Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist who cares deeply about quiet. As The Sound Tracker®, he has circled the globe three times over the last 35 years in pursuit of Earth’s rarest nature sounds—sounds which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. He has documented his work through professional audio recordings and two books, Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox and One Square Inch of Silence. He is founding partner of Quiet Parks International, an initiative to identify and protect the few remaining quiet places on Earth.
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The Village Way
Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World
For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?
Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,
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