About Mark Sommer
Mark Sommer is an explorer, author, storyteller, author, photographer and filmmaker. He has spent a professional lifetime in public media as an internationally syndicated columnist (22 years as the American correspondent for Inter Press Service in Rome), syndicated radio host ("A World of Possibilities," a weekly, hour-long radio program), and founder and director of a nonprofit (The Mainstream Media Project) that placed social innovators on the airwaves to introduce practical solutions to urgent national and global challenges.
In the course of his explorations, he has traveled the world, from the Himalayas to the Amazon in search of ancient wisdom and promising futures. For two decades, he and his wife maintained a self-reliant, off-grid homestead seven miles from the nearest power lines. There, they raised their own food and generated electrical power from first-generation solar panels. In retirement, he continues to write, photograph, film and speak about how to live wholeheartedly, cultivate inner peace, build more resilient communities, and cherish life even in the most trying times.
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