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The Nation Institute is a liberal-left independently funded and administered organization. It is a nonprofit media center for progressive ideas[1]
Board of Trustees
The following are members of the Board of Trustees, as of March 26, 2010.[1]
- Ellen Chesler
- Ron Daniels
- Howard Dodson
- Nancy Dunlap
- Paula Giddings
- Danny Goldberg
- David Jones
- Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
- Victor Navasky
- Tim Robbins
- Cynthia Ryan
- Howard Shapiro
- Domna Stanton
- Catharine Stimpson
- Rose Styron
- Katrina vanden Heuvel
- Davis Weinstock
IPS connection
In September 14-16, 2007 the International forum on Globalization and the Institute for Policy Studies presented a "teach in" at the The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium.
Co-sponsors were The Nation Institute, Global Project on Economic Transitions, Progressive Student Union at GWU, Sierra Club, Greenpeace.
Confronting the Global Triple Crisis-Climate Change * Peak Oil * Global Resource Resource Depletion and Extinction.
Speakers at the Ingredients of systemic change workshop were;
- Martin Khor (Malaysia), director, Third World Network
- Wes Jackson, president, the Land Institute; author, New Roots for Agriculture
- Frances Moore Lappe, author, Diet for a Small Planet and Hope’s Edge
- Jack Santa Barbara (Canada), Sustainable Scale Project
- Carl Pope, executive director, Sierra Club
- Susan George (France), chair, Transnational Institute; author, Fate Worse Than Debt
- Smitu Kothari (India), director, Intercultural Resources, India; professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
- Tom Butler, editor, Wild Earth
- Wolfgang Sachs (Germany), research director, Wuppertal Institute; author, Greening the Northand Fair Future[2]