A friend who attended the GreenBuild Conference in Chicago saw Paul Hawken speak and was all fired up. Hawken, who has been around the environmental movement for awhile and is the founder of Smith & Hawken, from which he retired years ago, as well as the writer of Natural Capitalism, has written a new book and it is just the book we need right now. A sweeping history of the environmental movement and a compelling analysis of where it's going, it describes what he learned during the past ten years of speaking engagements during which he met people from all types of groups who were passionately engaged in trying to heal the world. Best of all, he links all the threads of the environmental movement together, starting from the origins in the 19th century, to today's anti-globalists, indigenous peoples' movements, the politics of food , and the green building movement.
