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Record-breaking Black Friday Sales to Benefit the Planet – 2016

Rose Marcario

Last week, when we announced we’d give 100 percent of our global retail and online Black Friday sales directly to grassroots nonprofits working on the frontlines to protect our air, water and soil for future generations, we heard from many of our customers calling it a “fundraiser for the earth.”

Record-breaking Black Friday Sales to Benefit the Planet – 2016

Rose Marcario

5 Min Read

100 Percent Today, 1 Percent Every Day

Rose Marcario

We’re just days from Black Friday, one of the biggest consumer shopping days of the year in America. And as people think generously about family and friends, we also want to help our customers show love to the planet, which badly needs a gift or two (and still gets coal every year).

100 Percent Today, 1 Percent Every Day

Rose Marcario

5 Min Read

Overburden

Coal built this ski town. Can the locals keep skiing without it?

Overburden

10 Min Read

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings

10 Min Read

The Milky Way illuminates the night sky in the Cabeza Prieta desert, Arizona. Photo: Jack Dykinga

On the Theft of Dreams

Maya Broeks

On the Theft of Dreams

Maya Broeks

6 Min Read

A year after Hawai‘i's deadliest natural disaster, the historic town of Lāhainā continues its rebuilding efforts. Photo: Ryan ‘Chachi’ Craig

Lāhainā, One Year Later

Beau Flemister

Lāhainā, One Year Later

Beau Flemister

13 Min Read

Finnish Breakthrough

How actor Jasper Pääkkönen advocates for wild fish.

Finnish Breakthrough

6 Min Read

Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ‘Em!

We spend our first 40 weeks in water. Some of us never get over it.

Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ‘Em!

6 Min Read

Home Planet Fund invests in the Sustainable Southeast Partnership, a collective of local Alaskan communities that see healthy trees as essential to their economic livelihoods. Old-growth forests keep Earth cool, naturally. Photo: Colin Arisman

Where to Find Hope on Climate

Brad Wieners

Where to Find Hope on Climate

Brad Wieners

5 Min Read

Moving toward a new day requires reflection. It requires reckoning with our failures, taking time to really listen, and honouring what we’ve missed. Patagonia. Photo: Mikey Schaefer

Our Acknowledgment

Patagonia

We’re learning how to become an antiracist company.

Our Acknowledgment

Patagonia

2 Min Read

For the Tsleil-Waututh, paddling is not only a way of life but a sustainer of it. They have existed in relationship with the Burrard Inlet for millennia. British Columbia.

We Are the Inlet

Nikki Sanchez

The women fighting for Southern Resident orcas.

We Are the Inlet

Nikki Sanchez

9 Min Read

The range of the Southeastern Group of southern right whales extends from SA around to the NSW south coast, above. Photo Josh Burkinshaw

Mother Knows Best

Linley Hurrell

The fight to protect Koontapool Yakeen (Whale Dreaming)

Mother Knows Best

Linley Hurrell

8 Min Read

The oil and gas industry are aggressively expanding across Southern Sea Country. Photo Jarrah Lynch

Save Southern Sea Country

Ula Majewski

The ocean between Tasmania and Victoria, stretching west, is under threat from the offshore oil and gas industry. The communities dotted along those coasts are banding together to protect it.

Save Southern Sea Country

Ula Majewski

12 Min Read

After running past, taking shelter in and leaning on these slow breathing giants, the sawn and stripped logs just don’t have the same warmth or glory they once did. Today’s victory will be in logs conserved not cleared. Photo: Cam Suttie

Logged For A Loss

Nick Rodway

The mountain ash forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands are priceless. So why would you log them, losing millions of dollars in the process?

Logged For A Loss

Nick Rodway

7 Min Read

The mountain ash forests of the Victorian Central Highlands have existed for millions of years. The Great Forest National Park is an idea to protect them into the future. Photo: Cam Suttie.

Imagining The Great Forest

Jock Serong

The ancient forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands are home to a myriad of natural ecosystems, all precious, all interrelated. It’s time they were all protected as one National Park.

Imagining The Great Forest

Jock Serong

12 Min Read

In San Vicente—a port town near Concepción in central Chile—Christopher “Caco” Clemo and Jacqueline Sangueza pick out eligible fishing nets for the net-recycling company Bureo.

Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast

Andrew O’Reilly

The South Pacific has a plastic problem. He had a truck.

Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast

Andrew O’Reilly

5 Min Read

Wild Youth!

Patagonia

An excerpt from the book Family Business by Malinda Chouinard and Jennifer Ridgeway.

Wild Youth!

Patagonia

9 Min Read

Puerto Rico No Se Vende

Gabriela Aoun

Five years after Hurricane Maria, coastal land in Puerto Rico is being sold and developed at a dizzying pace. Puerto Ricans are taking the conservation fight into their own hands.

Puerto Rico No Se Vende

Gabriela Aoun

8 Min Read

The workshop is operated by Udyog Bharti, a khadi cooperative that partners with our supply chain partner Arvind Ltd. to produce handwoven textiles for Patagonia.

Freedom through Fabric

Archana Ram

Why a symbol of Indian self-reliance is vital again.

Freedom through Fabric

Archana Ram

6 Min Read

This photo was taken from the album “Restauration des montagnes deboisées,” which roughly translates to “reforestation of deforested mountains.” Photo: B. Circovich

From Stone to Wood

Manuela Schirra and Fabrizio Giraldi

Reforesting in the heart of Europe.

From Stone to Wood

Manuela Schirra and Fabrizio Giraldi

5 Min Read

Traditional forms of leadership have failed the environment. It’s time for change. Photo: Ula Majewski

She Leads

Daisy Dumas

Australian leadership – let’s call it what it is: traditional, male and white – isn’t working for many of us, least of all the environment. Bring more women and diverse voices to the table before it’s too late, urges Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia.

She Leads

Daisy Dumas

8 Min Read

“America the Beautiful” through the eyes of Chief Justice John Roberts—or what coal removal did for Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. Photo: Lynn Willis, flight courtesy of SouthWings

Supreme Negligence

Amy Westervelt

The supreme court’s least-bad, bad ruling on climate, and some options President Biden still has.

Supreme Negligence

Amy Westervelt

5 Min Read

As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.

Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone

Len Necefer

As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.

Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone

Len Necefer

10 Min Read

Home Among the Gum Trees

Andy Summons

What now for Australia’s climate refugees?

Home Among the Gum Trees

Andy Summons

8 Min Read

The offshore gas industry that has been out of sight from the Australian public for decades, is now encroaching on some of the country's most iconic landscapes. Photo Chris Gurney

Gaslit

Tim Winton

Australia has been captivated by the gas industry for decades. Tim Winton calls time on them.

Gaslit

Tim Winton

10 min Read

Now It’s Gas

Wayne Lynch

Wayne Lynch has seen his beloved Otways plundered over the years. The desecration of treasured stretch of Australian coast continues today.

Now It’s Gas

Wayne Lynch

3 min Read

Marine scientist Laura Wells diving with seals off Barunguba (Montague Island).

The Sanctuary

Big fish are now circling Batemans Marine Park.

The Sanctuary

10 min Read

Walmadan

Almost a decade ago, a great victory was won in the Kimberley. Today, this ancient, red dirt frontier remains under threat from the gas industry.

Walmadan

8 min Read

Rising Tides

It’s time for surfers to read the forecast on climate change and do something about it.

Rising Tides

7 min Read

We Can't Kook Climate

Surfers should care about climate, but do they? Really?

We Can't Kook Climate

10 Min Read

Was it worth it?

Doug Peacock

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Was it worth it?

Doug Peacock

10 Minutes

More Corals. More Fish.

This marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many biodiversity hotspots in the US that need more federal protection.

More Corals. More Fish.

10 Min Read

COP26 is over. But the fight for climate justice remains.

For Tish, COP26 was an opportunity to hold our political leaders accountable and ensure they felt the global pressure to act on climate.

COP26 is over. But the fight for climate justice remains.

6 Min Read

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

6 Min Read

Recycling Is Broken. Now What?

“We have to choose between sending it to a landfill, sending it to the incinerator or holding on to it until we find a better solution. Since we chose the latter, our stockpile is taking up a room in our Reno warehouse.”

Recycling Is Broken. Now What?

10 Min Read

Don’t Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times

Patagonia

Why run an ad in The New York Times on Black Friday telling people, “Don’t Buy This Jacket”?

Don’t Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times

Patagonia

6 Min Read

Big Gas Don't Surf

Iconic coastlines should not become gas fields. Surfers around Australia are ready to paddle out and defend them.

Big Gas Don't Surf

6 Min Read

For the Land We Inhabit

The communities of Cajón del Maipo, in Chile, are seeing their environment be threatened by an unnecessary hydroelectric project.

For the Land We Inhabit

6 Min Read

Listen to 'Watershed Chats' w/ Belinda Baggs

The iconic waterwoman reflects on taking action on what she sees as the greatest threat to her son's health and wellbeing: climate change.

Listen to 'Watershed Chats' w/ Belinda Baggs

10 Min Read

Water Always Wins

A lesson in the rules of trail building.

Water Always Wins

10 Min Read

We’ve Got the Energy

The ups and downs of transitioning power to the people in the Chamonix Valley.

We’ve Got the Energy

10 Min Read

Island Time

Dave Rastovich sets out to articulate the indescribable, immersed in one of the country's most hallowed surf spots, but with a barrage of threats on the horizon.

Island Time

11 Min Read

All You Can Do

There’s so much. An interview with the co-editors of All We Can Save.

All You Can Do

5 Min Read

Our Islands, Our Home

Elle Murrell

Inside the landmark case asserting 'the right to life' amid the climate crisis.

Our Islands, Our Home

Elle Murrell

9 Min Read

The Ancient Tree Hunter

As the old-growth logging crisis heats up in Canada, a photographer goes searching for trees to save them.

The Ancient Tree Hunter

10 Min Read

Biirrinba is Life

Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.

Biirrinba is Life

6 Min Read

Doing the Work

Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.

Doing the Work

6 Min Read

This family’s thread runs deep. Courtney Reynolds sews a quilt sourced from a local swap meet into a jacket for her twin girls while her son, Sammy, starts a project of his own on his kid-sized sewing machine. Photo: Tim Davis

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Allison Gibson

Nearly every Wednesday, Courtney Reynolds can be found elbow-deep in a bin of someone else’s castoffs, searching for scraps of fabric and colourful quilts to

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Allison Gibson

9 Min Read

A Letter from 2030

Yessenia Funes

The next nine years will be a time of resilience, rebuilding and reinvention.

A Letter from 2030

Yessenia Funes

5 Min Read

United to Save Yaroomba

Former local Belinda Bags links up with surfers and campaigners looking to halt a high-rise development and protect endangered turtle hatching grounds.

United to Save Yaroomba

10 Min Read

Patagonia NZ

Record-breaking Black Friday Sales to Benefit the Planet – 2016

Record-breaking Black Friday Sales to Benefit the Planet – 2016

100 Percent Today, 1 Percent Every Day

100 Percent Today, 1 Percent Every Day

Overburden

Overburden

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings

On the Theft of Dreams

On the Theft of Dreams

Lāhainā, One Year Later

Lāhainā, One Year Later

Finnish Breakthrough

Finnish Breakthrough

Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ‘Em!

Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ‘Em!

Where to Find Hope on Climate

Where to Find Hope on Climate

Our Acknowledgment

Our Acknowledgment

We Are the Inlet

We Are the Inlet

Mother Knows Best

Mother Knows Best

Save Southern Sea Country

Save Southern Sea Country

Logged For A Loss

Logged For A Loss

Imagining The Great Forest

Imagining The Great Forest

Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast

Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast

Wild Youth!

Wild Youth!

Puerto Rico No Se Vende

Puerto Rico No Se Vende

Freedom through Fabric

Freedom through Fabric

From Stone to Wood

From Stone to Wood

She Leads

She Leads

Supreme Negligence

Supreme Negligence

Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone

Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone

Home Among the Gum Trees

Home Among the Gum Trees

Gaslit

Gaslit

Now It’s Gas

Now It’s Gas

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary

Walmadan

Walmadan

Rising Tides

Rising Tides

We Can't Kook Climate

We Can't Kook Climate

Was it worth it?

Was it worth it?

More Corals. More Fish.

More Corals. More Fish.

COP26 is over. But the fight for climate justice remains.

COP26 is over. But the fight for climate justice remains.

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

Recycling Is Broken. Now What?

Recycling Is Broken. Now What?

Don’t Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times

Don’t Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times

Big Gas Don't Surf

Big Gas Don't Surf

For the Land We Inhabit

For the Land We Inhabit

Listen to 'Watershed Chats' w/ Belinda Baggs

Listen to 'Watershed Chats' w/ Belinda Baggs

Water Always Wins