Paleo Trail Foods Recipe: Carrots Alive Breakfast Salad
Rewilding
How to Make Pemmican
This Native American delicious pemmican dish is a superfood that works great for modern day backpacking. Super light and nutrient dense!
Home Sweet Tipi: Notes from The Tipi Experiment
Tipi as shelter. It’s more of an escape from shelter. When shelter becomes numbing, cutting me off from the things I want to experience. I want the wind, rain, sun sweet breezes, birds. I WANT it. Tipi is not the best SHELTER as far as protecting from the environment. There are better, easier things out …
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Embracing Minimalism and Environments that Make our Bodies Work: Podcast
I had a strange entry into the world of Rewilding. When I was 15 years old (1979) I had a sudden awakening when watching a Native American History documentary that caused me to go home and reinvent my life. I got rid of the furniture in my room, taught myself to make moccasins, and started …
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Sleeping on a Firm Surface How and Why
Q. It seems so counterintuitive. How can a big soft bed be uncomfortable and a board be comfortable?  A. The soft modern bed is like a wheelchair for an ailing society. It is only comfortable is your definition of comfortable is NUMBING, where you do no work and it does the work for you. You have …
The Tipi Experience Series
During a two year span I spent six months on and six months off living in a tipi as I was exploring how to merge with nature, sleep on the earth, and all this without leaving my job and society. I started in the summer of 2012 and practiced Cold Thermogenesis in the South Toe …
You Snooze, You Win: Five Ways Your Bed Can Make or Break Sleep
Your bed is one of the main factors effecting your sleep. The perfect bed is not going to solve all of your sleep issues overnight (pardon the pun) because sleep is effected by more than just one factor. (Other factors are the things which effect Circadian Rhythms–which will be covered in another article.) However, there are …
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Seven Most Important Things to Optimize Sleep
We often say jokingly, “I need to recharge my battery”. This is not a joke. Our body is actually IS a battery. It is called the mammalian battery and it works by capturing electrons from our environment and storing them. Our net charge can even be measured using a thing called REDOX potential. When our …
Time Space and Travel: How World View Influences Lifestyle Choices
© 1993 Patrick Clark (First published in Kokopelli Notes) From the travels of Marco Polo through China to those of Lewis and Clark across North America and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, people have long been fascinated with travel and mobility. Today transportation dominates the social landscape. A cursory glance at any town or …
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Index of Patrick Clark’s Articles
Time Space and Travel: How World View Influences Lifestyle Choices The Art of Carrying Things What’s Wrong with the Chair Chair Free Lifestyle: A New Approach to Fitness and Health Laptop Ergonomics: How to Get Out of Your Slump Turn Your Office Into a Health Spa: 10 Easy Steps Is Your Life Aligning Your Body? …