Books by Paul Hawken
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken (editor)
“Project Drawdown…lays out in detail dozens of different strategies for getting to zero carbon emissions and meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. It’s an incredible piece of work, with the input of hundreds of scientists, and an incredible inspiration. Every politician around the world should read this, and every policy maker and CEO and teacher. It shows how not only is it possible to get to net zero, but that it saves us money.” Read more...
The best books on Global Challenges
Rowan Hooper, Journalist
Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken
There is a movement for sustainability and a movement for the planet and for social justice. It is very small scale, which is why it is largely unseen
Natural Capitalism
by Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins & Paul Hawken
This was a huge inspiration for Thomas Friedman’s recent book, Hot Flat And Crowded, and talks about social economics and bureaucratic systems and how we need to re-engineer them completely for the 21st century. Amory Lovins is approaching this problem set as one which is primarily environmental, addressing the need to take care of scarce resources on the planet and suggesting how we might reconfigure our systems with that goal in mind.
Interviews where books by Paul Hawken were recommended
The best books on Change in America, recommended by Van Jones
In the latest instalment of our series on American progressivism, the environmental advocate and human rights activist tells us why the age of Obama will really only begin after the president has left office
The best books on Saving the World, recommended by Jonathon Porritt
Co-founder of Forum For The Future and one of the leading experts on climate change hammers home the need to encourage sustainable development technologies across the globe
The best books on Failed States, recommended by Clare Lockhart
The director of The Institute for State Effectiveness, Clare Lockhart, questions the role of the state and discusses the effects of failed states on both neighbouring and local populations. She picks the best books on failed states.
The best books on Consumption and the Environment, recommended by Juliet Schor
The author of True Wealth suggests how we can rethink our patterns of consumption and approach our relationship with nature in a new, less damaging, way
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The Sixth Extinction
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Frankissstein: A Novel
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The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
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Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken (editor)
The best books on Global Challenges, recommended by Rowan Hooper
The best books on Global Challenges, recommended by Rowan Hooper
Which are the most pressing global challenges we face today? In How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Rowan Hooper, a senior editor at the New Scientist, makes the case for the ones he considers the most urgent. Here, he recommends books that help illuminate some of those challenges—including the amazing resource that is ‘Project Drawdown’.
