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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.
![For the Love of Dirt](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/etzel-k-1992-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
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…
![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 Family of Five on the PCT](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/zlatuskova-m-0004-cc-web-hero-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
How one young family of five took on the Pacific Crest Trail. (Hint: There’s candy)
![What We Do Video Series](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/davis-t-3373-cc-web-2560x1920-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Want to see what goes on behind the scenes at Patagonia?
![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.
![Trading a Hatchback for a Rolling Duffel](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/estrada-m-0263-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Taking California public transit from Oakland to Yosemite National Park, narinda heng wonders: What’s a climbing trip without a car?
![The 150-Mile Test](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/noll-e-0014-cc-web-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A Patagonia advanced R&D designer takes to the Swedish alpine to test out a new pack prototype—and a bold idea for rethinking multiday trail travel.
![Remember to Breathe](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/etzel-k-1568-etzel-k-1818-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
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.
![Living on Easy](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/satou-h-0003-cc-web-hero-768x576.jpg.webp)
A trip to Amami Ōshima, Japan, transports Gerry Lopez to a familiar feeling on a distant land.
![A Better Way to Do Business](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/regester-gary-0146-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
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.
![Abundance and the January Swell Bender of 2023](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/russo-d-0155-cc-web-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
A captain’s log from the biggest swell to hitO‘ahu’s outer reefs in recent memory.
![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.
![Her Place in the Mountains](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hero-barrera-e-0013-cc-web-1920x1080-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
In the male-dominated world of alpinism, Juliana García is leading the way for a new generation of female mountaineers.
![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
![Wild Sea, Protected Land](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/manns-r-0018-cc-web-16x9-2-768x432.jpg.webp)
Península Mitre is now protected, thanks to the work of a committed community.
![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.
![If Nothing Changes, Everything Changes](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trinca-m-0012-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Those with the most to lose are uniting to save the Northwest’s salmon and steelhead.