The Rewilding Podcast w/ Peter Michael Bauer
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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 fi...
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Am I Rewilder Enough? w/ Sheila Henson
Am I Rewilder Enough? w/ Sheila Henson
Do you feel like a poseur when it comes to rewilding? Do you have guilty pleasures you can’t give...

How Hunter-Gatherers Learn w/ Dr. Gul Deniz Salali
For millions of years, and in some places still today, hunter-gatherers raise competent and capable children. They do this while navigating challengin...

Maintaining Peaceful Societies w/ Douglas Fry
For millions of years, evidence suggests that humans lived in relatively equal societies, where food acquisition and child raising were shared activit...

Rekindling Ancestral Lifeways in Ireland w/ Lucy O’Hagan
Creating ancestral skills communities is central to rewilding. We need people sharing skills together, we need people tending land together. These com...

Surviving Multiple Environments w/ Tom McElroy
One of the key aspects of wildness is adaptation. Being able to change and adapt to different needs, in different environments, is a cornerstone of re...

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 fu...

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 t...

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 domi...

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 was...

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 c...

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. Citi...

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 t...

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 the...

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...

Community Rewilding in the City w/ Sharon Kallis
In this episode I’m talking shop with my friend and colleague Sharon Kallis. Sharon facilitates a community organization similar to Rewild Portland in...

Never Alone w/ Woniya Thibeault
On this episode I am once again chatting with my friend and colleague Woniya Thibeault. This episode contains spoilers for the television series ALONE...

Rewilding in Eastern Australia w/ Eva Angophora
Rewilding looks different in places all around the world, but also shares many similarities: from settler-colonialism to mainstream co-option. In this...

Subsistence Challenges w/ James V Morgan
Subsistence–the way we acquire our food–is a central aspect of rewilding. To talk with me both about the anthropology of subsistence but also the chal...

Social Forestry w/ Hazel
Permaculture is a design science for creating regenerative landscapes. In rewilding, we often perceive it as a kind of technology based on ancient hun...

Rewilding in Britain w/ Scott Baine
For regular listeners to the podcast, and those entrenched in the rewilding movement, we know that rewilding looks different in various places, and ha...

Animist Re-Engagement w/ Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
I first learned about animism in the book The Story of B by Daniel Quinn. While the term animism was initially invented by anthropologists as a way of...

The Fascist Threat w/ Alexander Reid Ross
Rewilding means a return to living in reciprocity with the ecologies in which we dwell, and with each other. It is a movement that critiques and rejec...

Living in a Material World w/ Daniel of WHAT IS POLITICS
Anthropology is at the core of rewilding. Understanding the various ways in which humans act and why, helps us draw a picture of what is possible for...

Challenges with "Rewilding" w/ Kara Moses
In this episode I’m chatting with Kara Moses. Kara is a biologist and educator teaching nature connection, rewilding, wild living skills and woodland...

Invasive Species in Rewilding w/ Tao Orion
In this episode I chat with Tao Orion. Tao holds a degree in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture from UC Santa Cruz and a MSc degree in Climate Ch...

Rewilding Contraception w/ Samantha Zipporah
My guest for this episode is Samantha Zipporah. Samantha is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health through educ...

Art, Storytelling, and Survival Skills in Rewilding w/ Hannes Wingate
Hannes Wingate is an artist, builder, designer, and outdoor survival-skills instructor. He was educated at Central St. Martins College of Art in Londo...

Death Work and Collapse w/ Rachael Rice
In this episode I talk with my friend, Rachael Rice. Rachael is an artist, writer, death worker and certified weirdo who crafts scroll-stopping conten...

Dogs in Rewilding w/ David Ian Howe
In this episode of the Rewild Podcast I talk with David Ian Howe about dogs and rewilding. David is a professional archaeologist trying to popularize...

Collapse Care w/ Carmen Spagnola
On this episode of the Rewilding Podcast, I converse with Carmen Spagnola about the necessary self and community care that comes with the realization...

Rewilding Christianity
Seven in ten Americans identify as Christian. For a movement like rewilding to gain more traction, it must intersect with the belief systems of the cu...

Rewilding Myth w/ Sophie Strand
In this episode I converse with writer Sophie Strand. I've found her writing to be particularly inspiring to my rewilding journey in terms of understa...

Day to Day Rewilding
Recently one of my patrons asked me what my day to day rewilding looked like. This is a glimpse into some of that, but also with perspective on what i...

The Overpopulation Problem w/ Jason Godesky
My guest today is Jason Godesky. Jason is an old friend and colleague of mine. We met in the early 2000’s on an internet chat board called “Ish Con” s...

What is Rewilding?
In this episode I return to the theme of this podcast: rewilding. It's used in so many contexts now, from video games to outdoor clothing to lifestyle...

Depression & Rewilding w/ Sheila Henson
I’ve lived with depression for most of my life. I’ve learned to manage my symptoms in order to function and live a more fulfilling life. I’ve dedicate...

A Conversation w/ Author Lisa Wells
Lisa Wells is the author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, The Fix, and winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her essays have been publi...

Living the Handmade Life w/ Delia Ann Turner
In this episode I converse with someone who has greatly inspired me, Delia Ann Turner. Delia co-owns and operates The School of the Greenwood: For Cre...

5 Ways to Start Rewilding
In this episode, I answer three questions from my patrons on patreon:
1. What is your advice for people just beginning on their rewildin...

Exploring "Cancel Culture" w/ Clementine Morrigan
Today I’m chatting with Clementine Morrigan, a prolific writer and podcaster covering a range of topics. In this conversation we talk about “cancel an...