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{{Short description|American politician and community organizer (born 1947)}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2011}}

[[File:Pg.2011.jpg|thumb|150px|Paul Glover]]
'''Paul Glover''' (born July 18, 1947) is a community organizer, author, and former university professor currently based in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].

==Community work==
Glover published local histories of Ithaca starting in the 1970s with Glad Day Press. In 1992, he 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.<ref name=pg1 /><ref name=pg2 />{{r|ny1996}}

He founded of the Philadelphia Orchard Project,<ref name=pg3 /> the Citizen Planners of Los Angeles<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulglover.org/8403.html |title=Citizen Planners: Designing Eco-Los Angeles |last=Glover |first=Paul |date=Spring 1984 |website=paulglover.org}}</ref> and the [[Ithaca Health Alliance]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ithacahealth.org |title=Ithaca Health Alliance - Free Clinic |website=ithacahealth.org}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2018}} He is author of several books on [[community economic development]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://paulglover.org/books.html |title=Books by Paul Glover |website=paulglover.org |access-date=2013-06-04}}</ref> a former professor of urban studies at [[Temple University]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulglover.org/evaluations.html |title=Ecological Economics |website=paulglover.org}}</ref> and [[Ecological economics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulglover.org/ecoeconsyllabus.html |title=Glover's Student Evaluations |website=paulglover.org}}</ref> at Philadelphia University.

He consults as Greenplanners and speaks on community economic development.<ref name=gg4 />{{When|date=November 2019}}

Glover suffered a stroke in January 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.facebook.com/designasociety/posts/2543367095705481  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/224569377585276/2543367095705481 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=The School for Designing a Society|website=[[Facebook]] }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/realpatchadams/posts/friend-teacher-and-co-conspirator-paul-glover-suffered-a-stroke-over-a-week-ago-/10156589436429475/  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/13924829474/10156589436429475 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Patch Adams|website=[[Facebook]] }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Political career==
Glover was the [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] candidate for mayor of [[Ithaca, New York]], in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulglover.org/mayor |title=Paul Glover for Mayor of Ithaca, NY |website=paulglover.org}}</ref>

Glover participated in the Green Party's presidential primaries in 2004.<ref name=gg>{{cite press release|url=http://www2.kings.edu/news/04-10/glover.htm |title=Paul Glover to discuss the Ithaca HOUR, an alternative form of money, during lecture at King's |date=7 April 2010 |access-date=10 February 2013 |location=Wilkes-Barre, PA |publisher=King's College |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203021416/http://www2.kings.edu/news/04-10/glover.htm |archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref>

Glover was the Green Party candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in [[2014 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election|2014]]<ref name=gg2>{{cite web |url=http://www.seventy.org/Elections_Candidates_for_Governor.aspx |title=Candidates for Governor |website=Committee of Seventy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140327021743/http://www.seventy.org/Elections_Candidates_for_Governor.aspx |archive-date=27 March 2014 |access-date=28 March 2014 }}</ref> and [[2018 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election|2018]].<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.gpofpa.org/green_party_of_pennsylvania_announces_six_candidates_for_2018_state_and_national_election |title=Green Party of Pennsylvania Announces Seven Candidates for 2018 State and National Election |date=27 March 2018 |access-date=10 May 2018  |publisher=Green Party of Pennsylvania}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Hometown Money: How to Enrich Your Community with Local Currency'', 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paulglover.org/currencybook.html|title = Hometown Money: How to Enrich Your Community with Local Currency}}</ref>

==References==
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<ref name=pg1>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-cDAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Paul+Glover%22&pg=PT17 |title=Mojo's December Hellraiser |date=Nov–Dec 1995 |last=Cooper |first=Amy |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]|page=16|access-date=28 June 2011}}</ref>

<ref name=pg2>{{cite journal |last=Fortier |first=Jana |title=Underthrowing the System: How Low Finance Undermines Corporate Culture |url=https://www.academia.edu/2307226 |journal=Conscious Choice: Journal of Ecology and Healthy Living |volume=September/October 1996, 9 |issue=5 |pages=61–3}}</ref>

<ref name=pg3>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/realestate/02nati.html?_r=0 |date=2 September 2007 |last=McGuire |first=Virginia C.  |title=Replacing Neglect With Peach Trees |work=The New York Times |access-date=4 June 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="gg4">{{cite web|url=http://www.paulglover.org/greenplanners.html |title=GreenPlanners Consultancy |website=paulglover.org}}</ref>

<ref name = ny1996>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/21/nyregion/our-towns-ithaca-hours-pocket-money-for-everyman.html |last=Nieves |first=Evelyn |title=Our Towns;Ithaca Hours: Pocket Money For Everyman |newspaper=The New York Times |page=001021 |date=21 January 1996}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* [http://paulglover.org/ paulglover.org]
* [http://paul-glover.blogspot.com Glover's blog]

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[[Category:People from Ithaca, New York]]
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[[Category:Temple University faculty]]
[[Category:Activists from New York (state)]]