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The Rewilding Podcast w/ Peter Michael Bauer Peter Michael Bauer
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4.9 • 77 Ratings
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Are you looking at our society racked with disconnection, poor mental and physical health, social injustice, and the wanton destruction of the natural world and asking yourself, “What can I do?” Join experimental anthropologist Peter Michael Bauer as he converses with experts from many converging fields that help us craft cultures of resilience. Weaving together a range of topics from ecology to wilderness survival skills to permaculture, each episode deepens and expands your understanding of how to rewild yourself and your community.
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What is a Subsistence Economy and What Makes Them So Resilient w/ Dr. Helga Vierich
To attain the level of resilience that cultural rewilding calls for, requires moving away from an economy based on extraction for profit that lays waste to local ecosystems and destroys ancient ways that people have lived from the land. To move away we need alternatives, and examples of how other people have found and maintained sustainability. How have humans lived in a myriad of ways for millennia without destroying their land and not living in greatly unequal societies? What is a subsisten...
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The Reality of Hunter-Gatherers w/ Dr. Robert Kelly
Rewilding is about seeking a reciprocal relationship to the environment and to one another. Material and cultural conditions kept humans in relative check with their ecologies for potentially millions of years, so what were they? If we are to understand this, we must hold up a lens and look at the diversity of hunter-gatherers (both past and present) to fully realize what their cultural and environmental limitations were–and are–today. Why did some abandon that way of life while others have f...
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Rewilding Cities Through Place-making Permaculture w/ Mark Lakeman
City landscapes are perhaps the most decimated and human centric habitats in today’s world. These landscapes are in need of thoughtful rewilding. Cities are some of the most domesticated places, but also positioned in some of the most historically fertile places. Cities were built where they are, because these places had access to a diverse array of resources. Many think rewilding means running away to the wilderness–but that’s not the case. For one, this is not a practical reality for most p...
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Rewilding Your Connection to the Land Through Stories w/ Jason Godesky
The longer a culture exists in a place, the more stories they have of that place. These stories act a way for people to interact with the land where they live and also act as social filters for how to perceive the land as well. Stories also engage people with the landscape through their imagination and when linked to a physical activity can make the connection more embodied and enjoyable. Humans learn through play, and playing with stories can be a great way to reconnect ourselves with the la...
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Hunting and Gathering Like a BOSS w/ Randy Champagne
There are few opportunities for people living in modern contexts to experience what life would be like living in a band of hunter-gatherers. While there are still several cultures in the world living this way, most are protected from outsiders through organizations like Survival International. While rewilding isn’t a synonym for primitive living, or a total return to hunting and gathering societies, we can learn a lot about how to live in a regenerative way through contemporary hunter-gathere...
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Rewilding as Anti-Fascism w/ Cara Delia Schwab
Fascist ideology has been on the rise, with a calculated effort on the part of fascists, to infiltrate environmental movements. Rewilding has seen its fair share of this over the years. As a return to our egalitarian roots, rewilding is the political opposite of fascism. And yet, there are foot holds of sort, within the ideology and world view that fascists can exploit for their own gain. To protect ourselves from this fascist creep, we need to be aware of it and also aware of the problematic...
Customer Reviews
Absolutely fascinating
If you’re interested in anthropology, human history, or how to navigate our future in a world on the precipice of catastrophe, Peter’s podcast is a must listen. His guests and interviews are absolutely fascinating—not just interesting in a “this is smart and good for me so I should listen to it” sort of way, but in a truly riveting, “I can’t turn this off” kind of way. Honestly, I can’t listen to most podcasts because I’m a journalist and find most interviewers infuriating because they’re so ego-centric they don’t actually listen to their guests and ask the right questions; Peter, on the other hand, has evolved into a master interviewer over the years of this show. He always puts his guests first and knows how to adeptly steer the conversation to let his guests shine and make every episode truly delightful for the listener. Thank you, Peter! You make my unfathomable hours in the car in Los Angeles (as I figure out my own rewilding path) actually bearable.
mind-opening
i started with episode 6 with dr leonard martin and since then, i’ve listened to a few episodes. each listening my mind is opened a bit further. ideas about collapse, the sixth extinction, rewilding are presented with care and depth. personally i had never heard of some of these ideas before, but the deep resonance in my body tells me that these are just names to experiences that we have already been living through. in a sense, it’s comforting to talk about the crisis we’re living through with openness. it reminds me that to be scared or to grieve is understandable and healthy. and for giving some contextual understanding to what we’re living through, i am so grateful.
enriching and inspiring
peter is an incredible host - knowledgable, engaging, funny and passionate. each guest shares wonderful insights and information. truly enriching and inspiring. my new favorite podcast!