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Himalayan Blackberry Visor
This is a visor I wove out of inner Himalayan Blackberry Bark. The rim is a simple plaited weave and the brim is twined.
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Woven Yellow Cedar Pouch
This is a Yellow Cedar pouch I wove for my neice’s 10th birthday. The cord is made from reverse-wrapped chemical tanned deerskin.
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Agriculture Revisited
In my chapter called “Agriculture Vs. Rewilding” I wrote about how agriculture is inherently destructive. I’ve lately come to revise this idea a bit. What inspired me to do this was looking at the origins of agriculture itself, and hearing from a few people that there are still agricultural people alive today who did not…
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Satelite Press Transmission Interview
Nathan from Tranmission interviewed me the other day about my non-profit Rewild Portland and the philosophy of rewilding. Check it out here: http://satellitepress.org/index.php/2013/04/18/rewilding/
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Paleofantasyfallacy
I was disappointed to discover that Paleofantasy is not a fictionalized novel about paleo peoples. Rather, it is a pop-cultural, non-fiction book about how the paleo craze (that has been growing for some time now) is allegedly based on a false understanding of evolution.
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Rewild Portland Spring Fundraiser
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3 Reasons to Learn Chinuk Wawa
Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa in the language) is the original lingua-franca of Cascadia, born out of the coming together of different cultures during the fur trade era of the early 1800’s.
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Reality Check
(Note: Urban Scout wanted me to title this post “Man vs. Wild vs. Rewilding”, but I no longer let him call the shots around here!) Dear Reality Television Casting Directors, I have received enough e-mails and phone calls from you over the years that I thought I should just write this form letter so that…
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A Rewilder’s Guide for Living Off the Grid
Miles Olson is an inspirational rewilder who lives and breathes the mechanics of rewilding. He has lived on the fringes of civilization for a decade. His stories have been inspiring me ever since I had the pleasure to sit around the same campfire with him some years ago. He has finally written a book that…
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On the Path Toward Living Wild
One of the most inspiring people teaching ancestral skills is Lynx Vilden and her school the Living Wild School. This is my review of her program.
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Green Dawn
“The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be “free” because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any…
