Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
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...
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The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental changePaul 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. Booklist 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.'
The Beginning 1Blessed Unrest 9The Long Green 27The Rights of Business 49Emerson's Savants 69Indigene 87We Interrupt This Empire 115Immunity 139Restoration 167Appendix 191Acknowledgments 303Notes 307Bibliography 321Index 331
\ BooklistWriting 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.'\ \ \ \ \ Jane GoodallBlessed Unrest is exciting, compelling and very important. . . . It will inspire and encourage millions more to take action.\ \
