Stories - Patagonia Australia

A year after Hawai‘i's deadliest natural disaster, the historic town of Lāhainā continues its rebuilding efforts. Photo: Ryan ‘Chachi’ Craig

Beau Flemister

Lāhainā, One Year Later

Beau Flemister

13 Min Read

How actor Jasper Pääkkönen advocates for wild fish.

Finnish Breakthrough

6 Min Read

We spend our first 40 weeks in water. Some of us never get over it.

Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ‘Em!

6 Min Read

May it live to be 3,000 – or older. Del Norte Titan (Sequoia sempervirens). California. Photo: Brian Kelley

Patagonia

Dear Earth,

Patagonia

3 Min Read

Home Planet Fund invests in the Sustainable Southeast Partnership, a collective of local Alaskan communities that see healthy trees as essential to their economic livelihoods. Old-growth forests keep Earth cool, naturally. Photo: Colin Arisman

Brad Wieners

Where to Find Hope on Climate

Brad Wieners

10 min Read

Moving toward a new day requires reflection. It requires reckoning with our failures, taking time to really listen, and honouring what we’ve missed. Patagonia. Photo: Mikey Schaefer

Patagonia

We’re learning how to become an antiracist company.

Our Acknowledgment

Patagonia

2 Min Read

For the Tsleil-Waututh, paddling is not only a way of life but a sustainer of it. They have existed in relationship with the Burrard Inlet for millennia. British Columbia.

Nikki Sanchez

The women fighting for Southern Resident orcas.

We Are the Inlet

Nikki Sanchez

9 Min Read

The range of the Southeastern Group of southern right whales extends from SA around to the NSW south coast, above. Photo Josh Burkinshaw

Linley Hurrell

The fight to protect Koontapool Yakeen (Whale Dreaming)

Mother Knows Best

Linley Hurrell

8 Min Read

The oil and gas industry are aggressively expanding across Southern Sea Country. Photo Jarrah Lynch

Ula Majewski

The ocean between Tasmania and Victoria, stretching west, is under threat from the offshore oil and gas industry. The communities dotted along those coasts are banding together to protect it.

Save Southern Sea Country

Ula Majewski

12 Min Read

After running past, taking shelter in and leaning on these slow breathing giants, the sawn and stripped logs just don’t have the same warmth or glory they once did. Today’s victory will be in logs conserved not cleared. Photo: Cam Suttie

Nick Rodway

The mountain ash forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands are priceless. So why would you log them, losing millions of dollars in the process?

Logged For A Loss

Nick Rodway

7 Min Read

The mountain ash forests of the Victorian Central Highlands have existed for millions of years. The Great Forest National Park is an idea to protect them into the future. Photo: Cam Suttie.

Jock Serong

The ancient forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands are home to a myriad of natural ecosystems, all precious, all interrelated. It’s time they were all protected as one National Park.

Imagining The Great Forest

Jock Serong

12 Min Read

In San Vicente—a port town near Concepción in central Chile—Christopher “Caco” Clemo and Jacqueline Sangueza pick out eligible fishing nets for the net-recycling company Bureo.

Andrew O’Reilly

The South Pacific has a plastic problem. He had a truck.

Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast

Andrew O’Reilly

5 Min Read

Patagonia

An excerpt from the book Family Business by Malinda Chouinard and Jennifer Ridgeway.

Wild Youth!

Patagonia

9 Min Read

Gabriela Aoun

Five years after Hurricane Maria, coastal land in Puerto Rico is being sold and developed at a dizzying pace. Puerto Ricans are taking the conservation fight into their own hands.

Puerto Rico No Se Vende

Gabriela Aoun

8 Min Read

The workshop is operated by Udyog Bharti, a khadi cooperative that partners with our supply chain partner Arvind Ltd. to produce handwoven textiles for Patagonia.

Archana Ram

Why a symbol of Indian self-reliance is vital again.

Freedom through Fabric

Archana Ram

6 Min Read

This photo was taken from the album “Restauration des montagnes deboisées,” which roughly translates to “reforestation of deforested mountains.” Photo: B. Circovich

Manuela Schirra and Fabrizio Giraldi

Reforesting in the heart of Europe.

From Stone to Wood

Manuela Schirra and Fabrizio Giraldi

5 Min Read

Traditional forms of leadership have failed the environment. It’s time for change. Photo: Ula Majewski

Daisy Dumas

Australian leadership – let’s call it what it is: traditional, male and white – isn’t working for many of us, least of all the environment. Bring more women and diverse voices to the table before it’s too late, urges Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia.

She Leads

Daisy Dumas

8 Min Read

“America the Beautiful” through the eyes of Chief Justice John Roberts—or what coal removal did for Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. Photo: Lynn Willis, flight courtesy of SouthWings

Amy Westervelt

The supreme court’s least-bad, bad ruling on climate, and some options President Biden still has.

Supreme Negligence

Amy Westervelt

5 Min Read

Aaron Mike climbs an unknown boulder at Oak Flat. Tonto National Forest, Arizona.

Len Necefer

As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.

Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone

Len Necefer

10 Min Read

Andy Summons

What now for Australia’s climate refugees?

Home Among the Gum Trees

Andy Summons

8 Min Read

The offshore gas industry that has been out of sight from the Australian public for decades, is now encroaching on some of the country's most iconic landscapes. Photo Chris Gurney

Tim Winton

Australia has been captivated by the gas industry for decades. Tim Winton calls time on them.

Gaslit

Tim Winton

10 min Read

Wayne Lynch

Wayne Lynch has seen his beloved Otways plundered over the years. The desecration of treasured stretch of Australian coast continues today.

Now It’s Gas

Wayne Lynch

3 min Read

Marine scientist Laura Wells diving with seals off Barunguba (Montague Island).

Big fish are now circling Batemans Marine Park.

The Sanctuary

10 min Read

Almost a decade ago, a great victory was won in the Kimberley. Today, this ancient, red dirt frontier remains under threat from the gas industry.

Walmadan

8 min Read

It’s time for surfers to read the forecast on climate change and do something about it.

Rising Tides

7 min Read

The Great Barrier Reef is around 2,500 miles long, the largest living thing on earth. I’ve sailed right past it before while sailing out into the Pacific, but I’ve never actually stopped there and spent time on it. I’m kicking myself now.

The Reef Beneath

10 Min Read

Surfers should care about climate, but do they? Really?

We Can't Kook Climate

10 Min Read

Doug Peacock

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Was it worth it?

Doug Peacock

10 Minutes

This marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many biodiversity hotspots in the US that need more federal protection.

More Corals. More Fish.

10 Min Read

For Tish, COP26 was an opportunity to hold our political leaders accountable and ensure they felt the global pressure to act on climate.

COP26 is over. But the fight for climate justice remains.

6 Min Read

Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

6 Min Read

“We have to choose between sending it to a landfill, sending it to the incinerator or holding on to it until we find a better solution. Since we chose the latter, our stockpile is taking up a room in our Reno warehouse.”

Recycling Is Broken. Now What?

10 Min Read

Why run an ad in The New York Times on Black Friday telling people, “Don’t Buy This Jacket”?

Don’t Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times

6 Min Read

Iconic coastlines should not become gas fields. Surfers around Australia are ready to paddle out and defend them.

Big Gas Don't Surf

6 Min Read

An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.

Trails for Everybody

10 Minutes

The communities of Cajón del Maipo, in Chile, are seeing their environment be threatened by an unnecessary hydroelectric project.

For the Land We Inhabit

6 Min Read

The iconic waterwoman reflects on taking action on what she sees as the greatest threat to her son's health and wellbeing: climate change.

Listen to 'Watershed Chats' with Belinda Baggs

10 Min Read

A lesson in the rules of trail building.

Water Always Wins

10 Min Read

The ups and downs of transitioning power to the people in the Chamonix Valley.

We’ve Got the Energy

10 Min Read

Dave Rastovich sets out to articulate the indescribable, immersed in one of the country's most hallowed surf spots, but with a barrage of threats on the horizon.

Island Time

11 Min Read

There’s so much. An interview with the co-editors of All We Can Save.

All You Can Do

5 Min Read

Elle Murrell

Inside the landmark case asserting 'the right to life' amid the climate crisis.

Our Islands, Our Home

Elle Murrell

9 Min Read

TJ Watt stands on a 12-foot-wide stump, a former old-growth Western red cedar, overlooking a recent clear cut in the Caycuse watershed on southern Vancouver Island. Photo: Jeremy Koreski

Jayme Moye

As the old-growth logging crisis heats up in Canada, a photographer goes searching for trees to save them.

The Ancient Tree Hunter

Jayme Moye

11 Min Read

Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.

Biirrinba is Life

6 Min Read

Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.

Doing the Work

6 Min Read

This family’s thread runs deep. Courtney Reynolds sews a quilt sourced from a local swap meet into a jacket for her twin girls while her son, Sammy, starts a project of his own on his kid-sized sewing machine. Photo: Tim Davis

Allison Gibson

Nearly every Wednesday, Courtney Reynolds can be found elbow-deep in a bin of someone else’s castoffs, searching for scraps of fabric and colourful quilts to

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Allison Gibson

9 Min Read

Coal built this ski town. Can the locals keep skiing without it?

Overburden

10 Min Read

Yessenia Funes

The next nine years will be a time of resilience, rebuilding and reinvention.

A Letter from 2030

Yessenia Funes

5 Min Read

Kimi Werner, Léa Brassy and Liz Clark: Sea Sisters

11 Min Read

Former local Belinda Bags links up with surfers and campaigners looking to halt a high-rise development and protect endangered turtle hatching grounds.

United to Save Yaroomba

10 Min Read

Patagonia

Lāhainā, One Year Later

Finnish Breakthrough

Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ‘Em!

Dear Earth,

Where to Find Hope on Climate

Our Acknowledgment

We Are the Inlet

Mother Knows Best

Save Southern Sea Country

Logged For A Loss

Imagining The Great Forest

Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast

Wild Youth!

Puerto Rico No Se Vende

Freedom through Fabric

From Stone to Wood

She Leads

Supreme Negligence

Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone

Home Among the Gum Trees

Gaslit

Now It’s Gas

The Sanctuary

Walmadan

Rising Tides

The Reef Beneath

We Can't Kook Climate

Was it worth it?

More Corals. More Fish.

COP26 is over. But the fight for climate justice remains.

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

Recycling Is Broken. Now What?

Don’t Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times

Big Gas Don't Surf

Trails for Everybody

For the Land We Inhabit

Listen to 'Watershed Chats' with Belinda Baggs

Water Always Wins

We’ve Got the Energy

Island Time

All You Can Do

Our Islands, Our Home

The Ancient Tree Hunter

Biirrinba is Life

Doing the Work

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Overburden

A Letter from 2030

Kimi Werner, Léa Brassy and Liz Clark: Sea Sisters

United to Save Yaroomba

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