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A conversation with Vincent Stanley, Patagonia鈥檚 director of philosophy and co-author of The Future of the Responsible Company: What 欧博会员入口鈥檝e Learned from Patagonia鈥檚 First 50 Years.
Teresa Baker, Pattie Gonia, Jos茅 Gonz谩lez and Gabaccia Moreno bring a new initiative to the outdoor community.
Patagonia鈥檚 quality rating system is designed with ecological footprint in mind. Here鈥檚 why.
Eliza Earle, Austin Siadak, Drew Smith on the 2019 fall climbing season in Yosemite.
Making face masks in the time of COVID-19: when 鈥渂reathable face fabric鈥� takes on a whole new meaning.
What if we could wear our garbage? That鈥檚 the idea behind ReCrafted, our line of clothing made from the scraps of used garments collected at our Worn 欧博会员入口ar facility in Reno. It鈥檚 premium, Patagonia, upcycled. A second life for products that might not otherwise get one. ReCrafted was created by Kourtney Morgan鈥攖he designer behind some…
Hear 鈥渃limate crisis鈥� and you may picture a skinny polar bear stranded on a fragment of sea ice, bleached coral reefs, burning forests or maybe a world without bees. You鈥檙e not wrong: All those things (and more) are sadly unfolding or could be in the coming decades. Even more troubling, however, is that your mental…
Ever since Patagonia had an office (and wasn鈥檛 just selling gear out of the back of Yvon鈥檚 car), we鈥檝e devoted desk space, our free time and a percentage of our sales to protecting wild nature. From our travels, we knew our land, air and water was in real trouble from short-sighted profiteers. Over the years,…
If your idea of a great summer read is, like a day in the waves, a little escape from it all, this post may not be right for you. Maybe there鈥檚 just no escaping the severity of the climate crisis, or maybe we鈥檙e just so glad to have time to sit still with any book…
Our home planet has a deeply disturbing and pervasive聽problem with plastics.聽In April, a group of researchers studying the deepest聽part of the ocean鈥攖he Mariana Trench鈥攄iscovered plastic bags and candy wrappers floating nearly seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Globally, about聽450 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year and聽9.5 million tons of…
The Trump administration wants to open almost all of America鈥檚 coastline to the oil industry, putting our beaches and oceans at serious risk. Fifty years ago, an offshore rig spilled 100,000 barrels of crude oil into California鈥檚 Santa Barbara Channel, creating a 35-mile slick that fouled the wave-rich shoreline from Goleta to Ventura. It should…
Glad you asked 鈥� and if you aren鈥檛 already aware, in December 2017, President Trump issued a proclamation slashing Utah鈥檚 Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, 100 miles to the west of Bears Ears, by half.聽In an unprecedented response, we joined a coalition of Native American and grassroots groups…
Is it possible you鈥檙e reading this on The Cleanest Line and it鈥檚 the first you鈥檙e hearing of Doug Peacock? Is that even possible? 欧博会员入口ll, if so, you鈥檙e in for a real treat. In his latest film, Grizzly Country, Ben Moon creates a portrait of Peacock鈥攁 man who鈥檚 long been willing to put life and limb…
Before we could challenge the snow industry to move to recycled materials, we had to change our thinking, too. There are a number of ways to reduce a garment鈥檚 impact, but none more significant than making it out of recycled fabric. Doing so keeps material out of landfills and cuts demand for the petroleum used…
Our company is proud to be part of the growing movement of Certified B Corporations. These companies practice 鈥渟takeholder capitalism鈥�: They identify their most deeply held social and environmental values, then abide by them, honoring their responsibilities to their employees, customers, suppliers and communities鈥攁s well as to the financial health of their investors. In the…
Patagonia mourns the loss of Tom Frost, Yvon Chouinard鈥檚 former climbing and business partner, who passed away Friday morning. Tom, with Yvon, Chuck Pratt and Royal Robbins, made the first ascent of the North America Wall of El Capitan in 1964. He made other notable first ascents with Valley pioneers and others in Yosemite, the…
An excerpt from the book Family Business by Malinda Chouinard and Jennifer Ridgeway.
Doing the Dirty Work with the Oregon Natural Desert Association
This article was first published in 2018. For the most recent information about our participation in the Responsible Wool Standard, visit Our Footprint. In 2015, we made the conscious decision to put a pause on our wool sourcing 鈥渦ntil we can assure our customers of a verifiable process that ensures the humane treatment of animals.鈥�…
To celebrate over three decades of Baggies Shorts, we dug through our archives so we could share the stories behind a few iconic photos.
Yesterday, Alex Megos sent one of the most difficult routes in the world, completing the first ascent of Perfecto Mundo (5.15c or 9b+) at the limestone crag of Margalef in Catalunya, Spain. He called it the first hard route of his life. It marked not an apex, but rather a beginning. Which raises a wild…
鈥淎fter dinner, the round-faced, quirky old professor pulled his necklace out of his shirt,鈥� says聽Sea of Miracles director, Dan Malloy. 鈥淚t was a small clay flute shaped like a football. He announced that he would be performing an old Japanese protest song. The room went silent. He closed his eyes and started to play.鈥� The…
At Patagonia, our best ideas come from being in the field. But sometimes simple problems inspire complex solutions. That鈥檚 been the case with the development of insulation. Down gets wet and loses its heat-trapping loft, and synthetics never quite achieve the same warmth, lightness or compressibility as down plumes. 欧博会员入口鈥檝e tried everything from treated down…
Realizing our own shortcomings when it comes to being more inclusive.
As the seventh generation of her family to farm the same land, working from sunup to sundown comes naturally to Heather Darby. The fourth profile in our Workwear series takes a look at the perpetual motion required to be both a research agronomist at the University of Vermont and the backbone of a 200-year-old, certified…
“Americans have voiced overwhelming support for protecting the Arctic Refuge, and the fight is far from over. If we destroy the Arctic Refuge today, we will never get that wild, unspoiled wilderness back.” 鈥擱ose Marcario, President and CEO of Patagonia On December 20, Congress passed the tax bill that included a measure authorizing oil leasing…
An excerpt from the book Family Business by Malinda Chouinard and Jennifer Ridgeway.
欧博会员入口 started developing our social responsibility program in the mid-1990s, working side by side with factory partners. In 2001, we became a founding member of the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit that works to improve working conditions worldwide. With over a decade of close focus on our cut-and-sew factories, in 2011, we moved one link…
