Pioneering architect of corporate reform.
Thinkers50 Regenerative Business Award, 2025.
Worked as press coordinator with Martin Luther King Jr.’s staff prior to the March on Montgomery.
Regeneration and Drawdown are taught in schools and universities worldwide.
In his 2025 book, Carbon, Paul illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and argues that nature, carbon, and humans are inseparably connected. In Regeneration, he delivers a radically new approach to climate change, explaining that we must address current human needs, rather than future existential threats. By weaving together justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation, he argues that the climate crisis can be ended in one generation.
Paul is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. Founder of several companies including Erewhon – the first food company in the US that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods – and Regeneration.org – a growing collective of practitioners working to identify solutions, actions, and initiatives to create flourishing communities, ecosystems – Paul has written nine books including six national and New York Times bestsellers.
Carbon: The Book of Life (Viking, 2025); Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (Penguin, 2021); Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (editor, Penguin, 2017); Natural Capitalism (with Amory B. lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Routledge, 10th Anniversary Ed., 2017); The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Revised Ed., Harper Business, 2010); Blessed Unrest (Viking, 2007); Growing a Business (Simon & Shuster, 1988); The Next Economy (Ballantine Books, 1984). Regeneration Can Restore a Broken World (TED Talks daily podcast, 2023).
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Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever
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