Colin Beavan, better known as No Impact Man, is running for Congress as a Green.

Beavan, whose book and documentary film No Impact Man helped bring climate change into popular consciousness, will run for the seat currently held by Ed Towns in New York’s 8th Congressional District. Towns recently announced that he will not run for re-election.

The district includes much of Ft. Greene (where Beavan now lives), Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and East New York, as well as southern and southeastern parts of Brooklyn including Canarsie, Brighton Beach and Coney Island.

To see if you are in the district, check here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/20/nyregion/new-york-redistricting.html

To learn more, and to donate or volunteer, see http://www.votecolin.com.

The following interview with Grist magazine's senior editor, Greg Hanscom, appeared on April 6, 2012.
Lost amid the carnival of embarrassments that is the Republican presidential primary is the fact that there is another primary race underway: the Green Party’s. “What?” you say. “Those guys are still around?” Well yes, but they’re not guys.

Dr. Jill Stein, Green presidential candidate, was in New York last weekend, appearing at the Left Forum and at a couple of fundraisers in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She spoke about her Green New Deal. Her program to help students eliminate school debt got a lot of applause and twinkles in Manhattan.

While she was here, it was announced that two more states, Illinois and Wisconsin, have qualified for matching funds. If you know anyone in New Jersey or Pennsylvania, two more states that are on the road to qualifying, please encourage them to support Jill Stein with a donation now!

Going to Left Forum? See all the panels with Green Party activists speaking out on a wide variety of issues.