Sound affects : how sound shapes our lives, our well-being, and our planet

"Hearing is the first sense we develop-a primary warning sense hardwired into our brains. And yet, in an increasingly noisy and distracted world, most people pay very little attention to sound. In school, we teach reading and writing, but not listening. Conscious listening is rare, and, with over half the world's population now living in cities, billions of people never experience the rich and (we now know) health enhancing sounds of the natural...