What We Do

We acknowledge that the wild world we love best is disappearing. That is why those of us who work here share a strong commitment to protecting undomesticated lands and waters. We believe in using business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis. Learn more

Voice Your Choice
Cast your ballot in our 2nd annual Voice Your Choice™ campaign to help us decide how to distribute $5,000 in grant money to three local environmental organizations.

Stop by your local store to meet the groups, cast your ballot and learn how you too can help support environmental work in your own backyard. Check with your local Patagonia store for details. Voting runs September 24 – October 24, 2009.
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Creating the Future Patagonia National Park
Conservacion Patagonica, a non-profit organization dedicated to protection of wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in the Patagonia region of Chile and Argentina, is working towards the goal of creating Patagonia National Park, a world-class park similar in size to Yosemite National Park in California.
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Environmental Grants
We give at the grassroots level to innovative groups overlooked or rejected by other corporate donors. We fund activists who take radical and strategic steps to protect habitat, wilderness and biodiversity. We have given more than $35 million to more than 1,000 organizations since our grants program began.
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The Conservation Alliance
Patagonia co-founded The Conservation Alliance in 1989, with the goal of encouraging companies in the outdoor industry to support environmental organizations in their efforts to protect threatened wildlands. To date the groups funded have saved over 34 million acres of wildlands and 14 dams have been either prevented or removed - all through grassroots community efforts. Learn more

1% For The Planet®
In the same vein as The Conservation Alliance, 1% For The Planet provides the motivation for any business – large or small – to donate at least 1% of their annual net revenues to environmental organizations worldwide. To date, members include restaurants, musicians, wineries, graphic design and advertising firms, to name just a few.
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Grist.org
Want to know more about current environmental issues and how you can take action? Check out Grist.org, one of our favorite sources for enviro news.

Grist.org is the country’s leading source for environmental news and commentary, served up with a touch of humor. Grist features in-depth reporting, feisty opinions, sage advice, cutting-edge arts and culture reviews, and more.

Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is a product of environmental grant recipients, the South Yuba River Citizens League. Together with Patagonia, SYRCL uses the Wild & Scenic festival to bring compelling environmental films to a nationwide audience with the shared goal of inspiring environmental solutions in their home watershed and in host communities.
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