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![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.
![Big Sky Bummer](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/boyer-chris-00001-cc-web-hero-768x419.jpg.webp)
Wild trout populations in Southwest Montana have collapsed. Save Wild Trout says enough is enough.
![The Green Buffalo](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/caldwell-joel-00054-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
The biggest strides in hempcrete construction are going down on one of the smallest Native American reservations.
![Protecting the Right to Protest](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/rivas-josue-00002-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
A healthy democracy is a precondition for a healthy environment. Both are on the ballot this November.
![The Stories We Wear](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/stories-we-wear-fallback-768x432.jpg.webp)
Well-loved gear can tell some of the best stories of our lives.
![Lāhainā, One Year Later](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/craig-r-0424-cc-web-hero-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
After a devastating wildfire, the community of West Maui continues to recover and rebuild.
![Totoganashi](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lowther-a-0019-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
For surfer Yusei Ikariyama to save his home waters, he’ll have to first unite his community.
![On the Theft of Dreams](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/wiwi-064-065-dykinga-cc-web-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
The first-place essay from a youth writing competition we hosted with the nonprofit Write the World.
![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.
![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.
![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)
Simplicity, style and lessons in bike jazz on Eastern Washington’s Beacon Hill.
![We Can Get There from Here](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/rybus-g-0130-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
A family in Maine reimagines a future for working waterfronts that puts back more than it takes.
![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.
![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.
![Running Up For Air](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/woodward-f-1111-cc-web-2560x1440-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
In the face of declining air quality, a community of runners rises up.
![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.
![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.
![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.
![Home, Grown](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/woodward-f-1020-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Architect and climber Dylan Johnson joins up with Yvon Chouinard and a hardworking crew to construct two houses using straw bales.
![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.
![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.
![Together as One](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/creary-r-1232-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
![Daughter of the Sea](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/gormley-n-0085-cc-web-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Struggling with a mental health crisis, one woman returns to the waters that raised her and finds healing in the ocean.