Jerry Mander

Jerry Mander, Director and Founder of the International Forum on Globalization.

"In addition to his role at IFG, Jerry Mander is the program director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and is a senior fellow at Public Media Center. Back in the 1960s Mander was president of a major San Francisco advertising company before turning his talents to environmental campaigns that kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, established Redwood National Park, and stopped production of the Supersonic Transport. His books include Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), In the Absence of the Sacred (1991), The Case Against the Global Economy And For a Turn Toward the Local, co-edited with Edward Goldsmith (1996), and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Posssible."


 * Director, Schumacher Center for a New Economics
 * Advisory Council, Institute of Science in Society

Recent Books

 * Mander, J. and Tauli-Corpus, V. (eds) 2006. Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalisation, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.
 * Jerry Mander, The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System (Counterpoint: Berkeley, 2012). Review by Saul Landau.

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Deep Ecology
 * John Cavanagh