The Rewilding Podcast w/ Peter Michael Bauer
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.
Podcasting since 2019 • 50 episodes
The Rewilding Podcast w/ Peter Michael Bauer
Latest Episodes
The Wrong Way to Rewild
I’m fond of saying, “There’s no one right way to rewild.” A friend once asked me, “Sure, Peter. But is there a wrong way?” I wanted to do something fun for this episode that I haven’t delved into much before in this space, so I invited my frien...
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Why We Need Wild Foods w/ Monica Wilde
When some human societies made the shift from wild, procured foods to domesticated, produced foods there is a corresponding decline in the health of those people in the archaeological record. Today, the majority of people eat domesticated stapl...
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Community as the Primary Survival Skill w/ Luke McLaughlin
Humans evolved in social, cooperative bands, using this cooperation as an evolutionary advantage. These days, rugged individualism still seems to dominate many outdoor activities from regular camping to bushcraft and even to rewilding. When peo...
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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...
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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 u...
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