Here’s a lovely way to celebrate Earth Day, especially if you’re surrounded by concrete buildings or stuck in traffic. Consider tuning into KALW–91.7 FM, where the public radio station is playing the sounds of nature all day and all night—and you can listen live.
Whether that’s welcoming the Sun with the 7:00 a.m. hour “Dawn at Trout Lake” or having a non-working lunch with “Katmai Wilderness” running in the background, it’s a pretty cool way of making the 55th anniversary of Earth Day.
All the nature sounds were recorded by Bernie Krause and the team at Wild Sanctuary, and all introduced by members of KALW’s team at the top of the hours.
According to the organization, since 1968, the Wild Sanctuary team has traveled the globe to record, archive, research, and express “biophony”™—the voice of the natural world.
These extremely rare wild soundscapes, some of which are no longer as pristine as they once were, inform and enrich our specialized efforts from the field to public performance.
Each of the one-hour-long soundscapes would cost $9.99 on the Wild Sanctuary store, and they aren’t available anywhere else on the internet, so consider listening live during Earth Day, on the station’s website. (Look for the pink arrow at the top).
Even though KALW’s Earth Week runs until April 26th, this special all-day all-night broadcast is finished at 11:59:59 p.m. tonight, so listen while you can.
Check out the schedule of the day’s nature line-up here, on the KALW website.
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