Paul Hawken Biography | Paul Hawken

Paul Gerard Hawken is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist. Hawken was born in San Mateo, California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where his father worked at UC Berkeley in Library Sciences. He attended UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.

Hawken’s work includes founding ecological businesses, writing about the impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with corporations and governments on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.

Hawken is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that describes how global warming can be reversed. Hawken was active in the Civil Rights Movement. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Paul Hawken Age

Paul Gerard Hawken is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist. He was born on February 8, 1946, in California, Paul Hawken is 73 years old as of 2019

Paul Hawken Writing

Hawken has authored articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and has written seven books, including The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993), and Blessed Unrest (Viking 2007).

The Ecology of Commerce was voted the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. The businessman and environmentalist Ray Anderson of Interface, Inc. credited The Ecology of Commerce with his environmental awakening.

He described reading it as a “spear in the chest experience,” after which Anderson started crisscrossing the country with a near-evangelical fervor, telling fellow executives about the need to reduce waste and carbon emissions.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little Brown, September 1999), co-authored with Amory Lovins, popularized the now-standard idea of natural capital and direct accounting for ecosystem services.

It has been read and referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who called it one of the five most important books in the world today, stating “Natural Capitalism basically proves beyond any argument that there are presently available technologies, and those just on the horizon, which will permit us to get richer by cleaning, not by spoiling, the environment.

” Natural Capitalism has been translated into 14 other languages. Together with The Ecology of Commerce, these books have been described as being “among the first to point the way towards a sustainable global economy”.

Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, published in May 2007, argues that a vast “movement with no name” is forming involving environmental, social justice, and indigenous rights organizations.

He conceives of this “movement” as developing not by ideology but rather through the identification of what is and is not humane, and has compared it to humanity’s collective immune system.

Growing a Business became the basis of a 17-part PBS series, which Hawken hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsible companies, appeared on television in 115 countries and reached more than 100 million people. Read also about Boyd Cohen

Paul Hawken Drawdown

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists, and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change.

All of the techniques described here – some well-known, some you may have never heard of – are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are already enacting them.

From revolutionizing how we produce and consume food to educating girls in lower-income countries, these are all solutions which, if deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, could not just slow the earth’s warming, but reach drawdown: the point when greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. So what are we waiting for?

Paul Hawken Business

Hawken founded several companies, starting when he took over a small retail store in Boston in 1967 called Erewhon (after Samuel Butler’s 1872 utopian novel) and turned it into the Erewhon Trading Company, a natural-foods wholesaler, and one of the first in the US that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods.

When he left the company in the 1970s, it had over 30,000 acres of organically grown food under contract. He co-founded the Smith & Hawken garden supply company in 1979, a retail and catalog business.

In 2009, Hawken founded OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry.

From 1994 to 1998, Hawken founded and headed up The Natural Step USA. From 1996 to 1998, Hawken was Co-chairman of The Natural Step International.

The Natural Step was founded in 1989 by a Swedish scientist and medical doctor, Karl-Henrik Robèrt in order to create shared frameworks for understanding sustainable development.

Its purpose is to teach and support environmental systems thinking in corporations, cities, governments, unions, and academic institutions through a dialogue process rooted in basic science.

In 1998, Hawken created the Natural Capital Institute (NCI) located in Sausalito, California. Its main focus was wiser.org, an open-source database of activists and civil society organizations focused on environmental and social justice.

Hawken is currently the Executive Director of Project Drawdown which is working towards the drawdown of greenhouse gases to reduce climate change.

Paul Hawken Dead or Alive?

Famous Journalist Paul Hawken is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: July 15, 2019).

Paul Hawken Blessed Unrest

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming is a 2007 New York Times bestseller by Paul Hawken.

The book is about the many non-profit groups and community organizations, dedicated to many different causes, which Hawken calls the “environmental and social justice movement”. Hawken explains that this is a diverse movement with no charismatic leader.

The movement follows no unifying ideology and is not recognized by politicians, the public and the media. But, Hawken argues, it has the potential to benefit the planet.

A New York Times reviewer states that Blessed Unrest is “about a movement that no one has noticed, not even the people involved”.

For this reviewer, the “high point of the book is Hawken’s excellent critique of the chemical industry’s attack on Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962”, at a time when she was fighting cancer.

Hawken also tells the stories of other people who have endured hardship and difficulty as they stood up to large corporations.

Paul Hawken Activism

In 1965, Hawken worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s staff in Selma, Alabama prior to the historic March on Montgomery. As of press coordinator, he registered members of the press, issued credentials, gave dozens of updates and interviews on national radio, and acted as marshal for the final march.

That same year, he worked in New Orleans as a staff photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality, focusing on voter registration drives in Bogalusa, Louisiana and the panhandle of Florida, and photographing the Klan in Meridian Mississippi after three civil rights workers were tortured and killed.

In Meridian, he was assaulted and seized by Ku Klux Klan members but escaped due to FBI surveillance and intervention.

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Paul Hawken Wife, Married

Live The Process

Jasmine Scalesciani-Hawken has always found comfort in stillness.

The Italian-born nutritionist (and wife to environmentalist, Paul Hawken) was drawn to plant-based alchemy—and quiet moments in nature—from childhood.

After working in fashion in New York City, she moved to Venice, California, where she opened a studio and quickly developed a cult following for her botanically-based detox protocols.

Now, working in conjunction with “green chemistry,” she has launched Hair print (a non-toxic treatment meant to restore gray hair to its original color) and Olio Maestro (which is designed to purify the body and battle stubborn fat deposits), available from Erewhon to CAP Beauty. Soon, she’ll be offering this more, under the umbrella of Products for Humanity.

Here, Scalesciani-Hawken talks about the importance of making space for the less favorite parts of ourselves:

Live The Process: What drew you to the world of self-care and exploration?

Jasmine Scalesciani-Hawken: I grew up in a wild part of Sardegna, Italy, where there wasn’t much of anything other than its Mediterranean rocks, wild herbs, and salty air—and the force of Mother Nature. I feel that these experiences with wildness strongly informed my values and career choices of today.

What I call “meditation” is what I naturally did as a child, watching a sunset or studying a plant and making potions. Without screens, I was blessed to follow a simple lifestyle that cultivated stillness and observation.

I think we all come in with a certain predisposition and mine innately favored alternative healing practices and inquiring into the nature of self from a very young age.

LTP: How did you come to launch your beauty lines?

JSH: I was born into a family who has been in the skincare business for over fifty years. My father produces healing collagen remedies sold medically all across Europe. When I moved to Venice Beach eleven years ago, I began a nutritional consulting practice.

I specialized in detox protocols, and the number one question I heard from my women clients was how to reduce fat deposits and cellulite that were starting to accumulate on their thighs.

I heard this question many times, but there was nothing I could recommend. So, I began to make body oils for my clients, remedies infused with the potent pharmacopeia I had learned about over the years.

They loved them and wanted more. Demand grew and I became known as the go-to cleanse nutritionist in LA. However, I never made these formulas to sell outside my practice—until now.

Both my companies, Hair print and now Olio Maestro, are founded on the principles of chemical-free, plant-based beauty through and through.

Hair print Color Restorer, for example, is the only hair coloring treatment that restores gray hair to its original color without the use of dyes. It’s effective, has no smell and is so clean, it’s even safe enough to eat.

LTP: Rumor has it that you’re launching a larger endeavor called “Products for Humanity:” What is the concept behind this new venture?

JSH: Today, there are dozens of so-called natural products on the market that make claims. I read the ingredients and know they are inadequate because they are laden with synthetic chemicals.

The body thrives with nature and the extraordinary healing power of plants. Inspired by my lifelong love affair with wild botanicals and herbs, I want to make products that are truly botanically-based through and through (from the fermentation process to the preservatives) and that respect the entire cycle of life, available to everyone.

I can’t talk much about Products For Humanity yet, but it will be unlike anything the beauty world has seen.

LTP: Aside from your own lines, what are some current wellness obsessions and rituals that keep you feeling balanced and healthy?

JSH: I’m in love with the brand Ojai Wild. Partly because I call Ojai my second home and the flowers, herbs, and plants Janna (the founder) uses are grown there, but also because of how the scents themselves are made and feel so refreshing and true to nature. I apply them various times per day to keep myself inspired.

The work of Byron Katie has been a foundational part of my life for over 15 years now. My daily routine consists of a short HIIT workout (usually on my home spin bike), and then I sit with the practice of Byron Katie called “The Work,” as a meditation every morning.

When friends stay over, we usually meditate with one of the questions from my card deck, “No Self,” which has the slogan, “Realize Who You Truly Aren’t.” (You can find them at ABCHome or at noself.co.)

This year, I’ve been focusing primarily on taking mushroom extracts by Paul Stamet’s company Host Defense. He is the world leader in mushroom research, in my eyes. I typically take a concoction of 6-8 mushrooms per day.

I also take Spagyric remedies, regularly. I discovered these in Switzerland, where my mother lives, and saw how commonly used they are there and how little known here in the US. They are the quintessential vibrational medicine therapy for our times.

When in Europe, I usually stock up on herbs and teas from any “Erboristeria,” and I especially love to take artichoke ampules to cleanse the liver, which I use 2-3 times per year.

LTP: What does happiness look like to you?

JSH: Feeling at home in my self. In my mind and heart.

Living an inner life, connected to nature and away from the distractions of social media.

A day when I’m laughing, playing and adventuring with my husband.

LTP: What does it mean to you to “Live The Process” and how can we all do that more each day?

JSH: To “Live The Process,” to me, means staying with all the bits that feel confusing, uncomfortable, ugly or unforgivable, and creating a bigger container for them to exist in me and in others—without opposition.

I see my capacity for loving and acceptance is rooted in my understanding of all the parts of myself to allow greater gentleness within.

Paul Hawken Recognition

Paul Hawken has been awarded six honorary doctorates and has received the Green Cross Millennium Award for Individual Environmental Leadership presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in 2003

Paul Hawken Speaking

As a speaker, Hawken has given several hundred talks, including keynote addresses to major associations, companies, government agencies. His University commencement addresses have included:

University of California, Berkeley Commencement
University of Portland 2009 commencement speech (“You Are Brilliant and the Earth Is Hiring”)
Urban Land Institute
Yale University and Yale University Commencement

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Paul Hawken Books

Paul Hawken Books The Ecology of Commerce 1993, Blessed Unrest 2007, Growing a Business Cassette 1987, Natural Capitalism 1999, The Next Economy 1983, The magic of Findhorn 1975, Seven Tomorrows 1982,

Sustainable World Sourcebook: Critical Issues, Inspiring Solutions, Resources for Action 2014, Drawdown: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary 2017, Economia Que Viene, La 1985, Nature’s Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies 2004