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TAKE ACTION! Ask Congress to pass the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, allowing American farmers to freely grow this commercially and environmentally important crop. Sign the petition at Change.org Industrial hemp is a crop that has the potential to lower the environmental impacts of textile production, empower small-scale farmers and create jobs in a wide variety…
Los productos químicos perfluorados, conocidos como PFAS, entregan excelente impermeabilidad, pero también representan una amenaza contundente y persistente para nuestra salud. P or eso dedicamos casi 15 años a encontrar una manera de fabricar equipo sin usar e ste tipo de compuestos y sin comprometer el performance . Para el 2025 todos nuestros acabados DWR serán fabricados sin PFAS.
Un experimentado diseñador del equipo de I+D de Patagonia viaja a los Alpes suecos para poner a prueba un nuevo prototipo de mochila y una intrépida idea que replantea la forma de viajar por senderos durante varios días.
La embajadora Patagonia de escalada, Katie Lamb, cose a su propio ritmo.
A nuestros cerebros les gusta hacerlo.
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What’s the secret to a really good pair of jeans? Comics journalist Sarah Mirk tells us what to look for and how to keep them in play longer.
When it comes to making more responsible jeans, our work is never done. And, of course, we leave the really dirty work to you.
Joe Curren comparte recuerdos de infancia junto su padre, el legendario hombre de mar Pat Curren, y el icónico bote que viajó con ellos a Baja.
6,000 words about dressing for alpine climbing you didn’t know you needed to know.
85% of Patagonia’s polyester this season is recycled. Using recycled polyester, rather than virgin petroleum polyester, reduced our seasonal carbon emissions by over 5,600 metric tons of CO₂e.
Eighty percent of the down we're using this season is recycled. The new down is Advanced GTDS Certified.
Patagonia has 73 styles using hemp this season. Cultivation of hemp replenishes vital soil nutrients, prevents erosion and requires no synthetic fertilizer.
Una mirada detrás de lo que inspiró el diseño para la temporada de primavera 2020.
Construyendo una casa para soportar el invierno.
La evidencia está en los bolsillos.
Se fue a Italia para ver cómo se hace la lana reciclada y descubrir que todo tiene un impacto, incluso el reciclaje.
Los diseñadores de Patagonia nos cuentan sobre la colección “Celebrando las Tierras Públicas”
There’s nothing more important than having waves a few minutes away.
What if we could wear our garbage? That’s the idea behind ReCrafted, our line of clothing made from the scraps of used garments collected at our Worn Wear facility in Reno. It’s premium, Patagonia, upcycled. A second life for products that might not otherwise get one. ReCrafted was created by Kourtney Morgan—the designer behind some…
At Fletcher Chouinard Designs, the focus is on durable, high-performing equipment that lets you have fun no matter what the ocean is doing. There are never enough hours in a day for Fletcher Chouinard. As a surfer, shaper, kiteboarder and new father, he was really doing the dance. Then along came foilboarding, which has made…
It’s hard not to notice the hype around hemp today. Pick up any lifestyle magazine, enter a pharmacy, talk to a health-food store employee or just the person next to you in yoga class—at some point you’ll learn about its miraculous powers. In particular, near-unbelievable claims swirl around cannabidiol, or CBD, oil derived from hemp:…
Before we could challenge the snow industry to move to recycled materials, we had to change our thinking, too. There are a number of ways to reduce a garment’s impact, but none more significant than making it out of recycled fabric. Doing so keeps material out of landfills and cuts demand for the petroleum used…
Three years ago, we set out to make a new fleece fabric using natural fibers that were light on the land. Our inspiration came from an old sweater, a weather-beaten merino pullover worn by founder Yvon Chouinard in Patagonia’s early days. It had all the properties that have made wool a staple for centuries of…
To celebrate over three decades of Baggies™ shorts, we dug through our archives so we could share the stories behind a few iconic photos.
When I think about climbing, I don’t think about summits. I see serrated ridgelines rising and falling between earth and sky, and sunlight slipping between spires, casting the shadows of giants onto rubble-strewn rivers of ice below, curving, moving, bending with the passage of time. I remember my partners and I, roped together with no…
At Patagonia, our best ideas come from being in the field. But sometimes simple problems inspire complex solutions. That’s been the case with the development of insulation. Down gets wet and loses its heat-trapping loft, and synthetics never quite achieve the same warmth, lightness or compressibility as down plumes. We’ve tried everything from treated down…
“For us, the tide is the boss,” says Adam James of Hama Hama Oysters, a fifth-generation, family-run shellfish farm on Washington’s Puget Sound. “In late August and September, we’ll be out there on the beach harvesting at 3 or 4 a.m., and when the sun finally comes up you can’t help but pause. It reminds…
Miles Johnson, our senior creative director, oversees the work of all our designers in both technical and sportswear categories, as well as the product development and textile, graphics and color teams. We caught up with Miles recently at the picnic tables outside our child care center to ask him about his life and work and…
It didn’t take long for Ben Wilkinson to figure out that there was freedom to be had in working for himself—and that freedom was the first requirement if he wanted to go surfing whenever the waves got huge. “I left home when I was 16,” he remembers, “which was old enough in my eyes. But…
