Instructor: Stuart Parker
Format and Cost
The course, comprising thirteen sixty to ninety-minute classes, has a total cost of $150 US (an increase from $150 Canadian, at which registration costs were frozen 2020-24). Individual classes can also be purchased at $12.50 each.
Texts
Students will receive some articles, podcasts and interviews by the instructor, as well as excerpts from canonical Green texts by authors including John Muir, Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman.
Course Schedule
A meeting time will be mutually set by the instructor and students after course registrations are received. If you register but the course is at a time of day that does not work for you, your registration fee will be refunded in full.
| Date | Topics |
| February 25th, 2025 | Introduction and a taxonomy of “green” and “left” |
| February 27th, 2025 | Marx and Malthus: the canonical texts |
| March 4th, 2025 | The Seekers, the Sierra Club and the Republican Party: conservationists’ original right-wing alignment |
| March 6th, 2025 | Cesar Chavez, Rachel Carson, Earth Day and the proto-Green Left |
| March 11th, 2025 | From E F Schumacher to Petra Kelly: Realos, Fundis and the German Green Left Turn |
| March 13th, 2025 | Joan Russow vs. Joschka Fischer: the fall of the peace movement, the rise of the anti-war movement and the pro-NATO Greens |
| March 18th, 2025 | The legacy Green left of the Prairies and Quebec: from Montréal Écologique to Les Verts |
| March 20th, 2025 | “Not Left or Right But In Front:” the zombie slogan that never dies |
| March 25th, 2025 | From the Committees of Correspondence to Ralph Nader: the Greens and the American left |
| March 27th, 2025 | Left liberals, patricians and intellectuals in Green politics: from Per Gahrton to Andrew Weaver |
| April 1st, 2025 | Greens’ dance with democracy, yesterday and today: from Prescott Bush to Extinction Rebellion and deliberative polling |
| April 3rd, 2025 | Purity and pollution, contagion and corruption: Sonia Furstenau and the Greens in cultural partition |
| April 8th, 2025 | Course conclusion and the future of Greens on the left |
