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[Peter Bauer]

Hey Vera,

Welcome to the forum!

[belkis]

Hi everyone, we are Ira and Rudi. We live in Europe. After 20 years on the career ladder, we both decided to leave civilization, industrialization, consumerism, a large house, 2 cars, a very well paid job and a nice pension behind us. We found a place where we want to plant the seeds of a new community. In 2012 we will both take the big step, and we hope that some people will join us. We realize that a real community will take decades or centuries to establish. We believe one of our biggest challenges will be to subordinate our individualism to the community.
I (Ira) love plants and I am a very enthousiastic forest / permaculture gardener, learning new things every day.
I (Rudi) have studied anthropology in a distant past, and apart from living with Ira, my best memories come from the period I lived with an indigenous tribe in Asia during the 80s.

Great forum! Thanks. 

[Peter Bauer]

I should re-introduce myself too. 

I'm Peter. I used to go by the moniker Urban Scout, but I've outgrown that. By day I am a producer for an advertising company: I make internet and television commercials. Yikes! But by night I am a rewilder, and someday I aspire to leave behind the job I am caught up in and become a full time teacher. I live in Portland OR and am the Executive Director of Rewild Portland. I started this site years ago to find more friends with a rewilding mindset. I have loads more friends now, especially in Portland. I hope this site will continue to expand and encourage people to rewild or create rewilding communities in their own place. Looking forward to spending more time here this winter.

[PaleoGardener]

I'm the PaleoGardener. My real name is Kirk Hutchison. I live in Los Angeles, CA, and am trying to learn the Old Ways until I can fulfill my dream of living in the country. I am very much in to permaculture. Delighted to meet all of you wonderful people.

[Peter Bauer]

Welcome Kirk! Looking forward to hearing about rewilding down in Los Angeles!

[PaleoGardener]

Thanks, Peter. I'm excited to participate in this forum.

[Jesse Ambrose]

Hello, my name is Jesse, I'm a newly ex-college student living in the beautiful Pacific North West. I've been "lurking" about rewild.info for a while now; decided it was about time to graduate from that phase.

I like to think the roots of my rewilding go back to when I was seven when I liked to make shoddy bows and arrows in my backyard, try to hunt squirrels, make shelters out of branches and pine needles, and dream of running away to "The Woods" (the name I gave a copse of trees huddled in the middle of my family's suburban neighborhood block). I hadn't heard the term rewilding until a few years ago when I discovered green-anarchism. I thought rewilding was a little bit crazy at the time, but my interest was piqued. I met some people, heard some talks, read some books, and one thing led to another and now here I am, approaching my one-year anniversary as an intern at Rewild PDX. Being able to learn from the other rewilders here in Portland is something I am very thankful and glad for. I look forward to participating in the conversation on this site!

[oakcorn]

Hey, I used to be on this forum and decided I should come back. My name is Chase and that was my handle before. I live in Orange County, CA and rewild through my ancestral culture, permaculture, and taking the occasional cue from different tribes than mine.

[thefilthypoliticians]

hello, thanks for having me here.  my name is dan and i'm from vancouver, british columbia.  i'm part of an informal music collective known as the filthy politicians (http://www.soundcloud.com/thefilthypoliticians).  rewilding has become an overwhelming force in my life and i couldn't be more stoked on it.  reading peter's book directed me to this forum, and i look forward to learning and sharing with you.

much love

dan

[thefilthypoliticians]

it turns out i read the 'POSTING GUIDELINES - READ FIRST'....second....

so to complete my introduction, i am 26 years old.  growing up in british columbia, i was always drawn to the north, and the wild places.  although it wasn't quite articulated when i was younger, the idea of being in a place that is largely absent of humans, but full of non human others had a powerful call.  our family did a moderate amount of camping, but i really got into rewilding a couple of years ago when i read derrick jensen and daniel quinn, and then took a few courses at the tracker school.  since then i've been taking other courses and engaging other experiences that help to build my community and my skills.  music has been a big part of my rewilding journey.  in the quest to decolonize my heart and mind, it lead me to a place where i felt the need to share my experience with others, and offer what i could in terms of support/encouragement/assistance/direction/solidarity with and for their own respective journeys.  what i've found with music, is that it has the potential to engage people in ways that typical conversation, at times, cannot.

this looks like an awesome collection of folks, and it's great to be here.

much love

dan

[NerfHerderPA]

Hello everyone. My name is Tim and I'm from Greensburg, PA - but currently living in Pittsburgh. I really enjoy hunting, cooking, hiking, camping, reading, gardening, traveling, etc.

I don't have internet access so I probably won't be as active as I'd like to be. I plan on reading a lot of threads before posting anything, but I thought I'd introduce myself.

[incendiary_dan]

Welcome new folks!

Dan, I think I've heard your collective's music, and maybe even put a song or two on one of my mix CDs.  Nice.  From one Dan to another, good tunes!

Tim, I do hope you get here as much as you want. 

[Paolo Nugent]

Hey everybody!

I started off on this forum years ago as "thunder thighs". I left for a while because I felt myself needing a break. Anyhow, I'm back, I've developed much as an individual in terms of perspective and approach in this whole rewilding deal. I've learned how personal of a journey this is, which is really great. When I left I felt like I'd stirred up too much trouble, that perhaps the ideas represented here weren't suiting to the direction I was naturally moving in. But coming back, it was fun to see that the topics I started were ones people still felt strongly about and were willing to discuss which was good to see, and I found as well that I am still very much a "rewilder" at heart. My thanks go out to Peter Bauer and Willem who both have unwittingly had a great impact on my life and it's evolution in profound ways, and I extend a warm greeting to Dan as well (who I enjoyed scuffling with over the "white man" topic just before I left ) . I'm not sure how engaged I'll be here at first, maybe I'll just lurk around and see what's changed. I dunno.

It's good to be back!

[Peter Bauer]

Welcome newbies and Welcome Back Paolo.

[George Steel]

ᐳᔓ᙮ ᑻᕒᐨ ᓂᑎᔑᓂᑲᐢ, ᑐᕒᐅᐣᑐ ᓂᑕᔑ ᐃᐡᑯᓄ᙮ ᐅᑌᓇᐣᐠ ᓂᑎᔑᑕ ᓄᐣᑯᒼ ᓄᐱᒥᐣᐠ ᓂᐏᐃᔑᑕ ᒋ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᔭᐣ᙮ ᓂᑲᑵᓂᑕᐊᓂᔑᐯᒧᐏᐣ᙮

Hi. My name is George and I am currently studying math and biology at the University of Toronto. I have been lurking here for a while reading stuff (and even giving Peter the odd bit of tech support) and I am finally getting around to introducing myself here so I can post. "civilized" life has never made sense to me and I have always been drawn towards the wild places and to the old ways of living. For many years I have had a dream of escaping into the woods and living off the land in a traditional way.

Recently, my studies have disconnected me even more from civilization, answering some of my questions and bringing up new ones. I found out (with proof) that "civilization" really does have a foundation of lies and oppression and, barring time going into reverse or the laws of physics changing on us, that it will kill us all if it keeps going to the bitter end. Seeing this gave me a choice: either forget all about math and science, rewild, or lose my mind (a fate which has claimed the lives of many mathematicians who did not have the opportunity to rewild). I chose to start rewilding.

So far on my journey, I have been learning a lot, both trying to understand my current situation, the current state of the world, how we got here and what might happen next; and trying to learn how to escape and live outside of civilization. So far, that knowledge has consisted of not only a lot of math and science, but knowledge of the language culture, and ways of life of the Anishinaabe (the local indigenous people in my area) as well.

As well as learning, I have been trying to share my knowledge. I have introduces quite a few members of my department to the "nonsense" behind civilization and some of them have started on their own rewilding journeys. Eventually, I hope to find enough people to start a regular rewild camp here in Toronto.

I hope to post here often, but in the meantime, if you want to explain to a mathematician that civilization doesn't have much of the future, try showing them the bit in blue, It convinced my TA last year.

ᒥᑵᐨ, ᑭᑲᐘᐸᒥᐣ᙮
See you guys soon.
George Steel

Why rewild the world?

A: "contents of planet (including life)"
K: "the sun's light"
P = μ(K - dA/dt): "production"
G = d log P/dt: "growth"
G>0: "our civilized economy"
⇒ A → -∞
⇒ ∃ t s.t. A(t) = 0: "total extinction of all life"

It sure beats the alternative.