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Posted on Oct 10, 2021
| 5:18 p.m.
UCSB Arts & Lectures will present Paul Hawken Regeneration: Ending the Local weather Crisis in 1 Technology, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20 at Campbell Hall. The chat is portion of the 2021-22 Developing Hope programming initiative.
Hawken is an entrepreneur, author and activist committed to environmental sustainability and switching the relationship between small business and the ecosystem. He is a top voice in the environmental motion, and a pioneering architect of company reform with respect to ecological procedures.
His function incorporates founding successful, ecologically acutely aware corporations, producing about the impacts of commerce on living methods, and consulting with heads of point out and CEOs on financial growth, industrial ecology, and environmental plan.
With Regeneration, Ending the Local climate Crisis in A person Generation, Hawken offers a visionary new technique to local weather modify that weaves equity, climate, biodiversity and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of motion, plan and transformation.
Hawken is founder of Job Drawdown, a nonprofit focused to investigating when and how global warming can be reversed. The firm maps and types the scaling of one particular hundred substantive technological, social, and ecological solutions to world wide warming.
Hawken’s books include things like “The Following Financial system,” “Growing a Enterprise,” “The Ecology of Commerce,” “Blessed Unrest” and Drawdown.”
Hawken authors content articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and has prepared 8 books like 5 countrywide bestsellers: The Subsequent Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon & Schuster
In 1965, Hawken worked with Martin Luther King Jr.’s team in Selma, Alabama, prior to the historic March on Montgomery. Hawken worked as press coordinator and as a marshal for the final march. That very same year, he worked in New Orleans as a team photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality, concentrating on voter registration drives in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and the Florida Panhandle.
He photographed the Ku Klux Klan in Meridian, Mississippi, just after 3 civil rights personnel were being tortured and killed. In Meridian, he was assaulted and seized by Klan users, but escaped owing to FBI surveillance and intervention.
Hawken has spoken, performed study, and traveled all over the world, undertaking journeys into insurgent-held territories of Burma to study tropical teak deforestation, as perfectly as a 1999 humanitarian/photojournalistic trek to war-torn Kosovo.
Hawken has served on the board of quite a few environmental corporations together with Position Foundation (publisher of the Total Earth Catalogs), Middle for Plant Conservation, Conservation Worldwide, Trust for Community Land, Friends of the Earth, and National Audubon Society.
Learn far more about the Creating Hope series at https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/CreatingHope.aspx.
Hawken’s chat is no cost to show up at obtain registration is expected. For tickets, get in touch with UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535 or pay a visit to www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
