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Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and best-selling author. At age 20, he dedicated his life to changing the relationship between business and the environment, and between human and living systems in order to create a more just and sustainable world. His work includes starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce upon the environment, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. An Environmentalist is a person or a group that supports any goal of the environmental movement. ...
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Industrial ecology is the shifting of industrial process from open loop systems, in which resource and capital investments move through the system to become waste, to a closed loop system where wastes become inputs for new processes. ...
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He is author and co-author of dozens of articles, op-eds, papers, as well as six books including The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983) wherein he coined the term the "restoration economy", Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), and The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993). The Ecology of Commerce was voted in 1998 as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. His latest book, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little, Brown. September 1999) with Amory Lovins, has been referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who calls it one of the five most important books in the world today. His books have been published in over 50 countries in 27 languages and have sold over 2 million copies. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947 in Washington, DC) was trained in physics and has worked professionally as an environmentalist. ...
William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
Growing a Business became the basis of a 17-part PBS series, which Mr. Hawken hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsive companies, was shown on television in 115 countries and watched by over 100 million people. His piece on Seattle and the WTO entitled N30 was published on over 100 websites and by 13 magazines. He is writing a book to be published by Viking entitled Blessed Unrest about the growing worldwide movement resisting neo-liberal economic policies and corporatization of the commons. PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ...
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The term neoliberalism is used to describe a political-economic philosophy that had major implications for government policies beginning in the 1970s – and increasingly prominent since 1980 – that de-emphasizes or rejects positive government intervention in the economy, focusing instead on achieving progress and even social justice by encouraging free...
In England and Wales, a common is a piece of land over which other people -- often neighbouring landowners -- could exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as allowing their cattle to graze upon it. ...
Business Companies he has founded or co-founded include Metacode, a software company specializing in proprietary content management tools; Groxis, a graphic information delivery provider for search engines, libraries, scientific repositories, and databases; Smith & Hawken, the garden and catalog retailer; and several of the first natural food companies in the U.S. that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He presently heads the Pax Group, which includes PaxIT, PaxTurbine, and PaxFan, three companies associated with Pax Scientific a California-based research and development corporation focused on proprietary technologies involving fluid dynamics and convection and flow form geometry. The firm applies geometries found in nature with its primary focus on industrial fans, turbines, and electronic thermal management. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
Content management or CM is a set of processes and technologies that support the evolutionary life cycle of digital information. ...
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Motto: Official (Latin): E pluribus unum (1789 to 1956) (Translated: Out of Many, One) In God We Trust (1956 to present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at federal level; English de facto Government • President • Vice President Federal...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ...
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Activism Mr Hawken also heads the Natural Capital Institute (NCI), a research oriented NGO located in Sausalito, California. NCI is has conducted a large research project on the subject of socially responsible investing (SRI) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and creating the first database most SRI funds in the world. The research and subsequent report [1] describe the current state of SRI, and present a counter set of criteria for determining businesses appropriate for portfolio inclusion. To emphasize the need and viability of an alternate approach to SRI and CSR, NCI is making up a list of the 100 best companies, which will be published in a book entitled Greenworld. NCI is now creating the first database of sustainable civil society which will be published at [2]. A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is not part of a government and was not founded by states. ...
Sausalito is a city located in Marin County, California. ...
Civil society or civil institutions refers to the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations or institutions which form the basis of a functioning society as opposed to the force backed structures of a state (regardless of that states political system). ...
He has served on the board of many public organizations including Point Foundation (publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs), Center for Plant Conservation, Conservation International, Trust for Public Land, Friends of the Earth, and National Audubon Society. He was the founder and Chair of The Natural Step in the United States as well as The Natural Step International in Stockholm. Stockholm [, ] is the capital and the largest City of Sweden. ...
Hawken has signed the call of the anti-fascist group The World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime. [3] The statement condemns the Iraq war, torture, the abrogation of habeas corpus, theocracy, the suppression of science, the attacks on abortion rights, and "a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance." It advocates resistance to, and repudiation of, the Bush agenda. World Cant Wait is a non-profit organization of political activists in the United States that among other goals seeks the removal of President George W. Bush from office before the end of his term in 2009. ...
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Awards Among recognition and awards received are: - Green Cross Millennium Award for Individual Environmental Leadership presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in 2003
- World Council for Corporate Governance in 2002
- Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year in 1990
- Utne One Hundred Visionaries who could Change our Lives in 1995
- Western Publications Association Maggie award for Natural Capitalism as the best Signed Editorial/Essay in 1997
- Creative Visionary Award by the International Society of Industrial Design
- Design in Business Award for environmental responsibility by the American Center for Design
- Council on Economic Priorities’ 1990 Corporate Conscience Award
- American Horticultural Society Award for commitment to excellence in commercial horticulture
- Metropolitan Home Design 100 Editorial Award for the 100 best people, products and ideas that shape our lives
- The Cine Golden Eagle award in video for the PBS program Marketing from Growing a Business
- California Institute of Integral Studies Award For Ongoing Humanitarian Contributions to the Bay Area Communities
- Esquire Magazine award for the best 100 People of a Generation (1984)
- four honorary doctorates
(help· info) (Russian: ), IPA: , born March 2, 1931, was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ...
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