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Busy, busy day at the San Francisco Green Festival<\/a>, but, wow, what a rush! We’re all having a great time meeting people who come to the booth, and making the rounds of other green businesses and organizations that are participating in the festival. One of our team members overheard someone referring to the event as a “hippie convention,” but that’s quite an oversimplification. Rather, Greenfest is a wonderfully diverse mingling of the crunchy, the crusading, and the corporate: activists, deal-makers and thought leaders all gathered together to celebrate the work we’re all doing on different fronts, and to show the world that “green” can mean tie-dyed or tie-wearing\u2026<\/p>\n

By having a good-sized team at the festival, we’ve all had the opportunity to get out and enjoy some of the activities going on while keeping the booth staffed. I made sure to put in my request for time away at 1 this afternoon, when Paul Hawken was scheduled to speak. Hawken’s a personal hero of mine, but that’s hardly unique among sustainability advocates: that fact was underscored by the standing room only crowd that had gathered by the time Ryan and I made it over for the talk.<\/p>\n

Hawken’s best known for his innovative thinking and writing on green business, but his latest book, Blessed Unrest<\/a><\/em>, explores the many communities and organizations that have formed in recent decades to “rethink what it means to be human,” and to challenge the status quo not only on environmental issues, but also on those related to human rights, social justice and political equality. Hawken describes the growth of such groups as a movement, one that’s gone largely unrecognized by the mainstream media, the political establishment, and even itself. In his talk today, Hawken traced the historical and intellectual roots of such movements, and argued for organic interconnections between environmentalism, the Abolition and civil rights movements, and philosophies of freedom and justice from both Western and Eastern traditions. He compared the outgrowth of such movements to the body’s immune system: the degradation of civil culture and government elicit a response from the body politic that attempts to identify these threats, and react in a manner that preserves the health and integrity of the larger community.<\/p>\n

Hawken’s speaking is as engaging as his writing, and various points in the talk drew enthusiastic applause from the audience. That’s no surprise: while Hawken never dances around the environmental challenges we face, he always manages to present options for change that are both practical and inspiring. No doom and gloom here\u2026 sober truths, no doubt, but also plenty of reason to remain hopeful\u2026 and keep working!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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