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Hawken/McKibben Interview

With Randy Jewart from Austin Green Art, I interviewed Paul Hawken and Bill McKibben for Worldchanging. Their latest books (Blesed Unrest and Deep Economy) are IMO the best recent writings about sustainability, and their nonprofit organizations (~~Wiser Earth~~Natural Capital Institute, which has created Wiser Earth, and Step It Up) are working effectively to facilitate sustainability. [Link] We talked about transforming the way people think – since the article was published, I had a conversation with one of my Solar Austin colleagues, who'd read the article and said he thought real changes would be driven by policy. I don't think that policy changes readily, though, unless we transform our thinking, especially our economic thinking... starting here in the U.S., which is still a leader and could probably pick up some lost credibility by taking the lead in moving to a sustainability economy.

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Thank you for the great interview with Bill McKibben and Paul Hawken, and for the pitch to their websites. One clarification, Hawken's nonprofit is actually the Natural Capital Institute, which has been working on WiserEarth.org for the past couple years.

For those who don't know, WiserEarth is a global database of more than 100,000 ngos and nonprofit organizations working on social and environmental change. Browse for the organizations in your home city... or browse some of the 400+ areas of focus by which the orgs are classified.

Posted by: Michael K | September 28, 2007 12:07 PM