Green Catalogs

The main focus of the Green Movement and its Green members are issues related to ecology, conservation and the environment but they also delve into civil rights, social justice, world peace and feminism.  The Green Movement extracts its ethical and moral views from an assortment of sources which mostly originate among indigenous people in remote parts of the world as well as from Mohandas Gandhi, Spinoza and Uexküll.  Acting with passion and enthusiastic drive, the Green Movement is a philosophy which has arisen in 1970s as the first official Green Political Party in the world was created in Hobart, Australia and was called the United Tasmania Group.

The Green Movement expanded into many other nations throughout the world only in the early years of the 1980s, with Germany having formed a Green Party which attracted much media attention as it coined the term “green” (“Grün” in German) and as it adopted the sunflower as its symbol.  The German Greens also organized a conference in 1980 and it was at that time that several key principles of the Green Party were identified.  These principles were called the Four Pillars of the Green Party (Ecological wisdom, Social justice, Grassroots democracy and Nonviolence) and they were adopted by other Green Parties around the world.  However, the Green Committees of Correspondence in the United States in 1984 broadened the Four Pillars into Ten Key Values by adding the following six:  Decentralization, Community-based economics, Post-patriarchal values (later translated to Feminism), Respect for diversity, Global responsibility and Future focus.

By 2001, the Greens around the world were organized into an international Green Movement which became known as the Global Greens Charter and they proclaimed six guiding doctrines:  Ecological wisdom, Social justice, Participatory democracy, Nonviolence, Sustainability and Respect for diversity.  The Green Political Parties of the Global Greens Charter were then structured into four continental federations:  Federation of Green Parties of Africa, Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas / Federación de los Partidos Verdes de las Américas, Asia-Pacific Green Network and European Federation of Green Parties.

It is important to note that men’s insensitive actions against nature were expressed in ancient Rome as well as long ago China as environmental issues such as air, water and noise pollution were complained about.  Therefore, anxiety about the nature around us is not an invention of the Green Movement but rather a reawakening.  Furthermore, the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century prompted naturalistic philosophies from enlightened thinkers such as the French Rousseau and the American Thoreau and triggered the establishment of such conservation movements as the Sierra Club in 1892 (San Francisco, California).

Green catalogs are those catalogs that display products and/or services which are in line with the philosophy of the Green Movement and its Green Political Parties on environmental and ecological issues and so on.  Below you will find a list of some of the Green catalogs available on the Internet:

• Nordstrom, the specialty fashion retailer, of Seattle, Washington is the first out of the many chain department stores that had committed to making their catalogs Green by printing them on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified stock with 30 percent post-consumer waste.
• Gaiam offers its customers products and services that honor the environment, value sustainable economy, promote healthy lifestyles as well as alternative healthcare and personal development.
• Kiva is a first of its kind person-to-person lending website for people who want to lend with the intent of relieving poverty.
• Rainforest Rescue is a non-profit organization that sells trees for restoring rainforests around the world.