The still-emerging taxonomy of their “areas of focus” has 414 categories, amounting to a “curriculum of the 21st century”- Acid Rain, Living Wages, Tropical Moist Forests, Peacemaking, Democratic Reform, Sustainable Cities, Environmental Toxicology, Watershed Management, Human Trafficking, Mountaintop Removal, Pesticides, Climate Change, Refugees, Women’s Safety, Eco-villages, Fair Trade… Extrapolating from carefully inventoried regions to those yet to be tallied, he estimates there are over 1,000,000 such organizations in the world, adding up to the largest and fastest growing Movement in history. The database now has 105,000 such organizations.

After a while he had 7,000, and he wondered, “How many environmental groups are there in the world?” He began actively building a now-public database,, which includes social justice and indigenous rights organizations because he found they indivisibly overlap in their values and activities. His new book, Blessed Unrest, was inspired by the countless business cards that earnest environmentalists would hand him after his lectures all over the world. They were all initially social movements, she says, acting on revulsion against the violence and injustice of their times.īoth books describe conditions in which “the future is stolen and sold to the present,” said Hawken- a situation we are having to deal with yet again. Karen Armstrong’s 2006 book, The Great Transformation, explores “the Axial Age” between 800 and 200 BC when the world’s great religions and philosophies first took shape. Economist Karl Polanyi’s 1944 book, The Great Transformation, said that the “market society” and modern nation state emerged together in Europe after 1700 and divided society in ways that have yet to be healed. The title of Paul Hawken’s talk, “The New Great Transformation,” has two referents, he explained.

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