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Activism Stories
![Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/kerzhner-t-0019-cc-web-2250x1066-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.
![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.
![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.
![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 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.
![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.
![Corazón Salado](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/casado-d-0076-cc-web-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Ramón Navarro joins the Kawésqar community on a journey to protect their ancestral waters in Chilean Patagonia.
![Our Hero](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/maassen-m-0131-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Trying to address the climate crisis without the ocean will not work.
![What Is the Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World?](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ecoflight-0003-cc-web-1920x1080-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
An excerpt from Steven Hawley’s book about dirty dams—and their methane problem.
![In Solidarity with the Future](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/riggio-n-0080-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Even when the demands of a protest are not met, it can have lasting, immeasurable consequences.
![Europe’s First Wild River National Park Is Here](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/stoegger-n-0003-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Albania’s untamed Vjosa River introduces a new model for global water conservation.
![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.
![Episode 6: We Are the Water](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/khandasilva-d-0001-cc-web-768x513.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Episode 5: The Art of Activism](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ravassard-f-0042-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Episode 4: Silence Isn’t Silent](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pat-f22-soundofsilence-popup-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Episode 3: Dying to Make a Living](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sheldon-curren-0006-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Shared Stewardship](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/goodrich-b-0033-cc-web-768x576.jpg.webp)
In Southeast Alaska, tribal leaders and local entrepreneurs are helping shape a kelp industry that prioritizes Indigenous values, regenerative practices and a commitment to Alaska Native shareholders.
![Episode 2: A Climate of Optimism](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/siadak-a-1131-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![The Scale of Hope](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/burr-a-6267-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Molly Kawahata on climate, climbing and the fight for systemic change.
![Sowing Change](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/gangotena-f-0001-cc-web-768x576.jpg.webp)
Francisco “Pacho” Gangotena and his wife opted to challenge the way farming was done in their region and are instead going back to the roots of ancient agriculture.
![Supreme Negligence](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/willis-l-0001-cc-web-4x3-1-768x509.jpg.webp)
The supreme court’s least-bad, bad ruling on climate, and some options President Biden still has.
![From Stone to Wood](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/schirra-giraldi-0008-cc-web-2250x1688-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Reforesting in the heart of Europe.
![The Collective Solution](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/westermeyer-a-0116-cc-web-2000x1500-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
A former city kid finds answers and empowerment in nature.
![Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/westermeyer-a-0096-cc-web-2250x1066-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
The South Pacific has a plastic problem. He had a truck.