The Green Party is the true party of change in Hawai`i. We have workable solutions that are in use elsewhere and can work here in Hawai`i nei. Although the other major parties promise many things, and have adopted many Green ideas, Vote Green for the real thing.
- Locally owned, small-scale economic development
- A serious commitment to energy and water conservation programs
- Workable mass transit alternatives, combined with reasonably-priced housing and an integrated transportation plan
- Allowing initiative on land use planning decisions
- Rezoning marginal agricultural land to build model cluster communities and self-help housing
- Non-profit trusts for rental housing, co-housing, and small family farms
- Restrictions on expensive TV and newspaper political advertising
- Many diverse forums to publicize candidates' stands on the issues
- Public funding for qualified candidates and a ban on PAC and corporate campaign contributions, and Protection of sacred or culturally significant native Hawaiian sites
- Sovereignty initiatives led by the Hawaiian community
- Immediate distribution of Hawaiian Homelands; federal and state funds to be allocated for the necessary infrastructure
- Strengthening, increasing the funding of, and expanding the capacity of the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission
- The creation of a state Department of Ecology, to design and enforce sustainable, ecological development
What Do Hawaii's Greens Stand For?
The Green Party of Hawaii has many ideas to make Hawai`i a better place for all of us. The 10 items listed below are our basic ideals. For details, read further about our vision for the future of our island paradise.
- Grassroots Democracy: Encouraging and assisting citizen participation at the local level in decision-making.
- Community-Based Economics: Ensuring basic material security and social equity for all, using humane, liberating, and ecologically sound techniques.
- Decentralization: Empowering people, institutions, and communities to become more self-reliant.
- Personal & Social Responsibility: Encouraging healthy lifestyles, taking responsibility for personal and social growth.
- Ecological Wisdom: Respecting nature and using natural resources wisely.
- Nonviolence: Working for lasting peace at personal, national, and global levels.
- Gender And Racial Equality: Promoting cooperative interaction and equal rights for women and minorities to replace ethics of domination and control.
- Respect For Diversity: Respecting and supporting cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, and spiritual diversity among all people.
- Global Responsibility: Learning from and being of assistance to Third World nations. Think globally, act locally.
- Future Focus: Think and act in terms of the long-range future, not just for short-range selfish interests. Act with respect for future generations.
Join Us
There is a place for you in the Green Party of Hawaii. You are probably concerned about the same economic, social, and environmental problems that the Green Party of Hawaii is actively working to solve.
Your support of the Green Party of Hawaii will help us elect candidates who will implement solutions to the problems of uncontrolled growth, economic dependency on outsiders, and lack of local community participation in the decision-making process.
Become a member, contribute your time and/or money, help organize campaigns for office, lobby legislators and policy-makers, BE a candidate! We are looking for resourceful, ethical people who will help guide Hawai`i into a new era of sustainable communities, a healthy environment, and social harmony. Without your help it will be more difficult to turn these visions into reality.
