Paul Hawken recently provided an update on Project Drawdown, his living research initiative focused on reversing global warming by reducing and sequestering carbon. Eighteen months post-launch,

Paul Hawken recently provided an update on Project Drawdown, his living research initiative focused on reversing global warming by reducing and sequestering carbon. Eighteen months post-launch, Hawken discussed the global response from activists, political leaders, and scientists, along with how communities are activating around Drawdown's solutions.

Project Drawdown, detailed in Hawken's bestselling 2017 book, "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming," involves an international team mapping 100 substantive solutions. This presentation explores how communities are utilizing this template of possibilities to spread and accelerate the critical movement.

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).