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Welcome to the Greens

What on Earth is Happening?

Industrial society is destroying the planet's life-support systems. It pollutes the air we breathe, the water we drink, the soil needed to grow food, and the social relations needed to allow people to be healthy and happy. The world's forests are under a death sentence. Pollution has reached the summit of mountains, the depths of the oceans, and outer space.  There is a Better Way of Living

The Greens

  • realise a society is sustainable only when it acts in harmony with the natural world.
  • are united in their belief that ecological economics and a new political consciousness can achieve this harmony.
  • take advice from experts and link it to local decision-making and personal responsibility for the results of personal action.

An Environmental Party - and More

The Green Party is more than just an environmental group. We encompass the entire political, social, and economic spectrum. All Green Party policies and action - economics, work, social supports, transport, and agriculture - are decided in accord with two fundamental principles:

  • care for the earth, and
  • care for people.

'Quality of Life' indicators are preferred by the Greens when measuring our own and society's performance - not quantity of goods consumed. Planet Earth is productive enough to support the needs of all, but it can not continue to support the consumer society. The way we live now is unsustainable, but it is hard to change the habits of a lifetime. By working together, each one of us can more easily accept, then practise, green economics and the quality life-style that nature can live with.

Until today economics has singled out and valued the energy of human work. Everything else has been taken and exploited as gifts of nature, and not valued. Traditional economics does not understand the real world and this is most obvious in its basic premise: "grow to survive". The Greens' view is that the environment can not survive the continued growth of industrial economies. The Greens are

  • informed. The Green economy gives everybody access to information about successes and failures, locally, and globally.
  • adaptable, and not ruled by the narrow demands of the few.
  • selective. The Green economy grows, but only for those sectors that can sustainably provide people's real needs by harmonizing human technology with nature's forces.

What changes do The Green Party want to see?

Health and education are just as important, if not more so, than our material wealth. The Greens work for the harmonised maturing of our physical, emotional, and spiritual lives. The Green Party

  • is working for a society that values caring, co-operation, nurturing, and sharing relationships between its people.
  • accords equal opportunity (and obligations) to people of all race, ages, and abilities; it does not value one sex above another; and within those constraints it respects the rights of people to act to sustain their cultural and natural heritage.
  • guarantees the provision to all of the basic human needs of food, shelter, health care, and education.
The Green Party is the only political grouping who, rather than trying to become leaders of industry and politics, will know we have succeeded when people no longer need us.


Interested? Join the Greens!

All over New Zealand, Green Party representatives are working in national and local politics, bringing the principles of social justice, appropriate decision making, non-violence, and ecological wisdom into the political process, and making connections between caring for people and caring for the planet. Committed to thinking globally and acting locally, the Greens are the most important international movement the world has seen.