By Steven Schmidt, [email protected] Editor’s Note: Continuing his series of articles entitled eOS, an eco-operating system, Steve Schmidt looks over the horizon as he encourages “green best practices” that fully utilize the unprecedented developing worldwide Web/Internet. The future of online networking has potential to redefine politics, both locally and globally, in ways that are green, […]
REFUGEE We all are running from something throughout our lineage our people ran from the wild woolly Mother Earth our home
This is the fourth in a planned series of articles by Steve Welzer DEAR GRANDCHILDREN: The question of “what you’ll be facing” would have been easily answered for ninety-nine percent of our species existence, during which human lifeways were relatively stable from generation to generation. Stable, though not static. People did have to accommodate to […]
By John Resenbrink In the two previous issues of our magazine, we’ve pondered the absence of global governance on planet earth. A fact of stark world reality came home to me earlier this year in a quote from Zbigniew Brzezinski sent to me by Scott McLarty. Scott is the U.S. Green Party’s media coordinator and […]
By Rob Richie Greens have worked closely with democracy activists in promoting ranked choice voting (RCV), both in its instant runoff form and as an alternative to winner-take-all in elections when electing multiple seats. International examples abound about the power of proportional representation for transforming elections and opportunities for Greens. City elections in 2013 showed […]
We live in a balkanized world. Huge problems of global dimensions are dealt with poorly or not at all. This is largely because the solutions are sought within a framework of separate and independent sovereign states and with a consciousness in each state imbued with the fervor of the national interest. By John Rensenbrink (continued)…Can […]
The big world conferences on climate every 20 years (1972 Sweden, 1992 Brazil, 2012 Denmark) have failed. Bill McKibben and 350.org are raising consciousness and prodding consciences daily, but the big lever of “world opinion” needs a pivot point or fulcrum, a forum or year round parliament of small and responsible democracies so that all […]
Of the approximate 200 countries in the world, the Green Party has organized in approximately one half – PDF.
A letter by Mike Feinstein published in the Spring/Summer 2014 Issue . . . . Your readers will be interested in this recent news about the Green Party in England and Wales. I am particularly excited about the way in which the Green Party there meets the challenge of effective leadership. Natalie Bennett has been […]
By Romi Elnagar . . . . “American sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan at sea off the coast of Japan sailed into the plume of radiation emitted by the Fukushima Daiichi plant and then were ordered to help the Japanese with the disaster. They… are now suing the Government of Japan…” The disaster at […]
