In northern Chile, a desert is being scourged by the textile industry. But a resilient community is transforming a reality of waste into opportunity.
After years of trying to fit in with Western trail culture, one runner realizes that what she’s been missing lies in the Colombian mountains of her youth.
In the face of declining air quality, a community of runners rises up.
All photos by Ken Etzel If you get your nose close enough, ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla. Or butterscotch, depending on the tree. Washington is famous for its pine trees. It’s portrayed as a land of constant water and ever-present green, which, in mountain biking terms, translates to a land of perfect trails and…
All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.
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A conversation with Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s director of philosophy and co-author of The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years.
Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.
Península Mitre is now protected, thanks to the work of a committed community.
Struggling with a mental health crisis, one woman returns to the waters that raised her and finds healing in the ocean.
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.
How we’re finally getting to PFC-free—and why it took so long.
Footprints Running Camp is as much about finding solutions to the climate crisis as it is about running.
An excerpt from Patagonia’s republished version of A Forest Journey, about what the loss of trees has meant for past life on our planet.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
A look inside Delta Brick & Climate Company, where doing is undoing.
Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.
Keeping ancestral knowledge alive in Arnhem Land.