WRITING
Peter has been an avid writer since starting a blog on rewilding in 2006. While his focus over the last few years has been on teaching, podcasting, and community organizing through the nonprofit Rewild Portland, he continues to write and post essays to his Patreon. Below you’ll find a selection of some of his more popular pieces of writing.
Audio Book
REWILD OR DIE was a collection of essays-turned-book, written by Peter Michael Bauer (under the moniker Urban Scout) exploring the philosophy of the emerging rewilding renaissance, in which civilized humans are thought to be “domesticated” through thousands of years of sedentary, agrarian life. This way of life is believed to be the root of all environmental destruction and social injustice. Rewilding is the process of un-doing this domestication, and restoring healthy, biologically diverse communities. Using thoughtful, humorously cynical and at times angry prose, Urban Scout explores how the ideology of civilization clashes with the wild and wild peoples, and how thinking, feeling and most importantly living wild is the only way to reach true sustainability.
REWILD AND LIVE is an updated version of REWILD OR DIE, in the form of an audio book in which Bauer reads the chapters of his 2008 book aloud, with current thoughts and criticisms (2022).
ESSAYS
