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

Author: Paul Hawken

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/30/2024


Synopsis

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.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert

Paul Hawken’s new book, entitled Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, makes a simple argument in a straightforward fashion. This makes the book infinitely more readable than another book that makes a similar argument in incomprehensible......more

Goodreads review by Allison

I forced my way through this book because its written by Paul Hawken, one of the authors of Natural Capitalism (one of my very favorites). But man, it was hard to get through. Overly emotional and too historical. The bits about the civil rights movement were interesting though. Anway, I was about ha......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

The author teetered on a tightrope between solidarity on one side, and status quo post-Cold-War “non-ideology” illusions on the other. Must I perform this circus act with my review? The Good: --If we can set aside the rampant cognitive dissonance for a moment, there were some positive moments. The eu......more

Goodreads review by Erika

This book is about... well, I am not completely sure what. Nominally, it is about "the movement" which is the joint effect of the various diverse and dispersed environmental and social justice groups throughout the world. However, the book tends to ramble all over, so it is hard to get a point from......more