Charlene Spretnak (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an author, academic and feminist credited with pioneering work in ecological thought and social criticism. She has contributed to the framing of the women's spirituality, ecofeminist and Green politics movements. Prof. Spretnak has also written three books on ecological politics and ecophilosophy. She is co-author of Green Politics: The Global Promise (Dutton, 1984), which was a catalyst for the forming of the Green Party movement in this country, of which she was a co-founder. In 1986 Spretnak teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a private San Francisco, California-based graduate school whose programs focus on clinical psychology on one hand, and the study of the world's various spiritual traditions on the other.
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