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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
By | May 9, 2007
By: Paul Hawken
Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians and the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, 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 organizations collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.
Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of this movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries-old history. The culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in these fields, it will inspire, surprise, and delight anyone who is worried about the direction in which the modern world is headed. Blessed Unrest is a description of humanity’s collective genius and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another. Like Hawken’s previous books, Blessed Un
ISBN: 9780670038527
Viking / Paperback / 352 pages / $24.95 (US)
Available May 10, 2007
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2007/04/15/p15967
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