Stories - Patagonia Australia

This is your brain while shopping. Well, an overly simplified version created from excess Patagonia fabric.

Archana Ram

Why Do We Keep Buying New Stuff?

Archana Ram

11 Min Read

Woody Woodburn

Perfectly Imperfect

Woody Woodburn

4 Min Read

Erna Adelson lets “The Blanket” fly. Ramona, California.

Erna L. Adelson

An ode to the simplest outdoor gear.

Our Little Place in the World

Erna L. Adelson

4 Min Read

The joy, meditation and quiet rebellion of fixing your clothes by hand.

Mending Life

10 min Read

How many days can a small kid shred if a small kid could shred pow? Mac Anderson (age 3) finds out.

Raising Less Wasteful Kids—Starting with One Red Hand-Me-Down Jacket

10 Min Read

“After the AT and PCT, I discovered one tiny hole from a campfire in my shorts. Patagonia repaired them for free, no questions asked, with a new pink patch.” Photo: Laura Johnston

Laura Johnston

"Dear Patagonia,

My pink Patagonia Baggies Shorts are the best shorts I’ve ever owned. In 2016, I wore them for 180 straight days when thru-hiking the 2,189.1-mile Appalachian Trail (AT); and in 2017, I wore them for 135 days while thru-hiking the 2,650.1-mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)...."

My Pink Baggies

Laura Johnston

3 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

The dos and don’ts of donating your used clothes.

Donating with Dignity

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

What if we could wear our garbage? That’s the idea behind ReCrafted.

How We Turn Scraps into New Gear

11 Min Read

Patagonia

Why Do We Keep Buying New Stuff?

Perfectly Imperfect

Our Little Place in the World

Mending Life

Raising Less Wasteful Kids—Starting with One Red Hand-Me-Down Jacket

My Pink Baggies

Recycling Is Broken. Now What?

Donating with Dignity

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

How We Turn Scraps into New Gear

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