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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.
![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.
![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.
![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?
![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.
![Victory for the Boundary Waters](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ptacek-n-0073-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.
![Say Goodbye to “Forever Chemicals”](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/davis-t-3204-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
How we’re finally making waterproof materials without PFAS and PFCs—and why it took so long.
![Run for Something](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/romey-m-0002-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Footprints Running Camp is as much about finding solutions to the climate crisis as it is about running.
![When Trees Fall, So Do We](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ellingsen-d-0001-cc-web-4x3-1-768x637.jpg.webp)
An excerpt from Patagonia’s republished version of A Forest Journey, about what the loss of trees has meant for past life on our planet.
![A Man, Mud and Methane](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/gnam-s-1162-cc-web-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
A look inside Delta Brick & Climate Company, where doing is undoing.
![Land of the Midnight Surf](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jolly-c-0026-cc-web-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.