Michael Lerner (environmentalist)
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Michael Lerner (born 1943, New York) is co-founder and president of Commonweal, a nonprofit institute in Bolinas, California and co-founder and president emeritus of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education
Born in 1943 in New York City, Lerner is the eldest son of the political philosopher Max Lerner, author of America as a Civilization and psychologist Edna Albers Lerner. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1971.[citation needed]
Career
Lerner taught political science and psychology at Yale before moving to Bolinas, California and co-founding Full Circle, a residential treatment center for children with learning and behavior disorders. In 1976, Lerner co-founded Commonweal, a self-described "educational center," located in Bolinas.[citation needed]
Awards
- 1966 Fulbright Fellowship, Brazil
- 1984 MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health
- 1993 U.S.-Japan Leadership Fellowship
- 2009 Environmental Health Hero Award, CleanMed[5]
Works
- "Surviving the Great Dying", Yes!, Mar 31, 2003
- "The Age of Extinction and The Emerging Environmental Health Movement", Commonweal
- Michael Lerner, PhD. Medicine and the environment. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan.[6][7]
- Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-262-62104-5
References
- ↑ http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/luminaries/dr_michael_lerner
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- ↑ http://www.commonweal.org/about/
- ↑ http://www.cleanmed.org/2009/awards/ehha.htm
- ↑ http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=detail&origin=ibids_references&therow=730699
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