Michael Lerner (environmentalist)
Michael Lerner is co-founder of Commonweal Wellness, a health and environmental research institute, and of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Cancer Society.
Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts
Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts is a nonprofit health, education and creative arts organization that serves individuals, families and communities affected by cancer and other serious illnesses. The organization's work is grounded in the idea that each person has tremendous innate abilities to heal in the face of illness.
Founded in 1996 by Washington D.C. artist and benefactor Barbara Smith Coleman, together with Michael Lerner, Smith Farm Center is located in Washington DC's U Street Corridor.
In May of 2008, the organization opened the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts gallery to promote the understanding and utilization of the arts for healing. The gallery is open to the public and exhibits works that focus on individual, community and global issues.
Awards
- 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2009 Environmental Health Hero Award CleanMed
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.
- Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 9780262621045