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The now defunct Progressive Green Party was a political group with a strong environmental focus. It was closely aligned with the centre right National Party.
In the context of United Kingdom politics it refers to a possible alliance on certain issues between the Conservative Party and ecologists or environmentalists such as those found in the UK Green Party. This alliance may occur as a result of the Conservative view that market economics help preserve the environment and a tendency toward Deep England views of pastoralism, and the Green view that profit is not anywhere near as much of a threat to natural systems as debt.
In the context of the politics of the United States, the term refers to alliances between labor unionA union labor union in American English; trade union sometimes trades union in British English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers in a partis and environmentalistsEnvironmental movement is a term often used for any social or political movement directed towards the preservation, restoration, or enhancement of the natural environment. Here are some of the most prominent and well-defined examples: The North American C, and sometimes specifically to cooperation between the Green Party of the United Stateslogo depicts a stylized flower, a theme common in many worldwide green party logos. The Green Party of the United States is the national political party committee of the Green Party in the United States, as recognized by the Federal Elections Commission. and blue-collarA blue-collar worker is a working class employee who performs manual or technical labor, such as in a factory or in technical maintenance "trades", in contrast to a white-collar worker, who does non-manual work generally at a desk. This term has a stereot labor activists. The core issue of this alliance is opposition to globalizationGlobalization (or globalisation in its literal sense is a social change, an increased connectivity among societies and their elements due to transculturation; the explosive evolution of transport and communication technologies to facilitate international and to free tradeFree trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. Free trade is the absence of artificial ( government-imposed) barriers to trade among individuals and firms in different nati, and it was significant in the candidacy of Ralph NaderRalph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an activist attorney who opposes the power of large American corporations and has worked for decades on environmental, consumer rights, and pro-democracy issues. Nader has also been a strong critic of recent America in the 2000 Presidential electionIntroduction and summary results Presidential CandidatePartyStatePopular VoteElectoral Vote George Walker Bush Republican Texas50,456,00247. 87%271 Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. Democratic Tennessee50,999,89748. 38%266 Ralph Nader Green Connecticut2,882,9552., as Nader was endorsed by some labor organizations (the overwhelming majority of labor unions and environmental organizations are loyal to the Democratic Party and endorsed Al Gore).
It also continues to be used more generally to refer to any efforts at coalition-building between environmenalists and labor, as with the famous "teamsters and turtles" politics of the WTO Meeting of 1999 and the continuing anti-globalization movement.
One such example is the Blue Green Alliance[1], a grouping of officials, staff, and activists from organized labor and major environmental organizations representing more than nine million members, including the nation's largest union and largest environmental organization. This group has been very active in promoting a labor-friendly plan to stop global warming.
Other relevant organizations include the Alliance for the Sustainable Jobs and the Environment and the Apollo Alliance .
The two different meanings may not be as different as they first appear - the UK Conservative Party and US trade unions both favour universal health care, and are both suspicious of currency union or free trade provisions that extend to utterly open immigration. On the so-called left-right axis these forces may be very similar.
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