Category: General Blog
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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?…
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Bow-Drill Busking @ Last Thursday
I’ve been lighting bow-drills on the streets of Portland for 15 years now. It’s still fun, but man were my arms tired!
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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.