Environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken, CEO of OneSun Solar, delivered a speech at the 2010 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. He focused on pressing global environmental

Environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken, CEO of OneSun Solar, delivered a speech at the 2010 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. He focused on pressing global environmental problems.

Hawken is also the former Executive Director of the global Wiser community, a social network for sustainability. Its vision emerged from his research for his book, *Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, and Why No One Saw It Coming*.

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ReGeneration embodies two concepts: regenerating life on Earth and a new human generation uniting to reverse global warming. Join environmentalist Paul Hawken, author of *Regeneration: Ending the

ReGeneration embodies two concepts: regenerating life on Earth and a new human generation uniting to reverse global warming. Join environmentalist Paul Hawken, author of *Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation*, as he presents an optimistic and joyful response to the climate crisis. Elizabeth Carney will moderate this event, held on November 3, 2021, inspiring attendees with a renewed sense of purpose.

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Join New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken live on March 19, 2025, for an insightful journey into carbon, the planet's most versatile element. Often maligned as a climate change driver,

Join New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken live on March 19, 2025, for an insightful journey into carbon, the planet's most versatile element. Often maligned as a climate change driver, carbon is, in fact, essential for all life, animating the entire living world. Lesley McClurg, Science Reporter for KQED, will also speak.

In his new book, *Carbon: The Book of Life*, Hawken explores this ubiquitous element's omnipresence, charting its role across planetary history, plants, animals, and food systems. He offers a new narrative, inviting us to embrace carbon's life-giving power and its possibilities for the future, seeing nature, carbon, and ourselves as inseparably intertwined. Follow Paul Hawken on [X](https://twitter.com/PaulHawken).