Paul Hawken

This groundbreaking book reveals how today's global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.

Paul Hawken demonstrates that the answers to small business problems today cannot be solved by college degrees, training or money—but only by you.Nearly everyone harbors a secret dream of starting or owning a business. In fact, a million businesses start in the United States every year. Many of them fail, but enough succeed so that small businesses are now adding millions of jobs to the economy at the same time that the Fortune 500 companies are actually losing jobs.Paul Hawken—entrepreneur and bestselling author—wrote Growing a Business for those who set out to make their dream a reality. He knows what he's talking about; he is his own best example of success. In the early 1970s, while he was still in his twenties, he founded Erewhon, the largest distributor of natural foods. More recently, he founded and still runs Smith & Hawken, the premier mail-order garden tool company. And he wrote a critically acclaimed book called The Next Economy about the future of the economy.Using examples like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream, and University National Bank of Palo Alto, California, Hawken shows that the successful business is an expression of an individual person. The most successful business, your idea for a business, will grow from something that is deep within you, something that can't be stolen by anyone because it is so uniquely yours that anyone else who tried to execute your idea would fail. He dispels the myth of the risk-taking entrepreneur. The purpose of business, he points out, is not to take risks but rather to get something done.

A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.

One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these organizations collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of this movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries-old history. The culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in these fields, it will inspire, surprise, and delight anyone who is worried about the direction the modern world is headed. Blessed Unrest is a description of humanity’s collective genius and the unstoppable movement to re-imagine our relationship to the environment and one another. Like Hawken’s previous books, Blessed Unrest will become a classic in its field— a touchstone for anyone concerned about our future.

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. For three decades, scientists and the United Nations have urged us to address future existential threats, an effort that culminated in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Although 188 countries made commitments to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 degrees centigrade, as of 2021, 182 failed, and the G7 countries did not even come close. The result so far: 98 percent of the world is disengaged from the greatest danger civilization has ever faced. Instead, extreme weather is increasing, climate migration is disrupting borders and politics in the EU and US, while fossil fuel energy companies dig in their heals to prevent the advent of renewable energy. Journalistic lingo that says we should combat climate change, but by using war metaphors, climate became a story of one more conflict, a framing that has left out humanity.In Regeneration Paul Hawken has flipped the narrative, bringing people back into the conversation by demonstrating that addressing current human needs rather than future threats is the only path to solving the climate crisis. Regeneration is the first book to define, delineate, and set standards for regeneration, offering a comprehensive explanation of its meaning and application Why regeneration? Because every single economic sector in the world extracts life from the planet and by doing so harms it. The way to reverse a heating planet and human indifference is to reverse planetary degeneration.Using regeneration as a foundation for understanding and action includes everyone and shows how people the world over can benefit by creating rather than reacting. Regeneration contains an extraordinary array of initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as marine protected areas, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, regenerative agriculture, forest farms, and the #1 solution for the world: electrifying everything.Paul Hawken and the non-profit Regeneration are launching a series of initiatives to accompany the book that will include a streaming video series, curriculum, podcasts, teaching videos, and climate action software. Regeneration is the inspiring and needed guide to inform the burgeoning climate movement.

A journey into the vitalizing world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author of Drawdown and RegenerationCarbon is the only element in the universe with properties capable of animating every facet of the living world. Despite comprising a tiny fraction of Earth’s composition, our planet is lifeless without it. However, it has been maligned as a leading cause of climate change, reduced to an errant element and blamed as our civilization careens towards its own demise.In Carbon, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Taking a wide view of our world and carbon’s omnipresence, Hawken explores how this essential element extends into every corner of existence, shaping the very fabric of life itself. He charts a course across history, bringing us into the realm of plants, animals, insects, fungi, and more to tell a new story about how to harness the life-giving power and possibilities of carbon.In this stirring, hopeful, and deeply humane book, Hawken illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience, and asks us to see nature, carbon, and ourselves as inextricably linked.

In Findhorn, they grow 40-pound cabbages, 8 foot delphiniums, and roses that bloom in the snow. What is the source of this spectacular success? Experts have concluded that there must be some vital unknown at work, some extraordinarily powerful Factor X. What is this X? And why has this garden of plants now become a garden of people who-like the plants-flourish and visibly glow? Now, Paul Hawken, who went as a skeptic, tells us "Findhorn may be a manifestation of light and power which could transform our planet within a lifetime."

Arguing that the current economy represents a move from a "mass" to a new "informative" economic system, the author explains how individuals can cope with, and benefit from the transition

This books presents 7 possible futures and examines each one in depth.

Was wäre, wenn Kohlenstoff nicht unser Feind, sondern unser größter Verbündeter ist?Paul Hawkens Kohlenstoff – Das verkannte Element präsentiert eine neue, unvoreingenommene Perspektive, welche die gängige Wahrnehmung des "Klimaschädlings" infrage stellt. Der renommierte Umweltschützer erkundet, wie das Element in jede Pore unserer Existenz vordringt und das gesamte Gewebe des Lebens formt. Das Buch führt uns durch Pflanzen-, Tier- und Pilzreiche und Kohlenstoff ist die fundamentale Lebenskraft – Grundstein aller lebensfähigen chemischen Verbindungen, zentraler Motor des atmosphärischen Kreislaufs und essenzieller Baustein für technische Innovationen. Hawken erkundet Habitate von Menschen, Vögeln und Insekten und zeigt in seiner unnachahmlich poetischen und mitreißenden Sprache, wie wir unser Verhältnis zur Natur reparieren können. Ein intelligentes, Neugier weckendes und hoffnungsvolles Buch.