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He has appeared on numerous media including
the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, and has
been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall
Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business
Week, Esquire, and US News and World Report.
His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New
Statesman, Inc, Boston Globe, Christian
Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Orion,
and over a hundred other publications.
He is author and co-author of dozens of articles, op-eds, papers, as
well as six books including The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing
a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), and The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins
1993). The Ecology of Commerce was voted in 1998 as the #1 college
text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools.
His book, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little
Brown, September 1999) co-authored with Amory Lovins, is published in
fourteen languages and has been read and referred to by several heads
of state including President Bill Clinton who has called it one of the
five most important books in the world today. His books have been published
in over 50 countries in 27 languages and have sold over 2 million copies. Growing
a Business became the basis of a 17-part PBS series, which Mr. Hawken
hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls
of starting and operating socially responsive companies, was shown on
television in 115 countries and watched by over 100 million people. His
piece on Seattle and the WTO entitled “N30” was published
on over 100 websites and by 13 magazines. His latest book was published
by Viking in May 2007 entitled Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement
in the World Came Into Being, and Why No One Saw it Coming. www.blessedunrest.com
Companies he has founded or co-founded software companies specializing
in proprietary content management tools; Smith & Hawken, the garden
and catalog retailer; and several of the first natural food companies
in the U.S that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He
is presently the head of PaxIT, PaxTurbine, and PaxFan, three companies
associated with Pax Scientific a research and development company focused
on energy-saving technologies that apply biomimicry to fluid dynamics.
Paul heads the Natural Capital Institute (www.naturalcapital.org),
a research organization located in Sausalito, California. The Natural
Capital Institute has created a hub for global civil society (www.WiserEarth.org).
It is a collaboratively written, free content, open source networking
platform that links NGOs, funders, business, government, social entrepreneurs,
students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens.
As a speaker, he has given keynote addresses to the Liberal Party of
Canada, King of Sweden at his inaugural Environmental Seminar, American
Bookseller’s Association, Urban Land Institute, SRI International,
Harvard University, Stanford University, Wharton, Cornell, Prime Minister
of New Zealand’s Conference on Natural Capitalism, US Department
of Commerce, Australian Business Council, Yale University and Yale University
Commencement, University of California (Berkeley) Commencement, Ministry
of Agriculture France, American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS), Prince of Wales Conference on Business and the Environment—Cambridge
University, Commonwealth Club, Herman Miller, National Wildlife Federation,
State of Washington, American Society of Landscape Architects, American
Institute of Architects, American Institute of Graphic Arts, American
Solar Energy Association, Apple Computer, World Business Council for
Sustainable Development, Cleveland City Club, Conference Board, U.S.
Forest Service, Ontario Hydro, Environment Canada, EPA, and several hundred
others.
He has served on the board of many environmental organizations including
Point Foundation (publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs), Center for
Plant Conservation, Trust for Public Land, Friends of the Earth, and
National Audubon Society. Among recognition and awards received are:
Green Cross Millennium Award for Individual Environmental Leadership
presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in 2003; World Council for Corporate Governance
in 2002; Small Business Administration “Entrepreneur of the Year” in
1990; Utne “One Hundred Visionaries who could Change our Lives” in
1995, Western Publications Association “Maggie” award for “Natural
Capitalism” as the best Signed Editorial/Essay” in 1997;
Creative Visionary Award by the International Society of Industrial Design;
Design in Business Award for environmental responsibility by the American
Center for Design; Council on Economic Priorities’ 1990 Corporate
Conscience Award; American Horticultural Society Award for commitment
to excellence in commercial horticulture; Metropolitan Home Design 100
Editorial Award for the 100 best people, products and ideas that shape
our lives; the Cine Golden Eagle award in video for the PBS program “Marketing” from Growing
a Business; California Institute of Integral Studies Award “For
Ongoing Humanitarian Contributions to the Bay Area Communities”; Esquire Magazine
award for the best 100 People of a Generation (1984); and five honorary
doctorates.
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information on Mr. Hawken’s public service experience
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