We’re getting to the point where long-range analyses of our movement should be available

Steven Welzer
1 min readSep 22, 2021

Earth Day and the first Green parties date from about fifty years ago. Some of the enduring intentional community settlements were established during the 1990s:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/07/30/BC-Celebrates-Quarter-Century-Co-Housing/

These are different manifestations of the greening movement. It now has enough of a legacy as to be subjected to meaningful evaluation.

There are, of course, many particular books about different aspects of the movement. In 1991 Andrew Dobson published a good “broad overview” type of book, The Green Reader, and the following year Kirk Sale offered The Green Revolution. It would be great to see someone follow-up with a similar text now, thirty years later. Such a work should analyze the individual currents and their interrelationships:
. Deep Ecology
. Social Ecology
. Transition Towns
. Ecovillages
. Cohousing communities
. Green parties
. Indigenism
. Bioregionalism
. Eco-socialism
. Eco-communitarianism
. Permaculture
. Renewable energy
. Decentralism
. Degrowth theory
. Voluntary simplicity
. Appropriate technology
. Animal rights

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Steven Welzer

The editor of Green Horizon Magazine, Steve has been a movement activist for many years (he was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review”).