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Jim Cummings is a writer and editor with a special interest in environmental topics. As a freelance writer from 1983-2002, he wrote numerous cover features for regional publications including the Santa Fe News and Review, Crosswinds, Inside Santa Fe and Taos, and New Mexico magazine, along with a couple of national pieces that, while nice teases, didn't pan out into a viable freelance career. Since then, his work has focused on sound-related arts, science, and policy. This theme of sound and listening is related to his long-standing interest in knowing one's home place, including bioregionalism and naked-eye stargazing, as well as Thomas Berry's work in re-enlivening our culture's scientific creation stories.
In 1999 he founded EarthEar, a record label and online catalog of environmental sound art featuring many of the world's foremost environmental sound artists. From the start, EarthEar was meant not as escapism into recorded fantasies of nature, but as a means toward deeper listening to the living world around us. This focus on our living soundscapes led to the 2004 founding of the Acoustic Ecology Institute, a non-advocacy resource center. Since then, AEI has become a leading source of clear, unbiased information on a full array of sound-related environmental issues, with agency staff and scientists being the most enthusiastic supporters of the news summaries and special reports produced by the Institute. Jim has twice been a plenary speaker at the Alberta Energy Utilities Board biannual noise control conference, and has been an invited participant in expert panels on ocean and wind farm noise issues in Canada and the US. Since 1998, he has also served as a contract editor for newsletters, books, and online content for Natural Investments, LLC, a social and sustainable investing company.
Jim is the author of many freelance magazine articles, including "Listen Up! Opening our Ears to Acoustic Ecology" (Zoogoer, 2002), edited the books Why do Whales and Children Sing? (1999) and Investing With Your Values (2000), co-wrote The Resilient Investor (2015), and is executive producer of eleven EarthEar CDs, most intimately on the compilation/meta-composition The Dreams of Gaia (1999). He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1979 and a M.A. from John F. Kennedy University in 1987.
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