Paul Glover (activist)

Paul Glover (born July 18, 1947) is a community organizer, author, and former university professor currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

[1][2][3] He founded of the Philadelphia Orchard Project,[4] the Citizen Planners of Los Angeles[5] and the Ithaca Health Alliance,[6][failed verification] He is author of several books on community economic development,[7] a former professor of urban studies at Temple University,[8] and Ecological economics[9] at Philadelphia University.

[11][12] Glover was the Green Party candidate for mayor of Ithaca, New York, in 2003.