Ecology Party Ecology Party The Ecology Party was a political party in the United Kingdom. It succeeded the People Party after a name change in 1975. The Ecology Party was the second step for Green politics in Britain and the grassroots of the Green Party of England and Wales. The party won its first representation in 1976, when John Luck took a seat on Rother District Council in East Sussex, and party campaign secretary John Davenport won a parish council seat in Kempsey. Jonathan Tyler was elected as the first chairman of the party in 1976, and Jonathon Porritt became a prominent
Ecology Party (which encompasses around 124 520 words). At the same time, according to Wall, "the Post-1968 generation" began to join the Party, advocating non-violent direct action as an important element of the Ecology Party vision outside of electoral politics. This manifested itself in an apparent "decentralist faction" who gained ground within the Party, leading to Party Conference stripping the Executive of powers and rejecting the election of a single leader. The new generation was in evidence in the first 'Summer Green Gathering' in July 1980, the action of Ecology Party CND (later Green CND), and the Greenham Common camp. The Party