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Article: Green Party
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- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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GREEN PARTY
The Green Party blossomed as an outgrowth of the environmental and conservation movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1970, Charles Reich published
The Greening of America
, a popular extended essay that effectively inserted environmentalism into politics. Reich, along with anarchist Murray Bookchin, helped inspire a worldwide environmental movement. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, environmental activists, calling themselves Greens, began to work within the political system to advance environmental causes around the globe.
The Green party first achieved electoral success in Germany in the early 1980s. German Green party candidates were elected to public office on platforms that ...