#7 Huck Middeke: Survival, wilderness, Nomad Town, living in a yurt, resilience hubs

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Episode 7: Wilderness guide, survival expert, sustainability consult and critical system thinker Huck Middeke.

This episode was recorded on Sep 25th, 2023 Video version: https://youtu.be/y3iB_zHRE4o Download mp3 on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/curiousonearth/7-huck-middeke Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3G9TQHZ Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3MTqly2 RSS: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:879419647/sounds.rss

00:00:00 Foreword 00:08:06 Introduction 00:10:34 What is a yurt? 00:19:54 The backstory of Huck's yurt 00:27:11 Yurt practicalities 00:35:43 Huck's basic premises 00:42:29 Circles of awareness and disturbance 00:54:57 We don't know what a sustainable lifestyle looks like 01:03:40 Do humans have a fundamental need to push their limits? 01:08:24 Exploration and the power of the individual 01:18:00 "Normal" lifestyles as an addiction 01:21:05 Superyachts 01:40:23 An intergenerationally sustainable lifestyle cannot be taught 01:47:52 Communities and illusions of independence 01:58:21 Exploring the edge of your comfort zone 02:04:45 Overshoot 02:08:27 You cannot force people into a lifeboat 02:23:06 Will there be a hi-tech civilization in a 100, 1000 or million years? 02:34:00 Celebrating lo-tech 02:42:20 Becoming an interplanetary species 02:55:12 Formula 1 and technological progress 03:05:23 Overshoot and nature deficit disorder 03:11:26 Forest destruction and protection 03:17:38 Nonlinear and slow forest time 03:22:34 Nature connection exercise 03:26:58 How Huck became a wilderness guide 03:36:15 What does a wilderness guide do? 03:45:40 The meaning of the wild 04:01:56 Fear in the wild 04:06:28 What Huck's wilderness sessions entail 04:21:10 Six survival priorities 04:24:40 Barefoot walking and cold exposure 04:40:51 Nomad Town 04:49:01 Creating electricity with a bike 04:51:47 Shared permanent living in Nomad Town 04:57:55 The yurt doesn't need to be warmed up all the time 05:03:02 Clever yurt hacks and other practicalities 05:10:33 Resilience hubs 05:14:17 Defining resilience 05:18:47 Types of survival situations 05:25:15 What to do in a survival situation & the STOP tool 05:32:42 Full moon full stop 05:47:29 The most important survival skills 05:51:56 Survivalism and preppers 05:55:30 Primitivism 06:00:14 Progress 06:03:32 Is there moral progress? 06:06:29 Roots 06:09:32 Fatherhood as biased responsibility 06:12:12 Initiation rites 06:14:52 Short final questions 06:09:11 Afterword

Huck's Linkedin: https://t.ly/GdRrH Huck's Youtube https://t.ly/pHo9P Nordic by Nature https://www.nordicbynature.net

Syvä työ – hyvä työ -kirja https://t.ly/8qT0f Viznut's text about permacomputing https://t.ly/9fsog Viznut on the Ihmisiä, siis eläimiä podcast https://t.ly/NUzEt

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