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Birthing & Caring for Children / Re: Should we bring more children into this world?
« on: December 04, 2007, 08:39:09 AM »Someone is going to have to help me with this quotation crap. I am a little slow and generally start drinking Rum around supper time.
How does one get the posters name to show up like that?
You hit the "quote" button in the upper right hand corner of the response that you want to quote. That should give you the original post info...
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Relationships, Partnerships & Sexuality / Re: finding/creating a TRIBE
« on: December 03, 2007, 09:50:28 AM »
I just purchased that book to read... still waiting on it to get here in the mail...
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Land / Re: gardening, foraging, permaculture (not agriculture!)
« on: November 30, 2007, 08:50:24 AM »
right, I view permaculture as a way to learn about how different plants and ecosystems work together, it's kind of a mini-self-supporting ecosystem that you are creating, with the added benefit that you will gather food and sustenance from it... but it will exist and thrive on it's own...
agriculture is the large scale "farming" of a land, stripping it of all the valuable nutrients and replacing them with temporary nutrients made available solely for the crop, not the earth or organisms living in it... at least that is how conventional agriculture works... I believe even that "sustainable" agriculture cannot be sustainable, it takes to much land and energy to produce mass crops.
agriculture depends largely on mono-cropping (growing one type of vegetable or crop per plot of land) while permaculture and gardening rely on several different varieties of plants working together (companion planting, organic gardening) to support each other, and other things like composting, mulching, etc to give back to the earth the nutrients which are used by the plants... also, depending on what type of plants you include, will determine which nutrients are used and given back...
agriculture is the large scale "farming" of a land, stripping it of all the valuable nutrients and replacing them with temporary nutrients made available solely for the crop, not the earth or organisms living in it... at least that is how conventional agriculture works... I believe even that "sustainable" agriculture cannot be sustainable, it takes to much land and energy to produce mass crops.
agriculture depends largely on mono-cropping (growing one type of vegetable or crop per plot of land) while permaculture and gardening rely on several different varieties of plants working together (companion planting, organic gardening) to support each other, and other things like composting, mulching, etc to give back to the earth the nutrients which are used by the plants... also, depending on what type of plants you include, will determine which nutrients are used and given back...
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Social Technology / Re: Economize!
« on: November 28, 2007, 02:19:49 PM »
Whenever you have the "urge" to buy something, think "do I REALLY NEED this or will it just be something extra that takes up space?" if you don't really need it, don't buy it. For things like Christmas, coming up, which I cannot seem to escape while still having a family, I am going to only buy things for my family that they can use, like gardening, baking, cooking, sewing supplies, but I also want to make things for them too, which will have more meaning. I am going to tell my family not to give me anything that I won't be using in my gardening project or foraging, hand-craft projects this spring/summer... I don't want to purchase anything unless I absolutely need it, or feel that it would benefit me for years to come...
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Relationships, Partnerships & Sexuality / Re: Odoriferous Friend Identification Game
« on: November 28, 2007, 02:15:18 PM »
I never understood why some people wear cologne, or dress up, or wear makeup when hiking?!?!?
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Grief & Praise / Re: procrastination and feeling dull
« on: November 28, 2007, 01:51:26 PM »
Most things in nature are like this during the colder months, hibernating, sleeping more, slower movements, sluggish, in order to conserve energy and heat (body fat)... name a mammal that lives in a colder region that doesn't behave like this... to think that we, as humans, as mammals, should behave differently is just one more way that the notion is ingrained in our heads that we are different than other animals...
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Rewilding Mind & Heart / Re: question
« on: November 27, 2007, 12:54:52 PM »
Also, check out the Trackers Teams Immersion Program, instead of college:
http://trackersnw.com/html/pdx/immersion/adult_immersion.php
-emily
http://trackersnw.com/html/pdx/immersion/adult_immersion.php
-emily
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Media Reviews & Recommendations / ideas for Post Apocalyptic Short Film "Fest"
« on: November 27, 2007, 12:32:27 PM »
from Urban Scout's MySpace bulletin:
I want to make a short film for this and was wondering if I might get a few ideas! I have a friend that has a fancy video camera and editing capabilities, so this is a project that we could work on from now through December! Any ideas? I just saw this today, so haven't thought about it much, so I will post my ideas here as they come to me! It would be cool if this were a video developed by us here on ReWild! And maybe some people around here could star in it?! This could be FUN!
-emily
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Hey peeps. Do you have a short video/film you made with an apocalyptic theme? (Zombies, Oil, Disease, War, etc. etc. etc.)
By short I mean, under 5 minutes?
I'm going to include a 30 minute screening of apocalyptic themed film shorts to this years annual Nuclear Winter Formal.
If you have a film or know someone who does. Message me. This ain't no big film fest thingy with entry money and prizes and shit. This is fucking free to enter and I am the only judge and the only credit is street creds, yo. Love it or leave it.
So do this shit. The formal happens on January 26th this year. So do this shit soon pleez. I want all the tapes in by Jan 1st cause I get all stressed out and worry my ass off if it ain't done by the wire.
Scout
I want to make a short film for this and was wondering if I might get a few ideas! I have a friend that has a fancy video camera and editing capabilities, so this is a project that we could work on from now through December! Any ideas? I just saw this today, so haven't thought about it much, so I will post my ideas here as they come to me! It would be cool if this were a video developed by us here on ReWild! And maybe some people around here could star in it?! This could be FUN!
-emily
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**READ HERE FIRST** / Re: Introductions
« on: November 27, 2007, 11:35:56 AM »
Urban Scout
The poster-boy of rewilding!
The poster-boy of rewilding!
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Rewilding Mind & Heart / Re: I burned my books
« on: November 27, 2007, 11:01:47 AM »As a story tells about Ghazali, a 10th c. sufi, when bandits struck his caravan he told them I just have books please don't take them, A bandit replied what's the use of knowledge that comes to naught if I take the books away?!
That's a great parable! So true...
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We should look at books as means and not as necessities. MR
I agree, thanks for the discussion, MR!
-emily
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Land / Re: gardening, foraging, permaculture (not agriculture!)
« on: November 27, 2007, 10:19:50 AM »you've mentioned before that your parents have been long-standing gardeners. out of curiousity, what techniques/methods do they use now?
They just plant in rows, with everything really spaced apart, and to me, this doesn't seem to utilize the space/mimic nature in anyway... I want to use raised beds because that way the plants' roots will not get compacted when you walk in the garden, allowing healthier roots and plants to grow, less disturbed...
They also do not utilize companion planting to the extent I want to, which I think is very important for organic gardens and a self-supporting system... and they have no water concerns addressed (this last summer there was a drought and the garden did not do very well because they don't water it) like water retention in the soil/compost/mulch that I want to experiment with...
Thanks for the book recomendations, I think that they will be on my christmas list!
-emily
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Land / Re: Guerrilla Gardening & Midnight Gardeners
« on: November 27, 2007, 10:10:11 AM »The thing I worry about with guerrilla gardening is that I may inadvertently promote more chemical usage to kill the stuff I've sown. Especially with something people despise as much as invasive blackberries -- I worked on a cattle ranch where they sprayed every blackberrry bush relentlessly with Roundup, not caring whether the poison would work its way into the nearby streams and ponds. A lot of people see pretty much anything "broadleaf" as an enemy that they need to eradicate.
It's true, that's why it's important that you know the location that you are planting in, if it's abandoned and overgrown with "weeds" that no one has ever paid attention too, it's probably safe to plant in and also, less likely that the plants will be destroyed. It's definitely important to not plant anything that you think people would use pesticides to get rid of, focus on wildflowers and herbs, and non-invasive plants would be the best!
There is a story of an unused lot in Portland, where people just up and started a community garden, later getting the go-ahead from the owner. It thrived for many years (maybe over ten?), had fruit trees hand-planted by someone in the community, was a beautiful garden right across the street from People's Food Co-op, until the owner sold the lot to developers and a new condo/apartment complex was planned to be built on it. I could not find the story online, but this is an example of guerrilla gardening that worked (at least for several years, until the owner got money-hungry)...
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Rewilding Mind & Heart / Re: I burned my books
« on: November 27, 2007, 09:56:06 AM »
Hey MR! I think that brings up another question, too, how much is the internet just a replacement for books? I mean, you can pretty much find any information on here that you can in books... but i still like to have a field guide to carry with me, which I cannot do with the internet. Thanks for the clarification between guides and such and other books that tie you to civ, I see now...
I definitely see your point about breaking free of the mental hooks of civ. I think the main thing with books is that people used to know all this information, it being passed down from generation to generation, but now it has to all be in books for people to learn from because knowledgeable people are too rare, inaccessible, or non-existent, for us to learn like we are meant to, not from books, but as a natural process of living. Also, things like solar power and such are not going to be feasible out in the "wild" without modern technology... so I understand what you're saying about that stuff!
I like this, I like this a lot.
-emily
I definitely see your point about breaking free of the mental hooks of civ. I think the main thing with books is that people used to know all this information, it being passed down from generation to generation, but now it has to all be in books for people to learn from because knowledgeable people are too rare, inaccessible, or non-existent, for us to learn like we are meant to, not from books, but as a natural process of living. Also, things like solar power and such are not going to be feasible out in the "wild" without modern technology... so I understand what you're saying about that stuff!
Now I feel freer, because I have less stuff to take with myself everywhere I go; I feel wilder because I'm not restricted to any definite idea anymore (like a machine that responds to certain inputs and ignores the rest); I feel more like a human and less like an agent who is expected to process ideas to be "useful", now I'm less useful!
I like this, I like this a lot.
-emily
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Shelter / Re: Family project: Debris huts
« on: November 27, 2007, 09:37:28 AM »
We had an "indian village" (that's what we called it) in our woods where we had fire pits (but weren't allowed to have fires, obviously!) lined with rocks collected from the creek. We attempted to make clay pots and let them air dry, had hunting excursions, where we would carry a large stick between us, with the pretend kill hanging from it... made bows and arrows... tomahawks, knives and such, from sticks and stones... I wish we knew about debris huts, because all we had for our "houses" were ropes marking off our individual dwellings between the trees.
-emily
-emily
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Tracking & Awareness / Re: Wilderness Movement - Rewilding the Body
« on: November 27, 2007, 09:01:08 AM »
wow. parkour is amazing... but where are the GIRLS?!?!?!