Commonweal was founded 50 years ago in Bolinas by Michael Lerner, a visionary pioneer in integrative cancer care, environmental health, and the emerging understanding of the global polycrisis—the convergence of climate disruption, democratic erosion, economic instability, social fragmentation, technological risk, and environmental degradation.
At a recent anniversary gathering, the organization’s executive director, Oren Slozberg, framed the nonprofit’s future in a manner both sobering and quietly galvanizing. He spoke of the polycrisis not as a…