The idea here is for communities to decide how they meet these criteria for becoming sustainable economically, ecologically and socially.Through a community decision-making process. And exactly how that would be configured, you know, remains to be established. The process of community budgeting, participatory budgeting, is one model that's been suggested.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

We are in the target hairs in this election [2016]. We are all asking whether we are going to have a world at all or not going forward.

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

The Green Party provides the infrastructure, kind of the culture of watchdogging the electoral bureaucracy, and how you participate, how you get on the ballot, stuff like that which is very difficult to do unless you have billions of dollars.