Environmentalist and author
Paul Hawken is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, and bestselling author whose books, including Drawdown and The Ecology of Commerce, explore the relationship between nature and business. He co-created Project Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.
by Paul Hawken
An unprecedented coalition of researchers ranks the 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, from renewable energy and plant-rich diets to educating girls and refrigerant management. Each solution includes carbon impact estimates, net costs, and implementation pathways based on rigorous peer-reviewed research.
The books Paul Hawken references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Rachel Carson
Carson's 1962 expose revealed how pesticides were silently poisoning ecosystems and human health. The book launched the modern environmental movement and led to the DDT ban.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Kolbert documents how human activity is driving a mass extinction event comparable to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Species are vanishing at a rate not seen in 65 million years, and we are the cause.
by Donella Meadows
Meadows explains how systems, from economies to ecosystems, behave through feedback loops, stocks, and flows. Most interventions fail because we address symptoms rather than the underlying structure driving the problem.
by Jared Diamond
Diamond investigates why some societies collapse while others endure, tracing destruction to environmental damage and failed group decision-making. The past warns the present.
Who Paul draws from, and who draws from Paul — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.