Bright Sparks of Yackandandah
| Jock Serong
The Victorian country town that set up its own solar energy grid.
Environment
Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine
| Beau Miles
Beau Miles isn’t really one for running with others, activism, or taking more than two showers a week
Fire Sheep
| Esha Chhabra
Sheep (and their poop) could help climate-driven wildfires. One couple is ushering in this idea with a small flock and some supportive fire departments.
Garbage Bins for the Ocean
| Gabriela Aoun
Seasoned waterman, master woodworker and Patagonia Surf Ambassador Ben Wilkinson channels his skills toward a new environmental calling.
Green Reconstruction
| Tetsunari Iida
Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese communities are turning toward citizen-led renewable power.
United to Save Yaroomba
| Belinda Baggs
Former local Belinda Bags links up with surfers and campaigners looking to halt a high-rise development and protect endangered turtle hatching grounds.
Why Should the Public Care About Public Lands?
| Hans Cole
Debates over how America’s public lands should be managed are as old as the system itself...
Why We Sit in Trees
| Robert Moor
Roping up for a global protest – The Great Canopy Campout, October 17.
If You Love It, Run for It: Dispatch from the Inaugural takayna Ultramarathon
| Krissy Moehl
“Exploring varying landscapes generates an energy and connection…that provides the ‘why’ to life for me.” “…these unbalanced running steps through lumping button grass were pounding a connection with the Tarkine into my cells.” “This event and the wild of Tassie tore in to my heart, embedded in my soul…”
Activists Want Fashion to Change
| Archana Ram
Climate and social justice activists are pushing the clothing industry to take better care of people and the planet.
The Never Town Grassroots Tour
| Dave Rastovich
Good news can be hard to find. It shouldn’t be, but it is. Good people doing good work can also be hard to hear about. They are often too busy doing the work to be out beating their chests about it and demanding attention. There are a lot of uplifting stories and inspiring...
Transplanting Traditions
| Jonnah Perkins
A small-scale farmer takes a regenerative approach to keeping his community fed.
Ground Control
| Johnie Gall
Snowboarder Alex Yoder takes a Regenerative Organic approach to his new coffee business by thinking like an astronaut.
Polyester
| MEAGHEN BROWN
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.
'Watershed Chats' with the Karioi Project
| Patagonia
Kristel Van Houte is a surfer and marine ecologist based in the coastal town of Raglan, on the north island of New Zealand. She started the Karioi Project just over 10 years ago.
Connecting the Dots
| Doug Chadwick
If we continue trying to save the world one species at a time we will fail; it is time to redefine our relationship with nature so that we save all of nature.
One Year Since Australia’s Black Summer
| Sean Doherty
Photographer Paolo Pellegrin captured the aftermath of the wildfires that burned through Australia in 2019.
Fish Out of Water
| Belinda Baggs
Two hours from the coast we’re fish out of water in Canberra, but this battle has reached a critical point.
Trust The Scientists
| Mădălina Preda
Why we rely on lab tests and data more than ever to make decisions about our products.
Can We Stop Greenwashing?
| Elizabeth L. Cline
What was once a nuisance – overselling environmental gains – now conceals the apparel industry’s role in the climate crisis.
Quality Is an Environmental Issue
| Patagonia
Patagonia’s quality rating system is designed with ecological footprint in mind. Here’s why.
Haunted by Unwanted Clothes
| Sarah Mirk
With the rest of the world spiralling into chaos, organising my closet suddenly became a soothing Saturday night activity. It felt good to sort through
Backyard Adventures
Little Wild Places
| Greg Russell
Hungry for Big Adventure, I had failed to see the wildness present in my own backyard.
The Great Forest Case
| Jenny Weber
A new legal challenge could be the best chance in a generation to end native forest logging in Australia.
Biirrinba Carries Life
| Hayley Talbot
The Clarence River flows through the hearts of all those who live along its banks. One afternoon, after a long hiatus of contact, help was humbly sought and lovingly given.
Watch 'Public Trust'
| Patagonia
A new feature-length documentary about the United States' system of public lands and the fight to protect them.
'Watershed Chats' with the Slabb Brothers
| Patagonia
Josh and Kyle Slabb are Bundjalung men who live, fish, surf and raise their families near the fabled sand bottom point break of Fingal Head on the east coast of Australia – where their ancestors have thrived for tens of thousands of years.
Watch 'Unfenced'
| Patagonia
The Environmental Irony of Surfing
| Morgan Williamson
Dave Rastovich and Greg Long log in and discuss the current state of surfing, its cultural and ecological impacts, and where it’s headed.
Down from the Mountains
| Josefine Ås
A French ski patroller’s move to become a permaculture farmer. “There’s no doubt. I have become a man who lives at the foot of La Meije’s north face, by the Romanche River where my vegetables now grow.” This is Jean Charles Bonsignore’s pepeha,
2025 Or Bust: Patagonia’s Carbon Neutrality Goal
| Rodrigo Bustamante
To become carbon neutral by 2025, we need to reduce and eliminate these emissions, and getting there requires multiple strategies.
'Watershed Chats' with Dave Rastovich + Lauren Hill
| Patagonia
Exploring everyday Earth repair with freesurfer Heath Joske. Between riding some of Australia’s most revered and underground waves and raising a young family, Heath is employing the principles of regenerative organic agriculture to bring balance back to his local, coastal ecology.
Watch 'Big Gums'
| Beau Miles
This is the story of a man, which is really a story of a unique gumtree, colluding on a backyard adventure.
The Great Cotton Experiment
| Rachel G. Horn
This is a test to grow our clothes differently. It’s late in the growing season, and the first puffs of white appear speckled on the landscape. On this farm,
A Blueprint for Cooling Earth
| Brad Wieners
When he was 22 and away at college, Charles Massy got a fateful shock: His father had suffered a severe heart attack, and while it wasn’t immediately fatal, it was clear his dad could no longer run the family farm back home in the Monaro region of New South Wales
Manyana Matters
| Alistair Klinkenberg
A tiny South Coast town devastated by bushfires fights for tomorrow. One of the last remaining parcels of land adjoining Manyana – one that’s become a refuge for wildlife that survived the blaze – is set to be cleared by a Sydney developer.
Rebels in the Dirt
| Johnie Gall
Young farmers learn what it means to do essential work during a global crisis. Ava Sonnet already knows how you’ll picture her when you find out she’s a farmer.
Changing the Fabric of Our Lives
| Lindsay Morris
Can a cotton T-shirt really help stop the climate crisis? The dead bird was a final straw for
Don’t Till On Me
| Andrew O’Reilly
A soil junkie explains no-till practices for regenerative agriculture.
The Refuge
| Patagonia
The Gwich'in are fighting to protect their future, but they can’t win this battle alone.
A Net Plus
| Patagonia
This is the story of how Bureo locked arms with Patagonia to keep 71,000 pounds of discarded fishing net waste out of the ocean each year by putting it into our hat brims. Introducing the traceable, 100% recycled NetPlus®.
'Watershed Chats' with Dave Rastovich + Lauren Hill
| Patagonia
Sharing simple solutions to mitigating micro-plastic with divemaster, wildlife guide, and marine biologist Alice Forrest, just back from Antarctica.
The Organism that Might Just Save the Planet
| Paul Greenberg
When you sit down to write an eye-catching essay about seafood, your first instinct is to go with one of the sleek and sexy creatures that have historically captured the human imagination.
'Watershed Chats' with Dave Rastovich + Lauren Hill
| Patagonia
Leah Thomas is at the leading edge of Intersectional Environmentalism, a term she coined as a way to advocate for the protection of people and the planet simultaneously. This chat examines the links between social justice and environmentalism.
The Fisherman's Son
| Ramón Navarro
Ramón Navarro found his passion riding the biggest waves on the planet. But his accomplishments in giant surf are just one part of a bigger vision to protect the culture and environment of the Chilean coast.
Once Lost, Now Returned
| Elle Murrell
If 70 kilometres of forest disappeared from the fringe of Australia’s most populous city, would anyone notice?
