Activism Stories
De Telegraph Creek, B.C., a Wrangell, Alaska, con esquíes y kayak
Mientras el mundo lidia contra los efectos de la pandemia, los activistas climáticos siguen luchando por nuestro futuro.
A soil junkie explains no-till practices for regenerative agriculture.
While Australia burns, its government is greenlighting oil drilling in the unspoiled Great Australian Bight. But surfers and coastal communities are saying no—and uniting to keep Big Oil out.
Patagonia no es ajena a las dificultades de deshacerse de las cosas. Recibimos el 100 por ciento del equipo que nos devuelves para reciclarlo a través de nuestro programa Worn Wear. En 2018, reciclamos más de tres toneladas de productos. Pero no podemos reciclar o reparar todo lo que nuestros clientes nos envían. Muchos de…
Las comunidades del Cajón del Maipo, en Chile, ven su entorno amenazado por un proyecto innecesario.
Predawn on April 4, 2019. There’s hardly any snow in the mountains. Worst year in recent history, the locals are saying. We’re loading boxes of food onto the ferry, preparing to board the Alaska Marine Highway from Juneau to Haines. “It’s southeast Alaska, you never know,” Ryland Bell says. “It might rain for 90 days…
With oceans getting warmer and more acidic, a group of divers are planting baby corals to restore the dying coral reefs.
A mining company owns the mineral rights to a Colorado mountain. For 42 years, the Red Ladies have been showing up—and dressing up—to keep the mountain wild.
The Slickrock Trail, in Moab, Utah, is one of the most popular mountain bike rides in the world. Now, under a recent BLM decision, it could also be opening to oil and gas drilling.
It’s fascinating to hear Zaria Forman talk about ice, especially the way that it sounds. She describes the way it rumbles and thunders and cracks, even when you can’t see anything. It crackles and pops like breakfast cereal on high volume. “Ice crispies,” she calls it. “It’s a really beautiful sound.” Polar ice is possibly…
She was searching for a role with a nonprofit that takes a nontraditional approach to nature conservation. She found it in her inbox.
In the 1980s, a group of cyclists in Washington banded together to protect their local trails from illicit activities; 30 years later, that momentum has reshaped the city and preserved a watershed.
The dos and don’ts of visiting Bears Ears National Monument.
In Japan, it is possible to simultaneously stand both in a cultivated field and under a solar array. A group of engineers and entrepreneurs developed a model whereby solar panels can be installed on top of existing farmland and still allow the required amount of sunlight to reach the crops below. These collaborations between businesses…
Five hundred miles off the Chilean coast, there’s a small island that carries the name of a famous castaway. It’s a stark place surrounded by thriving seas and powerful surf, and when Léa Brassy, Ramón Navarro and Kohl Christensen traveled there to ride waves, they found themselves challenged by its unruly weather and wind. But they also found that the island…
A round of applause and a hurrah of thanks for President Donald Trump: he’s finally bringing the Endangered Species Act (ESA) the attention it deserves! Last fall, the president announced a number of administrative “rule changes” to the ESA, changes that may sound trivial, but which attack the intent and letter of the law. Trump,…
Gwich’in youth play an important role in protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Thirteen youth climate activists are taking to the courts to protect the Mississippi River and the people who depend on it for survival. Brent Murcia crosses the lively Mississippi River every day by bridge on his walk to class at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The sunset sometimes paints its gray murky waters a…
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” —William Ruckelshaus, first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency A coho salmon the size of my pinky drifts quietly in the shade. It’s hardly distinguishable from the sand below. But Marie-France Roy, a professional snowboarder who does volunteer habitat- enhancement work in her hometown…
As we look back on a week of climate actions that mobilized more than 7 million people around the world, those of us who took part are asking ourselves: What next? I ask that question of myself, as a concerned citizen, as a father and as a business leader in my role at Patagonia. Between…
Krissy Moehl reports from the 2019 inaugural takayna ultramarathon “There are no footprints.” Fellow Patagonia ambassador and New Zealand native Grant Guise voiced what I was thinking. Our headlamps and phone lights dimly illuminated the overgrown double-track from Rebecca Road. “If 100 people are starting a race in five minutes, we would see footprints,” he…
Snow and icy rime break from the porous black volcanic ridgeline crackling beneath my feet. Gale-force updrafts from the gullied ridges below whip the skis and splitboards strapped to our backs. Each gust forces us to step toward the cornice that hangs above the caldera to our right. The temperature drops steadily and our breath…
Dispatch from the youth-led Climate Strike, the largest ever climate protest in history.
Desde que Patagonia tiene una oficina (y no solo vendía equipo desde la maleta del auto de Yvon), hemos dedicado espacio de nuestros escritorios, tiempo libre y un porcentaje de nuestras ventas a proteger la naturaleza salvaje. Gracias nuestros viajes nos dimos cuenta de que nuestra tierra, aire y agua estaban realmente en peligro por…
Hace treinta años, en este mismo mes, publiqué mi primer libro, The End of Nature, (El Fin de la Naturaleza), que fue también el primer libro para público en general sobre lo que en ese entonces llamábamos el efecto invernadero. Y mi principal preocupación era … la naturaleza. En 1989, el calentamiento global era todavía una…
Thirty years ago this month, I published my first book, The End of Nature, which was also the first book for a general audience about what we then called the greenhouse effect. And my main worry was about … nature. In 1989, global warming was still a theoretical crisis—we were right at the edge of…
Standing Up Against Industrial Fish Farming That Would Forever Alter A Unique Australian Beachbreak The day we arrived on King Island we drove out to Martha Lavinia Beach, where we stood in the dunes and watched waves running down the beach—long left-handers breaking so fast they were almost impossible to surf. However, Martha Lavinia wasn’t…
Hay algo innegablemente enternecedor en los niños cuando protestan. Ellos mismos pintan sus carteles y sus caras con colores primarios y agregan algo de brillantina. Sonríen y bromean mientras se agrupan para tomarse selfies. Pero aún si se ven festivos, también son serios. Los millones de jóvenes que se han tomado las calles durante el…
Trazo una Y mayúscula en el casillero del formulario de inscripción al lado del garabateo de mi nombre. La letra indica que “sí”. Sí, estoy dispuesta a ser arrestada. Sí, estoy en un bar de luz tenue en Studio City, California. Sí, estoy aquí para una sesión de entrenamiento no violento para activistas climáticos con Extinction…
There’s something undeniably cute about kids protesting. They paint their signs—and faces—in primary colors, add some glitter. They smile and laugh as they huddle for selfies. Yet if they seem playful, they’re also serious. The millions of young people who’ve taken to the streets in the last year know that their generation has been dealt…
Klukwan is a village of 90 people in Southeast Alaska that’s home to the Chilkat Indian Village, a federally recognized tribe, on the banks of the Chilkat River 22 miles north of Haines, Alaska. The Chilkat have lived in the Chilkat Valley for over 2,000 years. It’s a land of natural bounty. The braided glacial…
In the last 20 years, the expansion of salmon farming in open-net pens has led to the loss of half the wild salmon population in Norway. On average, 200,000 farmed fish escape from open-net pens and many of them swim up rivers in Norway and breed with wild stocks, contributing to species decline. According to…
If you are interested in exploiting somebody else’s land, you can find convenient ratings tables that tell you the current favorites, ranked by competitive taxes, efficient permitting procedures and certainty around environmental regulations. In other words, if a country has low taxes for the rich, a no-questions-asked permit policy and a generous disregard for the…