Foundation 

The Green Horizon Foundation is strengthening a focus that has been implicit in our efforts from the beginning. We began in 2003 with the excitement of producing a magazine, and then also a website, that can give positive and constructively critical support to people in the trenches working to change the world.

Now we are focussing that excitement more directly. We want to explore, invigorate, deepen, and expand the understanding of Green leadership. We want to contribute to its steadily improving quality. We intend to do this through our website and through a Spring and a Fall magazine. The name Green Horizon Quarterly is now Green Horizon Magazine.

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.

Our pages and website are open to present and future Green leaders – and to visitors who are interested in what we are all about and in what we are doing. Though we are located in the United States and thus we may give more attention to Green leadership in the United States, we are profoundly interested in Green leadership throughout the world—especially in the 88 countries with a Green Party.

For us Green leadership occurs in three dimensions: It includes

Action in Green political parties and government office;

Cultural and social-economic action through projects that presage a Green economy; and

Philosophic action through the exploration of issues concerning the place and prospects of our human species evolution on planet earth and in the universe.

We salute our readers and writers, most or all of whom are Green leaders and leaders-to-be. We thank you for your courage, commitment, talent, and vision that started you on the pathway of Green leadership and that sustains you now as you work to create a world where the ten key values preside and prevail.

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. Tell us your stories, the good and the not so good, the heights thereof and the hard and often unforgiving depths thereof. Reach out to others who may be languishing in the trenches, let them know your struggles and 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.



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Green Horizon Books

We have so far published one book, Herschel Sternlieb’s “ very funny and yet also very serious “The Adventures of King Bushy Tusy”. It is described by Ralph Nader as being “in the great tradition of satire, wit, and searing insight.”

Green Horizon Foundation, 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 Foundation:

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