The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States is organizing its annual Earth Day to May Day webinar on Monday April 13 at 8 PM ET. Register here for the zoom link.

The Earth Day to May Day theme highlights the interconnection between critical issues such as climate change, environmental justice, worker and immigrant rights, peace, anti-racism, and biodiversity. We won’t solve any of these problems without also addressing and solving the rest.

Speakers include:

• Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein;
  
• Michael Johnson, Democracy Campaign Manager at Third Act
  
• Professor Butch Ware, Green Party of California nominee for Governor of California.

This year, with Trump as climate-denier-in-chief and many Democratic Governors (e.g., Hochul in NY, McKee in Rhode Island, Sherill in NJ, and Shapiro in PA) in full-retreat on existing climate laws, the Green Party is working to reboot its ecosocialist Green New Deal. May Day is also important this year with many labor, immigrant groups, and Indivisible / No Kings coming together to promote a general strike. Michael will speak to this.

The Green Party in 2010 initiated the call for an ecosocialist Green New Deal, which combined a call for a ten year conversion to zero greenhouse gas emissions and 100% clean renewable energy with a strong Economic Bill of Rights (single payer health care, living wage jobs and guaranteed income for all, housing, free college education) that centered on environmental justice and a Just Transition, along with public power. (See the March webinar on the Green New Deal.)  

Jill Stein has consistently used the period between Earth Day (April 22) and May Day to connect environmentalism with economic justice, labor rights, and anti-war activism. She has long advocated for merging climate action with a pro-worker agenda, promoting the "Green New Deal" as a way to create jobs while combating ecological destruction. Stein helped organize the Global Climate Convergence, an initiative designed to unite social, economic, and environmental justice movements.

The United States – and the planet – are facing existential challenges from accelerating climate change and the determination by Donald Trump to establish a dictatorship to further enrich himself and fellow oligarchs. The role of civil society and the rule of law are rapidly being dismantled, with many immigrants being kidnapped by ICE as Trump’s personal militia. The Green Party advocates for the abolition of ICE along with full legal protections for immigrants.

Third Act is a community of Americans over 60 that mobilizes elders to protect democracy and the climate, fighting voter suppression, supporting voting rights, and tackling authoritarianism through organized actions. They run national campaigns and local working groups focused on voter empowerment, legislative advocacy, and election integrity to ensure a sustainable, equitable future. 

The webinar will explore these issues and provide examples of actions that people can take in their own communities.

Register here for zoom link.

The EcoAction committee of the Green Party of the US held an open discussion on Monday March 9 at 8 PM ET about its ecosocialist Green New Deal proposal, which it first promoted in 2010, and how to push the GND in the current political climate. Presenters include Howie Hawkins, Nina Schlegel, and Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright.

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States held a discussion on the future of Artificial Intelligence on Monday, January 12, 2026. Note: Maureen Doyle is blurry at the beginning due to problems with her computer screen).

Three speakers led off the discussion – Gus Steeves, Violet Zitola and Andy Ellis - and then throw it open for comments and observations from attendees.

• The EcoAction Committee held a webinar on Nuclear is a False Climate Solution on Monday, July 14.

Nuclear power is pushing for a big revival both is the US and worldwide, partially on the false premise that it is carbon free – ignoring its carbon footprint from the construction of the plants (cement); the mining, processing, and transportation of its uranium fuel; and the hundreds of thousands of years to store it deadly radioactive waste. It takes so long to build that it cannot come on line fast enough to prevent breaching the 1.5 C (or even 2 C target). It is also by far the most expensive form of electricity. There are also safety and environmental health problems with nuclear power.

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the US hosted a webinar on Zero Waste on Monday, May 12th at 8 PM ET. 

Zero waste, or waste minimization, is a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages redesigning resource life cycles so that all products are repurposed and/or reused. The goal of the movement is to avoid sending trash to landfills, incinerators, oceans, or any other part of the environment.

The EcoAction and Coordinated Campaign Committees of the Green Party of the United States held a webinar with Green Party candidates on climate and ecological issues on Monday, October 14.

Among the issues to be highlighted by candidates will be an Ecosocialist Green New Deal; fighting fossil fuels, incineration, and nuclear power; Indigenous Rights; promoting the Rights of Nature and biodiversity; zero waste; ending single-use plastics; Making Polluters Pay; sustainable agriculture; environmental justice; and, the right to clean water and air.

10th Annual Degrowth Summer School, Barcelona, June 3, 2024

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the U.S. held a webinar on Monday, June 10 about the issue of degrowth. The workshop explored various issues within the degrowth movement, including how to deal with the present level of development in the Global South.

The Green Party of the United States calls upon the Biden administration to support a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels and a ten-year transition to 100% renewable energy, with zero greenhouse gas emissions, at the COP28 climate summit that runs from November 30 to December 9.

The Green Party, which began calling for a robust ecosocialist Green New Deal in 2010, insists that the U.S. support a just transition for all, and recognizes the disproportionate impact of climate change on vulnerable communities, which requires making climate reparations to the Global South to pay for the climate damage mainly caused by polluters from the industrial north.

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the U.S. held a forum on Monday, November 13 about the perils of garbage and waste incineration. The workshop discussed ways to combat incinerators, both existing and new ones

Incineration creates and/or releases harmful chemicals and pollutants, including: Air pollutants such as particulate matter, which cause lung and heart diseases; Heavy metals such as lead and mercury, which cause neurological diseases; Toxic chemicals, such as PFAS and dioxins, which cause cancer and other health problems. In addition to its high costs, government contracts with garbage incinerators often provide a financial disincentive to recycling and waste reduction as the government may be penalized for diverting waste from the incinerator.

WASHINGTON, DC — The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States (Green Party US) condemns President Biden’s year of climate negligence and renews the call to pressure the president to declare a climate emergency and issue a comprehensive series of related Executive Orders, as described on ClimatePresident.org.