Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is a pioneering environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist, and activist. He founded early ecological businesses—like Erewhon Natural Foods and Smith & Hawken—and co-founded Project Drawdown, which produced the bestselling Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (2017), establishing a roadmap of 100 scalable climate solutions. His seminal works, such as The Ecology of Commerce (1993), Natural Capitalism (1999), Blessed Unrest (2007), and Regeneration (2021), have shaped global sustainability discourse and catalyzed systemic change . He advises corporations, governments, and nonprofits, holds six honorary doctorates, and has received numerous awards, including the Green Cross Millennium Award for Environmental Leadership in 2003. Hawken’s life-long work integrates ecological respect, economic regeneration, and cultural resilience, reinforcing the Planet Project’s values of holistic systems thinking, compassionate stewardship, and scalable transformation.
Functional Sector: Environment, Economics, Education, Governance
Date Added: 2025-06-11
 | Category: Regenerative |
 | Type: Person |