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![Built from Scrap](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/barrenengoa-m-0011-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
In northern Chile, a desert is being scourged by the textile industry. But a resilient community is transforming a reality of waste into opportunity.
![Keeping Pace](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/davis-brendan-0282-cc-web-hero-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
One runner gets her fix helping others chase their dreams, again and again.
![Running Led Me Home](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/rodriguez-jr-0002-cc-web-hero-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
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.
![Where to Find Hope on Climate](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/16x9-arisman-c-0014-768x432.jpg.webp)
Introducing Home Planet Fund, an independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.
![Running Up For Air](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/woodward-f-1111-cc-web-2560x1440-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
In the face of declining air quality, a community of runners rises up.
![The Wrong Green](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/peterson-m-0001-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.
![Strength for the Next Disaster](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/reggero-d-0002-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
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.
![The Wave below the Sleeping Rabbit](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/craig-r-0371-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.
![The Quest to Save 100 Waves in Peru](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/wagner-s-0001-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
![Let’s End Neighborhood Drilling for Good](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/estrada-m-0070-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
![Breaking Trail for Clean Air](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/woodward-f-1111-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.
![A Matter of Breathing](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/johnson-e-0022-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Running won’t solve the issue of wood pellet biomass pollution. But it can ignite community and conversation—and that’s a start.
![Toward an End to Microfiber Pollution](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/gormley-n-0101-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Since we first learned of the role we play in the spread of microfiber pollution in 2015, Patagonia has actively searched for partners to help end—or at least seriously curtail—the spread of synthetic fiber waste into the air and water. We’ve long been familiar with the microplastics problem—the breakdown of plastic bottles, yogurt cups and…
![To My Bebito](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/small-ltfc1-768x768.jpg.webp)
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.
![Justice for the Dogger Bank](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/01-justice-for-the-dogger-bank-768x513.jpg.webp)
After centuries of destruction, nature needs to come first
![A Sea of Opportunity](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/01-a-sea-of-opportunity-768x512.jpg.webp)
How marine food production and thriving blue ecosystems go hand in hand.
![Brittle Stars](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/01-gr52355-whi-mike-guest-768x512.jpg.webp)
A surfer’s relationship with our fragile, changing marine environment.
![For the Love of the Sea](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/for-love-of-sea-poster-vert-765x1020.jpg.webp)
A powerful solution to climate change lies just beneath the surface.
![L’arte dell’attivismo](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/art-of-activism-poster-vert-765x1020.jpg.webp)
To fight the bottom trawlers destroying his beloved Mediterranean Sea, an Italian fisherman realizes art can be the most powerful form of protest.
![The Custodians](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/neumeier-a-0007-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x677.jpg.webp)
When the fish stop flourishing, a few local Scots take matters into their own hands, one seagrass bed at a time.
![Corazón Salado](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/casado-d-0076-cc-web-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Ramón Navarro joins the Kawésqar community on a journey to protect their ancestral waters in Chilean Patagonia.
![Our Hero](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/maassen-m-0131-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Trying to address the climate crisis without the ocean will not work.
![What Is the Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World?](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ecoflight-0003-cc-web-1920x1080-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
An excerpt from Steven Hawley’s book about dirty dams—and their methane problem.
![Victory for the Boundary Waters](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ptacek-n-0073-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.