The Color of Green
The Next Inconvenient Truth
by Jerome Ringo
Introduction by Kate Gordon, co-director of the national Apollo Alliance
SUNDAY PLENARY: October 18, 2009
9:00am – 1:00pm
Nearly $116 billion will be spent over the next two years developing clean fuels, modernizing rail transit, pursuing energy efficiency and developing electric vehicles. One of the nation’s foremost environmental leaders says we must ensure that the jobs created in that effort are good jobs available to all Americans.
His perspective comes from originally working as a petrochemical worker in Louisiana’s “cancer alley” for 20 years, to becoming chairman of the National Wildlife Federation (the first African-American to head a major conservation organization), and now president of the groundbreaking Apollo Alliance.
