And the winners are …
On Friday, Nov. 6, the Apollo Alliance awarded its 2009 Right Stuff Awards to five individuals whose work exemplifies Apollo’s clean energy, good jobs mission. This year’s honorees were Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund; Barbara Byrd, secretary-treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO; Keith Cooley, president and CEO of NextEnergy; Sally Prouty, president of The Corps Network; and Terry O’Sullivan, general president of the Laborers International Union of North America.
Fred Krupp has been the head of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) for 25 years and is widely recognized as a champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends.
Barbara Byrd is the secretary-treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO and heads up the Oregon Apollo Alliance. She has been at the forefront of Oregon’s efforts to create green jobs and become a more energy-efficient state.
Keith Cooley, president and CEO of NextEnergy, one of the nation’s leading accelerators for alternative and renewable energy technologies, is striving to make Michigan the Silicon Valley of alternative energy production.
Terry O’Sullivan is general president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA). Working with the U.S. Department of Labor, Terry and LIUNA have developed a breakthrough national weatherization training program.
Sally Prouty, president of The Corps Network, has been the driving force behind a national Clean Energy Service Corps that will help to retrofit American cities and put corps members on pathways to successful careers in the clean energy economy.
Click here to read more about the award winners and watch short videos about their fantastic work.
Earlier in the year, Apollo gave a special Green Award to Farouk Shami, the founder of Farouk Systems, Inc. Farouk’s mission is to provide hair dressers with a safer workplace environment, free of harsh chemicals. He invented and patented the first ammonia free hair color without hazardous chemicals, and to avoid electro-magnetic fields (EMF), he invented and patented CHI appliances with NASA Advanced Technology. Farouk also recently moved all of his company’s manufacturing jobs from China to Houston, Texas. Click here to see photos of Apollo’s Jerome Ringo presenting the Green Award to Farouk Shami.