Paul Hawken has been intensely curious about the living world since he was two years old. PBS named his University of Portland speech, “You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring”, the best commencement speech of 2009, which originated from what he saw as a child. He works with two major food companies to transform 2,000,000 farms to regenerative agriculture by microbial restoration of the soil. He is the author of nine books, six of which are NYT and national bestsellers.