Recently I heard an inspiring interview on our local public radio station.
The interview was with environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and
best-selling author Paul Hawken. Paul shared about the hope and optimism he
gained from doing the research for his latest book Blessed Unrest, How the
Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming.
At age 20, Paul dedicated his life to changing the relationship between
business and the environment, and between human and living systems in order to
create a more just and sustainable world. His work includes starting and
running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of
commerce upon the environment, and consulting with governments and corporations
on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.
Paul’s ideas validate the power we each have to make an impact in the
world. Millions of people doing one thing to make our planet a better place
makes a difference. If you’d like to listen or download his interview, click here.
I look forward to reading Blessed Unrest. Here is what Viking
Press says about his new book. "Paul Hawken has spent over a decade
researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering
social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes,
these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement
that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored
by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the
bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an
extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.
Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant
ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many
centuries. A culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice
fields, it will inspire and delight any and all who despair of the world’s
fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself.
Fundamentally, it is a description of humanity’s
collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship
to the environment and one another."
If you’d like more information about Paul and his work, you can go to Wikipedia or his web site.
Connie has always been passionate about bringing forth the free expression of the joyous inner spirit in others and herself..
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Also, as part of Paul’s research, he wanted to share all the organizations he has found over the years. Those organizations can be found at http://www.wiserearth.org, which is an online tool to improve the connectivity between organizations, people, resources and events that work in social justice, environmental restoration and indigenous rights. People can find the organizations that work in their town or on the other side of the world and use it has a starting point to further improve your organizing efforts. WiserEarth serves the community Paul discusses in Blessed Unrest.