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Bill Hurrle was a member of the Wisconsin Green Party, and the Green Bay Green Party when it was around.

William “Bill” Hurrle dies at 68. Pioneer of Sustainable Living. Green Bay Press Gazette

Bill Hurrle, a writer, educator and builder, was born June 24, 1940, in Rochester, Minn., and died of esophageal cancer on May 2, 2009, at the home he built with his wife, Beverly Watkins, in New Franken, Wis. Through his business, Bay Area Home Performance, he was a consultant for the Wisconsin Energy Star program, specializing in solar siting, design, and diagnostics as well as green building. This consultancy developed out of his home building and environmental health business Community Builders that he founded in 1974. His professional goals were to improve the energy efficiency of homes as well as to popularize solar electric and solar hot water systems. He developed pioneering examples of residential-scaled solutions for power, heat, and comfort that use traditional, carbon-based resources lightly.
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Guy Chichester, a New Hampshire Anti-Nuclear activist and Green Party leader passed away on Sunday.

From Seacoast Online:

RYE — Local human rights and environmental activist Guy Chichester’s life ended peacefully Sunday at the age of 73. After surviving a heart attack several years ago that required the insertion of a pacemaker into his chest, Chichester died in his home, surrounded by family and friends.

“Guy was one of a kind,” said longtime friend and lawyer Patrick Fleming. “He was committed to making the world a better place, and if more people did what he did, it would be.”

He was a veteran of the Korean War who served with the U.S. Navy.

Fleming successfully defended Chichester in one of the most dramatic protest cases stemming from the construction of the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant in Seabrook in the 1970s. In 1990, shortly after the plant went online, Chichester, a founding member of the Clamshell Alliance, an anti-Seabrook, anti-nuclear group, took a chain saw to one of the plant’s warning siren polls. He was charged with criminal mischief, a Class B felony, in the incident.
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Texas Green Bill Holloway passed away this week. He was the co-chair of the Travis County Green Party, and involved with both the Texas Green Party and GPUS.

I’m posting here an e-mail from Kat Swift regarding Bill Holloway, followed by a recent (Dec. 1) post he wrote at Greenchange.org.

The Green Party of Texas mourns the tragic loss of Bill Holloway. Bill was a dedicated leader who was currently serving as the Co-Chair of the Travis County Green Party in Austin, TX. He will be missed as a mentor and a friend.

Through his kind-hearted activism, Bill touched the lives of so many people. He was an active Green Party contributor at the local, state and national levels. Bill served on numerous committees in the Green Party and in other organizations as well.
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