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Blessed Unrest: The Environmental Movement
May 23, 2007
Paul Hawken executive director, Natural Capital Institute

Writer and environmentalist Paul Hawken discusses his new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, which explores the diversity of the environmental movement, its ideas, strategies, and hidden history, going back many centuries.

This event is co-sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Library, A Cappella Books, and the Sustainability Initiative at Emory University

Business & Economics | Science & Nature
Activism | Human Rights | Sustainability | Environment | Non-Fiction
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Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
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