Out of Eden Walk is now accepting crypto donations
“If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.” – Afar proverb
- In an age of shallow media that often polarizes and divides, Out of Eden Walk’s unique “slow storytelling” methodology offers a more humane, meaningful, and inclusive alternative to today’s angry narratives of nativism, intolerance, and xenophobia. As we begin a 3,200-mile walk across our nineteenth country—China—your support will elevate the work of local walking partners, deepen our education impact, and bring to light the vital connections among people and the natural world that will guide us through a challenging new century.
Good news: Making a crypto donation is a new way to support the Out of Eden Walk and join our global donor community. Donating cryptocurrency is a non-taxable event, meaning you do not owe capital gains tax on the appreciated amount and can deduct it on your taxes. This makes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency donations one of the most tax-efficient ways to support Out of Eden Walk. We encourage you to speak with a crypto-savvy tax professional to learn more about your specific tax benefits.
We accept the following cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Amp (AMP), Aave (AAVE), Alchemix (ALCX), Ankr Network (ANKR), Balancer (BAL), Bancor Network Token (BNT), BarnBridge (BOND), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), ChainLink (LINK), Compound (COMP), Curve (CRV), Dai (DAI), Decentraland (MANA), Dogecoin (DOGE), Enjin Coin (ENJ), Fantom (FTM), Filecoin (FIL), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Injective Protocol (INJ), Kyber Network (KNC), Litecoin (LTC), Livepeer (LPT), Loopring (LRC), Maker (MKR), Mirror Protocol (MIR), Orchid (OXT), PAX Gold (PAXG), Polygon (MATIC), Ren (REN), Skale (SKL), Somnium Space (CUBE), Storj (STORJ), SushiSwap (SUSHI), Synthetix (SNX), Tezos (XTZ), The Graph (GRT), The Sandbox (SAND), UMA (UMA), Uniswap (UNI), Yearn.Finance (YFI), Zcash (ZEC), 0x (ZRX), 1inch (1INCH).
About Out of Eden Walk
One of the most innovative storytelling projects of our era, the Out of Eden Walk journey began in 2013 in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia, a cradle of our species, and will conclude in 2027 at the tip of South America—the final horizon reached 7,000 years ago by our common ancestors.
The Out of Eden experience harkens to the oldest traditions of human narrative: roaming West African griots, wandering Greek bards, and rambling Confucian scholars. 14,000 miles (22,400 kilometers) of trail remain to reach our species’s ancient finish line in Tierra del Fuego. Though it began as one man’s journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paul Salopek’s storytelling pilgrimage has grown into a digital crossroads for an international network of students, storytellers, educators, scientists, cultural experts, and anyone questing for thoughtful, fact-based cross-cultural narratives in our age of fast, shallow, and often divisive news.
Out of Eden Walk shares stories that would otherwise go untold. Here, workers at the ABC brickyard in the northeastern state of Assam fill pit furnaces with unfired bricks. Many incurred crushing debt to secure the work. Photograph by Paul Salopek, 2019.
On the ground in Yangon, Myanmar, with protestors after police and military forces seized power in a bloody coup. Photograph by Paul Salopek, 2021.
Impact
Through our growing archive of multimedia reportage (more than 400,000 words, tens of thousands of photos, hundreds of videos, and growing); professional media workshops, art exhibitions highlighting the work of local creatives, global classroom interactions and specialized curricula, one-on-one mentoring, and donor community, Paul and the small team of Out of Eden Walk partners and educators are building an enduring community of fellow storytellers of all ages. Already, more than millions of readers and tens of thousands of students are “walking along” with the project online.
Panelists discuss issues related to India’s water crisis, reported in the Walk’s 2020 National Geographic Magazine article “Water Everywhere and Nowhere,” by Paul Salopek.
Learning on the trail: Out of Eden Walk storytelling workshop participants in India.
Together, we will carry on the project’s philosophy of slowing down to tell complex stories of our time, delving beneath the usual shallow headlines, and sharing the human experience with wonder and empathy.
What’s Next
Before us stretches a panorama unseen by most outsiders: Some 3,600 miles and 18 months of walking across ten Chinese provinces: Yunnan, Sichuan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. Along the way, we will encounter tropical forests, industrialized coal belts, pristine snow mountains, and mega cities—not to mention the hearts and imaginations of millions of ordinary people.
Walking partners, including Loveleen Kaur Mann, Priyanka Borpujari, Furough Shakarmamadova, and Siddharth Agarwal (pictured), shape the narrative of the journey.
We invite you to contribute to this storytelling journey as we cross China and engage with the largest netizen population in the world: Help us share the world’s diverse culture, history, and natural environments with an expanding community of readers, educators, and online followers the diverse culture, history, and natural environments.
The walk across China will span ten provinces, 3,600 miles, centuries of history, and limitless wonders.
Yang Wendou, one of Paul Salopek’s walking partners in Yunnan, China, crosses the Lu River on a footbridge.
A grandmother and her granddaughter enjoy a stroll in southwest China.
