THE GREEN PARTY
The Green Party is a ballot-qualified party in Maryland, leading Progressive Policy and fighting for Working Families. We are committed to the values of Democracy, Ecology, Peace, and Justice. We run candidates at the local, state, and federal levels.
Our mission is to renew democracy in Maryland through community-based organizing, without support from corporate donors. We provide real solutions to real problems.
While the Democrats and Republicans in Annapolis have forgotten about working class Marylanders across the state, we Greens have the ability to reverse this neglect. Whether it be from the 50 plus years of questionable Democratic rule in Baltimore or the GOP's misguidance in Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore, we Greens have a progressive, optimistic agenda that will better the lives of ALL people, and not just Maryland's privileged. In the wake of the Trump Presidency (a disaster for environmentalists), America has entered its 7th party system. It's time for a change!
The Green Party of the United States follows the ideals of green politics, which are based on the Four Pillars, namely:
To learn more, check out our Ten Key Values and read the Liverpool Declaration.
Many Americans have heard about the Green New Deal, but do not know exactly what it entails. Learn more here.
environmental RESOUrCES
Calculate your household carbon footprint by completing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Carbon Footprint Calculator.
Look up the safety of your water, and the contaminants it contains, via the Environment Working Group's Tap Water Database.
The EPA Air Quality Index helps people track when the air pollution levels are in an unhealthy range so they can modify their activities as necessary to protect their health.
It's time for Maryland as a state, and the United States Federal government, to pass a Green Constitutional Amendment. Clean water and air, and a healthy environment are essential for supporting life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, healthy communities, and healthy economies. Yet, across the U.S. these basic human rights are not recognized as inalienable. Instead, their protection is entrusted to our political system with competing demands; where industry lobbyists and personal political agendas take precedence over the needs of people to a clean and healthy environment, and a stable climate.
Here in the United States, environmental protection is too often given short shrift and protected with less legal strength than other fundamental freedoms such as property rights, free speech, and even gun rights. As a result, communities nationwide are suffering from pollution, environmental degradation, and a climate crisis. Environmental racism is subjecting Indigenous, Black, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, other Communities of Color, low-income communities, and future generations to disproportionate environmental harm; making them more vulnerable to disease, cancers, and illness of all kinds. Additionally, environmental racism inflicts economic harm, and deprives impacted communities of the quality of life and educational benefits that healthy environments, water, and air provide.
Environmental pollution, degradation, and racism are not happening in spite of our environmental laws but because of how those laws are written and implemented. Unlike other civil, human, and political rights, there is no constitutional recognition of environmental rights that can hold those in government accountable when they advance pollution-inducing legislation; permit highly polluting activities; ignore cleanup of toxic sites; support industries exacerbating the climate crisis; and perpetuate environmental racism.
It's time to change all of this. In the U.S., we recognize and protect free speech, property rights, religious freedom and other fundamental rights; it is now time to recognize the inalienable rights of all people, including future generations, to drink clean water, breathe clean air, to a stable climate, and to protect all the healthy ecosystems and environments essential to supporting and sustaining healthy lives.
• All persons have the natural, inherent and inalienable right to a clean and healthy environment, including water, air, soil, flora, fauna, and ecosystems; the right to a stable climate, and to the equitable protection of the natural, cultural, scenic and healthful qualities of the environment.
• The natural resources of our nation are the common property of all the people, including both present and future generations. The government, including each branch, agency, and political subdivision, shall serve as trustee of these resources and shall conserve, protect, and maintain these resources for the benefit of all the people.
• This provision and the rights stated herein are self-executing and are on par with other protected inalienable rights. The government may not infringe upon these rights.
Although oceans store most of the Earth's carbon, soils contain approximately 75% of the carbon pool on land — three times more than the amount stored in living plants and animals. Soil provides nutrients for plant life, filters and purifies our water, reduces flooding, regulates the atmosphere and plays a crucial role in driving the carbon and nitrogen cycles. It is also key to tackling climate change as it captures and stores vast amounts of carbon. Soil is one of the most biodiverse habitats on Earth and rich organic soil is critical to healthy food production.
Global carbon stocks (carbon stored in pools), shown in gigatons.
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