Refreshing Radio Interview

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.

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[Michael Spalding]

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 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.