Paul Glover – Governor – Pennsylvania

Founder of 18 Organizations & Campaigns for Ecology and Social Justice

"When conservatives don't conserve and liberals don't liberate, Greens become centrists-- we generate jobs, secure homes, fresh food, clean water and air, health care." - Paul Glover

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MEET Paul:

He is founder of more than a dozen organizations and campaigns dedicated to ecology and social justice, including Ithaca HOURS local currency, Health Democracy, the Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP), Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, and the League of Uninsured Voters (LUV). He is author of six books on grassroots economies, and a former professor of urban studies at Temple University. He consults as Greenplanners.

Named "Local Hero" by Philadelphia Metro News 12/23/10.

Named "Local Hero" by Ithaca Times Readers' Poll 1995 & 2000.

Named "Local Hero" by Los Angeles Weekly 1/25/90.

Tompkins County Human Rights Award 1996.

Semifinalist for 1996 Ford Foundation Innovations Award.

In 1978 I walked across the USA entirely on foot, from Boston to San Diego. This included a walk across Pennsylvania from the Delaware Water Gap to the SW corner of the state.

We are Smarter than The Economy

Millions of clerks, mothers, mechanics, farmworkers, cleaners, aides and all the rest of us are far smarter than our jobs. We’re also singers, writers, dancers, musicians, comedians, artists, craftsmen, inventors, thinkers and managers. A smart economy would employ our full talents to rebuild America so it’s easy to live in.

But these days large corporations control our land, law and money. They’re dull because they’re obsessed by big numbers. Their numbers decide what gets built, what’s a job, who gets loans, who gets healed, who gets rich, and who stays poor.

Worse, the rich don’t respect us. They hire politicians to tell us they care, who really don’t. Am I right? The proof is that many of us are struggling.

So it’s up to us take control of the Economy. We’ll control money by creating our own banks and credits. We'll control jobs by investing this money to fix our cities and farms. We'll control law by writing the laws we need and shouting mighty loud.

Create Green Jobs
Print Local Currency
Expand Public Services without Raising Taxes
Co-op Health Insurance
Prepare Your Community for High Fuel Costs
Get What You Need without Dollars
Create Community Food and Fuel Inventories
Start an online Community Newsletter
Ecological Cities: Building the Future Today
Ecological Economics
Green Curriculum Design
Media Coverage for Change

My book "How to Take Power" describes the creative actions anyone can take to make American communities strong again, to set good examples for this nation and its states.