The World Ecological Parties (WEP) is an international association of mainly ecological parties. The WEP was founded in November 2003 in Mainz, Germany and elected its first board in April 2004 in Strasbourg, France. It organized an Eco Camp in 2005, General Assembly - 1–3 April 2005 in Lisbon Portugal, General Assembly - 6 & 7 May 2006 in Vršac Serbia; General Assembly - 25–27 May 2007 in Hungary. The WEP is independent from the Global Greens which organize the major Green parties.
Present member parties are:
- Cosmopolitan Party of Canada, Canada
- Debout pour le Congo, DR Congo
- Duurzaam Nederland, Netherlands
- Grønne Demokrater, Denmark
- Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant, France
- Partido da Terra, Portugal
- Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei, Germany
- Ecologists Greece, Greece
- Partia e Blerte Shqiptare, Albania
- Partia Ekologjike e Kosoves (PEK), Kosovo
- Sauvons le Congo, DR Congo
- Zelena Stranka, Serbia
- Zöld Párt (Hungarian Social Green Party), Hungary.
Network Partners:
- Nuclear Disarmament Party, Australia
- Asol, Togo NGO
other wep organisations:
- WEPY - World Ecological Parties Youth
Members of the board are:
- President: Erida Luka, Albania
- Vice President: Budimir Babic, Serbia
- General Secretary: Ellen Eigemeier, Germany
- Treasurer: Ulrike Brandhorst, Germany
- Event-Manager: Otto Stekler, Hungary
- Members of the Board: Michael McGee, France
- Members of the Board: Goran Dimitrijevski, Serbia
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“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world’s total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Remorse—is Memory—awake—
Her Parties all astir—
A Presence of Departed Acts—
At window—and at Door—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)