Overview

I just started reading “Carbon: The Book of Life“, Paul Hawken’s latest offering. I’m capturing things that stood out to me – language, facts, concepts and squirrels! – in the various chapters. There are 15 chapters in all, so a short post for each chapter:

1. Carbon
2. Elements
3. Firmament
4. Cell Mates
5. Eating Starlight
6. Sugar Salad
7. Bucky and Bing
8. Green Beings
9. Kindom
10. Parlance
11. Paper Eyes
12. Primeval
13. Dark Earth
14. Untranslated World
15. Conscious

Overall, the writing waxes poetic and is chock-full of tidbits of information and numbers and percentages, but I personally find it going in different directions as I try to follow Ariadne’s thread, or trace Hawken’s footsteps through the book. I am relatively new to Hawken’s works, having started with Drawdown and then Regeneration, both of which felt full of actions you could take to be part of the solution. This one, in contrast, feels more informative.