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The Green Party's membership encompasses the fourth-highest percentage of registered voters in the United States, with a total membership of 234,120. [58] The Green Party has its strongest popular support on the Pacific Coast, Upper Great Lakes, and Northeast, as reflected in the geographical distribution of Green candidates elected. [59]
The Green Party has been active as a third party since the 1980s. The party first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's second presidential run in 2000. Currently, the primary national Green Party organization in the U.S. is the Green Party of the United States, which split from and eclipsed the earlier Greens/Green Party USA.
The Green Party political movement is not to be confused with the unrelated fact that in some far-right and fascist parties, nationalism has on occasion been tied into a sort of green politics which promotes environmentalism as a form of pride in the "motherland" according to a minority of authors.
A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as environmentalism and social justice. Green party platforms typically embrace social democratic economic policies and form coalitions with other left-wing parties .
“The environmentalist label was hijacked here in Mexico," said Paula Sofía Vásquez, the co-author of the book “The Green Mafia,” who called it "a business model based on politics ...
As Kovel puts it, eco-socialism differs from Green politics at the most fundamental level because the 'Four Pillars' of Green politics (and the 'Ten Key Values' of the US Green Party) do not include the demand for the emancipation of labour and the end of the separation between producers and the means of production. [99]
Just days before the state board of elections voted on certifying the Green Party, a Democratic law firm submitted several complaints requesting that nearly 400 signatures be deemed invalid.
Green economy – Economy based on a knowledge of ecological economics; Green growth – Economic growth that is environmentally sustainable; Green libertarianism – Political ideology with mixed green and libertarian beliefs; Greenwashing – Use of the aesthetic of conservationism for promotion