The Maryland Green Party’s Green New Deal 

1: Locally-based Economics and Grassroots Democracy

• Fund equitable public financing for state elections.

• Curtail and end pay-to-play politics.

• A thriving multi-party democracy where working class folks have a true voice; enact Ranked Choice Voting and third party ballot access

• A carbon neutral economy capable of providing green jobs for all who need them.

• Add a warning label to all campaign materials funded by the fossil fuel industry and other major climate-destroyer industries.

• Promote community owned banks to provide investment capital to fund green jobs to struggling areas. 

• Provide incentives for health care facilities. 

• Ensure adequate schooling for all areas of the state.  

• Promote locally-based, organic farming and urban gardening.

2: Social and Racial Justice

• Reparations

  • Reparations mean repaying communities for harm caused by the state and providing the autonomy for these communities to build the just, green future they choose. 

  • Initiate Maryland Environmental Neighborhood Defense Corps to remediate all lead paint in Baltimore’s Black Butterfly and brownfield sites across Maryland while incubating democratically-owned green businesses.

• Build bottom-up climate resilience. 

• Empowerment of marginalized communities and a democratic economy.

3: Nonviolence:

Climate apartheid and injustice is a major root cause of violence in Baltimore and across the state. Climate justice demands demilitarization and investment in community-controlled public safety.

• Maryland Must Stop Profiting from Climate Pollution by:

  • Ending tax breaks for corporate arms dealers.

  • Diverting funding from enforcement and incarceration to mediation and peace building. 

  • Enacting strict controls per and poly fluoroalkyl contamination.

  • Grassroots peacekeeping from individuals up, and across Maryland’s society.

4: Ecological Wisdom

The planet’s resources are finite. We must increase community wealth through greater equity, not unsustainable growth.

• Mandate 100% truly renewable energy: 100 Percent Clean Renewable Energy by 2032.

• Maryland must close all of its coal plants. 

• End all animal agriculture subsidies and overfishing. 

• End the use of toxic chemicals in our agriculture. 

• Phase out factory farms. 

• Encourage a plant-based diet.

• Divest state pension funds from fossil fuel companies.

• Protect Maryland's ecosystems and biodiversity, and restore our watersheds and landscapes to function as naturally as practicable.

• Ban single use plastics. 

• Begin the just transition to a green future now by all means necessary. 

• Build a circular economy that recycles all valuable resources.

• Build an economy powered not by endless growth, but by boundless equity.