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

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

Update: 2023-11-22
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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
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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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#7 Huck Middeke: Survival, wilderness, Nomad Town, living in a yurt, resilience hubs

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

Henry Soinnunmaa