Green Horizon Foundation    

The Green Horizon Foundation is a 501 c 3 organization incorporated in the state of Maine. Donations are therefore tax exempt. The viewer can donate via Pay Pal by clicking on the DONATE button on the Magazine page.

In the seven years since our founding we have produced 21 issues of a 32-page hard copy magazine and we will publish number 22 this coming fall, 2010. We have published one book (Herschel Sternlieb's "The Adventures of King Bushy Tushy" -- described by Ralph Nader as being "In the great tradition of satire, wit, and searing insight.") We will be publishing our second book this coming fall (2010): It's a book by a savvy and brilliant writer, Ellen La Conte. The name of her forthcoming book is "Life Rules, We Don't." Sub-title is "Why so much is going wrong, why it's not getting fixed, what Life teaches us about how to fix it." We also do Events from time to time: our next Event is the presentation of a Workshop at the United States Social Forum in Detroit the week of June 22, 2010 --it will take place on Friday afternoon, June 25. The title of the Workshop is: HOW INTEGRAL IS ECOLOGY TO "ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE" AND HOW INTEGRAL IS THE U.S. GREEN PARTY TO "ANOTHER UNITED STATES IS NECESSARY?"

Our philosophy is expressed in these Ten Key Values: Ecological Wisdom, Personal and Social Responsibility, Grass Roots Democracy, Non-violence, Community Economics, Decentralization, Respect for Diversity, Gender Equality, Global Responsibility, and Thinking to the Seventh Generation.

We salute our readers and writers, most or all of whom are Green and Green-kindred people active in the crucial work of changing the world. We thank them for their courage, commitment, talent, and for their vision that started them on the pathway of Green leadership.

We ask Green leaders and leaders-to-be to link with one another whether through the hard copy of Green Horizon or our website, or both. We urge them to write up their stories, the heights thereof and the hard and often unforgiving depths thereof. We want them to reach out to others who may be languishing in the trenches, let them know that others are struggling and can give them a new spur of hope and strength to carry on.

We believe that each person has within her or himself the spark of self-agency – each one is capable of taking a lead at some point and in some way. One important hallmark of great leadership is the will and the ability of a leader to enable others to be leaders – to grow leadership! Many Greens, we have come to realize, are ambivalent about leaders and leadership. It has been, and is, a considerable handicap to the flowering of the Green Movement and Green Party. By fully sharing our hopes, doubts, fears, triumphs, and convictions we can deepen, expand, and develop the understanding and quality of Green leadership.


GREEN HORIZON FOUNDATION, THE GREEN PARTY, AND PARTISAN POLITICS

Green Horizon Foundation is not a promoter of a particular partisan political party. We are not like Green Pages, for example, which goes to bat for the United States Green Party and is an organ of that party. We do not fit that role. Nor could we, even if we wanted to, since Green Horizon Foundation is an entity to which tax deductible donations can be made under Section 501 c 3 of the Internal Revenue Service code. This prohibits us from partisan promotion of a specific political party or its candidates.

We believe that the party system in the United States, which is dominated by the Democratic and Republican parties, is not open, not accountable to the people, is not democratic, and is not responsible to the commonwealth of the United States as a whole or to the planet as a whole. The two major parties are similar in their fundamental policies and they work together to deny access to other voices, other parties, across the spectrum of political ideas, programs, policies, platforms, from up to down, from left to right.

Green Horizon Foundation is dedicated to open, democratic, accountable political party systems that are responsible to the common weal and to the planet.

BOARD MEMBERS OF GREEN HORIZON MAGAZINE

Ted Becker, Alabama

Laura Burkle, Missouri

Edmund P. Fowler, Ontario, Canada

Greg Gerritt, Rhode Island

Marnie Glickman, California

Ellen La Conte, North Carolina

John Rensenbrink, Maine

Liz Rensenbrink, Maine

Sam Smith, Maine

Lloyd Wells, Maine and Florida

Steve Welzer, New Jersey

Steve Welzer, New Jersey