Stacy Bare is a husband, father, skier, rafter, surfer and climber. As a veteran of the Iraq war, he co-founded the Great Outdoors Lab (GO Lab) in 2014 to put scientifically defensible data behind the idea of time outside as healthcare in partnership with Dr. Dacher Keltner at the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Stacy is a 2014 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year & the 2015 SHIFT Conservation Athlete of the Year. In 2015, he launched Adventure Not War (ANW), a project designed to take him back to all the places he fought, cleaned up after war, or was supposed to fight.
On the first ANW expedition, Stacy and Alex Honnold put up new climbing routes in Angola. In 2017, he and two fellow veterans completed a first ski descent of Mt. Halgurd in Iraq chronicled in the award-winning film he produced, ‘Adventure Not War.’ His latest film, a full 80 minute documentary set in Afghanistan, 'Champions of the Golden Valley,' will premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.
Today, Stacy is the Executive Director of Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, an organization working to increase equal access to the outdoors and empower people to cultivate vibrant parks, trees, and green spaces in the Grand Rapids area.
In this episode, Mark and Stacy talk about surviving and emerging from trauma, welcoming veterans home, healing through recovery, Adventure Not War, green spaces, wildness for everyone, and more.
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