California Sun Podcast

John Francis on 17 years of silence

5 December 2024

After a devastating oil tanker collision in San Francisco Bay in 1971, John Francis made an extraordinary decision that would reshape environmental activism. He chose to stop using motorized transportation and took a vow of silence that would last 17 years. His remarkable journey, captured in the new short documentary “Planetwalker,” evolved into a profound…

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