Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken (/ˈhɔːkən/; born February 8, 1946 in California) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist. 2Biography Hawken 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 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 when and how global warming can be reversed. Hawken was active in the Civil Rights Movement. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 2Writing 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, In