Green Party of California

Application for Member, Delegation to Green Party of the United States
(job description)
received March 25th, 2007

Name  -  Woody Hastings
City - San Francisco
County  - San Francisco
Contact information - 415-285-3824
whastings@earthlink.net
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1) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills within the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.

• 1990-2007: Attended, participated in numerous state GP plenaries and gatherings;
• 1990: Co-founder, Topanga Greens;
• 1991/92: Helped gather signatures to put GP on CA ballot;
• 1996-2002: GPLAC County Council;
• 2000: So Cal Coordinator, Nader/LaDuke 2000;
• 1996, 2000, 2004: Attended 1996 nominating convention (gowego), served as delegate in 2000/2004

2) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills outside of the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.

I’m a 20+ year strategic planner, public policy analyst, community organizer focusing primarily on renewable energy, air quality, and solid waste-related issues. I’ve served as the regional director of a statewide environmental non-profit, in elected office as an environmental planning deputy, for a regional air quality agency as a senior public information specialist, and in the private sector advancing renewable energy projects and programs. I served as a Green public office holder as a Director for the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains from 2001 to 2007, a position appointed by LA County Supervisor. I’m currently working with municipalities on implementation of clean renewable alt fuel applications for municipal vehicle fleets, and with the San Francisco State University Department of Environmental Studies organizing a January 2008 “Focus The Nation” global warming summit conference.

3) Please describe your vision for serving as GPUS Delegate including addressing the job description for GPUS Delegate.

I want to act in good faith as a representative of the state and help guide the national party through this extended period of “growing pains.” I want to help develop a stable, functional, efficient, responsive and accountable national Party organization that gets things done. I want to help foster the development of robust GPs in all fifty states. I want to help reclaim for the GP many of the issues for which, in many cases, we have been the sole champions, but for which we do not get credit/recognition. The best example is global warming. The GP has been solid on that all along, but Al Gore, who failed to address it significantly while in the White House for eight years, and who barely mentioned it in the 2000 campaign, but was happy to talk about “clean” coal, has now completely captured the issue with his Inconvenient Truth film. The GP needs to make the effort to re-seize that issue. I want to help advance Ranked Choice Voting and other electoral reforms. I know that there are a lot of internal administrative and procedural issues like bylaws amendments, etc. that need to be handled by this body and I’m willing to participate in that process as well.