About Us

The Gateway Green Education Foundation is a 501.c3 non-profit organization that endeavors to inform the general public about key values of environmentalism and environmental issues which confront the United States. These issues include ...

• protection and expansion of parks, forests, prairies and wetlands
• natural foods, vegetarian diets and organic farms and gardens
• toxins such as organochlorines, lead and mercury
• nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, nuclear storage and nuclear transportation
• pesticides and household hazardous waste
• destructive waste practices such as overproduction, incineration and landfilling
• positive waste practices such as recycling, reducing and reusing.

The Foundation pursues its education missions by hosting activities such as...

• holding discussions and lectures on environmental issues
• organizing conferences to bring environmental organizations together with leaders of education, labor, farming, women, people of color, neighborhood, low income, religious, and student groups to share information about environmental issues
• producing videos on environmental themes
• publishing a newsletter which will provide information on environmental issues
• preparing educational displays for public fairs and events on environmental issues
• preparing collections of essays developed from talks and workshops at environmental conferences
• preparing information sheets on environmental issues for use by education, labor, farming, women, people of color, neighborhood, low income, religious, and student groups

Here are officers on the GGEF Board of Directors.

• Don Fitz, President
• Henry Robertson, Secretary
• Barb Chicherio, Treasurer
• Elston K. McCowan, board member
• David Henry, board member

Here are GGEF staff members.

• Mark Fitz
• Ben West
• Joyce McCowan

You may contact the GGEF via our contact form.

You can download a PDF of our by-laws below.