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Randy Toler
Randy Toler (born 1956) is an American politician who coined term “ecologism” in 1970’s, a theory of environmental economics. Mr. Toler coined the term “ecologism” to articulate the political manifestations of ecology in response to the UK Ecology Party’s use of ecology as a scientific word in a political context believing a new word was needed that is separate from it’s scientific definition. He shared his theory by placing ads in the magazines, The Ecologist, Progressive & Mother Jones. He is also an early member of the US Green Party and was first person to register the Green Party with the Federal Election Commission in Washington D.C. in 1983 and was first to appear on CSPAN for US Green Party. (citation-http://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/19/us/usa-green-party-comes-to-washington-and-backs-mondale.html).

Born in Elgin, Illinois in 1956, Mr. Toler’s parents moved to Niles, Michigan when he was two years old and he became politically active at Niles High School during the height of the Vietnam War but was not drafted with a draft number of four as the war ended in 1976. Mr. Toler attended and graduated from University of Missouri and was also active politically, running for Student Body President, finishing third out of six candidates.

During the 1980’s & 1990’s Mr. Toler lived in both Northern Illinois and Southern California at different times working in IT Sales and organized Green Party meetings in both states. He ran for Mayor in Illinois’s second largest city, Aurora, twice. In the second election in 2001 he received 15% of the vote. Earlier in California Mr. Toler was a key initial organizer of protests against Malathion spraying both in early 80’s and late 80’s, appearing frequently on TV. (http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-30/news/ga-428 1 monterey-park)

Mr. Toler moved his wife and his four year old daughter to the Tampa, Florida area in 2005, and became active in the Florida Green Party and Hillsborough County School System, the eighth largest in the US. During this time he and wife celebrated the birth of two more sons. Mr. Toler is currently running for Countywide School Board seat focus on Special Needs students with the awareness of their unique needs he derives from the fact that his youngest son is autistic.

Mr. Toler has worked for a Mainframe Software Company in sales since moving to Tampa and also has expertise in Green IT and Ecosoftware. Mr. Toler’s moderate approach to national green politics is to broaden the base by appealing to Democrats, Republicans & Libertarians with inclusive approach of creating jobs without pollution and without new taxes.