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Paul Gerard Hawken born February 8, is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist, and activist. 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 was the co-founder and executive director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that describes how global warming can be reversed.

Hawken was active in the civil rights movement. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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, Inc. He described reading it as a "spear in the chest experience", after which Anderson started crisscrossing the country with a near-evangelical fervor, telling fellow executives about the need to reduce waste and carbon emissions.

Natural Capitalism has been translated into 14 other languages. Together with The Ecology of Commerce these books have been described as being "among the first to point the way towards a sustainable global economy". Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming , published in , argues that a vast "movement with no name" is forming involving environmental, social justice, and indigenous rights organizations.

Hawken conceives of this "movement" as developing not by ideology but rather through the identification of what is and is not humane, and has compared it to humanity's collective immune system.

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The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsible companies, appeared on television in countries and reached more than million people. It was collaborative effort involving researchers and advisors who came together to model the most substantive solutions to reverse global warming.

Hawken founded several companies, starting when he took over a small retail store in Boston in called Erewhon after Samuel Butler's utopian novel and turned it into the Erewhon Trading Company, a natural-foods wholesaler, and one of the first in the US that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. When he left the company in the s, it had over 30, acres of organically grown food under contract.

In , he founded OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry.