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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.
![Our Power](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/getty-images-0093-srgb-low-res-for-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
I’ve been angry at politicians for as long as I’ve been an activist. Here’s why I still vote.
![Free to Breathe](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/grove-g-1617-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Will you vote for climate action this November or wait until your own life is at risk?
![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.
![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.
![Where to Find Hope on Climate](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/16x9-arisman-c-0014-768x432.jpg.webp)
Introducing Home Planet Fund, an independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.
![The Wrong Green](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/peterson-m-0001-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.
![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.
![The Wave below the Sleeping Rabbit](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/craig-r-0371-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.
![The Quest to Save 100 Waves in Peru](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/wagner-s-0001-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
![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.
![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.
![Toward an End to Microfiber Pollution](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/gormley-n-0101-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Since we first learned of the role we play in the spread of microfiber pollution in 2015, Patagonia has actively searched for partners to help end—or at least seriously curtail—the spread of synthetic fiber waste into the air and water. We’ve long been familiar with the microplastics problem—the breakdown of plastic bottles, yogurt cups and…
![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.
![The Custodians](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/neumeier-a-0007-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x677.jpg.webp)
When the fish stop flourishing, a few local Scots take matters into their own hands, one seagrass bed at a time.