What are you doing with your life?What are you trying to accomplish? Where is this all going?Do you even have a goal?Do you have a retirement plan? Do you have a savings account? What happens when you get sick? What are you going to do when you

The Art of Inner Tracking with Luke McLaughlin of Holistic Survival School

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 5m

Luke McLaughlin doesn’t want to teach you wilderness survival skills. He wants to guide you through the process of remembering your ancestral human nature.Make no mistake — though he’ll tell you that the technology typically amounts to little m

How and Why to Eat Acorns - A Step-by-Step Foraging Tutorial

Oct 17th, 2019 1h 1m

The acorn is one of the most common and ubiquitous nuts you’re likely to encounter almost anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere in autumn.Somehow, tragically, the vast majority of people on Earth today think of acorns as little more than “squirre

Wild Food Mentorship - Apply Now for the Winter 2019/20 Session!

Sep 24th, 2019 11m 26s

By popular demand, my Wild Food Mentorship is returning for its second year, beginning this November!The deadline to apply is October 31, 2019. Don’t delay!Head this way to fill out an application:http://www.thegoodliferevival.com/mentorFor thi

Climate Change Grief Pt. II - Visions, Wildfires, and the Children of Compost

Sep 20th, 2019 47m 21s

Whether the status quo is prepared to admit it or not, climate change is not some mysterious future event looming on the horizon — it is already happening, here, now.So: how will you choose to respond?In this episode of the Good Life Revival Po

Coping With Climate Change Grief - What Comes After Acceptance?

Sep 11th, 2019 37m 28s

We’ve analyzed the data. We’ve seen the models and the projections. The facts are grim, and the reality on the ground (for some, not all — yet) is even grimmer still:Global anthropogenic climate disruption is leading to social and political unr

Uncovering America's Hidden Empire with Historian Daniel Immerwahr

Sep 4th, 2019 1h 23m

Picture, in your mind’s eye, a map of the United States of America. What do you see?If you’re like most of us, you’re probably picturing an outline of the contiguous United States, the so-called “lower 48.” You might also be picturing Alaska up

Explaining Nothing, Defending Nothing - Behind the Scenes with Sam Sycamore

Aug 22nd, 2019 13m 58s

I dream of a quiet manwho explains nothing and defendsnothing, but only knowswhere the rarest wildflowersare blooming, and who goes,and finds that he is smilingnot by his own will."I Dream of a Quiet Man" by Wendell Berry, from Given.

Rainwater Harvesting for Adaptive Habitats with Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture

Aug 1st, 2019 1h

Rob Avis is a petroleum engineer-turned-permaculture designer with many years of boots-on-the-ground experience in developing regenerative living systems. He runs the Canadian design company Verge Permaculture, as well as the consulting firm Ad

Partnering with Powerful Trees - How and Why with Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm

Jul 17th, 2019 1h 13m

Akiva Silver is the owner of Twisted Tree Farm in New York, where he raises over 20,000 individual trees annually — no small feat as a sole proprietor!Earlier this year, Akiva published Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies via Chelsea

The Collapse is Not Your Fault: Climate Change and Near-Term Human Extinction

Jun 18th, 2019 41m 12s

There is no debate: our planet’s rapidly changing climate is now a fact of our everyday lives.Unpredictable and extreme weather events are becoming more common and more frequent worldwide, and both their unpredictability and their extreme natur

The Pursuit of Irrelevance and Illegibility with Sam Sycamore

Jun 5th, 2019 50m 48s

Early on in my journey back to nature, I realized that I was going to have to get creative in order to overcome the unique obstacles in my path.Knowing that I would never work towards a six-figure salary or a thirty-year mortgage, I had to seek

Bearing Witness to Wounded Landscapes with Trebbe Johnson, author of Radical Joy For Hard Times

May 22nd, 2019 1h 16m

How can we create beauty and discover joy in a world so badly wounded by the machinations of our modern culture?This is a question that Trebbe Johnson strives to answer, both philosophically and in practice, through her work with the organizati

You Do Not Exist

May 4th, 2019 6m 2s

You do not exist.I do not exist.Ask your I: "What are you?"And your I will reply, "I am not."

Home is Where the Truck is Parked with Kelly Moody of the Ground Shots Podcast

Apr 18th, 2019 2h 21m

If your life came to an end tomorrow — would you feel like you’d made the most of it?For episode 59 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I met up with Kelly Moody, creator of the Ground Shots Podcast and companion blog, Of Sedge and Salt. Since we

Disrupting Racism Using Deep Connection with Aaron Johnson, Porsha Beed and Jennie Pearl of Holistic Resistance

Apr 4th, 2019 1h 51m

When your neighbor comes to you in a panic and tells you that her house is burning — how will you respond?For episode 58 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I ventured up to Oakland, CA to meet with Aaron Johnson, Porsha Beed, and Jennie Pearl, t

Sexual Liberation and the Question of Masculinity with Ev'Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula

Mar 18th, 2019 1h 15m

When all we’ve ever known is unhealthy, imbalanced examples of sexuality, how can we even begin to step into our power as self-actualized, sexually liberated individuals?For episode 57 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I invited Ev’Yan Whitney

Seaweed Foraging on the California Coast with Heidi Herrmann of Strong Arm Farm

Feb 27th, 2019 1h 20m

Where ocean meets land: that’s where you’ll find Heidi Herrmann of Strong Arm Farm, who spends the better part of each summer meticulously hand-harvesting wild seaweed along the California coastline.For episode 56 of the Good Life Revival Podca

Reading Your Body, Reading the Land with Adam Haritan of Learn Your Land

Feb 15th, 2019

Personal health is not just an extension of environmental health — they are one and the same.For episode 55 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I was fortunate enough to speak with Adam Haritan, creator of Learn Your Land. Nowadays he’s best know

Ecological Awareness and the Wildlife Web with Thomas J. Elpel

Feb 5th, 2019 1h 19m

How can we reestablish our fundamental connection with nature, in the context of a culture so thoroughly disconnected from the ecosystems that sustain it?According to Thomas J. Elpel, founder of Green University and the Outdoor Wilderness Livin

What is the Good Life? Reflecting on a Decade with Sam Sycamore

Dec 25th, 2018 28m 18s

“Sam Sycamore, how do you define the good life?” “Well Sam, I’m glad you finally asked me for a change.“For me, the good life is defined by interdependence. To feel needed by a group of likeminded people, and to rely on them to meet the basic n

Civilized to Death and Living on the Fringes with Chris Ryan, host of Tangentially Speaking

Dec 10th, 2018 1h 24m

How do you construct a life worth living when your human animal needs are fundamentally at odds with the dominant culture’s agenda?It’s this sort of questioning that has shaped the sordid path of Dr. Christopher Ryan, host of the Tangentially S

Wildlife Tracking and Coastal Prairie Ranching with Doniga Markegard, author of Dawn Again

Nov 26th, 2018 1h

Whether tracking wolves across the Pacific Northwest, or shepherding cattle across California’s coastal prairie grasslands, Doniga Markegard aims not just to tend the land but to become one with its inhabitants.Doniga’s 2017 memoir, Dawn Again:

Cannabis Culture in Oregon with Micayla Harland of Hash It Out

Nov 13th, 2018 1h 53m

With cannabis now legal for recreational use in ten states (plus Canada!), and medicinally available in over half of the country, we have reached pivotal moment for the mainstream acceptance of cannabis in North American culture.And yet, the i