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{{Short description|American environmentalist and economist (born 1946)}}
'''Paul Hawken''' (born [[8 February]] [[1946]]) is an [[environmentalist]], [[entrepreneur]], [[journalist]], and best-selling author. At age 20, he moved to Boston to study macrobiotic philosophy under Michio and Aveline Kushi. He then 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]]. His principle of '''comprehensive outcome''' (''see below'') was influential in [[full cost accounting]] and the eventual emergence of [[ecological footprint]] and [[triple bottom line]] standards for [[sustainability]].
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'''Paul Gerard Hawken''' (born February 8, 1946) is an American [[environmentalist]], [[entrepreneur]], author, economist, and activist.<ref name="Weinreb Group">{{cite web|last1=Epstein-Reeves|first1=James|last2=Weinreb|first2=Ellen|title=Pioneers of Sustainability: Lessons from the Trailblazers|url=http://weinrebgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SustainabilityPioneersWeinrebGroup.pdf|website=Weinreb Group|access-date=September 8, 2016}}</ref>


==Writing==
==Biography==
Hawken was born in San Mateo, [[California]], and grew up in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], where his father worked at [[UC Berkeley]] in library sciences.<ref name="Why Paul Hawken is teaching MBAs">{{cite news|last1=Makower|first1=Joel|title=Why Paul Hawken is teaching MBAs|url=https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/07/11/why-paul-hawken-teaching-mbas|access-date=June 15, 2016|publisher=GreenBiz|date=July 11, 2013}}</ref> He attended UC Berkeley and [[San Francisco State University]]. Hawken's work includes founding ecological businesses, writing about impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with corporations and governments on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.<ref name="Weinreb Group"/>
He is author and co-author of dozens of articles, op-eds, papers, as well as six books including The ''Next Economy'' (Ballantine [[1983]]) wherein he coined the term the "restoration economy", ''Growing a Business'' (Simon and Schuster [[1987]]), and ''[[The Ecology of Commerce]]'' (HarperCollins [[1993]]). ''The Ecology of Commerce'' was voted in [[1998]] as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. In this book, he introduced the '''comprehensive outcome''' principle - taking account of the entire result of an event or process to all parties, not just the immediate participants. When considering a decision to build a factory, for instance, it would include the [[natural resource]] depletion, the [[pollution]], and any side effects of the [[Manufacturing|production]], [[distribution]] and [[consumption]] processes. Hawken contrasted this to a merely '''culminative outcome''' which is simply the obvious result visible to the buyer at the moment and [[point of purchase]], and the [[profit]] made thereby by the supplier.


Hawken was the co-founder and executive director of [[Project Drawdown]], a non-profit that describes how global warming can be reversed.<ref name="About Project Drawdown">{{cite web|title=Project Drawdown|url=http://www.drawdown.org/|website=Project Drawdown|access-date=June 15, 2016}}</ref>
His book, ''Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution'' (Little, Brown. September [[1999]]) with [[Amory Lovins]] and Hunter Lovins, has been referred to by several heads of state including President [[Bill Clinton]] who calls it one of the five most important books in the world today. It popularized the now-standard idea of [[natural capital]] and direct accounting for [[nature's services]]. The book includes a [[price of Earth]] analysis.


Hawken was active in the [[civil rights movement]].<ref name="Sea Change">{{cite news|title=Paul Hawken Part II: Cultivating Progress|url=http://www.cchange.net/2014/11/11/progress/|access-date=June 15, 2016|publisher=Sea Change|date=November 11, 2014}}</ref> He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
His latest book is entitled ''Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming'' was published by Viking Press (New York) May, 2007. In it Hawken describes a convergence of the environmental and social justice movements as the largest social movement in history, and the fastest growing movement, comprising over 1 million organizations in every country in the world. He also talks extensively about his new project [http://www.wiserearth.org Wiser Earth], which is a wiki-based social network surrounding organizations in the environmental and social justice fields.


== Career ==
His books have been published in over 50 countries in 27 languages and have sold over 2 million copies.


=== Writing ===
''Growing a Business'' became the basis of a 17-part [[PBS]] series, which Mr. Hawken hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsive companies, was shown on television in 115 countries and watched by over 100 million people. His piece on [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] and the [[WTO]] entitled ''N30'' was published on over 100 websites and by 13 magazines.
Hawken has authored articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and seven books, including: ''The Next Economy'' (Ballantine 1983), ''Growing a Business'' (Simon and Schuster 1987), ''The Ecology of Commerce'' (HarperCollins 1993), and ''Blessed Unrest'' (Viking 2007).<ref name="Sustainable Brands Bio">{{cite news|title=Paul Hawken|url=http://www.sustainablebrands.com/users/paul_hawken#|access-date=June 15, 2016|publisher=Sustainable Brands|date=2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112061020/https://www.sustainablebrands.com/users/paul_hawken|archive-date=November 12, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>


''The Ecology of Commerce'' was voted the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools.<ref>{{cite news|title=Solutions Summit Event|url=http://northstar.environment.umn.edu/events/solutions-summit/paul-hawken/|access-date=December 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912030348/http://northstar.environment.umn.edu/events/solutions-summit/paul-hawken/|archive-date=September 12, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The businessman and environmentalist [[Ray Anderson (entrepreneur)|Ray Anderson]] of [[Interface, Inc.]] credited ''The Ecology of Commerce'' with his environmental awakening. He described reading it as a "spear in the chest experience", after which Anderson started crisscrossing the country with a near-evangelical fervor, telling fellow executives about the need to reduce waste and carbon emissions.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vitello|first=Paul|title=Ray Anderson, Businessman Turned Environmentalist, Dies at 77|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/business/ray-anderson-a-carpet-innovator-dies-at-77.html?_r=1|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>
==Business==
Hawken worked for [[Erewhon]] Trading Company, a natural-foods wholesaler, created by macrobiotic pioneers, [[Michio Kushi]] and his wife, Aveline, in 1966, relying solely on sustainable-agricultural suppliers. He later co-founded the Smith & Hawken garden supply company in the late [[1970]]s, a business with both catalogue and "bricks & mortar" dimensions. More recent companies he has founded or co-founded include Metacode, a [[software]] company specializing in proprietary [[content management]] tools; Groxis, a graphic information delivery provider for [[search engine]]s, libraries, scientific repositories, and databases. He currently heads the Pax Group, which includes PaxIT, PaxTurbine, and PaxFan, three companies associated with Pax Scientific a [[California]]-based research and development corporation focused on proprietary technologies involving [[fluid dynamics]] and [[convection]] and flow form geometry. The firm applies geometries found in nature with its primary focus on industrial fans, turbines, and electronic thermal management.


''[[Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution]]'', co-authored with [[Amory Lovins]], wrote about the idea of [[natural capital]] and direct accounting for [[ecosystem services]].<ref name="Natural Capitalism">{{cite book|last1=Hawken|first1=Paul|title=Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution|date=1997|publisher=Little Brown|isbn=978-0-316-35300-7|url=https://archive.org/details/naturalcapitalis00hawk}}</ref> ''Natural Capitalism'' has been translated into 14 other languages. Together with ''The Ecology of Commerce'' these books have been described as being "among the first to point the way towards a sustainable global economy".<ref name="Marc Gunther 2014">{{cite news|last1=Gunther|first1=Marc|title=First look: environmental entrepreneur Paul Hawken's long-awaited new book|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/22/first-look-environmental-entrepreneur-paul-hawkens-long-awaited-new-book|access-date=June 15, 2016|work=The Guardian|date=October 22, 2014}}</ref>
==Activism==
Mr. Hawken also heads the [[Natural Capital Institute]] (NCI), a research oriented [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]] located in [[Sausalito, California]]. NCI's projects include the documentary film "Blessed Unrest" based upon Mr. Hawken's recently published book, and the first open source database of the hundreds of thousands of [[civil society]] organizations around the world dedicated to environmental restoration and social justice, available at [www.wiserearth.org http://www.wiserearth.org]. NCI recently conducted a large research project on the subject of socially responsible investing (SRI) and created the first public database of SRI funds in North America, displaying complete company portfolios and screening categories. The research report available at www.responsibleinvesting.org [http://www.responsibleinvesting.org] describes the current state of SRI, and presents several recommendations to improve the industry.


''[[Blessed Unrest|Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming]]'', published in 2007, argues that a vast "movement with no name" is forming involving environmental, social justice, and [[indigenous rights]] organizations. Hawken conceives of this "movement" as developing not by [[ideology]] but rather through the identification of what is and is not humane, and has compared it to humanity's collective [[immune system]].<ref name="Blessed Unrest">{{cite book|last1=Hawken|first1=Paul|title=Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming|date=2007|publisher=Viking|location=New York|isbn=978-0-670-03852-7|url=https://archive.org/details/blessedunresthow00hawk}}</ref>
Mr. Hawken has served on the board of many public organizations including Point Foundation (publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs), Center for Plant Conservation, Conservation International, Trust for Public Land, Friends of the Earth, and National Audubon Society. He was the founder and Chair of The Natural Step in the United States as well as The Natural Step International in [[Stockholm, Sweden|Stockholm]].


''Growing a Business'' became the basis of a 17-part [[PBS]] series, which Hawken hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsible companies, appeared on television in 115 countries and reached more than 100 million people.<ref name="Why Paul Hawken is teaching MBAs" />
==Awards==
Among recognition and awards received are:
*Green Cross Millennium Award for Individual Environmental Leadership presented by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 2003
*World Council for Corporate Governance in 2002
*Small Business Administration ''Entrepreneur of the Year'' in 1990
*Utne ''One Hundred Visionaries who could Change our Lives'' in 1995
*Western Publications Association ''Maggie'' award for ''Natural Capitalism'' as the best Signed Editorial/Essay in 1997
*Creative Visionary Award by the International Society of Industrial Design
*Design in Business Award for environmental responsibility by the American Center for Design
*Council on Economic Priorities’ 1990 Corporate Conscience Award
*American Horticultural Society Award for commitment to excellence in commercial horticulture
*Metropolitan Home Design 100 Editorial Award for the 100 best people, products and ideas that shape our lives
*The Cine Golden Eagle award in video for the PBS program ''Marketing'' from Growing a Business
*California Institute of Integral Studies Award ''For Ongoing Humanitarian Contributions to the Bay Area Communities''
*Esquire Magazine award for the best 100 People of a Generation (1984)
*four honorary doctorates


Hawken co-created Project Drawdown in 2013 with Amanda Joy Ravenhill, and was the co-creator, author, and editor of ''[[Drawdown (book)|Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming]]'', published in 2017. It was collaborative effort involving 200 researchers and advisors who came together to model the most substantive solutions to reverse global warming.
==See also==

* [[Pigovian tax]]
In 2021, Hawken published the [[New York Times Bestseller]],<ref name="Paperback Books - Bestseller">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2021/10/17/paperback-nonfiction/|title=Paperback Books - Bestseller|newspaper=The New York Times|author=<!--not stated-->|date=October 17, 2021}}</ref> ''Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation''.<ref name="Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation">{{cite book|last1=Hawken|first1=Paul|title=Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation|date=2021|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0143136972|url=https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143136972|quote=Ending the climate crisis in one generation}}</ref>
* [[Marion Institute]]

Hawken's books have been published in more than 50 countries in 30 languages.<ref name="Notre Dame">{{cite news |title=Paul Hawken |publisher=University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business |issue=Transition to a Low-Carbon World |url=http://climateinvesting.nd.edu/speakers/paul-hawken/ |access-date=June 15, 2016}}</ref>

=== Business ===
Hawken founded several companies, starting when he took over a small retail store in Boston in 1967 called [[Erewhon Market|Erewhon]] (after [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]]'s 1872 [[Erewhon|utopian novel]]) and turned it into the Erewhon Trading Company, a natural-foods wholesaler, and one of the first in the US that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods.<ref>{{cite news|title=Heritage of Health Foods: Erewhon History|url=http://www.attunefoods.com/company-history-of-gluten-free-cereal-with-high-fiber|access-date=June 15, 2016|publisher=Attune Foods|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620140046/http://www.attunefoods.com/company-history-of-gluten-free-cereal-with-high-fiber|archive-date=June 20, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> When he left the company in the 1970s, it had over 30,000 acres of organically grown food under contract. Hawken co-founded the [[Smith & Hawken]] garden supply company in 1979, a retail and catalog business.<ref name="Smith & Hawken Mercury News">{{cite news|last1=Welte|first1=Jim|title=Smith & Hawken to close; going-out-of-business sales started Thursday|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12798190|access-date=June 15, 2016|publisher=The Mercury News|date=July 9, 2009}}</ref> In 2009, he founded OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on [[green chemistry]] and [[biomimicry]].<ref name="GreenBiz Winning Investment Strategy">{{cite news|last1=Gunther|first1=Marc|title=Paul Hawken's Winning Investment Strategy|url=http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/02/11/paul-hawkens-winning-investment-strategy|access-date=June 15, 2016|publisher=GreenBiz|date=February 11, 2010}}</ref>

From 1994 to 1998, Hawken founded and headed up The Natural Step USA. From 1996 to 1998, Hawken was co-chairman of The Natural Step International.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bio Paul Hawken|url=http://www.natcap.org/images/other/NCbios.pdf|publisher=The Rocky Mountain Institute}}</ref> The Natural Step was founded in 1989 by Swedish scientist and medical doctor [[Karl-Henrik Robèrt]] in order to create shared frameworks for understanding [[sustainable development]]. Its purpose is to teach and support environmental [[systems thinking]] in corporations, cities, governments, unions, and academic institutions through a dialogue process rooted in basic science.<ref name="The Natural Step">{{cite web|title=The Natural Step About Us|url=http://www.thenaturalstep.org/about-us/|website=The Natural Step|date=September 17, 2014|access-date=June 15, 2016}}</ref>

In 1998, Hawken created the Natural Capital Institute located in [[Sausalito, California]]. Its main focus was [[wiser.org]], an open-source database of activists and civil society organizations focused on environmental and social justice.<ref name="Treehugger wiser.org">{{cite news|last1=Grover|first1=Sami|title=WISER Earth: User Created Directory of 'the Largest Movement on Earth'|url=http://www.treehugger.com/culture/wiser-earth-user-created-directory-of-the-largest-movement-on-earth.html|access-date=June 15, 2016|publisher=Treehugger|date=June 21, 2007}}</ref>

Hawken was previously the executive director of [[Project Drawdown]], which is working towards the [[Drawdown (climate)|drawdown]] of [[Greenhouse gas|greenhouse gases]] to reduce [[climate change]].<ref name="Drawdown 'Our Team'">{{cite web|title=Our Team|url=http://www.drawdown.org/our-team/|website=Project Drawdown|access-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629094001/http://www.drawdown.org/our-team/|archive-date=June 29, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Activism ===
In 1965, Hawken worked with [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]'s staff in [[Selma, Alabama]], preparing for the [[Selma to Montgomery marches]]. As press coordinator, he registered members of the press, issued credentials, gave dozens of updates and interviews on national radio, and acted as marshal for the final, March, 21, [[Selma to Montgomery marches#March to Montgomery|March to Montgomery]]. That same year, Hawken worked in New Orleans as a staff photographer for the [[Congress of Racial Equality]], focusing on voter registration drives in [[Bogalusa, Louisiana]], and the panhandle of Florida, and photographing the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in [[Meridian, Mississippi]], after three civil rights workers were tortured and killed. In Meridian, Hawken was assaulted and seized by Ku Klux Klan members, but escaped due to [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] surveillance and intervention.<ref name="James C. Stephens">{{cite book|last1=Stephens|first1=James C.|title=Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History|pages=849|edition=Volume 1}}</ref>

=== Speaking ===
As a speaker, Hawken has given several hundred talks, including keynote addresses to major associations, companies, government agencies. His University commencement addresses have included:
* [[University of California, Berkeley]] commencement<ref name="EcoWatch Paul Hawken">{{cite web |author=EW |title=Paul Hawken |url=http://www.ecowatch.com/paul-hawken-1881547096.html |access-date=September 8, 2016 |website=www.ecowatch.com |publisher=EcoWatch}}</ref>
* [[University of Portland]] 2009 commencement speech ("You Are Brilliant and the Earth Is Hiring")<ref name="Huffington Post Portland Commencement">{{cite web|last1=Loeb|first1=Paul|title=Best Environmental Commencement Speech Ever?|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-loeb/best-environmental-commen_b_5256304.html|website=The Huffington Post: The Blog|date=May 2, 2014|publisher=The Huffington Post|access-date=September 8, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Urban Land Institute]]
* [[Yale University]] and Yale University commencement<ref name="EcoWatch Paul Hawken" />

==Recognition==
Hawken has been awarded six honorary doctorates,<ref name="EcoWatch Paul Hawken" /> and received the Green Cross Millennium Award for Individual Environmental Leadership presented by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |title=Global Green USA Millennium Awards |url=http://www.globalgreen.org/events/millennium-awards/ |access-date=October 1, 2015 |website=Global Green}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* ''Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation'' (2021)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mainwaring |first=Simon |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Purpose At Work: Paul Hawken's 'Regeneration' Reveals A Critical Roadmap To End The Climate Crisis |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmainwaring/2021/09/15/purpose-at-work-paul-hawkens-regeneration-reveals-a-critical-roadmap-to-end-climate-crisis/ |access-date=September 21, 2021 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Drawdown (book)|''Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming'']] ''/ edited by Paul Hawken'' (2017)<ref name="Drawdown">{{cite book |last1=Hawken |first1=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/drawdownmostcomp0000hawk |title=Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming / edited by Paul Hawken |date=2017 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=9780143130444 |location=New York, NY}}</ref>
* ''[[Blessed Unrest|Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World]]'' (2007)<ref name="Blessed Unrest Book">{{cite book |last1=Hawken |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S75R90V1IlUC&q=blessed+unrest+viking+press&pg=PA329 |title=Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being, and Why No One Saw It Coming |date=2007 |publisher=Penguin Group |isbn=978-0-67003852-7 |edition=1 |location=New York, NY |access-date=September 21, 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[Natural Capitalism|Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution]]'' (1999, Co-authored with Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins)<ref name="Natural Capitalism Book">{{cite book |last1=Hawken |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcllruPmBr8C&q=natural+capitalism |title=Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution |last2=Lovins |first2=Amory |last3=Lovins |first3=L. Hunter |date=1999 |publisher=The Hachette Book Group Publishing |isbn=978-0-316-03153-0 |location=New York, NY |access-date=September 21, 2016}}</ref>
* ''The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability'' (1993)<ref name="Ecology of Commerce Book">{{cite book |last1=Hawken |first1=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/ecologyofcommerc00paul_1 |title=The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability |date=1993 |publisher=HarperCollinsPublishers |isbn=0-88730-655-1 |location=New York, NY |quote=the ecology of commerce. |access-date=September 21, 2016 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
* ''Growing a Business'' (1987)<ref name="Growing a Business Book">{{cite book |last1=Hawken |first1=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/growingbusiness000hawk |title=Growing a Business |date=1987 |publisher=Simon & Schuster Paperbacks |isbn=978-0671-64457-4 |location=New York, NY |quote=growing a business. |access-date=September 21, 2016 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
* ''The Next Economy'' (1983)<ref name="The Next Economy Book">{{cite book |last1=Hawken |first1=Paul |title=The Next Economy |date=1983 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |isbn=9780207149313 |location=New York, NY}}</ref>
* ''Seven Tomorrows'' (1980, Co-authored with Peter Schwartz and James Ogilvy)<ref name="Seven Tomorrows Book">{{cite book |last1=Hawken |first1=Paul |title=Seven Tomorrows |last2=Ogilvy |first2=James |last3=Schwartz |first3=Peter |date=1980 |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=9780553014754 |location=New York, NY}}</ref>
* ''The Magic of Findhorn'' (1975)
*Sustainable World Sourcebook (2014)
*Economy Que Viene (1983)
*Negocio y Ecologia (2004)

==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline}}
*[http://www.paulhawken.com/ Official Paul Hawken website]
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*[http://www.naturalcapital.org/ Natural Capital Institute NCI]
*{{Official website|https://paulhawken.com/}}
*[http://www.wiserearth.org/ Wiser Earth] - World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility
*[http://www.drawdown.org/ Project Drawdown official website]
*[http://www.naturalcapitalism.org Natural Capitalism] - Website about the book of the same title
*[https://regeneration.org/ Project Regeneration website]
*[http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1997/03/hawken.html Natural Capitalism] - Mother Jones article that inspired the book of the same title
*[http://www.cchange.net/2014/11/04/hawken/ Interview] on ''Sea Change Radio'' in 2014
*[http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//005670.html Paul Hawken piece on Worldchanging]
*[https://www.climateforesight.eu/interview/paul-hawken-planetary-regeneration-one-step-at-a-time/ Interview] with [[Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change|CMCC]] in October 2022
*[http://www.blessedunrest.com Official book site for Blessed Unrest]
===Video===
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*[http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1430208 Paul Hawken interview] from ''Democracy Now!'' program, May 23, 2007


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Paul Hawken
Hawken in 2017
Hawken in 2017
Born (1946-02-08) February 8, 1946 (age 78)
San Mateo, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, entrepreneur, activist
GenreEcological business
SpouseJasmine Scalesciani Hawken
Website
paulhawken.com

Paul Gerard Hawken (born February 8, 1946) is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist, and activist.[1]

Biography

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Hawken was born in San Mateo, California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where his father worked at UC Berkeley in library sciences.[2] He attended UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Hawken's work includes founding ecological businesses, writing about impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with corporations and governments on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.[1]

Hawken was the co-founder and executive director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that describes how global warming can be reversed.[3]

Hawken was active in the civil rights movement.[4] He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Career

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Writing

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Hawken has authored articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and seven books, including: The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993), and Blessed Unrest (Viking 2007).[5]

The Ecology of Commerce was voted the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools.[6] The businessman and environmentalist Ray Anderson of Interface, Inc. credited The Ecology of Commerce with his environmental awakening. He described reading it as a "spear in the chest experience", after which Anderson started crisscrossing the country with a near-evangelical fervor, telling fellow executives about the need to reduce waste and carbon emissions.[7]

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Amory Lovins, wrote about the idea of natural capital and direct accounting for ecosystem services.[8] Natural Capitalism has been translated into 14 other languages. Together with The Ecology of Commerce these books have been described as being "among the first to point the way towards a sustainable global economy".[9]

Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, published in 2007, argues that a vast "movement with no name" is forming involving environmental, social justice, and indigenous rights organizations. Hawken conceives of this "movement" as developing not by ideology but rather through the identification of what is and is not humane, and has compared it to humanity's collective immune system.[10]

Growing a Business became the basis of a 17-part PBS series, which Hawken hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsible companies, appeared on television in 115 countries and reached more than 100 million people.[2]

Hawken co-created Project Drawdown in 2013 with Amanda Joy Ravenhill, and was the co-creator, author, and editor of Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, published in 2017. It was collaborative effort involving 200 researchers and advisors who came together to model the most substantive solutions to reverse global warming.

In 2021, Hawken published the New York Times Bestseller,[11] Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation.[12]

Hawken's books have been published in more than 50 countries in 30 languages.[13]

Business

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Hawken founded several companies, starting when he took over a small retail store in Boston in 1967 called Erewhon (after Samuel Butler's 1872 utopian novel) and turned it into the Erewhon Trading Company, a natural-foods wholesaler, and one of the first in the US that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods.[14] When he left the company in the 1970s, it had over 30,000 acres of organically grown food under contract. Hawken co-founded the Smith & Hawken garden supply company in 1979, a retail and catalog business.[15] In 2009, he founded OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry.[16]

From 1994 to 1998, Hawken founded and headed up The Natural Step USA. From 1996 to 1998, Hawken was co-chairman of The Natural Step International.[17] The Natural Step was founded in 1989 by Swedish scientist and medical doctor Karl-Henrik Robèrt in order to create shared frameworks for understanding sustainable development. Its purpose is to teach and support environmental systems thinking in corporations, cities, governments, unions, and academic institutions through a dialogue process rooted in basic science.[18]

In 1998, Hawken created the Natural Capital Institute located in Sausalito, California. Its main focus was wiser.org, an open-source database of activists and civil society organizations focused on environmental and social justice.[19]

Hawken was previously the executive director of Project Drawdown, which is working towards the drawdown of greenhouse gases to reduce climate change.[20]

Activism

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In 1965, Hawken worked with Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff in Selma, Alabama, preparing for the Selma to Montgomery marches. As press coordinator, he registered members of the press, issued credentials, gave dozens of updates and interviews on national radio, and acted as marshal for the final, March, 21, March to Montgomery. That same year, Hawken worked in New Orleans as a staff photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality, focusing on voter registration drives in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and the panhandle of Florida, and photographing the Ku Klux Klan in Meridian, Mississippi, after three civil rights workers were tortured and killed. In Meridian, Hawken was assaulted and seized by Ku Klux Klan members, but escaped due to Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance and intervention.[21]

Speaking

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As a speaker, Hawken has given several hundred talks, including keynote addresses to major associations, companies, government agencies. His University commencement addresses have included:

Recognition

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Hawken has been awarded six honorary doctorates,[22] and received the Green Cross Millennium Award for Individual Environmental Leadership presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in 2003.[24]

Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ a b Epstein-Reeves, James; Weinreb, Ellen. "Pioneers of Sustainability: Lessons from the Trailblazers" (PDF). Weinreb Group. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Makower, Joel (July 11, 2013). "Why Paul Hawken is teaching MBAs". GreenBiz. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  3. ^ "Project Drawdown". Project Drawdown. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  4. ^ "Paul Hawken Part II: Cultivating Progress". Sea Change. November 11, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  5. ^ "Paul Hawken". Sustainable Brands. 2016. Archived from the original on November 12, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  6. ^ "Solutions Summit Event". Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  7. ^ Vitello, Paul (August 10, 2011). "Ray Anderson, Businessman Turned Environmentalist, Dies at 77". The New York Times.
  8. ^ Hawken, Paul (1997). Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Little Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-35300-7.
  9. ^ Gunther, Marc (October 22, 2014). "First look: environmental entrepreneur Paul Hawken's long-awaited new book". The Guardian. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  10. ^ Hawken, Paul (2007). Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03852-7.
  11. ^ "Paperback Books - Bestseller". The New York Times. October 17, 2021.
  12. ^ Hawken, Paul (2021). Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143136972. Ending the climate crisis in one generation
  13. ^ "Paul Hawken". No. Transition to a Low-Carbon World. University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  14. ^ "Heritage of Health Foods: Erewhon History". Attune Foods. Archived from the original on June 20, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  15. ^ Welte, Jim (July 9, 2009). "Smith & Hawken to close; going-out-of-business sales started Thursday". The Mercury News. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  16. ^ Gunther, Marc (February 11, 2010). "Paul Hawken's Winning Investment Strategy". GreenBiz. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  17. ^ "Bio Paul Hawken" (PDF). The Rocky Mountain Institute.
  18. ^ "The Natural Step About Us". The Natural Step. September 17, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  19. ^ Grover, Sami (June 21, 2007). "WISER Earth: User Created Directory of 'the Largest Movement on Earth'". Treehugger. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  20. ^ "Our Team". Project Drawdown. Archived from the original on June 29, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  21. ^ Stephens, James C. Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History (Volume 1 ed.). p. 849.
  22. ^ a b c EW. "Paul Hawken". www.ecowatch.com. EcoWatch. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  23. ^ Loeb, Paul (May 2, 2014). "Best Environmental Commencement Speech Ever?". The Huffington Post: The Blog. The Huffington Post. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  24. ^ "Global Green USA Millennium Awards". Global Green. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  25. ^ Mainwaring, Simon (September 15, 2021). "Purpose At Work: Paul Hawken's 'Regeneration' Reveals A Critical Roadmap To End The Climate Crisis". Forbes. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  26. ^ Hawken, Paul (2017). Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming / edited by Paul Hawken. New York, NY: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143130444.
  27. ^ Hawken, Paul (2007). Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being, and Why No One Saw It Coming (1 ed.). New York, NY: Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-67003852-7. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
  28. ^ Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory; Lovins, L. Hunter (1999). Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New York, NY: The Hachette Book Group Publishing. ISBN 978-0-316-03153-0. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
  29. ^ Hawken, Paul (1993). The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. New York, NY: HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 0-88730-655-1. Retrieved September 21, 2016. the ecology of commerce.
  30. ^ Hawken, Paul (1987). Growing a Business. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0671-64457-4. Retrieved September 21, 2016. growing a business.
  31. ^ Hawken, Paul (1983). The Next Economy. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9780207149313.
  32. ^ Hawken, Paul; Ogilvy, James; Schwartz, Peter (1980). Seven Tomorrows. New York, NY: Bantam Books. ISBN 9780553014754.
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