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Saturday 22 October
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and author. Since the age of 20, he’s dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.
President Bill Clinton called Paul’s book Natural Capitalism one of the five most important books in the world. Hawken’s latest, Blessed Unrest, describes the magnitude and power of civil society to address humanity’s challenges.
Presented in partnership with the Australian Conservation Foundation, Paul will be in conversation with Alexandra de Blas.
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Alexandra de Blas
Alexandra de Blas is the principal of de Blas Communications, a business specialising in social and environmental sustainability. She was previously a environment journalist.
For eight years Alexandra was the voice of ‘Earthbeat’, a weekly specialist environment program on ABC Radio National. She has more than 20 years media experience and has received a number of national and international journalism awards including the 3rd World Water Forum Journalists Prize (Japan); and the United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Award. She sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of CSIRO’s Ecos magazine and is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow.
De Blas Communications provides communications strategy and public relations support to organisations committed to creating a better society; it produces journalistic works on a variety of platforms and offers public speaking services. Alexandra has a science degree from the University of Sydney and first class Honours in Environmental Studies.
Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken’s Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little Brown, September 1999) co-authored with Amory Lovins, has been read and referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton, who called it one of the five most important books in the world today.
Paul has written seven books, including the national bestsellers The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993) and Blessed Unrest (Viking, 2007). His books have been published in over 50 countries in 27 languages. He is CEO of OneSun, LLC and co-founder of Highwater Global Fund. He has served on the board of several environmental organizations including Point Foundation (publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs), the Center for Plant Conservation, the Trust for Public Land and the National Audubon Society.