The Green Institute is proud to announce that we have commissioned community organizer, journalist and Hip-Hop activist Rosa Clemente to write a series of four articles for the Green Institute. The first article will address Women of Color in positions of Leadership, and three other articles will follow on the first of the month.

Born and raised in the South Bronx she is a graduate of the University of Albany and Cornell University. A much sought after commentator, political activist, community organize and independent reporter, Rosa has been delivering workshops, presentations and commentary for over ten years. For more details, please see her website.


Green Institute Publications


Modernism and Fascism: The sense of beginning under Mussolini and Hitler (review)

by Tom Baugh
June 2, 2008
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies
In this day when new world orders, authoritarian movements, and Imperial Presidencies, appear to be making a come back in the West, it is more than worthwhile to consider innovative approaches to the evaluation of what Paxton refers to as fascisms. Oxford academic Roger Griffin takes just such a special look in his book Modernism and Fascism.


Cracks in the Ice

by Tom Baugh
April 15, 2008
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies

In this article I briefly review the developing interest of religion, theology in environmental crisis. I propose that the response has not been timely or significant enough to help stop the slide of civilization into chaos.


Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (review)

by Tom Baugh
February 12, 2008
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies

The world never seems to lack for authoritarian and totalitarian movements. Whatever the symbol on the flag, buried somewhere deep or right up front in these movements, will be the institutions and representatives of organized religion. At the root of every demonization, ethnic cleansing, pogrom, or holocaust stands the structure and leadership of one religion or another


Greens Under the Sacred Canopy

by Tom Baugh
December 1, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies

Sociologist Peter Berger contends that religion is a socially constructed reality, a ‘sacred canopy’ of symbols, objects, and meanings that we come to accept as objective reality. . . Where might the Greens be in all of this?

Eschatology and Extinction
by Tom Baugh
September 13, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies
In this paper I discuss Christian eschatology in relation to
extinction and the conservation and preservation of biodiversity. I
look briefly at the roots and structure of Dispensational Christian
theology and a subset of that theology known as Christian
Reconstructionism or Dominionism


Thinking About Tomorrow
by Tom Baugh
August 22, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies
Ecological wisdom may well have arrived too late. The
transformational politics [1] of the Green movement, and the best
interests and actions of many may not be able to change society quickly
and fully enough.


Ecocaust and Ecological Wisdom
by Tom Baugh
August 3, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies
In this paper I review threats to ecological systems and democratic systems and explore ecological wisdom as a unifying concept.


Colonialism is the Lens and Hip-Hop is the Mirror
by Jared Ball
August 1, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Corporate Control of Hip Hop
It continues that colonialism, without conscious and organized
interruption, reproduces itself even as it goes often unnamed or
perhaps misunderstood. Whether referred to euphemistically (consciously
or not) as “inequality,” “racism,” “misogyny” or, in terms of image and
media, as “poor/inaccurate representation,” “entertainment,” and
“news,” colonialism is what Fanon wrote it to be.


Green Influences on the 'Greening' of Religion in the West
by Tom Baugh
May 22, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies
This note discusses several aspects of the roles played by ‘Green’
sociopolitical movements in the dialogue leading to the ‘greening’ of
mainline religions in the West. Those influences were directly and
indirectly instrumental in encouraging reevaluations of existing
theological models and religious praxis in response to environmental
crisis


Straight Ticket Voting
by Jeff Toste
May 18, 2007
Green Institute Publications
Straight-ticket or straight-party voting allows voters to make one
pull, punch, or mark in order to vote for all candidates of a single
political party. Straight-ticket voting originated to simplify the
voting process and improve voter turnout. Unfortunately, the result of
straight-ticket voting is an unfair advantage for major political
parties.


Hip-Hop and the Corporate Function of Colonization
by Jared Ball
May 10, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Corporate Control of Hip Hop
Having elsewhere looked at the function of mass media as primary
mechanisms of the maintenance of colony, recent events have again
emerged requiring further investigation into the function of corporate
control over the cultural expression of colonized populations.


The Greening of Religion and Theology in the West
by Tom Baugh
May 9, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Interdisciplinary Studies
Over the past several decades we have experienced a growing
ecological awareness, nationally and internationally, on a number of
cultural levels, in many different sectors of our society and in a
number of other societies and cultures. All of this, and much more,
converged to inform and energize the mainline Christian denominations
in the West and, increasingly religions world wide, at least those that
were not already energized.


Hip-Hop, Mass Media and 21st Century Colonization
by Jared Ball
March 20, 2007
Green Institute Publications - Corporate Control of Hip Hop
The fraudulence of mass media hip-hop as popular culture resulting from the colonial status of Black America


Bagram Ghosts
by Roger Morris
March 1, 2007
Green Institute Publications - The Writings of Roger Morris
The bombing attempt on Vice President Dick Cheney's life reminds us
that Bagram has a long history in Afghanistan, one that US war-makers
should not ignore


Political Peril in Pennsylvania - Ballot Access Penalties Create Chilling Effect
by Mark Brown
February 17, 2007
Green Institute Publications
New rules which require candidates to pay for successful challenges
to their ballot access petitions violate the law, the constitution and
create a chilling effect on political participation


The Undertaker's Tally
by Roger Morris
January 22, 2007
Green Institute Publications - The Writings of Roger Morris
As he leaves the Pentagon and American foreign policy in
unprecedented ruin, it is the reckoning on a long, portentous history
that went typically unheeded.


The Once and Future Daniel Ortega - A Green Analysis of the Election in Nicaragua
by Steve Herrick
December 2, 2006
Green Institute Publications
Daniel Ortega is not the firebrand leftist of the 1980's Sandinista Revolution anymore.


Strategic Demands of the 21st Century: A New Global Vision for a New World
by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt
June 03, 2005
Green Institute Publications - The Writings of Roger Morris
Of America's Dunkirk, Napoleon's Winter, and FDR's Third Freedom.
Roger Morris and Steve Schmidt evoke history, envision political
alternatives and offer a provocative reappraisal of national security
policy in a swiftly changing world.


How to Counter-balance the Global Trade Agenda with "Green Protectionism"
Green Institute Publications
by Steve Emmott
November, 2004
With this paper, the Green Institute inaugurates its program to
publish papers by European experts with a Green-oriented perspective on
issues relating to the transatlantic relationship and the European
Union. With Greens playing a growing and important role in policy in
the EU and European countries, and with the recent formation of the
European Green Party, a Green perspective is playing an increasingly
important role in international affairs and decision-making. The German
Foreign Minister is a Green and in the UK, France, Italy and Spain as
well as in the thirty three Green parties in thirty European countries,
Green positions are being advanced and considered in policy debates.
The US-based Green Institute, with ongoing European and other
international political and non-governmental relationships and
associations, will provide ongoing commentary and analysis of
developments and changes in US-Europe political relations.


Green Political Decelopment in Slovakia - A Case Study
Andrea Zahumenska
November 2004
The first Slovak election held for the EU Parliament are now a past
event, but their results in the form of work performed by our
representatives in the EU Parliament are presented every day. The
Greens do not have Slovak representative in this EU institution, but
perhaps these first elections were the starting point for the Green
career in the next election term in 2009 – 2014.


Arcata, Calif Resolution Regarding the Patriot Act
Dave Meserve
November 2004
Ann Arbor was the first city to pass a resolution opposing
unconstitutional portions of the Patriot Act, on January 7, 2002. As
awareness of its impact on civil liberties spread, other cities joined
in, and on January 15, 2003, my home city, Arcata, Calif. became the
twenty-seventh city in the country to pass a resolution opposing the
Patriot Act.


Globalization and the European Union
Dean Myerson, Director, Green Institute
October 2004
Many progressives in the United States are not familiar with the
European Union (EU). Many on the left in Europe have opposed having
their own countries join it. It has the smell of globalization and a
huge centralized bureaucracy, and citizen participation is virtually
impossible. It has terrible positions in trade talks with the World
Trade Organization (WTO) and is developing a military capability.


The Challenges and Contradictions of the Transatlantic Relationship
Dean Myerson, Director, Green Institute
September 2004
If Americans want Europe to pull its own weight, they must resign themselves to substantive consultation with the EU.


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Global Greens 2008

In May of this year, Greens from all over the world met for the second Global Greens Gathering in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The objectives were to:
  • promote the Global Green Charter among the Green Parties of the world, as
    well as kindred groups and society at-large;
  • stimulate and facilitate action on matters of global consequence; and
  • deepen communication among Green Parties and Federations everywhere

The delegation of Green representatives approved fice declarations as well as a group of resolutions. See www.globalgreens.org for details.