Kurt

Kurt grew up in the Pacific Northwest, graduating from the University of Washington and Harvard Divinity School. He has worked as a clergyman, commercial fisherman in Alaska, a wilderness guide and a meditation teacher, leading a migratory life with winters in Puget Sound and summers in Alaska. In 1994 he founded Inside Passages, a sea kayaking outfitter-guide business in Alaska that combines his love for wilderness exploration, conservation, and contemplative practice.

In 2008 Kurt made a commitment to go car-free, and to spend the year within a 100 km (62 mile) radius of his home, as a personal response to the challenge of climate change. He spent the year exploring his home terrain on foot, by bicycle and kayak. The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life, is his book about the year, and is available in bookstores everywhere.

Kurt lives on Whidbey Island with his wife Sally, and is the father of two grown children, Kristin and Alex.

Video interviews with Kurt on Orcas Island, 2007.