GP Radio: July 3
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Achieving Global Government — A Conversation with Adrienne Carr
Adrienne Carr is the former Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia and current Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada. Back in April 2007, she was the Green Party representative for the opening of the movement to create a United Nations Parliamentry Assembly.
This assembly wants to create a parliament where each country will eventually send elected parliamentarians to represent all the peoples of the world.
Building Bridges with Business: A Conversation with Erich Jacoby-Hawkins
Erich Jacoby-Hawkins moved to close the gap between the Green Party and local businesses by encouraging his Electoral District Association to join the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce.
Listen to his reasons why not only should Green EDAs join their local Chamber of Commerce, but why Greens are ethically obligated to do so. Greens must realize that business forms an integral part of the sustainability solution.
You can read about Erich’s contributions and success by clicking this link.
Green Party and Airwolf: An Artistic Connection
Ernie Cline is one of my favorite beat poets. Once, while listening to his poem, Airwolf, I came to the understanding that that is what I wanted the Green Party to be: Airwolf.
Listen to his performance and tell me: how can we make the Green Party Airwolf?
You can hear more of Ernie Cline’s poetry by clicking this link.
If you’re too young to remember, Airwolf was a show from the ’80s:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gH1WxcHCS74
July 8th, 2007 at 12:12 am
i don’t get the “Airwolf” analogy…please explain…
July 8th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Wow, that’s tough to answer because this is a discussion of aesthetics. The ‘flavour’ of things, if you will. I will, however, do my best to describe it.
If you listen to Ernie Cline’s poem, Airwolf, he argues that the term ‘airwolf’ should be used to describe anything of beauty, majesty and intensity. I think that many of the ideas of the Greens fit this category.
Take nuclear power. While I could go on at length about its dangers and risks, people would turn off after a while. But if I said nuclear power isn’t airwolf, then we’re talking about what we ‘do’ want, instead of what we don’t.
Nuclear power has never been an elegant technology. The cooling towers are ugly. It is a ‘brute force’ approach to energy generation. We rip up pristine ground to obtain the uranium and process it. We may be killed by nuclear accident or terrorist threat.
There’s just nothing that is aesthetically pleasing about it.
Wind power, on the other hand, is light, highly responsive to changes in wind direction like a ballet dancer and, for me, represents a harmonious connection between humanity and nature. Especially since they geared the blade rotation so it wouldn’t kill birds…
Having a flashlight with batteries you throw in the garbage, is not good technology. Not to mention that the batteries seem to go whenever you need it the most.
LED flashlights that generate power by being shaken — airwolf
Electric cars that don’t burn fossil fuels at stoplights — airwolf
Electric cars that are equipped with their own solar panels — uber airwolf.
Airwolf is the means to describe the ‘flavor’ of the new technology we are rapidly developing. We want to stand in wonder and in awe at what we create. It is a means of separating ‘good’ technology from ‘bad’ technology.
Strategic voting in elections because I only get one ‘x’ is an ugly, brute force way of making democratic decisions because the system is forcing me to make a decision I don’t want to make.
Mixed Member Proportional Representation, currently being debated for adoption in Ontario, enables you to give a multi-level answer that enables you to vote simultaneously for a person and an idea: I like the Green Party but I don’t like the person running in my district. I can vote against the person and for the party. Or vice versa.
THAT’s airwolf.