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Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. Starting at age 20, he has dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.

Videos featuring Paul Hawken

  • The Death of Place and Culture

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, explains that while each era is unique, the current time is particularly extraordinary in that it presents both crisis and opportunity on a global scale.

    (3 min 2 sec)
  • Changing the Dream of the Present

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, believes that fantasies about a hopeful future can detract from living in the reality of the present moment.

    (5 min 13 sec)
  • A Response to the Present

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, explains that the most useful response to this time of great change is to connect with others whose view of the world is different from our own. By doing this, we will find not only our commonality but the key to our survival.

    (3 min 54 sec)
  • A Love Story

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, feels that the work of our time is to learn how to fall in love with the world.

    (2 min 45 sec)
  • Deep Wound of Our Time

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, believes that the real question of our time is not how social and environmental movements are connected, but rather how they became separated.

    (2 min 58 sec)
  • Fantasies About the Future

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, explains that there is no quick fix to the global environmental and social crises as many hope, but rather a complete change in civilizational construct is required.

    (2 min 34 sec)
  • Fracturing of the World

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, explains that the current experience of the fracturing of the world is creating an overwhelming human response to reconnect and re-integrate.

    (3 min 22 sec)
  • Vestiges of Wisdom

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, illustrates how living forms that are most true to their original nature are the keepers of wisdom.

    (2 min 54 sec)
  • Humanity's Immune Response

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, describes humanity's immune response to political corruption, economic disease and ecological degradation.

    (7 min 30 sec)
  • Blessed Unrest

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, speaks about the title of his recent book and how it can be used to describe the impetus behind the largest growing social movement in the history of humankind.

    (6 min 40 sec)
  • Life Arising

    Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, describes the birth of the new world as a bottom-up, grassroots organization.

    (2 min 44 sec)
  • A Fulfillment Economy

    According to Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, the worship of currency is perhaps the greatest cause of social and environmental damage in the modern world. He further suggests that the proper study of economics is fulfillment, not consumption.

    (6 min 9 sec)
  • Paul Hawken - Complete Interview

    Every generation lives in a unique age, but this is a time like no other. In this complete interview, Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, speaks with astute clarity about the dangers and opportunities of this time.

    (47 min 37 sec)
"How can you destroy a river and not destroy a people, how can you cut down a forest and destroy a watershed and not effect a civilization, how can you poison your food, or fish, put heavy metals into lakes, and not destroy children? They are intricately related, they are the same thing."
From

The Importance of Trust

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