Paul Glover (activist)


Paul Glover is a community organizer, author, and former university professor currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Community work

In 1992, Glover founded the Ithaca Hours, one of the first local currency systems. He said he founded it because there wasn't enough money in the local community.
He founded of the Philadelphia Orchard Project, the Citizen Planners of Los Angeles and the Ithaca Health Alliance, He is author of several books on community economic development, a former professor of urban studies at Temple University, and Ecological Economics at Philadelphia University.
He consults as Greenplanners and speaks on community economic development.
On the night of Monday, January 7th, 2019, Paul Glover had a stroke. This was also stated in an online fund-raiser by close friends, with a Feb. 4,2019 follow-up note adding that "..memory seems to have taken a toll his vision is still out"

Political career

Glover was the Green Party candidate for mayor of Ithaca, New York, in 2003.
Glover participated in the Green Party's presidential primaries in 2004.
Glover was the Green Party candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 2014 and 2018.