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Ringo came to the Apollo Alliance in 2005 as a dedicated champion of environmental justice and vocal advocate of clean energy. He has first-hand experience of the challenges we face after working for more than 20 years in Louisiana’s petrochemical industry.
More than half of that time was spent as an active union member working with his fellow members to secure a safe work environment and quality jobs. Louisiana’s petrochemical industry focuses on the production of gasoline, rocket fuel, and plastics – many of which contain cancer causing chemicals. 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 gro ...
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Bill Ritter, Jr. was elected as Colorado's 41st governor in 2006—the first Colorado-born governor in more than 35 years. Gov. Ritter is leading Colorado by bringing people together to tackle some of our state's biggest challenges. He has accomplished the following:
* Established Colorado as a national and international leader in renewable energy by building a New Energy Economy that is creating thousands of new jobs and establishing hundreds of new companies.
* Enacted an aggressive business-development and job-creation agenda that is focused on knowledge-based industries of the future, such as energy, aerospace, biosciences, information technology and tourism.
* Initiated sweeping K-12 education reforms to give Colorado ch ...
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Author of Diet for a New America and many other bestsellers, John
Robbins is the founder of EarthSave International, Board Chair Emeritus
of YES!, and has been a guiding light and inspiration to millions.
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Rooks is a writer, educator and producer whose work weaves the worlds of spirituality, feminism, ecology and social justice with a passion for engaged dialogue as way of bridging various divides.
For the past three years she has hosted a monthly teleseminar, ConverZations That Matter, featuring such global-thought leaders as Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Carl Anthony, Riane Eisler, Barbara Holmes and astronaut Edgar Mitchell, as part of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Shift in Action Series.
Rooks has actively created opportunities for on-going intergenerational dialogues and mentoring with many of the emerging social and environmental justice activists such as Juliet Ellis (executive director of the Urban Habitat Program) ...
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Radaj is the owner of BanteDesign LLC, an integrative lifestyle design company, which fuses Eastern andWestern design/lifestyle philosophies. She is a nationally recognized speakeron healthy home design, color therapy/theory, psychology of clutter for adultsand children, and a variety of business topics for the individual, small businessowner and entrepreneur. Visit the Bante Design Web site for a list of allworkshops and appearances at www.bantedesign.com.Designing spaces that are not only beautiful and comfortable, but also bringout the client’s personality, is her design philosophy.
A graduate of Marquette University with a bachelor’s degree in marketing,she also studied interior design at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC).Her 1 ...
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Our group is made up of juniors and seniors at
Westminster High School in the Denver Colorado suburbs. This a cappella
group, under the direction of Melissa Flail, is a very diverse
collection of enthusiastic students from the Westy choral program.
Raging Harmonies represents the High School and Adams County School
District 50 at community and regional events, and they recently
performed at the Colorado Convention Center for the Association of
School Business Officials International Conference. The students enjoy
creating and performing music that is important to them.
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As chief marketing officer at Numi, Reem Rahim heads all marketing efforts including all package design. Reem is fluent in all aspects of tea, including its history and cultivation as well as product development of Numi’s full leaf quality tea and organic and fair trade sourcing. After earning her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Reem switched gears and went on to pursue a Diploma d’Arte in Drawing and Painting from Lorenzo di Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy and then a Masters in Fine Arts from John F. Kennedy University in the department of Arts & Consciousness Studies. Reem’s hand painted original paintings inspired by her brother and co-founder’s photography grace Numi’s packaging.
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Shadi Rahimi are the cofounder of Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) Magazine. Shadi Rahimi can be seen on CurrenTV and is the communications director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) and the Community Justice Network for Youth (CJNY) and freelances for the Native American newspaper Indian Country Today.
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Ramos is Vice President, CRA Officer, and Compliance Officer at ShoreBank. He also serves on the Advisory Compliance Committee of the Illinois Bankers Association.
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The current education and outreach director for Transportation Choices Coalition, Ranganathan was a policy analyst at the Washington, DC-based Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
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With a chemical and environmental engineering background, Rao is the executive director of Literacy for Environmental Justice in Bayview Hunter's Point and serves on the advisory board of the Urban Alliance for Sustainability.
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Oakes, now a resident expert and host on Treehugger.com and Discovery Network’s Planet Green channel, is an entomologist and environmental scientist by training.
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Peter Realmuto started his company in 1997 as furniture repair service for several Merchandise Mart showrooms, high-end furniture stores and interior design firms. He is the second generation in his family in this type of work.
The company began expanding offerings to include major repair work and antique restoration. Much of this time was spent working out of a shop in my garage. In 2000 things grew to the point that real shop space was needed.
In 2001 the company incorporated as Realmuto Furniture Works, Inc. with the offering of commissioned furniture making services in addition to the repair and restoration work. In furniture making, he is self taught (and a voracious reader/student!).
In the summer of 2005 he decided to go gre ...
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Internationally known,
Rose Red Elk aka, Wieka Luta Win, is Red Feather Woman, Native American
storyteller, singer, songwriter and author. Born on the Fort Peck
Reservation in Poplar, Montana is an enrolled member of the
Sioux/Assiniboine Tribes. Rose has captivated audiences for more than
20 years, singing and telling traditional stories to children and
adults of all ages. June 8, 2006 in Hollywood, FL, won the Native
American Music Award, in the Spoken Word Category and 2004 & 2007
nominated for ISMA(Indian Summer Music Award) and in 2008 has been
nominated once more for a Native American Music Award for her latest
CD-Distant Drums.
In April 2008, Red Feather Woman completed an extensive tour of Turkey,
and Pakistan, spon ...
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Redmond was a resident of the West Garfield Community. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago. Ms. Redmond grew up volunteering at Operation PUSH. While at Operation PUSH, Ms. Redmond learned about community organizing through working on the election of Harold Washington-Chicago’s first African American mayor.
Redmond relocated to the Westside of Chicago 15 years ago. Married, she is the mother of two children: Wade (boy) 5 and Taylor (girl) 4. Ms. Redmond is a community activist who has worked diligently to make her community a safer , healthy and place to live.
The main reason that Redmond is working in the area of sustainable food security is because she is a mother. Her son, Wade was born with severe food allergies and ...
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Reid grew up on small organic farms in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A born explorer and outdoorsman, he has travelled, lived, and worked around the globe. After careful planning over several years, Dave recently quit a successful career as an international project engineer for Philips Healthcare's ultrasound products in order to work full-time on developing the sail transport concept in the Puget Sound. He is now the proprietor of Sail Transport Company, a local CSA that delivers organic produce via sailboats.
Reid is also co-Organizer of Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (SPOA), an active member of Sustainable Ballard, a lifelong environmentalist, and a believer in living within one's means, personal or planetwise. Through the Sail Transport Comp ...
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Reiswig has served as president of the Sustainable West Seattle since its inception. Sustainable West Seattle educates and advocates for urban sustainability in our local community.
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Michael Repkin is an ecologicaldesigner specializing in biological resource recovery and sustainable food production.He led young students in projects that focus on human life support systems andtechnologies for five years in Chicago. While he served inthe Army, his assignments includedlaboratory positions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Mr.Repkin’s Company, Repkin Biosystems, works with clients toprovide them with tools for human life support. He cofounded Urban HabitatChicago, an organization committed to promotion, research, and education forthe building of an ecologically sound society in the Chicago area.
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My name is Robert H.
Richmond III, and I’m an Eagle Scout with Troop 65 in Lockport, IL. I’ve earned the William T. Hornaday Silver Medal,
Scouting’s highest award in Conservation for completing 4 different projects in
resource conservation. The first project involved assembling and placing artificial
fish habitats at Turtlehead Lake in Southwester Cook County. The second project involved implementing a fishing
line recycling project which removed hazardous fishing line from Tampier Lake
in Southwestern Cook County. My third project was an invasive plant species
removal project from the Keepataw Woods Forest Preserve in Will County. My last project was a soil and water conservation
project at the Little Red Schoolh ...
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Von Klan is President and CEO and Riddell is Vice President of Exhibits
and Strategic Initiatives at the Chicago Academy of Sciences’ Peggy
Notebaert Nature Museum.
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Devin Riles is Irrigation Water Manager for Denver Botanic Gardens.
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Jessica Rimington serves as Executive Director of a non-profit organization she founded called One World Youth Project. She is a global advocate for youth participation in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, educational reform, and the value of cultural exchange in achieving social & environmental justice.
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Rizzo is Global Exchange's Freedom from Oil Campus Organizer in California. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley in Geography and Conservation and Resource Studies. She was a lead organizer for the victorious UC Sweat-free Campaign, as spearheaded by United Students Against Sweatshops.
Nina uses her campaign experience to work with students and other organizations participating in the Campus Climate Challenge to pass policies and programs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve sustainable transportation in order to combat the climate crisis.
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Robin is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international bestseller Your Money or Your Life. She also was a cofounder of the Center for a New American Dream, the New Road Map Foundation, the Simplicity Forum, the Turning Tide Coalition, Conversation Cafes (a public dialogue method) and Let's Talk America, a 2004 election year project promoting Red-Blue conversations.
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Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
At 26 years old, I made the transition from former Climate Justice Corps and Steering Committee member to director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. This transition from young concerned citizen to the helm of EJCC speaks truth to the power behind what we at EJCC see as our core work which is to educate and activate a new generation of Climate Justice activists. I continue to move forward from union rallies and picket lines to Capitol Hill with a strong commitment and passion for organizing, as I did with both workers as an SEIU organizer and with community members working for environmental justice back home in Detroit, Michigan. The Environmental Justice and Cl ...
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