Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World

by Paul Hawken

Overview

The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change

Paul Hawken has spent more than 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.

Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries of hidden history. A culmination of Hawken's many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire all who despair of the world's fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143113652
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.43(h) x 0.79(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.

Table of Contents

The Beginning     1
Blessed Unrest     9
The Long Green     27
The Rights of Business     49
Emerson's Savants     69
Indigene     87
We Interrupt This Empire     115
Immunity     139
Restoration     167
Appendix     191
Acknowledgments     303
Notes     307
Bibliography     321
Index     331

Editorial Reviews

Blessed Unrest is exciting, compelling and very important. . . . It will inspire and encourage millions more to take action.

Jane Goodall

Writing with zest, clarity, and a touch of wonder . . . Hawken offers a fascinating history of our perception of nature and human rights. Hawken also presents an unprecedented map to this new ‘social landscape.'

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