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User:MaynardClark is Maynard S. Clark of Boston.

He researches and writes about the areas of his work, volunteering, and interests, including useful, worthwhile research and thoughtful understanding of key historic topics vital to the survival and well-being of human life and human society, and of nature in general - including clean, appropriate scale renewable energy; evidence-based whole foods plant-based vegan diets; and social mechanisms which promote, foster, and enhance mutually rewarding and establishing collaborations for the greater public (and private) good.

  • Previous roles:
    • Census Field Supervisor, Census 2020 - Boston, Massachusetts
    • Director, Crius Energy/Viridian International - reorganized in mid-2016 as Viridian International Management, LLC[19][20] and recently purchased by Vistra Energy. In October 2019, Vistra Energy, a Texas-based integrated power company, completed the acquisition of Crius Energy LLC, including its subsidiary Viridian International Management, for approximately $328 million. As a result, Crius Energy and Viridian International are now part of Vistra Energy, and their operations have been integrated into Vistra's retail electricity business.
    • Program Manager, Ethical Issues in Global Health Research
    • Officer, Board Member, Mission Hill Health Movement
    • Vice President, VeggieSeek (online supply chain-integrated vegetarian travel and dining website)
    • Vice President of Ethics, Campaign for Aging Research (C.A.R.)
    • Administrative roles in various large, complex organizations.
    • Founder, Board Member, Officer (President, Co-President, Vice-President, Corporate Secretary), Boston Vegetarian Society
    • Founder, Vegetarians In New Energy Resources (V.I.N.E.S.)
    • Member, National Society of Musicians for Animals (N.M.S.A.) p. 29, The Vegan:The magazine of The Vegan Society. Winter 1988. Published on November 30, 1988. Performed at March for Animals, 1990, in Washington DC.
    • National Education Coordinator, Farm Animal Rights Movement (F.A.R.M.), coordinating the annual Great American Meatout (formerly Farm Animal Reform Movement))
    • Office Operations Supervisor (OOS) - 5-city area, Census 2000 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Fun fact

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Maynard Clark has several distant relatives and some close relatives with whom he shares common ancestors who have Wikipedia articles about them and/or their work. [21]

However, he reports that he has yet to meet in person any close relatives who are mentioned on Wikipedia (and there are quite a few), despite his efforts. Connecting with living relatives who have Wikipedia entries—whether in person, by phone, or via live text—is something he says that he hopes to do someday. Perhaps it belongs on his bucket list rather than in it! His closest such living relative with a Wikipedia article is a first cousin, and he also has several living second, third, and fourth cousins with Wikipedia articles.

References

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  1. ↑ [https://epdf.pub/cultural-encyclopedia-of-vegetarianism.html He was mentioned on Page 753 of the Online Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism: "Another early adopter of the World Wide Web was Maynard Clark, a Massachusetts Software Council fellow, who, at the turn of the 21st century, created a vegetarian portal at www.vegetarian.org. This site provided information about the Vegetarian Resource Centre (VRC) and offered a wide range of around 100 topical and specialized e-mail groups for vegetarians. The aim of these groups was to provide networking opportunities for vegetarians that went beyond merely a shared diet, with e-mail lists for particular professions, ethnicities, religions, ages, and life stages, such as parenting. These lists were subsequently transferred to the Yahoo groups platform, where many continue to this day. In 1999, Clark, along with Robert Conrow and T. Colin Campbell, had attempted to establish a supply-chain business called VeggieSeek.com that aimed to make vegan businesses more profitable. This venture was unsuccessful owing to the decline in dot.com funding, and the three principals instead focused their energies on promoting veganism in other ways."]
  2. ↑ Most recently-edited book: th2 2018 anthology: The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins
  3. ↑ Clark, Maynard; Awerbuch, Tamara; & Taylor, Peter J. (2018). The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins. Arlington, MA, USA: The Pumping Station.
  4. ↑ Richard Levins (1930-2016) was an outstanding ecologist, population geneticist, biomathematician, philosopher of science, complexity theorist, and Marxist. Key to all aspects of his work was a dialectical logic of process and change. His work provides a framework for the understanding of crises in environment and society and their analytic relationship with capitalism and imperialism, as well as the tools for the critique of biological determinist justifications for the existing structures of power. This anthology pays tribute to Levins by carrying forward his work in the development of the understanding of the dialectics of nature and society. The contributions are organized into four sections--Dialectics in Wholistic Research; Political Ecology and Health; Complex Systems; and Reminiscences and Tributes. The authors are as almost as hard to label as Levins; the fields they draw from range from biomathematics to NGO activism; environmental policy to island and aquatic ecology; eco-justice podcasting to biogeochemistry; reflective practice to science-in-society, agroecology to public health
  5. ↑ Facebook page for (2018). The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins. Arlington, MA, USA: The Pumping Station
  6. ↑ Facebook page for (2018). The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins. Arlington, MA, USA: The Pumping Station
  7. ↑ MIT Press feature article about (2018). The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins. Arlington, MA, USA: The Pumping Station, noting speaking tour appearance at MIT on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, noting that this work celebrates lives focusing on the history of the development of human understanding of "the dialectics of nature and society" (how our world orientation is naturally grounded). Centered on celebrating insights shared during the teaching and mentorship of Dr. Richard Levins and his students across Harvard, U. Chicago, Cuba, and beyond, this work explores the historical development of human understanding of the dialectics of nature and society, emphasizing how our perspective on the world is inherently grounded in its natural and social foundations.
  8. ↑ ResearchGate mention of (2018). The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins. Arlington, MA, USA: The Pumping Station. Richard Levins (1930-2016) was an outstanding ecologist, population geneticist, biomathematician, philosopher of science, complexity theorist, and Marxist. Key to all aspects of his work was a dialectical logic of process and change. His work provides a framework for the understanding of crises in environment and society and their analytic relationship with capitalism and imperialism, as well as the tools for the critique of biological determinist justifications for the existing structures of power. This anthology pays tribute to Levins by carrying forward his work in the development of the understanding of the dialectics of nature and society. The contributions are organized into four sections--Dialectics in Wholistic Research; Political Ecology and Health; Complex Systems; and Reminiscences and Tributes. The authors are as almost as hard to label as Levins; the fields they draw from range from biomathematics to NGO activism; environmental policy to island and aquatic ecology; eco-justice podcasting to biogeochemistry; reflective practice to science-in-society, agroecology to public health phylogeography; philosophy of biology to political science--and more.
  9. ↑ [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Levins Wikipedia article about Richard Levins, PhD (1930-2016)
  10. ↑ Monthly Review article about (2018). The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins. Arlington, MA, USA: The Pumping Station. At the root of all of Levins’s thinking, from the days of his youth to his work as a mature ecological scientist, was a conception of the dialectics of nature and society drawn from such thinkers as Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, V. I. Lenin, J. D. Bernal, J. B. S. Haldane, Joseph Needham, Christopher Caudwell, Marcel Prenant, Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen, and C. H. Waddington. As he cogently observed, “perhaps the first investigation of a complex object as a system was the masterwork of Karl Marx, Das Kapital,” which explored both the economic and ecological bases of capitalism as a system.4 Marx’s materialist dialectics extended to not only the political-economic critique of capitalism and the argument for socialism on that basis, but also contributed to a dialectical naturalism that encompassed the ecological connections/contradictions of humanity and the earth, necessitating social change. It was thus materialist dialectics, as it had been developed by numerous thinkers in the Marxist tradition, particularly in the natural sciences, that was the foundation and the focal point for all of Levins’s intellectual endeavors from the very beginning, constituting the fundamental method and logic governing his thought. “Dialectical thinking,” he wrote, “with its emphasis on complexity, context, change, discontinuity, interpenetration, and contradictions was, and has remained a thing of beauty for me and the guiding theme in my scientific research and my political teaching in Party study groups, popular lectures, and writings.… I loved asymmetry and complexity, threshold effects, contradiction.” Although Levins’s work grew out of historical materialism, he found himself in deep conflict with much of the Western Marxist philosophical tradition, which had systematically sought to separate itself, and dialectical thought, from the ecological world as a whole and along with it the world of science, through the rejection of the notion of the dialectics of nature, fundamental to generations of Marxist thinkers. While critical of the Soviet dogmatism that arose in the late 1930s, Levins remained convinced that dialectical materialism was the key to understanding the complexity of both nature and society and their interactions. Was he inherently "a Green green" rather than "a red green" - or "a red green through and through" Western Marxism, while drawing its inspiration from the first foundation of Marxist thought, often referred to as historical materialism, rejected its second foundation, or dialectical naturalism, associated with the dialectics of nature in both science and art. If the first foundation had its primary source in Marx’s thought, the second foundation is often associated with Engels, but also encompassed a vast array of thinkers, some of them purged in the Soviet Union, or subject to red baiting in the West. This included leading scientists and philosophers of science of the late twentieth century. Levins, along with his close associates Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould—all three of whom were based at Harvard—derived their inspiration to a considerable extent from dialectical materialism/dialectical naturalism, as evidenced by such works as Levins and Lewontin’s The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence and Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. “The truth is the whole,” G. W. F. Hegel wrote in the preface to his Phenomenology of Mind, and therefore cannot be understood except in the process of its becoming, its development. To comprehend the nature and significance of Levins’s holistic ecological thought, it is necessary to see it genetically, that is, in terms of its formation and development. In this way, we can trace the revolutionary insights into theory and practice that his analysis provided, helping us to address the planetary emergency of the present century. The current “eco-social distress syndrome” behind today’s habitability crisis, Lewontin and Levins argued, “is more profound than previous crises, reaching higher into the atmosphere, deeper into the earth, more widespread in space, and more long lasting, penetrating more corners of our lives.” Thus, as Levins contended, it was absolutely necessary to grasp the roots of the socioecological crisis via an approach that allowed for comprehending the complexity of the whole, dynamic interactions, the uncertain, and the possible.
  11. ↑ The Pumping Station: critical thinking & reflective practice - Publisher's review of The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins (2018, Arlington MA).
  12. ↑ GoogleBooks review of The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins (Sep 8, 2018, Arlington MA).
  13. ↑ Intersecting Processes (complexity theorist blog): complexity & change in environment, biomedicine & societySkip to content review of The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins (Sep 8, 2018, Arlington MA).
  14. ↑ Hasan N. July 18, 2022. Biology at Another Crossroads blog review of The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins (Sep 8, 2018, Arlington MA). According to Haldane, Marxism could be applied to understanding the development of science and the history of science as a human activity. Needham, while unconvinced of the value of Marxism in ethics and politics, still believed dialectical materialism to be “the quintessence of scientific method,” as “the natural methodology of science itself.”3 Both Bernal and Needham insisted that dialectical materialism would be of great service to biologists by pointing the way towards the most promising hypotheses and by indicating which questions were meaningful and answerable...For Levins and Lewontin, the organism constitutes both the subject and the object of evolution, since the organism actively constructs its environment that in turn actively affects the development of the organism...
  15. ↑ Google Search for The Truth is the Whole: Essays in Honor of Richard Levins (Sep 8, 2018, Arlington MA).
  16. ↑ Climate Emergency Institute
  17. ↑ Vegan Recipes with Photos
  18. ↑ Vegan Recipes without Photos
  19. ↑ A New Day for Viridian: Viridian International Management Assumes Leadership of Sustainability-Focused Network Marketing Company: Partnership promises to enhance opportunity for current and future Viridian direct sellers with expanded product lines and the chance to ‘do well by doing good’ globally. BusinessWire. July 19, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
  20. ↑ Bloomberg business profile for Viridian International Management, LLC
  21. ↑ The closer relatives are likely to have been elected political representatives in either of the two major parties (in southern US states). Some are corporate and scientific leaders. After one visits anyone else's family gatherings as a guest of one of their family members, none of this is as impressive as it may first sound. Other families are replete with some truly highly-accomplished persons (most much older than the family gathering's average age). Often I figure that one or two of these other family gatherings' members deserves a Wikipedia article (but few of the leading lights with needed skills to sort through the life and gather details have shown both aptitude and motivation for researching their family member's biography, despite offers of wizened, competent health.

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