Tuesday, September 25
On the Creek Lecture Series (more info...)
Paul Hawken
LAXSON AUDITORIUM | 7:30 p.m.$15 Adult/Senior | $10 Student/Child
"Paul Hawken's book Blessed Unrest will inpsire and encourage millions to take more action." — Jane Goodall
Paul Hawken, one of the world's most influential environmentalists, has written a new book promoting a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity. The book, entitled Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, praises what is going right in this world and how small, grass-roots organizations, as well as multi-million dollar companies, are banding together to help save the environment.
Hawken, a bestselling author and leading activist and businessman, tells the remarkable history of a global environmental and social justice movement comprised of over 1,000,000 organizations. It is the story of what is going right in this world and how organizations and companies are trying to help save the environment by challenging the power of the political corporate world.
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 re-imagine our relationship to the environment and one another.
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