Tag: Patagonia

Coalition Of Local And International Groups Launch Fundraising Campaign To Protect ‘Yosemite Of South America’ Forever

Stuart Mitchell

Led by Chilean NGO Puelo Patagonia, the campaign Conserva Puchegüín is working urgently to raise $78 million to purchase and protect 325,000 acres in Chilean Patagonia.   The campaign has two years to raise the money needed to protect the Cochamó Valley, also known as the “Yosemite of South America” by rock climbers around the globe. The area features thousand-meter granite walls, glacier-crowned peaks, rivers, plunging waterfalls and massive groves of alerce trees, plus endangered and endemic species, and many small communities with traditional ways of life. Puelo Patagonia and The Nature…

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Introducing Home Planet Fund: A radically different approach to the climate crisis

Stuart Mitchell

This week, the Home Planet Fund launches. It is a new independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown. In 2021, outdoor apparel company Patagonia committed $20 million in seed funding to help launch the Home Planet Fund. This new, independent nonprofit will operate as a 501(c)(3) that can receive contributions from other donors, large and small.  Home Planet Fund will also let the communities it invests in make their own decisions. “We trust Indigenous Peoples,” said Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, executive…

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Introducing Home Planet Fund: A radically different approach to the climate crisis

Stuart Mitchell

This week, the Home Planet Fund launches. It is a new independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown and was started with $20 million in seed funding from outdoor apparel company, Patagonia. Home Planet Fund will operate as an independent public charity—a 501(c)(3)—that can receive contributions from other donors, large and small. Thanks to the seed funding from Patagonia, every dollar received from outside donations will go directly to local and Indigenous groups working on regenerative agriculture, reforestation and…

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New Report Finds Lower Snake River Dams Create Methane Emissions, Not Clean Energy

Stuart Mitchell

New science on the four Lower Snake River dams is in and it disproves claims that hydropower is clean energy. A new report finds these dams are not a source of green, zero-carbon energy, but rather a major source of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases causing the climate crisis. Compounding the problem, dams submerge and destroy natural carbon sinks that once grew under their reservoirs. For decades, politicians and various industry leaders have defended damming rivers by pointing to the climate benefits of allegedly clean hydropower. The new report, titled “Estimate…

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Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert Joins The B Team

Stuart Mitchell

The B Team recently announced the addition of Ryan Gellert, CEO of Patagonia, to its group of global business and civil society leaders.  Gellert has been at the helm of the California-based outdoor apparel company since 2020. He oversaw the transfer of the company’s ownership to two entities in September 2022: The Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective. The structure legally enshrines the company’s values and purpose and allows for every dollar that’s not reinvested back into the company to be distributed as an annual dividend to help protect…

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