Real change for Saint Paul

GreenSaintPaul's goals are to elect principled, grassroots candidates to city offices, to create practical improvements in city policy and support bottom-up neighborhood projects that improve life in Saint Paul. Our efforts are fueled by the desire to live in a city that can meaningfully address issues in a way that reflects core values that many of our neighbors share: grassroots democracy, social and economic justice, environmental wisdom, and non-violence.

Click here to learn more about an important opportunity to get improved recycling and curbside composting in Saint Paul. We're calling on the Mayor and the City Council to include these improvements in the budget process going on right now.

The Green Party of Sant Paul worked hard to collect signatures and work with other organizations to pressure the City Council to adopt Ranked Choice Voting in 2009. The introduction of Ranked Choice Voting in Saint Paul presents a great opportunity to get more people involved, and bring the vision, values and ideas of the Green Party to Saint Paul city government.

We ran several candidates for local offices in 2011 to challenge incumbents in elections that would otherwise feature no voice advocating for our principles and demanding something better than the status quo. Our candidates earned second place in three elections (looking at first-choice preferences). We created a platform for improving Saint Paul, knocked on thousands of doors, and earned thousands of votes to support a progressive vision for a better city.

Please read about our platform and values by clicking the tabs above, and sign up to join us as we continue working to improve city policy and support grassroots candidates for office.

Saint Paul deserves a strong, vibrant and resilient local economy that creates good jobs

• Support locally owned businesses by adopting and implementing favorable regulatory, tax, and policy changes.
• Address the foreclosure crisis in St Paul to help people keep their homes, increase community stability and increase local economic activity.
• Invest in our transit infrastructure to increase access to local businesses and improve the livability of our neighborhoods.

Saint Paul deserves a greener, healthier environment

• Adopt and implement policies that put St. Paul on a path toward carbon neutrality and zero waste to grow a vibrant green economy.
• Create and enforce city-wide development standards that increase sustainability and livability.
• Support urban agriculture and city policies that provide access to healthy, affordable food for all residents

Saint Paul can reduce racial disparities and treat all of its residents with fairness, dignity and respect

• Reduce disparities in employment and economic development by prioritizing city resources to build and support minority and women owned businesses
• Ensure that city investments benefit residents and increase access to city services, green space, libraries and community centers, especially in our underserved communities.
• Strengthen civilian oversight of police and establish effective civilian review of city inspectors to eliminate disparities in corrections and law enforcement.

Saint Paul can tap in to the wisdom and energy of its residents to increase local self determination

• Meaningfully engage and involve neighbors and local organizations to identify and solve the most pressing issues facing our neighborhoods and city.
• Improve and expand our district council system to be a key partner in decision making at the city level.
• Reinvest and recommit to keep recreation centers, parks and libraries open to support community building.

Saint Paul can provide all of our children with a safe, healthy learning environment to achieve academic excellence and build community leadership

• Meaningfully engage our children, parents and community to build support and a shared vision for our schools.
• Provide teachers with resources, training, support and accountability to close the achievement gap and increase the graduation rate for St. Paul’s students of color.
• Provide a nourishing environment at our schools through student empowerment, conflict resolution training, peace studies and connection to local, healthy foods.