Jim Tolisano

Jim Tolisano has worked with nature conservation projects in more than 50 countries and had the outrageous fortune to learn from indigenous communities in remote areas of northern Canada, Papua New Guinea, La Mosquitia in Central America, the Ecuadorian Amazon, central Congo, and northern Mexico. His first book, The Sea Change: Cycling through the Nature of Loss and Renewal, is a memoir recounting his odyssey by bicycle through the length of Italy in an exploration of nature, culture, and mortality. He is currently at work on a novel, Castle of Light, an inquiry into the immigrant experience, and Eating the Last of the Wild, a collection of essays reflecting on his lifetime of work with nature conservation. His books also serve as a companion to his forthcoming podcast, Love Songs to the Salient Earth - a collaborative inquiry with leading acoustical ecologists into the bridge between culture and nature . He is also Adjunct Professor and Advisor in the Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University, and Director of Innovations4Conservation (I4C Nature), a non-profit consortium supporting entrepreneurial local nature conservation work worldwide. He divides his time between his home in upstate New York and central Italy.