''Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming'' is a 2007
''New York Times'' bestseller[ by ]Paul Hawken
Paul Gerard Hawken (born February 8, 1946) is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist, and activist.
Biography
Hawken was born in San Mateo, California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where his father worked at ...
. The book is about the many non-profit groups and community organizations, dedicated to many different causes, which Hawken calls the "environmental and social justice movement". Hawken explains that this is a diverse movement with no charismatic leader. The movement follows no unifying ideology, and is not recognized by politicians, the public and the media. But, Hawken argues, it has the potential to benefit the planet.[Healing by the community spirit]
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'', Oct-Nov 2008, pp. 145-146.
A ''New York Times'' reviewer states that ''Blessed Unrest'' is "about a movement that no one has noticed, not even the people involved". For this reviewer, the "high point of the book is Hawken's excellent critique of the chemical industry's attack on Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservation movement, conservationist whose influential book ''Silent Spring'' (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the ...
's ''Silent Spring
''Silent Spring'' is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading d ...
'' in 1962", at a time when she was fighting cancer.[Robert Sullivan]
Grass Roots Rising
''The New York Times'', August 5, 2007. Hawken also tells the stories of other people who have endured hardship and difficulty as they stood up to large corporations.[
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See also
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* Environmental movement
The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse philosophical, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists a ...
* Leaderless resistance
Leaderless resistance, or phantom cell structure, is a social resistance strategy in which small, independent groups ( covert cells), or individuals (a solo cell is called a " lone wolf"), challenge an established institution such as a law, econom ...
* '' The Starfish and the Spider''
* Unorganisation
* Wiser.org
References
External links
Blessed Unrest for a Wiser Earth: John Stauber interviews Paul HawkenBlessed Unrest (film)
2007 non-fiction books
2007 in the environment
Environmental non-fiction books
Social movements in the United States
Community building
Organizational structure