Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His current initiatives at Commonweal are Omega, the Omega Resilience Awards, the Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles Global, CancerChoices, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal. He is also president of the Jenifer Altman Foundation and a principal co-founder of the Health and Environmental Funders Network. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard and his doctoral work in psychology and politics at Yale before teaching at Yale in the early 1970s. He co-founded Commonweal in Bolinas, California in 1976. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1984 and is the author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press) and numerous other publications.
Michael Lerner
by Dr. Michael Lawrence at The Cascade Institute….. In this framework, a global crisis arises when one or more fast-moving trigger events combines with slow-moving stresses to push a global system out of its established equilibrium and into a volatile and harmful state of disequilibrium. We then identify three causal pathways—common stresses, domino effects, and inter-systemic feedbacks—that can connect multiple global systems to produce synchronized crises.
In this Omega Collaborative webinar, Omega founder Michael Lerner speaks with Thomas Homer Dixon to discuss his forthcoming book Commanding Hope, The Upside of Down, and The Cascade Institute.
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In this Omega Conversation, Omega founder Michael Lerner is in conversation with Rufus Pollock, a global expert on the information society. They discuss a radical alternative to social change
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In this Omega conversation, Omega founded Michael Lerner discuss envisioning a better world with Ian Goldin. In Ian Goldin’s 2001 book Rescue, he reflects on lessons of the pandemic
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In this Omega webinar, Omega founder Michael Lerner and guest Philip Yun engaged a discussion about the nature of the struggle ahead for democratic governance in the new world
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRsEyQRjr_s
An Omega Collaborative Rapid Response webinar: Implications of damage to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
What is happening at the power plant? What does “meltdown” mean in this case?…
https://youtu.be/HRY0rHOkwbs
Managing increasing demand for water, clean air, minerals, energy, and food is rapidly becoming one of our greatest challenges. What strategies are available to us? Are there alternatives
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