Paul Hawken
Environmentalist, entrepreneur and author
Paul Hawken is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur and author. He co-founded Project Drawdown and edited the book Drawdown.
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American Born 1946 in San Mateo, United States
About Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken was born in San Mateo, California, in 1946. He is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist and activist. He has written nine books, published in around 50 countries and 32 languages. Five of them, including Drawdown, were national and New York Times bestsellers. Hawken founded several companies, among them Erewhon, a US food company that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He has also served on the boards of environmental groups such as Conservation International, the National Audubon Society and the Trust for Public Land. He is a co-founder of Project Drawdown, a community of scientists, activists and politicians researching ways to address global warming, and he was the editor of Drawdown.