Weekend Reading: Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest
Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, has a new book out about the history of the environmental and social justice movement. It's called Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. We haven't read it yet, but it's on our list.
From the Publisher's Weekly review on Amazon:
Hawken traces the formation of the environmental and social justice movement from the beginnings of natural science across years and continents in this rousing and "inadvertently optimistic" call to action. Though it's argued that globalization; extinction of species, languages and cultures; and economic policies advantageous to the rich have degraded quality of life worldwide and engendered large scale feelings of fear, resentment and powerlessness, Hawken remains surprisingly hopeful. Strength, he contends, lies in the many thousands (if not millions) of nonprofits and community organizations dedicated to environmental protection and social justice that collectively form a worldwide movement geared toward humanity's betterment.
Available at Blessed Unrest.
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Posted by Jess Brooks at June 29, 2007 7:58 AM
As a result of Paul's research for Blessed Unrest his staff at NCI developed WiserEarth (www.wiserearth.org), an online tool to serve this unnamed movement of social justice and environmental restoration.
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