USGBC Member Day

USGBC Member Day
With Keynote Speaker Jerome Ringo

Tuesday, November 6
12:30 – 5:00 pm
Cost: Free (registration required)
USGBC Members Only
Sponsored by: Autodesk

Jerome Ringo, head of the Apollo Alliance and dedicated champion of environmental justice and clean energy, will join his powerful voice with ours as keynote speaker for USGBC Member Day. Like USGBC, the Apollo Alliance is a supporter of energy independence and new technologies that create new jobs and ensure good stewardship of both the economy and our natural environment.

USGBC Member Day kicks off with a networking lunch, sponsored by Autodesk, giving members an opportunity to meet informally with USGBC’s board, network with your peers and share best practices. USGBC President and CEO Rick Fedrizzi as well as a number of other USGBC executive staff, will speak about upcoming initiatives and advancements in the green building community. Our members will also get the chance to meet the winner of the Living Buildings Challenge, made at Greenbuild last year, as well as join in honoring this year’s Chapter Award winners, sponsored again this year by Milliken. The afternoon’s activities will be an exciting prelude to the grand opening of the Greenbuild Expo Hall, where our members can be the first to visit the over 850 exhibitors.

 

Jerome Ringo.jpgJerome Ringo
President, Apollo Alliance

Jerome Ringo brings to his role as president of the Apollo Alliance his first hand experience of the environmental challenges we face after working for more than 20 years in Louisiana’s petrochemical industry. As he began observing the negative impacts of the industry’s pollution on local communities – primarily poor, minority communities – Ringo began organizing community environmental justice groups. In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the National Wildlife Federation board of directors and, in 2005, became the chair of the board. In so doing, he also became the first African-American to head a major conservation organization. Jerome Ringo was the United States’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan.

Apollo Alliance, whose member organizations represent more than 17 million people across the country, is a coalition of labor, environmental, national security, civil rights and business leaders fighting to make America independent from foreign energy in 10 years.