https://secure.democracyinaction.com/dia/organizations/Greens/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=101

or embedded: GPUS Book Store

It addresses grassroots democracy by promoting ballot initiatives on all levels of government, the National Initiative for Democracy - http://www.ni4d.us .

ALSO, there’s a section on GPUS’ website about other books. You can find it
here

I did read “Dare to Hope” and we have that in our library. Also “Green Politics” by Spretnak and Capra, I have a copy of that somewhere. There is a great chapter on America - “It can happen here” or something like that.

The Wild Bird’s Song by a long time Indiana Green reminds me that I should include “Walleye Warriors - the Chippewa Treaty Rights Story” by early Wisconsin Greens Walt Bresette and Rick Whaley. I would like to read more works by early Green thinkers in America like this.

The food books sound great, deserves its own category. I’m thinking of putting all of these in an annotated bibliography page on the site for future reference.

So, on top of the computer cabinet, I pulled off the shelf several of my Green Party-related books I have in my possession (all 8 of them). Here they are:
1. “The Wild Bird’s Song” by Jim Coplen [1998], from ex-GPUS co-chair and now Indiana Green Party [INGP] co-chair, about his travels along the Appalachian Trail;
2. “Dare To Hope: Saving American Democracy” by Jason West [2005]; need we say more?
3. “Getting A Grip” by Frances Moore Lappe [2007]; or — for that matter, ANY book by Frances Moore Lappe, especially “Diet for a Small Planet” or “Hope’s Edge”
4. “Green Politics: The Global Promise” by Charlene Spretnak and Fritjof Capra [1986]; history of the German GP;
5. “The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics” by Charlene Spretnak [1986]; for the spiritual Greens;
6. “Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, And A Plan to Stop Them All” by Brian Czech, PhD [2000]; formost expert in ecological economics;
7. “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace” by Vandana Shiva [2005]; 1993 winner of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.

and, last, but certainly not least….

8. “Sam Smith’s Great American Political Repair Manual: How to rebuild our country…” [1997]; essentially, this is the Green Party of the United States’ Bible and should be required reading for anyone that wants to be involved in political movements. It’s from the editor of the Progressive Review (www.prorev.com) — and DC Statehood Green member — Sam Smith.

Hope this helps. Take care.

Sarah Dillon
Indiana Green Party (INGP) NC delegate

The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food both by Michael Pollan. Great books on food, how it’s grown, how it affects us, and how we affect it. An example of how this might change your thinking: Pollan argues that while it might seem we are dominant over corn, corn has really had its way with humans. It is a plant that we continue to depend on even though its health and environmental effects are detrimental. We have planted millions of acres with nothing - literally nothing, because nothing can possibly grow there after being treated with all of the chemicals its treated with - but corn, and it’s a plant that wouldn’t even survive more than a generation without humans. So who’s winning in that scenario?

Cradle to Cradle… I forget the authors, but it’s basically about how there should be no waste stream. Everything we design should be designed not only for its lifetime but to be “upcycled” into an infinite number of other lives.