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  Green Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An emphasis on a green tax shift which favoured reducing income and corporate taxes while increasing taxes on polluters and energy consumers created questions as to whether the Green Party was still on the left of the political spectrum, or was taking a more eco-capitalist approach.
Alliance members joined the PC party to vote for the merger into the Conservative Party of Canada in late 2003, just before the 2004 election.
The GPC is a member of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas and recognized by the Global Greens as representing Canadian Greens federally.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Party_of_Canada   (3232 words)

  
 Greens in Time and Space: The History of The Green Party
Green politics was being actively practised in New Zealand in the 1970s, even though the electoral climate was unfavourable.
In May 1990 the current Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand was formed from a merger of Values and the new Green groups, and contested the 1990 general election six months later, winning 7% of the total vote although it was not able to stand candidates in all electorates.
The Green Co-Leaders honoured their pledges to remain members of the Alliance caucus until the House rose to begin campaigning in 1999, while Phillida Bunkle chose to leave the Greens and stay with the Alliance.
www.greens.org.nz /about/history.htm   (1607 words)

  
 The Antislavery Alliance of Gerrit Smith and Beriah Green - New York History Net
Green was particularly adamant that abolitionists should prepare themselves to assume the obligations of government rather than serve merely as a goad to the Whigs and Democrats on the single issue of slavery.
Green does not seem to have had prior knowledge of Brown's intentions, but, after the tragic climax of the events of 1859, he praised Brown as a true hero and martyr for righteousness, despite his violent means.
Green's despair was such that he could only hope that a political phoenix would rise from the ashes of a bloody Armageddon to usher in the millennial age.
www.nyhistory.com /gerritsmith/bgreen.htm   (6556 words)

  
 New Green Alliance Responses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Many NGA members are now or were recently post-secondary students, and are living the burden of huge student loans.
If you are asking how an NGA government would ensure employment opportunities for all students outside of the health sciences, technology and business, such as agriculture, environmental sciences, trades, technologies, etc., that is a huge question.
The New Green Alliance believes that Saskatchewan has incredible opportunites to be the best place to live in Canada.
ursu.uregina.ca /Provincial_Election/NewGreenAlliance.html   (1133 words)

  
 Saskatchewan Arts Alliance
New Democratic Party: “An NDP government is committed to working with the arts community, through the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Status of the Artist, on moving forward identified issues using the most effective public policy instruments, one of which may include a Status of the Artist commission.”
New Democratic Party: “As Tommy Douglas's government, an NDP government believes that it is in the public interest to maintain an arms-length funding agency of government to support the arts in Saskatchewan.
New Democratic Party: “An NDP government is committed to maintaining the Department of Culture, Youth and Recreation as a separate government department.
www.artsalliance.sk.ca /advocacy/advdetail.php?type=b&id=102103154538   (1544 words)

  
 Apollo Alliance : UAW forges alliance with ecologists
UAW Local 249 and the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center joined forces on the first leg of a national “Green Machines” tour, touting the gas-electric SUV as the leading edge of new technologies that were both good for the environment and good for workers.
In the long term, the “blue-green” alliance could sow the seeds for new government initiatives on fuel economy that shift the debate away from 1970s-style government regulations.
The blues and the greens in the Apollo Alliance and Energy Future Coalition agree on one idea gaining in popularity: that billions of dollars of government money could be used to help manufacturers switch over to more environmentally friendly technologies.
www.apolloalliance.org /apollo_in_the_news/archived_news_articles/2004/09_05_04.cfm   (1494 words)

  
 CERC - Events
"New Energy for America" is also hope for the planet - cutting pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from dirty fossil fuel, its extraction, dangerous transport, combustion and emission of carbon gases into the atmosphere.
A monumental, government-led transition to New Energy is urgently needed, needed to blunt global warming and its inevitable habitat disruption, massive species extinctions, biblical storms, floods, droughts, and plagues, and carbon pollution's devastating impacts on agriculture, water, the oceans, peoples,
New Energy for America - Jobs, Security and Prosperity in the 21st Century - transcript and photos of July 28th Forum.
www.cerc04.org /news/newenergy_hx.html   (301 words)

  
 The New Labor-Green Alliance: It’s Not So New to UAW Members - May 2000 Solidarity
This new labor-green coalition is an exciting development, but it’s not so new to UAW members.
Today UAW members are active in a wide range of environmental concerns, and employees of environmental organizations in Michigan, California, and New York are members of amalgamated UAW locals.
UAW Local 157 represents about 25 employees at Recycle Ann Arbor and nine staff at the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. Nine staff members at Great Lakes United in Buffalo, N.Y., are members of UAW Local 55, and Local 2103 represents about 100 employees at Sierra Club headquarters in San Francisco.
www.uaw.org /solidarity/00/0500/feature04.html   (493 words)

  
 Government must act to secure green benefits of new economy
Substantial environmental benefits may result from the development of the "new economy", dominated by the service sector and information technology — but they will be realised only with Government policies to steer development in a sustainable direction, according to a new Green Alliance pamphlet.
The one-year project, involving eight think tanks including the Green Alliance, is assessing the social and environmental impacts of e-commerce and the new economy.
The new pamphlet, by Blairite thinker and journalist Charles Leadbeater, is the first fruit of their work.
www.greenconsumerguide.com /news144.html   (635 words)

  
 Zeek: Europe's Other Red-Green Alliance
Now, however, Europe is now hosting another, more worrying alliance between a different shade of red and a different shade of green: European Socialist and Islamist factions that have placed themselves at the head of the peace movement in Britain and elsewhere.
This march, jointly organised by the left wing Stop The War Coalition (STWC) and the Islamist Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), was the greatest achievement yet of a new force on the British political scene: an alliance of the broad left and the Muslim community.
Each side of the red-green alliance was led at its cutting edge by the false certainties of their respective political extremes: the hard left on one side and radical Islamism on the other.
www.zeek.net /politics_0304.shtml   (495 words)

  
 Green +Blue = Powerful Alliance - June 2002 Planet Newsletter - Sierra Club
In February 2002, the Blue-Green Alliance, representing more than 3 million workers and environmentalists (including the Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club) released a joint statement in support of the plan originally sketched out in Perkins's kitchen.
National agreements like the Blue-Green Alliance are important, but don't amount to much more than pieces of paper unless they are acted out on the ground.
Trust is at the heart of the union-Sierra Club alliance in California's Contra Costa County.
www.sierraclub.org /planet/200205/green.asp   (2652 words)

  
 Blue/Green Alliance of Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Blue/Green Alliance represents the mainstream American values of tolerance; respect for the home, the local community, and our wild spaces; and care for the local and global environment on which we all depend.
Development of new energy sources is vitally important for both environmental and economic reasons.
The Blue/Green Alliance is a local, grassroots response to global threats to jobs, the environment, and democracy.
www.bluegreenalliance.com   (715 words)

  
 Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples | Legal | Saskatchewan New Green Alliance Party
The Saskatchewan New Green Alliance urges that the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights recommend that the federal government bring forward legislation to give same sex couples the legal capacity to marry.
The members of the New Green Alliance believe in the principles of ecological wisdom; social and economic justice; participatory democracy; personal, social and global responsibility; community based Economics; cooperation and mutual aid; respect for diversity; peace and non-violence; and decentralization.
The New Green Alliance urges the committee to recommend that the federal government legislate to remove opposite sex restriction on marriage.
www.samesexmarriage.ca /legal/sask_nga.htm   (1338 words)

  
 Green Democratic Alliance- United we stand, divided we fall! Our mission is to unite pragmatic Greens, progressive and ...
It has not fully dawned on progressive, 'Green'- oriented voters in this country that the expectedly close election may very well place in their astonished hands not only the power to defeat Bush but also push the Democratic Party in a bolder direction.
The German Green Party recognized a chance to exercise influence and entered into negotiation with the SDP about Green-oriented policies it would be willing to support if a coalition between the two was able to defeat the conservatives.
The Green vote indeed comprised the crucial difference and the coalition was formed.
greendemocraticalliance.org /index.php   (811 words)

  
 CBC - Saskatchewan Votes 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The New Green Alliance Party demonstrated outside the CBC building in Saskatoon Wednesday, saying it wants CBC to change its mind and include them in next week's leadership debate.
The parent party, the Green Alliance, says it's considering legal action against the CBC.
The New Green Alliance attracted about one per cent in the 1999 election.
www.cbc.ca /sask/story/alliance031022.html   (248 words)

  
 As Green as a Neocon - Why Iraq hawks are driving Priuses. By Robert Bryce
Since the Bush administration believed that controlling the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf was critically important to the American economy, the invasion of Iraq seemed to serve both the president's energy goals and his foreign policy ones.
The alliance of hawks and environmentalists is new but not entirely surprising.
Neocons and greens first hitched up in the fall, when they jointly backed a proposal put forward by the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, a Washington-based think tank that tracks energy and security issues.
www.slate.com /id/2112608   (1416 words)

  
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Sierra Club, organized labor agree and argue as potential alliance struggles to be born from The Planet.
A new study released by the Sierra Club, the United Steelworkers, SEIU and other labor and environmental advocates shows that a clean energy policy would create 1.4 million new American jobs while saving consumers an average of $1,275 on their energy bills in 2025.
For example, Ohio would gain 65,000 new jobs in the manufacturing and service sectors in the next two decades.
angeles.sierraclub.org /hvtf/crossroads/bluegreen.html   (222 words)

  
 Zeek: Europe's Other Red-Green Alliance
And this is the real danger of this red-green alliance, as the Weekly Worker points out: "it confirms to the Muslim population of Britain that one particular right-wing reactionary faction is recognized and officialised by the left.
And if British Muslims do the same, and accept the MAB's international Islamist agenda as their own, then the advance of radical Islamism in Britain will have been aided by the very people who should be trying to stop it.
Understanding the new Red-Green alliance also helps explain the surprising resurgence of antisemitism in Europe.
www.zeek.net /politics_03043.shtml   (669 words)

  
 UPDATE: Green Party USA Coordinator Detained At Airport
She had helped to coordinate the Green Party USA's antiwar efforts these past few months, and was to report on these to The Greens national committee.
The Greens National Committee -- the governing body of the Green Party USA -- is meeting in Chicago Nov. 2-4 to hammer out the details of national campaigns against bio-chemical warfare, the spraying of toxic pesticides, genetic engineering, and the Party's involvement in the burgeoning peace movement.
Chicago Green activist Lionel Trepanier concluded, "The attack on the right of association of an opposition political party is chilling.
www.rense.com /general16/greenpartyUSA.htm   (1556 words)

  
 Bowling Green Alliance Church [About Us]
The Christian and Missionary Alliance (CandMA) is an evangelical denomination with a major emphasis on world evangelization.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance began in 1887 by Dr. Albert Benjamin Simpson (left).
It was first laid at the Gospel Tabernacle in New York City in 1889.
www.bgalliance.org /about_us.html   (178 words)

  
 Environmental Reforms Can Help Economy
According to a new report unveiled by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Center for a Sustainable Economy (CSE), the U.S. can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote energy security while strengthening the overall economy, creating jobs, and compensating workers in energy intensive industries whose jobs are at risk.
This is the first study to examine the feasibility of compensating workers in the context of a comprehensive economic analysis of climate policy," Barrett observed.
According to the report, this new analysis "lies in the middle ground between those who would do nothing to address the economic and environmental risks of fossil fuel consumption, and those who would insist on immediate solutions, heedless of economic or human cost.
www.progress.org /enviro11.htm   (839 words)

  
 Open Directory - Business: Construction and Maintenance: Building Types: Sustainable Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Green Building Alliance - Pittsburgh-based non-profit organization that provides expert services and reliable information to facilitate green building solutions-- and, in the process, helps our region thrive.
Green Building Council of Australia - Group seeking to promote sustainable development and to encourage the property industry to implement green building programs, technologies, design practices, and operations.
The Green Iguana - The project consists of eight homes which can be rented by consumers, authorities and other organisations, to experience the high standards used to build these bio-ecological houses.
dmoz.org /Business/Construction_and_Maintenance/Building_Types/Sustainable_Architecture   (2121 words)

  
 Green Party of Monroe County, New York
Green Party of Monroe County Co-Chair Jason Nabewaniec is also the Region 6 (Western New York State) representative to the Green National Committee (GNC, formally know as the Coordinating Committee).
Get involved in Green TV...work has begun on the new Green cable access TV show, GreenLine, but people are still needed in roles both in front of and behind the cameras.
Call and write letters on topics connected to the Greens' 10 Key Values as they relate to what is happening in Rochester, New York State, the US and around the world.
www.gpomc.org   (865 words)

  
 AIA PA - Pittsburgh’s New David L. Lawrence Convention Center Receives Gold LEED Certification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mayor Tom Murphy and Green Building Alliance (GBA) Executive Director Rebecca Flora, representing Howard Heinz Endowment Chairman Teresa Heinz, accepted the LEED award from Christine Ervin, President and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), at a lunch ceremony during this week’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.
Heinz in appreciation of her visionary contribution to the greening of the region.
The Green Building Alliance is a non-profit organization that works to improve economic, social and environmental performance of the Greater Pittsburgh region through the integration of green building practices into regional development projects.
www.aiapa.org /news/pittsburgh_conv_center.html   (1154 words)

  
 Gateway Greens (Green Party of St. Louis) homepage
Missouri Secretary of State Bekki Cook certified the Green Party and 18 of its 20 candidates to appear on the Missouri ballot for the November 7, 2000 general election, including presidential nominee Ralph Nader.
Green Time TV On October 17, 2000, the 3rd Presidential debate in St. Louis suppressed the participation of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.
This Green Time is the first airing of footage of Ralph Nader addressing a St. Louis audience the afternoon of October 17.
greens.org /s-r/gga   (1519 words)

  
 Green Power Network: Green Marketing: Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance (Mass Energy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
February 2002 - The Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance (Mass Energy), a heating oil cooperative serving Eastern and Central Massachusetts, is exploring opportunities for pooling consumer demand for green power.
The green power is supplied from solar and landfill gas facilities in New England.
The co-op is currently purchasing renewable energy from Sun Power Electric, the state's only green power provider, at a 25% discount.
www.eere.energy.gov /greenpower/markets/marketing.shtml?page=2&companyid=158   (878 words)

  
 Alliance New Zealand
The Alliance is a broad, inclusive, party of the Left with policies based on socialist principles: democracy, equality and social ownership.
In his column From the Left carried in Fairfax newspapers throughout New Zealand, Chris Trotter argues that the Alliance tax policy sets the parameters for the tax debate on the Left with its radical proposals for fiscal reform.
The Alliance Party is holding its 2005 National Conference in Christchurch on the weekend of December 3/4.
www.alliance.org.nz   (302 words)

  
 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A New Green Alliance Government will accept responsibility for funding early childhood intervention and "pre-school programs" where required, in addition to traditional responsibility for the K-12 education system.
A New Green Alliance Government will ensure the implementation of an "Ecological Literacy" curriculum, which also has practical application components, in all Saskatchewan schools.
A New Green Alliance Government will mandate the democratic establishment of "School Councils" for each Saskatchewan school, these School Councils to have the responsibility, along with adequate funds, to make appropriate school-based decisions.
www.stf.sk.ca /election_2003/new_green_alliance.htm   (180 words)

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