GLIN==> UM Environmental Law & Policy Prog. Lecture on April 13 (Hutchins 250, 4:00 PM)

The final speaker for the Univ. of Michigan's Environmental Law and  
Policy Program's 2008-09 lecture series will be Jerome Ringo, who  
currently serves as president of the Apollo Alliance and is the  
immediate past chair of the board of the National Wildlife Federation.  
  The topic of his lecture will be "The Color of Green: The Next  
Inconvenient Truth."  Since 2006, Ringo has led the Apollo Alliance,  
which is a coalition of labor, environmental, national security, civil  
rights, and business leaders focused on making America independent  
from foreign energy.  The Apollo Alliance represents more than 17  
million people across the country and has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO  
and 22 international labor unions.  In addition, Ringo serves as an  
official advisor to  numerous environmental organizations, and sits on  
the board of Al Gore's Climate Advisory Panel, the National Parks and  
Conservation Association, and Newsweek Magazine Advisory Panel on  
Climate Change to name a few.  Apart from those duties, Ringo is an  
author, an associate research scholar at Yale Univ., and lecturer,  
previously teaching Environmental Justice at the Univ. of California,  
Santa Barbara.

Additional information about Ringo's presentation on April 13th is at  
the link below:

http://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/elpp/Documents/ELPP%20Lecture%20Series/Ringo%20poster.pdf


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Al LaGrone
Program Coordinator
Environmental Law & Policy Program
University of Michigan Law School
625 S. State St., Rm. 972LR
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215
(734) 647-4034
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