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Introducing Home Planet Fund, an independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.
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.
Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
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.
Notre cerveau est câblé pour ça.
How one young family of five took on the Pacific Crest Trail. (Hint: There’s candy)
Running won’t solve the issue of wood pellet biomass pollution. But it can ignite community and conversation—and that’s a start.
Taking California public transit from Oakland to Yosemite National Park, narinda heng wonders: What’s a climbing trip without a car?
Un ingénieur R&D Patagonia part dans les Alpes suédoises tester un prototype de sac à dos, et une vision originale pour les trails de plusieurs jours.
In the wake of a devastating wildfire, the communities of California’s Lost Sierra look to trails for hope, healing and a dose of dirt magic.
A trip to Amami Ōshima, Japan, transports Gerry Lopez to a familiar feeling on a distant land.
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.
A captain’s log from the biggest swell to hitO‘ahu’s outer reefs in recent memory.
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…
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.
In the male-dominated world of alpinism, Juliana García is leading the way for a new generation of female mountaineers.
After centuries of destruction, nature needs to come first
Península Mitre is now protected, thanks to the work of a committed community.
How marine food production and thriving blue ecosystems go hand in hand.
Those with the most to lose are uniting to save the Northwest’s salmon and steelhead.
Parfois le seul moyen de devenir plus fort, c'est de lâcher prise.
A surfer’s relationship with our fragile, changing marine environment.
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
