Blessed Unrest

Paul Hawken's latest book, Blessed Unrest, looks at the largest movement in the world that no one saw coming. That origins of the movement is the indigenous cultures, the environment and social justice.

Here is a short video (6 min.) of a speech by Paul Hawken which gives a good overview of the book. The large appendix at the back of the book is a great resource which categorizes the various groups , gives a description of their focus and the number of organizations in each category.

He has created a website, wiserearth.org , as a community forum for individuals and groups who are transforming the world.

I like his analogy comparing this movement to an immune system.

" This movement is humanities immune response to resist and heal political disease, economic infection and ecological corruption caused by ideologies."

Paul Hawken

Environmental Justice

Environmental justice had it's birth in 1982 in a Warren County, NC landfill which was created to dispose of PCB contaminated soil in a low income, predominately Black community. After years of protest the decontamination of the site was finally completed in 2004.


A new form of environmental justice is on the horizon and it's called climate change. The recent United Nation's IPCC report predicts that the world's poor will be affected the most by climate change. Increased drought, crop failure, disease, extreme weather events and sea level rise are all likely to fall much more heavily on struggling populations in Africa, Asia and South America.



The faith community is called to care for all of God's children, especially the most vulnerable, and to protect and restore God's creation. It is time to take action to help curb the adverse effects of climate change.