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Click here to read Rue’s column on the REI blog on African Americans and Nature: Aspiring to Build and Expand the Connection.
Join Keeping It Wild and West Atlanta Watershed Alliance on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the Outdoor Activity Center for a presentation by Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro.
Join Keeping It Wild and the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance for a day of service. This is a free activity, but all donations are greatly appreciated.
Come “Celebrate the Cause” with Keeping It Wild at our annual fundraiser. Proceeds from the Reception and Silent Auction support Keeping It Wild’s programs. This is your chance to help Keeping It Wild continue working towards its mission of connecting people to the land and to each other in order to protect and restore the natural [...]
Join Keeping It Wild for Beginner Camping at Fort Mountain State Park. Learn to set up a tent, start a campfire and much more. Enjoy hiking, fishing and other activities at this Georgia State Park. Date: Saturday-Sunday, October 1-2, 2011 Activities: Beginner camping instruction, hiking, bug safari, camp fire with smores, and more. Camping equipment [...]
The Great American Outdoors:
For the benefit and enjoyment of the people!
Sixth Annual GALA Dinner!
THE GREAT AMERICAN OUTDOORS:
For the benefit and enjoyment of the people!
EVENT CHAIR:
John Hammond, SE Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation
Fifth Annual ‘Keeping it Wild’ Gala September 26 Focuses On
“The Green Agenda: Health, Wealth, and Quality of Life.”
ATLANTA – August 13, 2009 – A Native American Elder with roots in the rural Pacific Northwest will share the wisdom learned over decades of nation building with the Metro Atlanta audience at the Fifth Annual “Keeping It Wild” Gala, Saturday, September 26, beginning at 7 p.m. Jamie Pinkham, twice elected to the governing body [...]
Jerome Ringo To Address Energy, Economic Solutions
At “Keeping It Wild” Gala Oct. 25
ATLANTA – September 16, 2008 – What policies and initiatives are needed to speed investment in clean energy technology and energy efficiency, put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of well-paid, green collar jobs, and make America a global leader in clean energy products and services? Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo [...]
A New Breed of Environmentalist
Majora Carter to headline ‘Keeping it Wild’ Gala
ATLANTA – August 1, 2007 – Majora Carter said “Enough!” to the proliferation of heavy industry in her neighborhood and the proposal to build a waste treatment plant nearby. Her South Bronx community was already overburdened with industrial sites, as well as multiple railroads and highways. The success achieved by the organization she co-founded, Sustainable [...]
