Conservation Association Board

Official adviser to the Sundance Channel's "The Green."

His reverence for the land started as a child in Southern Louisiana where he would fish, catch crabs and hunt for duck, goose and deer. Through his work with NWF, his major area of concern has been giving hope to the future of wildlife along Louisiana's coasts, in the Everglades and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

8/20/08