Praise for Waking UP

Bill McKibben

A fascinating account of how our biggest global crisis may relate to some of our smallest internal battles. Provocative!

Bill McKibben is founder 350.org, author The End of Nature

Drew Dellinger

This book sounds a wake-up call to a culture in crisis. Taylor Hawke weaves together psychology and spirituality, cosmology and climate change, to evoke the deep meaning of our lives at this moment on Earth. Offering wise counsel and relevant questions for our personal and collective journey, Waking UP inspires the individual and social transformations needed for the flourishing of future generations.

Drew Dellinger is the author of Love Letter to the Milky Way

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Taylor Hawke's Waking UP reminds us that the consciousness that can save this planet is not solely what we do inside ourselves, but also what we can do together to save the life-support-system of the planet. Hawke thus contributes to overcoming a narcissistic spirituality and psychology so that we can see the need for a common global effort to heal and transform this world.

Rabbi Lerner is Editor of Tikkun, Chair of The Network of Spiritual Progressives, author The Left Hand of God

Michael Brune

Taylor Hawke offers a path toward understanding: Our world can be transformed forever by clean, renewable energy, but first we need to get out of our own way. Humanity can discover the opportunity beyond the climate crisis, and it starts with each of us.

Michael Brune is Executive Director of the Sierra Club, author, Coming Clean—Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal

May Boeve

The movement to confront climate change requires a transformation in our way of living, working, and even thinking, and Waking UP holds many keys to unlocking that, both personally and in community.

May Boeve is Executive Director of 350.org

Steve McIntosh JD

Taylor Hawke’s book, Waking UP, provides a beautiful and heartfelt call to accelerate the evolution of our collective consciousness. Hawke’s emphasis on environmental stewardship, together with his grasp of the emerging evolutionary perspective, results in a book that is filled with timeless spiritual wisdom, yet also highly relevant to the challenges of our times.

Steve McIntosh JD, is the author of Evolution’s Purpose and Integral Consciousness

Mark Z. Jacobson

Converting the world's energy infrastructure for all purposes to one based on wind, water, and solar (WWS) power, is both technologically and economically feasible... However, such a conversion will require people to believe that this is an urgent goal and amalgamate behind the concept. Waking UP provides the personal motivation for individuals to see and control their destiny, and to fulfill their desire to make the world a better place, thereby enriching their lives, and the lives of their children and grandchildren.

Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, Director of Atmosphere and Energy Program

Michael Goldstein

Don't read Part I of Waking UP. Live with it. Sprinkle a little of it over your breakfast. Let a page or two join you on a coffee break, lie down with you for a nap, or bring you to a calmer reality during your commute. You will be the better for it and -- through you -- so will we all. Expanding your consciousness in that way may be your best hope for personally coming to grips with the terrifying realities and not-quite-imaginable solutions that Taylor Hawke wakes us up to in Part II.

Michael Goldstein, author, Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country