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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 causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location but that is in every city, town, and culture. Though this movement has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media, it is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people's unstoppable need to re-imagine their relationship to the environment and to one another. 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.

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If you have the least bit of concern for the environment, and if for some reason you listen to only one audiobook this year, let it be Blessed Unrest...Paul Garcia captures the passion and purposefulness of Hawken's writing...[he] knows when to dramatize the statements that form the heart of this treatise. -- AudioFile Writing with zest, clarity, and a touch of wonder...Hawken offers a fascinating history of our perception of nature and human rights...Fresh and informative, Hawken's inspired overview charts much that is right in the world. -- Booklist (starred review) Blessed Unrest is a beautiful, soulful, crucial book. It is a manifesto of hope for the 21st century grounded squarely in the hearts of engaged people around the planet. -- Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Open Space of Democracy

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Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and bestselling author of several books. He is the architect and leading proponent of reform with respect to ecological practices. He currently operates a nonprofit organization. Paul Michael Garcia, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and former company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, received his classical training in theater from Southern Oregon University, where he worked as an actor, director, and designer.

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