Apr 13, 2018-- "On May May 3, 2009, Paul Hawken stood before the graduating class of the University of Portland. He'd been asked to deliver a commencement address that was "direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling and graceful." No pressure, he joked to his audience. Rousing the spirits of a few hundred young people embarking on a century of climate change, terrorism and extinction was, he knew, no small feat. "You are graduating to the most amazing and stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation," he told them." In this riveting recent interview he shares more about the power of narrative, the potential of individuals and his current work.
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