. My plan was to first interview an authoritative figure such as a mayor, senator, some one in a political position. But as I looked in the phone book, I realized that the green party is very small (in proportion to the other parties) and does not have any local political figures representing them. This was a problem because the best source of information is probably some one who actually believes, and strives to live their life the way some one in the green party would. My next choice of searching was the encyclopedia. I found a little bit of information in the encyclopedia, but not too much. My last choice was to search the Internet. This too was somewhat of a problem.Any one who has searched the Internet before knows that there are millions of WebPages. Also, you know that about 95% of the time when you search, your results are pages that have nothing at all to do with what you are looking for. This is what happened to me. When I began to search, I ran into a lot of search engines that returned weird results. One site even sent me to a college party site when I typed green party. It was a nightmare at first, but as I kept searching, I learned how to search, and I learned which search engines were good, and which ones was just a bunch of garbage. Once I finally found a search engine that gave me the results I wanted, the information I found was full of great information that I probably would have never found in a encyclopedia, or from another person. One page I found gave me a good overlook on the green party its self, and the basic ideas behind it. There are nine main principles that guide the party to make the decisions, which it does. The first of those being Grass roots democracy.What is meant by Grass root democracy is every one counts. The green party strives to make every one in the communitys vote count, and not make a system where the senators, or the other political powers decide the laws for us. This means the pu...
