Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author, was recently named one of the top three Pioneers of Sustainability along with Professors Peter Senge and Michael Porter. His work includes starting ecological businesses, writing about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business Week, Esquire, and US News and World Report. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New Statesman, Inc, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Orion, and many other publications.
He authors articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and has written seven books including four national bestsellers. His books have been published in over 50 countries in 30 languages, and include:
- The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983),
- Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987); the book serves as the basis of a 17-part PBS series hosted and produced by Paul that explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsive companies; the PBS series was shown on television in 115 countries and watched by over 100 million people
- The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993); a national bestseller and voted #1 college text in 2013 on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools
- Blessed Unrest (Viking, 2007).
- Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little Brown, September 1999) co-authored with Amory Lovins, 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.
- He is currently writing Carbon, The Business of Life, to be published by Viking/Penguin.