About this title: One of the world's most influential environmentalists--the author of "Natural Capitalism"--reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity to defend life on Earth.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN-13:9780143113652ISBN:0143113658
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN-13:9780143113652ISBN:0143113658
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"highly recommended. sensitively written. solid thinking. lots of details backing up the claims. yes. it matters what we know when we think. and the environment needs many clear thinking people who care what is happening. the title "blessed unrest" is also known as "divine discontent" and to that idea in relation (to the environment AND to social justice) i add my AMEN!"
"Uplifting and inspiring and helped me to understand that just by being a piece of the movement for positive change is powerful. Was reading this as we fought hard for the battle against T-Mobile's antenna farm 40 feet from our home. It was is a balm for the bad days"
"I like how this book gives perspective to the current environmental and social justice movements. It seems much smaller than, according to Hawken, it really is. However, I don't share his optimism about what the movement can accomplish.
The book had interesting sections about the history of the movement and about indigenous people."
"My copy of this book has a different subtitle than the one listed above. Mine is "How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World." The change is for the better since I am hard-pressed to imagine a world where grace has been restored; is there even a dance floor that can handle such smooth gesticulations? I am on-board with the use of justice, though beauty kills it for me. Subtitles should be an art form, but, ultimately, have to be the boring half of the colon.
Morphing subtitle aside this book possesses many organs, but little interstitial tissue. The book is amorphous, yet very well-written with often surprising connections between disciplines and sources of knowledge. Hawken even, for a short period of time, disentangled Thoreau and Emerson (Thoremerson)in my mind. He takes the position that the earth can be considered a single organism, a position which has obvious ramifications for the ways that humans conceptualize place and effect. Hawken, then, is in good company as ecological principles are gradually being wedged into urban planning and politics. The idea that the earth will begin buckling as we exceed its carrying capacity means many more empty condom wrappers on the bedroom floor or a trip to the doctor (depending on who has the onus of reproductive responsibility in your relationship)."
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