Green Party of California

Application for Member, Delegation to Green Party of the United States
(job description)
received February 28, 2011

Name  -  Woody Hastings
City - Sebastopol
County  - Sonoma
Contact information - woodyhastings@gmail.com
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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-present: 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), sader delegate in 2000, Cobb delegate in 2004; McKinney delegate in
2008
• 2007-present: GPCA Delegate to GPUS

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, and community organizer focusing primarily on renewable energy and air quality 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 of the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains from 2001 to 2007 (an LA County Supervisor-appointed office). I'm currently working with municipalities on deployment of clean renewable fuel infrastructure for
municipal vehicle fleets. I serve on the Board of Directors of the Riverside, CA based non-profit Clean Air Now; serve as an appointed member of the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Agency's Citizens Advisory Council where I have established a Sustainable Transportation Subcommittee for which I serve as Chair; and serve as an appointed member of the San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force. Education: BA, Environmental Studies

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

First and foremost I want to do a good job of representing San Francisco and California at large to the GPUS. 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. My intention for this term is to make a renewed commitment to take part in the discussion of proposals before the GPUS CC, participate in the monthly teleconferences, and attend delegation meetings at State General Assemblies.