Mark Baumer (December 19, 1983 – January 21, 2017) was an American writer, adventurer, and environmental activist.
[1] In 2016, he attempted to walk barefoot across America, in order to raise awareness about climate change.
[3] The family relocated to Durham, Maine, where Baumer attended Greely High School[4] and was the hockey team's captain.
[6] He gained fame on campus for instructing a writing class on the "art of subtle weirdness".
That April, Baumer chained himself to Textron's world headquarters to protest the manufacture of cluster bombs.
[13] In September, Baumer organized and led a three-day march from Providence, to Burrillville, Rhode Island to protest a fossil fuel power plant that was proposed for the town.
[15] The trip started in Tybee Island, Georgia and ended in Santa Monica, California.
[19] On the walk, Baumer strove to raise $10,000 for FANG,[20] an activist collective based in Rhode Island.
[22] He also posted poems, diary entries, and photographs on various social media sites,[23] leading The New Yorker to call him "a compulsive social-media diarist".
[37] The non-profit supports environmental and social justice projects in Maine, Rhode Island, and around the country.