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Rewilding 101: “Prehistoric” Skills & Ideas for a More Resilient Future
I’m excited to teach a course called “Rewilding 101” through the Portland Underground Graduate School this coming month (November 2015). Check out the course details below: Class: SUNDAYS November 1, 8, 15 and 22, 10:30am-noon. Space limited to 15 students. The concept of rewilding, of un-doing the domestication of the last several thousand years, is…
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Anarchy Radio w/ John Zerzan and Kevin Tucker
This week I went down to Eugene to chat with John Zerzan and Kevin Tucker on Anarchy Radio. We had a really good talk. Check it out here: https://archive.org/details/AnarchyRadio10062015 (photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eflon/)
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What is Rewilding Presentation
Here is the video of the slideshow that I gave at the Rewild Portland spring fundraiser this last April.
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PDX Darlings Podcast with Martha Grover
Martha is an old friend of mine. She is the author of One More For the People, the creator of Somnambulist Zine, and now has a podcast called PDX Darlings. She invited me onto the podcast and our conversation meandered from High School politics to the Roman Empire. It was a really great time! Listen…
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Doomstead Diner Interview
Years ago as I was winding down from blogging, the Doomstead Diner folks asked me to do an interview. We finally got around to doing it! I don’t often get doomy and gloomy, but there is a time and place to talk seriously about the scary possibilities (and probabilities) that the future holds. The Doomstead…
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Interview on Unlearn and Rewild Podcast
I had the pleasure of chatting with Ayana Young, founder of the Unlearn and Rewild podcast. Ayana is awesome. I love the work she is doing. Very thankful to be a part of that! Take a listen: http://www.unlearnandrewild.org/listen/peter-michael-bauer-on-the-survival-of-the-wildest
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Greener Good Show
I was on this local cable access show called the Greener Good talking about my basket weaving projects.
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Permaculture Podcast Interview #1
This week I did the first of perhaps several interview/conversations with Scott Mann over at the Permaculture Podcast. Check it out here: http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2015/peter-michael-bauer/
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Rewilding, Dispatched
Rewilding has been picked up by the mainstream and watered down. Peter Michael Bauer gives his assessment of the situation.
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Bulletin of Primitive Technology #48, Fall 2014
The fall issue of the Bulletin of Primitive Technology is out and has an article in it that I wrote about processing Blackberry Bark for weaving. Learn more or order issues at their website: www.btprimitives.com
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2014 CBBG Fall Basketry Retreat
This year I attended the Columbia Basin Basketry Guild‘s fall retreat at Camp Magruder, OR. I’ve been a member of the guild for 3 years now, but hadn’t yet made it out to the yearly retreat. A few months back the weavers in Eugene had me come down and show them how to prepare Himalayan…
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Thoughts on Death
I think about death all the time. Mostly because I am a hypochondriac. I often think about the possibility of contracting some disease or parasite or virus from my rewilding activities. I spend restless nights psyching myself out reading pseudo-medical websites. What if I died from Raccoon Roundworm after picking up a roadkill and skinning it?…
