Peter Michael Bauer

I’m a published academic now. #rewilding #rewild #culturalrewilding #humanrewilding #huntergathererresearch #rewildportland #anthropology

Haha it’s about the size of my fist.

I love weaving quick little projects like this on the fly. We didn’t end up having time to teach it this last course (it was only a 7 day course) but I’m hoping my next 14 day course I’ll have the opportunity to share this skill.

20 minute clematis basket. A great little “survival” basket that I usually teach with English ivy. It’s a great lesson in all the important parts of weaving a basket: the start, the walls, and the rim. ❤️🧺
#basket #basketry #basketmaking #basketweaving #clematis #survivalskills #ancestralskills

Me, an animist, talking to a rock while looking for toilet paper in the woods: “Oh, hey there. You look like you could wipe an ass.”
#animism #animist #environmentalimpact #toiletpaper #rock #naturestoiletpaper #deepecology

Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

A few thousand people gathered for Donald Trump's fascist military parade. Many millions assembled to oppose it.

Trump's core of support is comprised chiefly of stay-at-home racists and mercenaries who hurt people for pay.

Those who act according to their consciences overwhelmingly oppose him.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

How Hunter-Gatherers Learn w/ Dr. Gul Deniz Salali Podcast Episode · The Rewilding Podcast w/ Peter Michael Bauer · 05/05/2025 · 1h 15m

How do #huntergatherers learn to navigate the world without school? Listen in as I discuss this with Dr. Gul Deniz Salali.
#anthropology #humanities #earlylearning #unschooling #science #education

Capitalism tells us there were "dark ages" when people didn't work as hard, and "golden ages" when the rich were raking it in. lol. We can just exist. We don't have to leave a mark on the world. We can just eat and chill. Give back to the land instead of take so much. Whatever we want.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... For millions of years, and in some places still today, hunter-gatherers raise competent and capable children. They do this while navigating challenging environments, with predators, dangerous tools, and most notably: without any school. How? Listen in.

Wow get me the name of the firm that worked with Colossal Biosciences to get their fake azz Dire Wolf news on the front page of all these publications/platforms within the span of a day. I'm more impressed with their promotion of fake news than the genetically modified wolf/pretend dire wolf.

My favorite gif of all time 😂❤️

Saying you are not political… IS political. Whether it is cowardice, ignorance, indifference, or calculated anti-social rhetoric doesn’t really matter. By not supporting community/environmental care, you are siding with the people causing harm to everyone else and to the environment. /rant

The thing about survival is: community care IS a survival skill, if not THE survival skill. If you do not care about others and let other people harm the environment or other people, you are a bad survivalist and have zero credibility to teach survival skills.

They either don’t want to let people know they care about others and lose followers who are fascist leaning, or outright say they don’t give a shit and lose followers who actually care about people.

When influencers say “I’m not political” what they really mean is they don’t want to share their politics because they don’t want to lose customers or followers that make them money. This is morally reprehensible.

A third option here is that you relate more to the people at the top, the billionaires (the main people responsible for destruction of the environment and human rights abuses), and think you have more in common with them than you do with everyone else.

The first is they are in a position of privilege where these things don’t affect you (because you’re in a position of power at the top of the hierarchy) or second, you are unaware of how these issues affect you because you have bought into the propaganda (I.e. climate change isn’t real).

Survival skills are more than just knowing how to rub sticks together to make fire. People who say “I’m not political” usually fall under three categories.

Survival is political. If we don’t address #climatechange, #oceanacidification, ecological die off, social inequities, etc. …if we don’t fix these things… we don’t survive.

Creating #ancestralskills communities is central to #rewilding. We need people sharing skills together, we need people tending land together. These communities don’t form over night. It takes time to build them. www.patreon.com/posts/123824...

Beautiful place!

Is there a singular website tracking all this that is updated with new information?

Amazing

Yeah and also indoctrination of passivity and acceptance. I know so many “nice” people who let fucked up people do fucked up shit because they don’t want to “get involved” or whatever.