The body is the first piece of gear: cold, movement, rest and rewilding.
© 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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This weekend I showed Lucky Sheep Sleeping Bags at the Outdoor Gear Builders of Western North Carolina’s annual Get in Gear Fest. This was a collaboration of diverse outdoor gear builders showing their wares. It was 38 Degrees and sometimes drizzly and that was actually perfect for our gear because it shows how important it
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If you have what we call a sedentary job you have probably been hearing about the problem with sitting all day and wondering, what can be done? Standing Desks are helpful but not the whole solution because any ONE position doesn’t work. What works is movement or changing positions. Easy during yoga, but how does one do
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The Footloose Method™ creates an office that simulates a jungle or a playground, where you would otherwise be sitting at a desk. When you see your habitat like this–more than a desk and a chair–a place to be free to move, stretch and relax, you no longer need to think in terms of prescriptive maintenance and
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Speaker Intro: Patrick Clark grew up in the Wayehutta Valley in Cullowhee, North Carolina where he developed a unique bond with nature. In college he majored in Outdoor Recreation and spent six weeks in Nantahala and Pisgua National Forests studying Outdoor Leadership with the legendary Paul Petzoldt (founder of NOLS, Outward Bound, and Wilderness Education
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This is somewhat of an autobiography of my design career and summarieses how over decades I was directed to certain rare pieces of history/information that kept rounding out my basic hypothesis. I was trying to understand why society developed into such a crazy mess with regards to how we have designed our spaces, furniture, shoes,
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Removing Poison Ivy without Chemicals (permanently) by Patrick Clark, Certified Permaculuter Designer This method can be used with other ‘weeds’ not JUST poison ivy. Other plants which spread with rhizome systems like blackberries need the longer-term surface coverage of several weeks or months. This EM-Bokashi™ method can turn a patch of ground into a fertile
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