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Triple roles: author, organizer, purse-string puller
 Jerry Mander:
International Forum on
Globalization (IFOG), President
(2000 salary $26,049)
The Foundation for Deep
Ecology, Program director (1999 salary
$104,336, benefits $16,512, expense account $10,333)
Public Media Center, Senior Fellow
President, the Turning Point Project
Funders Network on Trade and
Globalization, steering committee member (one of twelve). FNTG is
a project sponsored by the Environmental Grantmakers Association.
See also The Mander
Clusters: IFOG.
Jerry's background:
1960s: alleged to be one of Ken Kesey's
Merry Pranksters and a Grateful Dead promoter. Former president, Freeman, Mander & Gossage, a San
Francisco
advertising agency. He managed Sierra Club campaigns: against dams in the Grand Canyon; to take private timberland for Redwood National Park; and to
stop the U.S. Supersonic Transport (SST) airliner project.
In 1971, Mander formed a
non-profit advertising agency, Public Interest Communications.
During the 1990s he was a director of the unincorporated Elmwood Institute
(founded by Fritjof Capra), was a director of
Patagonia, Inc., Yvon Chouinard's
outdoor gear company. He is author of Four Arguments for the
Elimination of Television (1977), In the Absence of the Sacred (1991), and The
Case Against the Global Economy And For a Turn Toward the Local,
co-edited with Edward Goldsmith (1996).
He holds a masters degree from Columbia University’s Business School in international economics.
Jerry's message: Technological civilization is destroying nature and human life.
Jerry's solution: Dismantle technological civilization. Simple as that.
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