Michael Lerner (environmentalist)
Michael Lerner is co-founder and president of Commonweal, a nonprofit institute in Bolinas, California,.[1] He is co-founder and president emeritus of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.[2][3][4]
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 a B.A. from Harvard University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1971. He taught political science and psychology at Yale before moving to Bolinas and co-founding Full Circle, a residential center for children with learning and behavior disorders. In 1976, Lerner co-founded Commonweal.
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.commonweal.org/about/
- ↑ http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/luminaries/dr_michael_lerner
- ↑ Dance, Betsy; Williams, Kitty (2000). First aid yourself: essential breast cancer websites. Essential Websites. Hope Springs Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-9639531-8-4.
- ↑ Guenther, Robin; Vittori, Gail (2008). Sustainable healthcare architecture. John Wiley and Sons. p. 419. ISBN 0-471-78404-4.
- ↑ http://www.cleanmed.org/2009/awards/ehha.htm
- ↑ http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=detail&origin=ibids_references&therow=730699
- ↑ "Michael Lerner, PhD. Medicine and the environment. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan". Altern Ther Health Med 9 (2): 80–8. 2003. PMID 12652887.