Patagonia Environmental + Social Initiatives 2017

environmental + social initiatives

“If you believe that public lands should remain public, you have to fight for it.” –Yvon Chouinard Patagonia Founder/Owner

We Took to the Streets

A Measured Approach

Ag Is the Answer

Round and Round

Growing Children

For a Few Dollars More

Sharing Best Practices

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Store

Building Community

A Monumental Fight

Big, Wild and Diverse

Watershed Moments

Taking Off for Good

Clothing Donations

Material Improvements

Taken for Granted

Going Global

Stories That Inspire

Answer with Action

Environmental Grants

7 We Took to the Streets

ASTRID RIECKEN

20 Growing Children

Program/Project Updates

TIM DAVIS

Australia 65 Chile 69 Japan 71 World Trout 81 Media Grants 87 Argentina 101

Greater Commons 112

50 Material Improvements

By the Numbers Back Cover

(Previous Spread) Vermilion Clif fs National Monument, Arizona. BOB WICK TIM DAVIS

Ag Is the Answer

Round and Round

COURTESY OF K AMUT®

KERN DUCOTE

For a Few Dollars More

A Monumental Fight

NATE PTACEK

Answer with Action

Groups We Support

EUGÉNIE FRERICHS

FELIX SPIRA

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We Took to the Streets This was a big year for activism. And we showed up

This victory came as a result of years of grassroots

in a big way.

and tribal advocacy in southeastern Utah, which

We took to the streets in record numbers. We got the word out with our signs and posts and videos. We flooded the inboxes and voicemails of elected

Patagonia has long supported with environmental grants, and the voices of countless individuals who spoke out in favor of protecting public lands.

officials at all levels of government. We petitioned,

But as cynical politicians and their industry friends

boycotted and divested. We doubled down on our

launched an unprecedented attack on our most

commitment to the protection of wild places and

treasured public lands, including Bears Ears and

climate action.

other national monuments, millions of Americans

Myriad individuals, corporations, countries, cities and other entities are feeling this same sense of urgency and obligation to activism. Yet our planet continues to suffer, facing renewed threats to our most treasured wild places and the continued deterioration of the clean air, water and soil required by all people and creatures. For issues

mobilized to say, “No.” Patagonia and other outdoor companies helped rally those voices. And we used the growing power of our industry (America’s fourth-largest) to send the same strong message to Utah’s elected leaders, who oppose protections for public lands, by yanking our $50 million biannual trade show out of Salt Lake City.

like climate change, the stakes couldn’t be higher—

At a time when our political system has failed to

not only in terms of the looming impacts, which

deliver for our planet, it’s up to businesses like ours

we increasingly see on a daily basis, but because

to create positive change. Building on Patagonia’s

we recognize that we aren’t doing enough to keep

corporate mandate to use business to solve

them at bay.

the environmental crisis, this year we used our

So what does this tell us about the state of activism today? As our friend Brock Evans is fond of saying, “Endless pressure, endlessly applied.”

We must keep fighting— whether we’re putting points on the board, or playing defense— against the endless forces willing to trade the long-term health of our planet for shortterm profit. We must counter and overpower those forces with sustained, energetic and strategic activism. The battle to protect America’s public lands shows the power of unrelenting activism. At the very end of last year, we celebrated the designation of Bears Ears National Monument—an exceptional

business as a force for good in ways we never have before and scaled important programs like Fair Trade and Worn Wear to create bigger impact. We want to inspire our nonprofit partners to keep up the fight. We want to inspire other companies to take a stand on climate commitments and see activism as a necessity to corporate health. We want to inspire our customers to reduce their footprint by buying only what they need and keeping things in play longer. We want to inspire policymakers to make decisions based on the longterm health of their societies, not on the short-term gain of private entities. We want to inspire ourselves to speak more boldly and to invest in programs that reduce our own footprint. To us, the choice is clear: Our planet depends on activism, and this moment demands it. We hope you enjoy this compilation of our efforts in this year’s Environmental & Social Initiatives booklet. Rose Marcario, CEO

landscape with immense cultural significance.

A Measured Approach B Corp and Higg Index Show Us Where We Performed Well and Where There Is Opportunity to Improve

We have a passion for the outdoors, aspiring to make the

The assessment is always evolving, which makes year over

best products for the most committed athletes, all the while

year comparisons difficult, but the major improvements

trying to minimize our environmental impacts on the earth

in this year’s score came from our increased emphasis on

and social impacts on the communities that inhabit it.

measuring and calculating our environmental impacts,

To formalize these efforts and legally preserve our values in Patagonia’s business framework for the future, we became a B Corp in January 2012 with certification from B Lab. Additionally, in October 2012, we amended our articles of incorporation to adopt a commitment to sustainability

a more in-depth representation of how we give to environmental causes, and our increased work in the supply chain around Fair Trade and other supply chain certifications. The recertification was a major effort from the team here in Ventura, as well as our global counterparts.

and treating workers well, and registered our business in

Another assessment we completed this year, and have

California as a Benefit Corporation.

been engaged with for many years, is the Higg Index.

“Benefit Corporation legislation creates the legal framework to enable mission-driven companies like Patagonia to stay mission-driven through succession, capital raises and even changes in ownership, by institutionalizing the values, culture, processes and high standards put in place by founding entrepreneurs.” — Patagonia founder/owner, Yvon Chouinard

This is a suite of tools companies can use to measure the environmental and social/labor impacts of their corporate operations, those of their suppliers and that of their products. Though still in its early stages, this year we completed the measurement of our corporate operations, and in fall of 2017 engaged in a pilot with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) to disclose these scores, along with scores from some of the factories that make our products. This is the first step for the SAC to deliver brand, supplier and product transparency on the environmental and social/ labor impacts of the value chain of the apparel and home textile industry. The hope is that one day the Higg Index will do for the apparel industry what LEED and Energy Star have done for the building and consumer electronics industries.

In November 2016, we completed our third official B

Though often tedious, these assessments help us to

Impact Assessment, a biannual requirement for B Lab.

determine how best to improve our social and environmental

Companies that have completed the assessment average

impact programs. From the B Impact Assessment and the

a score of 55 out of a possible 200. To achieve B Corp

Higg Index, we are able to assess where we performed

certification, a company needs to score at least 80.

well and where there is opportunity for improvement,

We’re excited to share that we scored 152, a 31 percent

especially around aligning policies and programs across

increase over our prior assessment in 2014.

our worldwide operations.

ILLUSTRATION GEOFF MCFETRIDGE

“Regenerative agriculture could be the most important environmental solution of our time.” –Rose Marcario Patagonia CEO

(Previous Spread) Grown organically, Khorasan wheat (kamut) has sustained us for thousands of years without the help of synthetic fer tilizers and pesticides. COURTESY OF K AMUTÂŽ

Ag Is the Answer Fomenting the Regenerative Organic Agriculture Revolution

How we choose to feed and clothe ourselves and our families is an important decision we face every day, both for our own health and for the planet’s. Most food and textiles today are produced using industrial practices that reduce biodiversity, decimate soil health and contribute to climate change. In fact, modern agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than all the cars, planes and trains in the world. We started Patagonia Provisions, Patagonia’s food company, because we believe food can and should be part of the solution to the environmental crisis. Through Provisions, we’ve found that regenerative organic agricultural practices—which don’t require chemical fertilizers or pesticides, rebuild soil health, use less water and hold more carbon in the ground than conventional agriculture—can be a powerful part of that solution. The same is true for the production of cotton, hemp and wool for fiber. In 2014, research by the Rodale Institute estimated that, “if current crop acreage and pastureland shifted to regenerative organic practices, 100% of the annual global CO2 emissions could be sequestered in the soil.” With Provisions, we partner with like-minded farmers, ranchers and fishermen who are working to take better care of our planet. We use the sourcing of our ingredients to support the switch to regenerative organic agriculture, regenerative grazing and selective-harvest fishing. It turns out that the best new ways to produce food and textiles are often the old ways, which, not surprisingly, focus on working with nature instead of against it. Our support of these new-old techniques drove many of the environmental initiatives we started this past year. They included: Patagonia Case Competition Scaling regenerative agriculture practices is a tall task, and who better to solve it than our future leaders? Each year, Patagonia works with the Center for Responsible Business at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, to host a graduate school case competition. This year’s competition tasked more than 80 interdisciplinary graduate-school teams from across the Field of barley at The Bread Lab, Washington. KIM BINCZEWSKI

Growing cof fee in Nicaragua. DARCY TURENNE

country to come up with ways Patagonia could increase the

The competition helped us to better understand the initial

number of suppliers producing food using regenerative

conditions required to encourage the regenerative organic

organic practices and the best way to spread those

agriculture movement and how we can best use different

practices to the broader food system. The competition

aspects of our business to develop them. To that end, we’ve

culminated with each of the 10 finalist teams traveling to

been working to galvanize regenerative activists, finance

Berkeley to present their ideas and receive feedback from

regenerative supply chains and better define what exactly is

Patagonia’s senior leadership team, including our CEO Rose

regenerative organic agriculture.

Marcario, COO Doug Freeman, Senior Director of Patagonia Provisions Birgit Cameron and Managing Director of Tin Shed Ventures Phil Graves. The tenor of the competition was inspiring, with some of the country’s most talented PhD and master’s students collaborating on ways to redefine how agriculture will be practiced over the next century. The three winning teams, which hailed from Yale University, University of Pennsylvania and MIT, visited Patagonia headquarters at the end of their school year to pitch their winning proposals to Patagonia employees and dive deep into the implementation of their ideas with key Patagonia stakeholders. As our CEO stated, “We have real business problems, and we use this work and put it into action.”

Galvanizing Regenerative Activists One initial condition that has hindered the adoption of regenerative organic agriculture practices is the lack of representation at the federal level in legislation, such as the Farm Bill. This has been thwarted by the substantial lobbying efforts of conventional producers, chemical companies and other industrial-farming proponents. To provide a counterbalance to conventional farming lobbyists and ensure fair representation, Patagonia has increased our investments in grassroots activism by expanding our environmental grants program to include a new Food & Fiber council that reviews grants specifically related to regenerative organic agriculture.

Since the council’s first year, it has made eight grants totaling $100,000 and is slated to make another $500,000 this year. This money supports the important work of such organizations as the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, an alliance of grassroots organizations seeking the reform of federal policy to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food systems, natural resources and rural communities. Investing in Regenerative Business In addition to the support Patagonia provides to nonprofit organizations, we leverage our in-house venture capital

Defining Regenerative Organic Agriculture Perhaps the most important condition needed for regenerative organic agriculture to flourish is a unified understanding of what regenerative organic agriculture actually entails. Without a consistent definition in the marketplace, producers and manufacturers are able to create disparate claims as to what it means. In some cases, industry participants are diluting and green-washing its essence, allowing the use of pesticides and ignoring basic animal and social welfare needs. Moreover, these differences are causing confusion among consumers.

arm, Tin Shed Ventures, to scale regenerative organic practices and the businesses that adopt them. Our food company, Patagonia Provisions, is working to do the same, though none of its products are currently produced using regenerative practices. Over and over again, we hear of the difficulties farmers face in their transition from conventional to organic and regenerative organic farming practices. One major obstacle is the three-year transition period. During this time, as soil health recovers and crop yields tend to drop, financial pressure is put on already-lean farming operations. This can be exacerbated during times of extreme weather, since it is much harder for organic and transitional farmers to secure crop insurance. If farmers can overcome these obstacles and transition to organic or regenerative organic, they face another set of problems when trying to process their goods for distribution: Unlike the mature supply chain used to process commodity grains, some alternative grains, like Kernza and buckwheat, need specialized equipment, which requires investing in infrastructure. Together, Tin Shed Ventures and Patagonia Provisions address this gap and provide a model for regenerative organic farming practices. Working closely with businesses as diverse as Wild Idea Buffalo in the Great Plains, Cairnspring Mills in Washington State’s Skagit Valley and select farmers across the country, we provide market opportunities for their products, while our relationships help us understand how we can scale

To ensure that the industry moves toward a regenerative organic agriculture standard that stays true to the essence of the practice, Patagonia has formed a coalition of farmers, ranchers, businesses, nonprofits and scientists to establish the Regenerative Organic Certification. The certification’s goal is to be viewed as the North Star of regenerative organic agricultural production, and is comprised of three modules related to soil health and land management, animal welfare, and farmer and worker fairness. The certification does not aim to replace other existing standards, like organic or biodynamic, but instead supplement them by leveraging the progress of past certifications and highlighting where additional improvements can benefit farmworkers, animals and soil. The framework for Regenerative Organic Certification has been made public. Our goal now is to bring together a coalition, which we’ve named the Regenerative Organic Alliance, to embrace these practices, incorporate them into the supply chains of brands farmers and ranchers, and create a market for Regenerative Organic Certified products.

regenerative practices. We have a long way to go, but are

All of our efforts can be summed up by one driving belief,

excited about our initial progress.

simply stated by our CEO: “Regenerative agriculture could be the most important environmental solution in the world.”

Round and Round Worn Wear Grows, Spreads Its Wings and Tries New Things If complacency kills, then Worn Wear is alive and well. In the last 12 months we’ve challenged ourselves to try new ways of spreading the ethos of Worn Wear and to provide more opportunities for our customers to engage in the acts of repairing and reusing Patagonia gear. As a clothing brand, we hold ourselves responsible for

and we host regular events at our stores in Chile and

reducing the harm of our products, but we know that is

Argentina where we repair clothing and also teach folks how

not enough. One of the greatest opportunities we have to

to repair it themselves. Similarly, in China, Worn Wear was a

lighten the load of Patagonia clothing on the planet is by

nationwide project, with repair events in Beijing, Shanghai,

keeping it in use as long as possible. We’ve been tinkering

Guangzhou, Xi’an, Wuhan and Changchun. Some of these

with this concept since 2005 by developing ways to partner

were held in conjunction with our repair partner, iFixit,

with our customers to take mutual responsibility for the

which continues to advocate for access to repair information

stuff we make and they purchase through opportunities

for everything ever made.

for recycling, repairing and reselling our gear; and we’re still at it with no signs of slowing. But through the years, the heart of our Worn Wear program remains the same: helping people change their relationship with stuff by moving away from being consumers and toward owners of the things they choose to buy. In doing so, we celebrate the idea that quality clothing and gear that’s built to last accumulates character and meaning through extended use and repair, becoming greater than the sum of its threads. And so, in this way, Worn Wear is good for our souls and the planet.

In the U.S., we accomplished our most ambitious Worn Wear tour to date, visiting 21 colleges over 70 days, traveling from the South to the Northeast and back home to the West with events day and night. We set out to celebrate the work of student groups pushing their campuses to implement zero-waste programs—ways to divert castoffs from landfills into compost and recycling bins, thrift stores and repair shops. In addition to our mobile repair operation on Delia, our Worn Wear vehicle, we added an outdoor sewing station, sold used Patagonia clothing and staged

To that end, Patagonia has continued to embed Worn Wear

DIY events at which students learned to fix an item and then

globally. In Latin America, Worn Wear took a front seat this

keep it for free. We tried something new by partnering with

year at stores and events held in Argentina, Chile, Peru

a nonprofit called the Post-Landfill Action Network to create

and Costa Rica, with a focus on repairs. In Costa Rica, we

sustainability fairs at various events, including screenings

held a Worn Wear climbing event to which people came to

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boulder and repair Patagonia clothing that they then got to

clinics with iFixit, bike repair stations, campus clothing

keep. There’s a Worn Wear section at our Mall Sport retail

swaps, composting lessons, learn-to-sew clinics, Leave No

store in Santiago, Chile, that sells used Patagonia clothing,

Trace trainings and other activities. In an effort to create

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prints and colorways assorted from

10 European countries and demand is

furthered efforts to reduce waste and

fleece left over from the production

growing. Events are attracting more

keep stuff in use longer.

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and more people, many of whom

products. Conceived by folks from our

show up with an increased awareness

production and design teams to do

of Worn Wear and its goals.

We also took some special guests along for evening lectures. Rick Ridgeway, Scott Briscoe and Adam Werbach created a talk called What to Do and How to Live: Personal Activism for a Threatened Planet. Their words chronicled their personal journeys as activists. It was a busy, if not exhausting, tour with an average of about 900 people attending each event. But it was refreshing to share the values of Worn Wear with a generation that’s genuinely excited to change its relationship with stuff—to live happily with less, share more and keep what they own going. We pulled out one more surprise for the Worn Wear College Tour—a special product made entirely from leftover fabric. We called it the Scrap-T, a

more with what’s left over, the Scrap-T really showed how different areas of the company embrace the Worn Wear program.

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When the European Worn Wear vans are not on the road, the repair techs are at store repair events. Sometimes these include upcycling exhibitions, where we explain how to make purses or wallets or laptop sleeves out of worn-out rain shells. Taking it one step further, on Black Friday, we opened a pop-up thrift shop in London that sold out of used Patagonia clothing in a few hours, with a line of over 1,000 people. Another first was the launch of a Worn Wear online store where customers can buy previously owned Patagonia gear. The inventory is generated by a new trade-in service we use to buy back clothing from our customers in exchange for store credit. This is our latest step, after repair and recycling, to create a more circular way of doing business that reduces waste and the use of natural resources—as opposed to the taking, making and disposing model now leading the planet toward ecological bankruptcy. Why would a company go through the effort of cleaning and sorting stuff they’ve already sold once? Worn Wear is based on the premise that reducing the environmental impact of our products must be a shared responsibility between Patagonia and our customers. At Patagonia, we work to reduce the environmental and social footprint of each item we sell, starting with making the highest-quality, longest-lasting products. But after we sell a piece of clothing or gear, we want to enable our customers to keep it going, use it and/or pass it along to maximize its value to the planet. “Our goal as a company is to continue to provide the tools and resources to make this philosophy a reality in our customers’ lives,” said Rose Marcario, Patagonia’s CEO. “We are very excited about our new online platform, which we hope will take Worn Wear to a new level.” The World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders honored us in January for our work, by awarding Patagonia the Accenture Strategy Award for Circular Economy Multinational. The group did so for notable contributions we’ve made to the circular economy—driving innovation and growth, while reducing dependence on scarce natural resources. Patagonia’s General Manager of Europe, Ryan Gellert, accepted the award, saying, “We have only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible with a circular economy model. There is still so much work to be done to change global consumption habits and encourage reuse and repair.” The global apparel market is valued at $3 trillion—but the growing trend toward fast fashion has created a linear economic model that produces enormous waste. In contrast, we are using Worn Wear to bend this approach with a circular business model that focuses on making the highest-quality products and helping our customers keep them in use as long as possible.

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The Worn Wear crew repairing clothing and gear in exchange for high fives at the University of Georgia. KERN DUCOTE

Growing Children “I think the kids who come out of here are Patagonia’s best products.” —Patagonia Owner/Founder Yvon Chouinard

The heart of our headquarters and the anchor of Patagonia’s supportive work environment is our company-run, on-site child-care facility, the Great Pacific Child Development Center (GPCDC). Founded in 1983 by Malinda Chouinard and Jennifer Ridgeway, GPCDC offers a full-time, Patagonia-subsidized child-development program, serving children ages eight weeks through nine years. Since opening its doors, more than 1,500 kids have gone through the program.

In 2017, we expanded GPCDC by opening

three years. In early 2017 we expanded the

an additional classroom to serve 12 more

program by opening a preschool classroom

infants, increasing capacity in the infant

for ages three years to kindergarten. Within

program from 36 to 48 children. As of June

its first year, the program has grown from 10

2017, we have 113 children in our Ventura

to 23 children, with the capacity to serve 35.

program, with the capacity to serve 120.

While operating on-site child care is

At our distribution and service center

expensive, we have found the benefits to

in Reno, Nevada, we provide child

our employees outweigh the cost. This is

care through our Truckee River Child

reflected most directly in retention rates

Development Center, which opened in

for new moms. At Patagonia, nearly 100%

2016 with a single infant classroom licensed

of our mothers return to work, compared to

to serve 15 children, ages eight weeks to

the U.S. average of around 64%.

(Above) U.S. Senator Catherine Cor tez Masto of Nevada (center) joined us at the Reno Service Center to celebrate the grand opening of the expanded Truckee River Child Development Center. JEFF CURLEY

(Below) Some 1,500 children have at tended GPCDC. TIM DAVIS

“We can vote for a better world through the products that we buy.” –Paul Rice President and CEO of Fair Trade USA

For a Few Dollars More Successes and Challenges of Paying a Living Wage Apparel workers are some of the lowest-paid people in the industrial world, and one of our goals is to pay those who make Patagonia clothing a “living wage.” This is roughly defined as enough money to cover such basic needs as decent housing, health care, nutrition and clothing, with something left over for savings and unforeseen circumstances. Guaranteeing a living wage, however, has proven to

In the short term, Fair Trade has been an effective way to

be quite complicated—an effort requiring equal parts

show our commitment to improving wages and benefits,

pragmatism, tenacity and patience. Since we began working

and address community needs in our supply chain, while we

on it five years ago, we’ve discovered a slew of challenges,

work on a long-term living wage implementation plan. The

ranging from collecting reliable wage data, to determining

Fair Trade program has also helped us to start conversations

which factories fall short of paying a living wage, to

about low wages and poor benefits with our suppliers, who

understanding how to use our company influence to change

otherwise tend to shy from these topics.

factory practices. We now know it will take years to fully realize our goal, but we’re well underway.

Long term, looking to one day pay a living wage to all workers employed at factories producing Patagonia

Introducing Fair Trade Certified™ sewn products in 2014

clothing, we’re working through the Fair Labor Association

was our first step. Through Fair Trade, workers at Fair Trade

(FLA), of which we are a founding and accredited member.

Certified factories earn additional premiums they can take as cash or put toward such mutually beneficial things as child care. Fair Trade also improves workers’ lives by setting rigorous standards for health, safety and the environment; proscribing child labor and forced labor; and encouraging paid maternity leave and community empowerment.

Since our initial offering of 10 Fair Trade styles three years ago, we’ve expanded our program to include 480 styles (38% of our product line). As of fall 2017, 26,000 apparel workers had earned a Fair Trade premium for their labor and/or received improved benefits from Patagonia’s participation in the Fair Trade USA program.

The FLA is holding its members accountable to a three-part living wage strategy that consists of Taking Stock, Learning and Planning, and Making Change. For the past two years, we’ve been taking stock of wages earned in our supply chain, testing a method to collect wage data across our cutand-sew factories in 17 countries, and working with the FLA to gather different wage benchmarks with which to compare the data. But collecting wage data has been enormously difficult. And the data we’ve managed to collect hasn’t given us enough of the information we need to determine which factories deserve immediate attention to narrow the gap between current wage and living wage. To try to solve this problem, we asked MIT students in the Sustainable Business Lab—a course offered through the university’s business school—to help us find an easier way to gather wage data across a large supply chain, and they developed a model this year that streamlined collection.

(Previous Spread) Premiums earned by workers who make Patagonia Fair Trade Cer tified™ sewn products help to suppor t social programs, such as this day care center at Hirdaramani’s Mihila factory in Agalawat ta, Sri Lanka. TIM DAVIS

We’ve since shared it with the FLA, which is now recruiting experts to develop a new wage-gathering tool for us to use.

Looking to create industry-wide change, we continue to

have different needs, so one size doesn’t fit all. There are

collaborate with other brands whenever possible. We

certain universals, however. Happy and healthy people who

also share living wage lessons we’ve learned within the

earn a fair wage and receive a fair benefit compensation

Practitioners Working Group, which is tasked with helping

package stay at their jobs longer and care about the quality

the FLA business community make sense of living wages

of their work.

and strategies companies can use to increase compensation packages.

Over the past five years, we’ve learned that as much as we’d like to, it’s impossible to make sweeping changes

Since embarking on our quest to pay apparel workers in

immediately. We need to continue to experiment, pursue

our supply chain a living wage, we’ve learned that it’s only

strategies that work and be flexible enough to tweak them

possible if our factory partners share our vision, and once

when they don’t. In the next few years, we hope to be testing

there’s agreement, we need to develop strategies together.

out methodologies that will enable us, and other brands, to

Context is also very important, as people around the world

raise wages sustainably. We’ll keep you posted.

Sharing Best Practices Working with Others for Significant, Long-Lasting Change The third leg of our company’s mission statement—”use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis”—encourages us to collaborate with our suppliers, competitors, universities, nonprofits and customers to try to solve some of the large social and environmental issues we face as a society.

We know that as a medium-sized

enlisting their help to solve problems,

year increases its public benefit. In

company, our own actions might

to us providing them with guest

partnership with the Yale Center

not make much of a difference on a

lecturers, to bringing our Worn

for Business and the Environment,

global scale. But if we can partner

Wear program to college campuses.

we helped pay to produce a how-to

with others to do such things as

This year, we began a new phase of

manual titled, An Entrepreneur’s

improve animal welfare or create

academic engagement by teaching

Guide to Certified B Corporations and

a supply of more readily available

a three-day intensive class for MBA

Benefit Corporations, written by Abi

recycled materials, we might be able

students at the Haas School of

Barnes. The guide is intended to aid

to make significant, global, long-

Business, University of California,

other businesses in deciding whether

lasting change.

Berkeley. Patagonia staff members

or not B Corp certification and Benefit

shared company learnings, both

Corporation incorporation makes

successes and failures, gleaned from

sense and how to most effectively

our journey toward becoming a more

approach the process.

Here are a few highlights from the past year. South Korea Sustainability Summit Our team in South Korea has been digging into the country’s business community to inspire a culture of change around the role businesses play in society. This year, they hosted a Responsible Business Conference, to which representatives from over 35 Korean companies came to gain inspiration, tools and make connections to drive sustainability in their businesses. Already, Patagonia South Korea is planning its next conference to explore the lessons we’ve learned and discuss in our book, The Responsible Company. Training the Next Generation Throughout the years we have worked with institutions of higher education in various ways—from

responsible business. The goal was to give students real-world insights and tools to take into their careers. We hope to expand this program to include even more topics at other locations.

Chemical and Environmental Impacts Program Fabric mills, dye houses, finishedgoods factories and other parts of our supply chain contribute significantly to Patagonia’s environmental

Supporting the B Corp Movement

footprint. In response, a few years ago

Patagonia is a certified B Corp

we reorganized our environmental

and a legally registered Benefit

supply chain program and developed

Corporation in the state of California,

the Chemical and Environmental

which means ours is one of thousands

Impacts Program (CEIP) to work more

of companies committed to using

closely with supply chain partners

business as a force for good. Having

to manage chemicals, waste, water

been a B Corp for more than five

use, energy use, greenhouse gasses

years now, we see the benefits

and other air emissions associated

of being certified, but also the

with the production of Patagonia

complexities of registering, certifying

materials and products. The work

and most importantly, managing

ranges from ensuring the proper

our business in a way that each

disposal of hazardous wastes, to

Dr. Lakmini Senadheera of the Conservation Carbon Company introduces a farming-education project in Sri Lanka. DR. SAMPATH WAHALA

equipping suppliers with tools to find better chemical

comprehensive fire-safety ambassador-training courseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

alternatives, to helping them think of more efficient ways

and they have trained a lot more workers. This year alone,

to use resources. The program covers factories and textile

ambassadors taught fire safety best practices to more than

mills, including subcontractors, that manufacture Patagonia

13,000, bringing the total number of workers trained to

products. In February 2017, our CEIP managers conducted

over 27,000.

chemicals management trainings at five factories in Asia, with a focus on the responsible use of organic solvents in gluing and printing operations. They trained approximately 125 factory workers, including factory managers, health and safety officers, chemical-purchasing teams, supervisors and production workers.

Supply Chain Grants We donated $30,000 in supply chain grants this year to nonprofit groups working to protect the environment in locales where we make our products. We launched this program a few years ago to encourage our contract factories to work with environmental groups to implement

Fire Safety Initiative

worthwhile environmental projects. This year, the money

For years, we have audited fire safety conditions and

continued to fund environmental education work by The

procedures in every factory we contract with. In 2013, we

Society of Wilderness in Taiwan, helped to expand a tree

took our program to the next level and joined the newly

nursery run by Kanan Kab in Mexico, and subsidized the

created Fire Safety Training Initiative. This global program

launch of a reforestation and farming-education project

was created by our key partner, the Fair Labor Association,

under the auspices of the Carbon Consulting Group

in order to empower workers with technical knowledge

in Sri Lanka.

to help prevent fires. To date, we have trained personnel at more than 40 of our contract factories through our

What’s in Store Patagonia Stores Encourage Environmental Work and Activism in Their Communities Our 34 North American retail stores represent Patagonia at the frontlines and serve as an integral part of our mission to support local environmental work. This year they took environmental engagement and activism to a whole new level through retail grants, clothing donations, internships and newly implemented activism programs. Stores also took on an elevated role in the Vote Our Planet campaign, which sought to engage customers on regional environmental issues and mobilize voters to take action on the environment on Election Day 2016. Patagonia stores play a key role in developing relationships with environmental nonprofits in their areas. Over the past year, our stores disbursed more than $2 million in grant money, donated over $90,000 worth of products and in-kind goods and services, and contributed nearly 7,000 pro-bono hours to some 354 nonprofit environmental organizations across the U.S. and Canada. These are record numbers for the retail program. Here are several examples of how their aid to NGOs is contributing to positive change.

Portland Store: Grant support for

Vancouver Store: A grant to the

to elections in their communities.

the Wild Salmon Center aided in the

Wildlife Defence League helped

Additionally, 12 stores provided

continued protection of Elliott State

to fund the group’s continued

customers voter guides outlining each

Forest, keeping it from falling into

opposition, in the woods and in the

region’s ballot initiatives.

the hands of logging companies, and

media, to the trophy hunting of grizzly

support for Columbia Riverkeeper

bears in British Columbia.

helped the group stop future coal development and transport in the Columbia River Gorge. NYC Bowery Store: A grant to the Freshkills Park Alliance funded construction of a living dock, which is a biological filter housing mussels and other organisms that clean contaminants from the water. The store also awarded a grant to Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, helping to fund a series of environmental events, including beach cleanups and restoring native plants.

Vote Our Planet For the first time ever, nearly every Patagonia store in North America hosted a Vote Our Planet event, with most stores hosting two events during the campaign. The first, in September, celebrated National Voter Registration Day. The second followed in October, featuring voting resources, partner groups and educational materials to empower and inform voters. These events encouraged people to get together to discuss and take action around common values tied

At these events, we registered over 200 voters, raised $4,559 for nonprofit partners and attracted some 2,083 people. Local and regional campaigns included: Make Solar Strong in the Northeast, Bring Back Solar, Close Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant (now closed), Breathe Clean in Utah, Stand Up to Fossil Fuels, Yes to the Plastic Bag Ban (now banned), Shut Down the Line 5 Pipeline, Toughen Georgia’s Pollution Regulations, Defend Colorado’s Rivers, No Trans-Pecos Pipeline, Stop GMO Pesticide Testing, Fight the Public Lands Heist, and Reject the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Nearly every Patagonia store hosted a Vote Our Planet event, including our Georgetown store in Washington, D.C. MALLORY BENEDICT

$2,000,000

$90,000

7,000

354

DONATED BY OUR STORES TO ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES THROUGH OUR RETAIL ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS PROGRAM

VALUE OF PRODUCTS AND IN-KIND SERVICES ALSO GRANTED

PRO BONO VOLUNTEER HOURS SUPPLIED BY STORE EMPLOYEES

NONPROFIT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS THAT BENEFITED FROM THE PROGRAM

Retail Activism We have smart, passionate employees working in our stores, and we believe they should do good where it counts the most. Our retail activism program encourages them to volunteer, raise their voices in concern and protest, and become involved with environmental groups working in their areas, all the while receiving compensation for their time. Our hope is to bring change to communities and greater visibility to our stores as hubs of activism, as well as to inspire employees to participate in causes close to their homes and their hearts. In 2017, store staff attended public meetings, marches and civil protests in over 15 cities and volunteered more

renewable-generated electricity statewide by 2030. Patagonia NYC and our enviro partners asked for a measurable commitment to offshore wind, which many agree is the best renewable alternative to invest in, and opposed $3 billion in nuclear subsidies, which the governor and Public Service Commission included in their initial white paper. Patagonia NYC staff made up more than 15% of the crowd that showed up for the NYC hearing, with four staff members testifying, one photographing and others submitting written statements in person and online. Some also joined the rally right before heading into the building for the start of the hearing. Washington, DC + 20 Other Stores: Women’s March

than 800 hours to environmental causes around the

Some 81 Patagonia employees from 21 of our stores turned

country. Some also participated in Greenpeace civil

out for the Women’s March in Washington, DC, and to

disobedience trainings that the company hosted for staff in

satellite marches in 15 cities across the country on January

Ventura and NYC.

21, 2017. Employees from our Seattle, Boston, DC, Freeport,

Boulder Store: Last-Minute Postcard Ride with Timmy O’Neill Our Boulder store manager Sarah Drake teamed up with Patagonia climbing ambassador Timmy O’Neill to organize some last-minute activism in downtown Boulder around the issue of public lands. On June 28, Timmy and Patagonia Boulder staff rode bikes to climbing gyms, grocery

Westport, Atlanta, Chicago and New York City stores made the trek to the nation’s capital to march from our Georgetown store all the way to the White House lawn. All Patagonia employees received their regular salaries while participating. Santa Cruz: Helping to Shut Down the Last Coastal Sand Mine in the U.S.

stores and coffee shops in and around Boulder with the

The California Coastal Commission voted unanimously in

goal of getting community members to sign as many of

July to remove the Lapis Lustre Sand Mine from the beach in

our Save Public Lands postcards as possible before the

Marina, California, by 2020. After habitat is restored on the

Department of the Interior reviewed the designation of 27

400-acre property, the land will be used in perpetuity for

national monuments. The initiative presented an amazing

conservation and public recreation. This historic decision

opportunity to share our company’s passion with the people

comes after almost a decade of investigations, confidential

of Boulder, advocate for public lands, raise awareness and

negotiations and pressure from advocacy groups.

make voices heard. In the end, Timmy and the store crushed it—collecting more than a thousand signed postcards in just a few short hours. Salt Lake City Store: Bears Ears Activism Our SLC store continued its involvement in efforts to

The 111-year-old mine is responsible for the annual loss of 6-8 acres of shoreline in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It operates from a dredge pond bordering a public beach on ecologically sensitive habitats that are home to federally endangered and threatened species.

defend Utah public lands, including Bears Ears and Grand

Patagonia Santa Cruz partnered with marine conservation

Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Working with the

nonprofit Save Our Shores to help build public awareness

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Friends of Cedar Mesa,

and pressure key decision makers to close the mine and end

Utah Diné Bikéyah, and the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition,

mass man-made erosion. It donated resources and money,

the store served as an activation and rallying point.

sponsored the screening of documentary films informing

Store employees traveled to southern Utah to rally with

the community and helped to launch the #SaveOurSand

communities in support of the national monuments, staged

letter-writing campaign. The store also hosted a Save

standing-room-only events and postcard-writing sessions at

Our Shores #SaveOurSand campaign station for an entire

the shop, and made protest signs for rallies at the Capitol.

month, contributing to the collection of nearly 3,000 signed

NYC Stores: Clean Energy Standard Hearing Staff from our NYC stores helped pack a public hearing held for New York and Governor Cuomo’s new Clean Energy Standard (CES), which would mandate 50%

postcards accompanied with paper baggies filled with sand from the Lapis Lustre mine to send a real wake-up call. For our store’s many efforts, Save Our Shores gave the outlet its Ocean Business of the Year Award.

(Top) Display at our Por tland, Ore., store. BOONE SPEED; (Middle) Rallying suppor t at our Santa Cruz store to shut down the Lapis Lustre Sand Mine. Y VONNE FALK; (Bot tom lef t) Boulder store employees collecting Save Public Lands postcards. FAWN TALMON; (Bot tom right) Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s March, Washington D.C. KEN ETZEL

Building Community Bike to Work Week To inspire a healthy, low-impact form of commuting, each year we encourage employees at our stores, corporate headquarters and Reno distribution center to grab their bikes and pedal to work during Bike to Work Week. In celebration, we stage a slew of events—from free breakfasts and bicycle tune-ups to raffles, happy hours and group rides. A few stalwarts commute more than 50 miles roundtrip (though we suspect they’re taking the scenic route and just love to ride), and for every mile ridden to and from work, the company donates $1 to a climate change or bikeadvocacy organization in each of the communities where we have a store or office. This year we gave more than $17,000 to such grassroots organizations. Zero-Waste Week Zero waste is a tall order, but we take our footprint seriously enough to at least give it a try. Hence Zero-Waste Week, an inaugural event staged in our stores intended to inspire us all to live more simply and reduce the amount of disposables. As part of the effort, each store conducted a waste audit, hosted daily zero-waste clinics, along with movies and community events, and staged a weekly challenge to see who could do the most to throw away the least. Brain Food + Speaker Series Diversity in the outdoors, homelessness in Detroit, sustainable trail building and urban farming were among the topics employees heard about this year as part of our Brain Food + Speaker Series. Seeking to enrich our work environment with information about a broad range of topical issues, we brought in guest speakers from all over the country to our Ventura and Reno campuses. This year’s lineup included Rue Mapp from Outdoor Afro, climbing legend Fred Beckey, José González from Latino Outdoors, Chris Orr from the International Mountain Bicycling Association, Veronika Scott from The Empowerment Plan, and our very own staff accountant Jeff Tedmori, along with Legendary alpinist Fred Beckey. K YLE SPARKS; Volunteer work crew from our Reno distribution center. KIM JARDINE

Our talented crew at the Aloha Café in Ventura keep us well nourished. TIM DAVIS

representatives from the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center,

away from their desks in autumn to plant native flora and

Urban Roots, Ocean Defenders Alliance, Feather River

help restore a seabird nesting site. Later in winter, heavy

Land Trust, Be the Change Project, Wolf Patrol, Mountain

rains gave rise to spring growth of aggressive weeds that

Lion Project, Bees & Butterflies, Bodie Hills Conservation

threatened to choke out the new plants, so Patagonia

Partnership, and Great Basin Water Network.

volunteers went back to the island to pull them. Their work

Reno Volunteer Days Patagonia employees at our Reno distribution center put in more than a thousand hours this year in their community helping grassroots environmental groups accomplish all

was so successful, they had to postpone a couple of planned trips because of the large number of nesting seabirds raising their young at the newly restored site. Aloha Café

sorts of tasks. They planted trees and ripped out invasives,

At both our Ventura headquarters and Reno distribution

built a spawning area for trout, helped construct a bear

center, we serve fresh, largely organic and largely locally

enclosure, dug soil on an organic farm, cleaned up a stretch

sourced breakfasts and lunches with takeaway options

of river and more. Patagonia employees have a reputation

every day of the work week. Meals aren’t free, but they’re

for showing up on time and working hard. “We do this

subsidized by the company and prepared by professionally

because it’s important to us to care, nurture and give love

trained chefs and inspired kitchen staff who are all

back to the places where we live, play and enjoy year-round,”

Patagonia employees. Waste is minimized by repurposing

said one volunteer. “Patagonia encourages and supports us.

ingredients into tasty new dishes and by composting

It’s a win for everyone.“

vegetable scraps. Reusable dishware and utensils are on

Ventura Volunteer Days Twelve or so miles offshore from our Ventura headquarters lies Anacapa Island, the focus of employee volunteer efforts this year. Partnering with the California Institute of Environmental Studies, Patagonia employees took time

hand for department functions, rather than the usual fare of disposables. Nourishing food provided on site is one of the ways we’re trying to build a healthy community, support local food producers and encourage colleagues to break bread together.

“This is sacred ground. To visit is a privilege; to protect it is our responsibility.” –Luke Nelson Wild Places Advocate/Running Ambassador

A Monumental Fight Protecting and Defending Our Wild Places We’ve fought for decades to defend our most treasured wild places—those areas with exceptional characteristics that provide the greatest value when simply left untouched. In countless battles over the years, Patagonia has supported grassroots groups and local people, all united by the fundamental idea that our public lands belong to all Americans. In 2016–17, this long effort came to a head and to national prominence through our support of a campaign to convince President Barack Obama to protect 1.35 million acres of public lands in southeast Utah as Bears Ears National Monument. After four years of campaign work as a leading voice from the outdoor industry, including grants to grassroots groups and national partners; lobbying decision makers in Washington, D.C.; launching a short film focused on Bluff, Utah, climber-activist Josh Ewing; and building a Google 360 street-view-powered film experience called This Is Bears Ears, we were thrilled when President Obama did so on December 28, 2016. This was a truly historic moment, given the incredible beauty and value of the landscape, the inspiring leadership of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and the unique role that recreation voices, particularly climbers, played in the campaign. Bears Ears is one of 34 national monuments that President Obama designated or expanded—all of which we support in spirit, and many of which we actively campaigned for and supported through grants. But, almost immediately upon the election of President Donald Trump, forces gathered to push back against these public lands protections. In February 2017, we took a firm stand against the Utah political establishment’s efforts to undermine Bears Ears. In response to Utah Governor Gary Herbert signing a resolution urging the Trump administration to rescind its status as a national monument, Patagonia decided to boycott the Outdoor Retailer show in Utah. As our CEO Rose Marcario put it, “…Utah elected officials do not support public lands conservation, nor do they value the economic benefits—$12 billion in consumer spending and 122,000 jobs—that the outdoor recreation

(Previous Spread) Patagonia running ambassador Luke Nelson crosses the Valley of the Gods in imperiled Bears Ears National Monument. NATE PTACEK

Willie Grayeyes, board chairman of Utah Diné Bikéyah, speaks of the magic of Bears Ears at a multimedia presentation in our Salt Lake City store. ANDREW BURR

Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument 377,346 ACRES

Hanford Reach National Monument 194,450 ACRES

Craters of the Moon National Monument 737,525 ACRES

Basin and Range National Monument 703,585 ACRES

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument 100,000 ACRES

Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument 330,780 ACRES

Canyons of the Ancients National Monument 175,160 ACRES

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 1,700,000 ACRES

Río Grande del Norte National Monument 242,555 ACRES

Giant Sequoia National Monument 327,760 ACRES

Vermilion Cliffs National Monument 279,568 ACRES

Gold Butte National Monument 296,937 ACRES Carrizo Plain National Monument 204,107 ACRES San Gabriel Mountains National Monument 346,177 ACRES

Bears Ears National Monument 1,353,000 ACRES

Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument 1,014,000 ACRES

Sand to Snow National Monument 154,000 ACRES

OCEANIC MONUMENTS (NOT SHOWN)

Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument 496,330 ACRES Mojave Trails National Monument 1,600,000 ACRES

Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument 372,849,920 ACRES

Rose Atoll Marine National Monument 8,609,045 ACRES

Marianas Trench Marine National Monument 60,938,240 ACRES

Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument 313,818,892 ACRES

Sonoran Desert National Monument 486,149 ACRES

Ironwood Forest National Monument 128,917 ACRES

industry brings to their state. Because of the hostile

lands and waters—stretching from northern Maine to

environment they have created and their blatant disregard

Hawai‘i—provide enormous recreational, economic, spiritual

for Bears Ears National Monument and other public lands,

and ecological value, now and for future generations. In

the backbone of our business, Patagonia will no longer

response to this review, American citizens submitted more

attend the Outdoor Retailer show in Utah.” Shortly after,

than 2.8 million public comments to the Department of

with support from some of the largest companies in the

the Interior from May to July 2017—98% of which favored

outdoor recreation industry, officials from the Outdoor

ongoing protection of our national monuments. Patagonia’s

Retailer show and Outdoor Industry Association decided

community alone contributed approximately 150,000

to move the show to Colorado, a state that demonstrates a

comments. This huge outpouring of support underlines

greater commitment to protecting our public lands.

something that many polls and studies have shown before—

Fast forward to late April 2017, when President Trump issued an executive order calling for a review of all national monuments larger than 100,000 acres designated since 1996. This unprecedented move threatened to remove or reduce protections from 27 national monuments. These

that a resounding majority of Americans support protection of our public lands. In a 2016 Harvard Kennedy School study, more than 93% of respondents across the country said it’s important that historical sites, public lands and national parks be protected for current and future generations.

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument 87,563 ACRES

Six Hundred Forty Million ACRES OF PUBLIC LANDS THREATENED

Twenty Seven NATIONAL MONUMENTS THREATENED

Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument 3,114,320 ACRES

2.7 Million + TOTAL COMMENTS RECEIVED REJECTING CHANGES TO NATIONAL MONUMENTS

“Americans have overwhelmingly spoken out against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to shut down our national monuments.” —ROSE MARCARIO, CEO

But, in spite of this nationwide outcry,

The bottom line for us is that

the part of President Trump could

on December 4 President Trump

President Trump’s actions are both

undermine our public lands system

issued an executive order for the

unprecedented and illegal. Our

across the country, opening the door

largest elimination of protected public

response to this includes a renewed

for more attacks.

land in American history. Bears Ears

media campaign and a lawsuit against

National Monument was rescinded

the Trump administration: bringing

and replaced with two smaller

a message of outrage to the courts

monuments, and Grand Staircase-

and the court of public opinion. In just

Escalante National Monument was

two weeks, our campaign, using the

cut nearly in half, and sliced into

headline “The President Stole Your

three separate pieces. Removing

Land,” generated 5,500 distinct stories

protections from some 2 million acres

across most major media outlets. And

of federal land leaves them open to

the sense of urgency is resonating

development and permanent damage,

with our greater community. If allowed

particularly from energy companies.

to stand, this shocking decision on

Now the real fight begins—and we’re committed to seeing it to the end, joining forces with a broad coalition of tribes, businesses, the outdoor industry, and national and grassroots conservation groups and individuals to stop the theft of our public lands.

Big, Wild & Diverse Tompkins Conservation Celebrates a Quarter Century of Conservation It has been a year of historic milestones for

Over in Argentina, the Tompkins

our dear friends at Tompkins Conservation

Conservation rewilding teams in Iberá Park

as they celebrate a quarter century of

have welcomed several new inhabitants,

conservation work and environmental

including an adult male jaguar, Chiqui,

activism. With the upcoming creation in

donated from a reserve in Paraguay, and two

Chile and Argentina of five new national

females, Tania and Isa, donated from zoos

parks and three park expansions, Tompkins’

in Argentina and Brazil respectively. The

goal of conserving big, wild landscapes

jaguar breeding center now has two adult

with their full complement of native species,

males and three adult females, a hopeful

and the concept of a “Route of Parks,”

start to the creation of a new generation of

envisioned by Doug Tompkins in concert

wild jaguars in Iberá. Not to be outdone,

with the government of Chile, is on the cusp

the park’s newly released tapirs welcomed

of fruition.

the first wild tapir born to the wetlands of

In March of the year, former Patagonia CEO Kristine Tompkins and Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet signed a historic protocol pledging to create 10 million acres of new national parks. The culmination of this protocol will protect an area three times the size of Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks combined, and include the largest land donation in history from a private entity to a country. On October 2, Chile’s National Environment Day, President Bachelet signed a decree creating Cerro Castillo National Park and extending Isla Magdalena National Park, the first two steps of the eight decrees

Iberá in 50 years. Arandú and his mother Nena can be seen meandering around the park’s Hostería Rincón del Socorro–which is now managed by Tompkins Conservation staff with proceeds directly supporting their rewilding work—welcoming guests and munching on the ivy. The team recently discovered a second tapir pregnancy, captured via a field ultrasound. Additionally, the green-winged macaw reintroduction program has claimed a significant win this year, with seven macaws flying free in the skies of Iberá for the first time in at least a century.

to be completed before she leaves office in

In an exciting new development, Tompkins

March 2018. The future Patagonia National

Conservation has extended its national

Park, where so many Patagonia employees

park creation efforts to the ocean, with

have volunteered, is slated for donation in

new marine national parks proposed in

early 2018, as is Pumalín Park, where the

Argentina. Tompkins Conservation is proud

Tompkinses’ conservation work began.

to play a part in this effort, lending its

Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet (blue jacket), former Patagonia CEO and philanthropist Kris Tompkins (white blouse) and others, celebrate the Tompkins’ pledge of 1 million acres of parkland to Chile. LINDE WAIDHOFER

expertise in conservation activism to catalyze their creation.

Back in the U.S., Kris and the team have been honored

The first concrete progress was made in September, when

with several awards, including the Carnegie Medal of

the Argentine government announced that it will create two

Philanthropy by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the

new marine national parks in the Southern Atlantic. This is an

Legacy Award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and

important first step for Argentina to protect its oceans, and a

the Garden Club of America’s Cynthia Pratt Laughlin Medal.

first step for Tompkins Conservation in ocean conservation.

Kris was flattered to be a nominee for National Geographic

The bill establishes that there will be two new marine

Adventurer of the Year and continues to work tirelessly

protected areas: the Yaganes Marine National Park (69,000

on behalf of Doug’s legacy. In another tribute to Doug,

km²) and the Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank II National Marine

the David Brower Center is also honoring Doug’s life and

Reserve (29,000 km²). Both marine parks will be located in

work with Douglas R. Tompkins: On Beauty, a photography

the southern Patagonian sea, an area rich with krill, and will

exhibition and accompanying book that are on display until

include strict no-take zones (hence their national park status).

February 21, 2018 at the center in Berkeley, Calif.

Durable water repellent finishes help textiles to repel moisture, but the most ef fective are toxic and persist in the environment. TIM DAVIS

Watershed Moments The Search Continues for PFC-free Durable Water Repellents We continued the search this year for alternatives to perfluorochemical (PFC)-based durable water repellents, a fabric treatment that causes raindrops to bead up on your beloved rain jacket, helping you to more comfortably battle the elements. When DWR is used in conjunction with a waterproof/breathable barrier, the DWR finish keeps the outer fabric from becoming saturated so that the breathable barrier can do its job. The apparel industry has long been

made equity investments in Beyond

using a durable water repellent (DWR)

Surface Technologies and created

treatment made from a long-chain (C8)

strategic partnerships with innovators

fluorocarbon-based coating. It’s highly

such as HeiQ. We continue to scout and

effective and extraordinarily durable,

build partnerships with like-minded

but its byproducts are toxic and persist

innovators who are working to solve

in the environment—a combination

the problem.

that makes it unacceptable, despite its excellent performance. Governments around the globe now require chemical companies to stop making C8 DWR, which is the right thing to do, but it’s left outerwear suppliers searching for alternatives that perform as well.

Our temporary solution, which has also been adopted by a number of manufacturers, is not good enough, but it’s the best option we have found so far. We switched from a C8 fluorocarbonbased treatment to a shorter-chain C6 treatment, also fluorocarbon-based,

We began looking for replacements

but with byproducts that break down

back in 2009, and have significantly

faster in the environment and with less

increased our understanding of how to

potential toxicity over time to humans,

apply synthetic treatments effectively.

wildlife and fish.

We have vetted dozens of chemistries and formulations and have found that PFC-free doesn’t always mean environmentally preferable.

While we have more research to do, we feel confident stating that within three years our entire line of products treated with a DWR finish will use

Fortunately, Patagonia leadership has

safer, fluorocarbon-free treatments

been willing to invest in a scalable

that do less harm to the planet, while

solution and to deploy the financial

meeting our stringent performance and

and human resources necessary to

durability requirements.

solve this problem. To date, we have

Taking Off for Good Environmental Internship Program Patagonia employees have the opportunity to work for up to two months each year with the environmental NGO of their choosing while earning full pay and benefits. Some 1,905 have participated since we started the program back in 1994. This year, 63 individuals and 15 groups embarked on internships, providing almost 15,000 hours of dedicated labor. Passionate people make a passionate company.

2017 Internships Andrea Downard—Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, Calif. Andrew Chakoumakos—Kezar Lake Watershed Association, Maine Annie Walton-Teter—Georgia Strait Alliance, Canada Bayside Outlet—Hotaru No Furusato Segamizawa Kikin, Kanagawa, Japan Ben Stewart—Karioi—Maunga ki te Moana/A Rocha Aotearoa, New Zealand Boston Store—Merrimack River Watershed Council, Mass. Brian Mok—Lockwood Animal Rescue Center, Calif. Charles Clark—Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Canada Chicago Store—Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Ill. Chris Salisbury—Working Dogs for Conservation, Calif. Christine Chun—Glacier National Park Conservancy, Mont. Courtney Watink—Montana Wilderness Association, Mont. Customer Service—Feather River Land Trust, Calif. Dana Wilfahrt—Rozalia Project, Vt. DC Store—Common Good City Farm, DC

Dealer Services—Feather River Land Trust, Calif. Diane Davis—Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute, Calif. Dominique Buncio—Great Basin Resource Watch, Nev. Dulce Soto—Amigos Marinos, Mexico Elisabeth Johnson—Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, Calif. Emilie Cram—Friends of the Maine Wildlife Park, Maine Etsuko Kuroda—Minamisanriku Nature-center Tomo no kai, Miyagi, Japan Finance Team—Leeway Collective, Slovenia Florence Lesouef—No THT 05, Netherlands Freeport Outlet—Hurricane Island Foundation, Maine Fukuoka Store—Ishikigawa Mamori Tai, Nagasaki, Japan Go Moritake—Kamigo Segami No Shizen Wo Mamoru Kai, Kanagawa, Japan Grace Wagner—Women’s Environmental Network, UK Hiro Sato—Ryuiki No Shizen Wo Kangaeru Network, Hokkaido, Japan HR Department—Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute, Calif. Jean Baptiste Cotte—Le Signal de la Grave, France

Jeff Tedmori—Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, Panama Jennifer Koll—Give and Surf, Panama Jewel Lee—Hawaii Wildlife Fund, Hawaii Jim Little—Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, Calif. Jordan Hook—California Wildlife Center, Calif. Josh McClintic—The Nature Conservancy, Nev. Junichi Sekikawa—Kamigo Segami No Shizen Wo Mamoru Kai, Kanaga, Japan Kamakura Store—Hotaru No Furusato Segamizawa Kikin, Kanagawa, Japan Karla Olson—Conservación Patagónica, Chile Kauhito Miyagawa—Minamisanriku Nature-center Tomo no kai, Miyagi, Japan Kazuya Yoshitan—Kaminoseki no Shizen wo mamoru kai, Yamaguchi, Japan Kouhei Syouda—Kaminoseki no Shizen wo mamoru kai, Yamaguchi, Japan Kourtney Morgan—Amigos Bravos, N.M. Lisa Robinson—Ooooby Foundation, New Zealand Matt Martin—South West Marine Debris Clean Up, Tasmania Madeline Sullivan—Leichtag Foundation, Calif. Marcela Riojas—Watershed Watch Salmon Society, Canada

Dana Wilfahr t from our Boston store collects water samples during her internship with the Rozalia Project. ANNIE TUTHILL

14,000+

1,905

COUNTRIES THAT BENEFITED FROM PATAGONIA’S VOLUNTEER HELP

EMPLOYEES WHO VOLUNTEERED THIS YEAR THROUGH OUR ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

HOURS OF L ABOR PROVIDED THIS YEAR THROUGH THE PROGRAM

EMPLOYEES WHO’VE VOLUNTEERED SINCE OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM’S INCEPTION IN 1994

Matt Redondo—Mojave Desert Land Trust, Calif.

Richard Thornton—The Trail Foundation, Texas

Miki Proud—Malama Na Honu, Hawaii

Romeo Lodia—Mojave Desert Land Trust, Calif.

Milano Store—Genitori Antismog, Italy

Saori Oyamada—Kaminoseki no Shizen wo mamoru kai, Yamaguchi, Japan

Moriko Nishida, Minamisanriku Nature-center Tomo no kai, Miyagi, Japan Nikki Bautista—Haribon Foundation, Philippines Nozomi Toida—Satoyama Guruguru Smile Farm, Saitama, Japan

Sarah Dain—Clark Fork Coalition, Mont.

Tracy On—Sitka Conservation Society, Alaska

Shipping Department—Trout Unlimited, Calif.

Yasuaki Hori—Minamisanriku Nature-center Tomo no kai, Miyagi, Japan

Peter Snow—Habitat Works, Calif.

Steve Rathburn—Yosemite Climbing Association, Calif.

Rebecca Shank—Teton Regional Land Trust, Idaho

Todd Copeland—The Nature Conservancy, Calif. Tomoe Michiue—Kaminoseki no Shizen wo mamoru kai, Yamaguchi, Japan

Sophia Freund—EcoAlbania, Albania

Rebecca Hardacre—Save the Conwy, UK

Tim Skallerud—Sugar Pine Foundation, Calif.

Sapporo Kita Store—Sanrugawa wo mamoru Kai, Hokkaido, Japan

Palo Alto—Yosemite Climbing Association, Calif.

Ramzi Talbi—High Atlas Foundation, Morocco

Takehiro Yoshimoto—Kaminoseki no Shizen wo mamoru kai, Yamaguchi, Japan

Susan McFeatters—NYC Audubon, N.Y. Takahiro Matsuda—Minamisanriku Nature Center, Japan

Yasuhiro Yagi—Minamisanriku Nature-center Tomo no kai, Miyagi, Japan Yokohama Store—Kamigo Segami No Shizen Wo Mamoru Kai, Kanagawa, Japan Yoriko Ohnuma—Minamisanriku Nature-center Tomo no kai, Miyagi, Japan

(Top, lef t-right) Tending La Huer ta in Chile. K ARLA OLSON; Trail work in Quincy, California. ELISABETH JOHNSON; (Middle) Caring for marine mammals, Channel Islands, California. ALE DEL VALLE; River protection in New Mexico. KOURTNEY MORGAN; (Bot tom) Community development in Morocco. K AMAL AK AYA; Restoring the Truckee River. SAM SEDILLO

DANA WILFAHRT, Boston Store

KARLA OLSON, Books, Ventura

RAMZI TALBI, SoHo Store

Organization: Rozalia Project

Organization: Conservación

Organization: High Atlas Foundation

Mission: To clean and

Patagónica – Organic Garden

Mission: To establish livelihood

protect our ocean.

Mission: To experiment with high-

advancement projects that drive

Location: Vermont

yield regenerative gardening

sustainable, community-initiated

Activities: Along with six other

practices that can be applied to

development.

crew members, I studied microfiber

the area and produce food for

Location: Morocco

pollution along a 300-mile section of

the park restaurant, employees

Activities: I worked in the native tree

Atlantic coastline from Kittery, Maine,

and community.

nursery, which is managed entirely

to Albany, New York, aboard a 60-foot

Location: Chile

on organic lines; planted trees to

sailing research vessel. We collected

Activities: We worked every day in

help reforest Toubkal National Park

water samples every three nautical

La Huerta, learning and practicing

and worked on the irrigation system

miles to see where and why microfiber

regenerative and organic gardening

created by HAF in rural areas to help

pollution was so abundant. Along with

techniques. We harvested two times

communities rebuild woodlands and

sampling water and analyzing data,

a week for the restaurant, weighing

fight deforestation.

we stopped at towns and cities along

everything so we could keep track

the way to educate people about

of the yield. We cleaned beds

the Rozalia Project and the issue of

and refurbished them, using tools

microfiber pollution.

that run only on manpower (and a

Design Studio Lab, Ventura

rechargeable drill). We tended to

Organization: Amigos Bravos

the growing plants and weeded,

Mission: To protect and restore

delivering everything to compost. We

the waters of New Mexico.

ELISABETH JOHNSON, Dealer Services, Reno

KOURTNEY MORGAN,

watered every day. It was educational,

Location: New Mexico

Organization: Sierra Buttes Trail

absorbing, exhausting and rewarding.

Activities: I worked with a large

Stewardship

We loved it, and we loved that we

volunteer group to rebuild a fence

Mission: To preserve, restore and

could do it together as a family.

enclosing and protecting the

enhance trails in the Tahoe, Plumas and Lassen National forests in

headwaters of the Red River in the Carson National Forest; helped take

an environmentally sensitive and

DIANE DAVIS, IT, Ventura

ecologically responsible fashion.

Organization: Channel Islands

in the Valle Verde; did community

Location: California

Marine and Wildlife Institute

outreach and fundraising; art directed

Activities: I was exposed to every

Mission: To positively impact

new T-shirt and sticker graphics; and

aspect of the organization that keeps

conservation through marine mammal

sourced organic and hemp trucker

it ticking, evenly split between trail

rescue, rehabilitation, research and

hats and T-shirt blanks.

and office time. Trail time was focused

education to promote ocean and

on two main trail hubs: Mount Hough

human health.

near Quincy, Calif., and the Butcher

Location: California

SHIPPING DEPT., Reno

Ranch Trail along the Downieville

Activities: I cared for animals at

Organization: Trout Unlimited

Downhill route in Downieville, Calif.

the hospital, prepped fish and

Mission: To conserve, protect and

Trail days entailed up to 10 hours of

meds, kept records and trained new

restore North America’s trout and

tread work, cutting brush, clearing

volunteers. I also managed a release

salmon fisheries and their watersheds.

trail drainage and armoring trailbeds

of a few California sea lions that we’d

Location: California

with rocks to minimize the effects

rehabilitated, and am still helping with

Activities: We sent eight people to

of erosion. Office work included

rescues in Ventura County in my free

help each of the four days we worked

answering emails, running errands,

time. I personally rescued 16 animals

with Trout Unlimited. It was a big flood

mailing new membership letters

in 2016, and also helped educate

year, and there was a mess along all

and helping organize supplies for

Junior Lifeguards about marine

the rivers. We helped to restore trails

upcoming volunteer work days and

mammals and their habitat.

and worked in the river, creating safe

fundraising events.

water samples from the watershed

places for trout to spawn.

Virunga National Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gorilla protection volunteers proudly display their new rain gear. INNOCENT MBURANUMWE

Clothing Donations Each year we donate Patagonia products to environmental groups for their fundraising efforts and give them used clothing and gear for their work in the field. Disaster relief is another cause to which we donate clothing. This year we provided untold used stuff, along with new products valued at more than $121,000 at our cost through our corporate, wholesale and retail clothing donations program. Providing grassroots nonprofits with clothing and gear is one of the ways we try to support environmental efforts in areas where we do business. The groups we help out are restoring habitat, farming organically, removing invasive plants, rescuing animals, cleaning up wetlands, removing dams and much more. A donated piece of new clothing raffled away might add a few dollars to their small budgets, while used clothing and gear might allow them more time outside on a cold winter’s day or in the sun, monitoring fish passages or water quality. Environmentalists are fierce, dedicated people, so we try to help and thank them whenever we can. Big Thanks from the HUGOs Virunga National Park is very grateful for the support we’ve received from Patagonia over the past five years—most recently in the form of rain jackets and pants for the HUGOs, our gorilla-protection volunteers. The park is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and home to a quarter of the planet’s last 980 critically endangered mountain gorillas. These magnificent creatures sometimes cross the park boundary, raid crops and come into conflict with subsistence farmers, resulting in gorilla deaths. The HUGOs (Human-Gorilla conflict resolution), try to diffuse the tension and herd the gorillas back across the park boundary to safety. When particularly stubborn gorillas refuse to leave, the HUGOs remain with them—often all night long and during torrential downpours—until park rangers arrive. —Robert Williams, Virunga National Park

Material Improvements Continuing to Reduce the Environmental and Social Impacts of Our Products The products we (and others) make have impacts on people and the planet, as they consume resources of many kinds to manufacture, maintain and recycle or dispose of. We try to mitigate these impacts whenever we can to reduce our social and environmental footprints, asking ourselves: Can we find a recycled alternative? Is there a better dyeing technology that uses less water? How can we help a supplier become Fair Trade Certified™? Over the past year, we continued and increased our many successful efforts to use only organic cotton, along with different kinds of recycled materials, hemp, TENCEL® lyocell, plant-based rubber, safer chemicals and more resource-efficient processes to make our products. We also expanded our offering of Fair Trade Certified™ sewn clothing, and introduced a new collection of pieces dyed almost entirely with natural colors. Here are a few highlights:

Clean Color Collection

recycled cotton—from 5 styles to 11.

more fully realize our mission to build

In spring 2017, we introduced the

Compared to a conventional cotton

the best product, while causing no

Clean Color Collection—15 styles of

tee, these shirts save 4.8 plastic

unnecessary harm.

clothing dyed with 96% renewable

bottles and .26 pounds of cotton

resources derived from food waste,

from the landfill, and use 63 gallons

dried beetles and silkworm poop

less water.

(among other things). Why the

Fair Trade Certified™ Sewn All of our board shorts, all of our bikinis and our entire Better Sweater®

Recycled Down

collection of fleece—in addition to

We expanded the number of products

a considerable number of other

we insulate with Recycled Down from

products we make—are now Fair Trade

15 to 18. The down we use is a mix of

Certified sewn. Fair Trade offers both

600-fill-power goose and duck down

a financial premium and helps to

reclaimed from cushions, bedding

ensure a safer, healthier, more humane

and other used items that can’t be

workplace, and is part of our broader

Responsibili-Tee®

resold. By plucking more of our down

drive to elevate the lives of workers

We expanded our collection of

(and associated fabrics) from the trash,

and their communities. As of fall 2017,

Responsibili-Tee® T-shirts made from

we reduce discards, help expand and

38% of our products are Fair Trade

50% recycled polyester and 50%

add value to the recycling stream, and

Certified sewn.

alchemy? Because synthetic dye is dirty. And though many of our synthetic dyes use less water, energy and produce less CO2 when compared with conventional processes, we’re always trying to do better.

Sampling the fill-power of recycled down to make sure it meets our specs. TIM DAVIS

Art as Activism This one is more inspirational than material, but we thought

coastal estuaries. Their goal was to take inspiration from a

you’d like to hear about it anyway. Patagonia and the

seemingly rare environmental success story and bring those

Chouinard family have been a passionate voice for the

experiences and observations into the graphics, textile

removal of deadbeat dams across the world for years. We’ve

prints and colors of our product collection.

funded many grassroots organizations working to remove dams, prevent new ones and restore ecosystems trashed through human carelessness. In 2011, Patagonia backed the production of the award-winning documentary film DamNation, which challenges the benefits of dams and their historic claims of clean energy. We have lobbied states and the federal government to take action to protect freeflowing rivers. This work takes time, often decades. And success has not often favored nature. In 2011, however, the environmental movement saw a great victory when the Elwha Dam was removed in Washington state. Three years later, the Glines Canyon Dam came out, restoring the Elwha River and ecosystem to its original state.

They hiked through mossy rocks, sandy banks and massive driftwood log piles that had formed all around the former dam site. They watched the decades-worth of blocked river sediment work its way out to sea and reform the sand point that existed prior to the construction of the dams. And they saw how the reintroduction of native plant species and revitalization of the near-shore riverbanks and estuaries contributed to the return of salmon and trout, which hadn’t showed up in decades. Not only did the trip inspire the team, but it gave rise to some great artwork, which conveys a message that positive change can and is happening. As thousands of new dam projects are being proposed all over the world, there’s so much that could be learned from the story of the Elwha. We

Last year, a group of our designers, inspired by the work of

hope this art helps to inspire you to stand up for free-flowing

activists, visited the Elwha on an immersive experience on

rivers and to protect the places that you love.

and around the river’s former dam sites and newly formed

Taken for Granted Patagonia-Produced Film Series Brings Communities Together Our Granted® film series consists of short films that tell the stories of people fighting to preserve or restore life-giving connections to their lands, cultures and communities. They include Harvesting Liberty (about

In June 2017, we packaged them into

growing hemp in the USA, directed by

a mini film series to show at our stores

Dan Malloy), The Refuge (about two

in an effort to raise awareness and rally

Gwich’in women continuing a decades-

support for grassroots environmental

long fight to protect their land and future

nonprofits in their communities. Dan

in the Arctic, directed by Alex Jablonski

showed the films at seven Patagonia

and Kahlil Hudson) and Sea of Miracles

stores here in the U.S., and our Japan

(about a community divided over the

team screened Sea of Miracles and

proposed construction of a new nuclear

another film, Protectors of Firefly River,

power plant in Japan, also directed by

about Ishiki Dam, at 25 Patagonia stores

Dan Malloy).

in their country.

(Lef t) Sea of Miracles screening in Japan. TETSUHARU KINOSHIRO; (Above) Antinuke protesters march against Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant. K AHLIL HUDSON

(Top) Eiichi Shomoto in Sea of Miracles. K AHLIL HUDSON; (Bot tom) Scene from Harvesting Liber ty. DONNIE HEDDEN; Gwichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;in Nation youngsters in The Refuge. K AHLIL HUDSON

Going Global Campaign Strategy, Fundraising, Lobbying, Communications.... Tools for Grassroots Activists Skills Trainings Now on Three Continents United States Activists from 87 environmental organizations came

strategies. And everyone had the chance to celebrate with

together in late September at Fallen Leaf Lake, near Lake

people from Save the Conwy when, on the last day of the

Tahoe in California, to participate in Patagonia’s 15th Tools

conference, the group learned that the dam they’d been

for Grassroots Activists Conference. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a

fighting had been canceled. The schedule was packed

17-year-old climate activist, hip-hop artist and powerful new

and the nights were short, but everyone demonstrated

voice on the front lines of a global, youth-led movement,

they had all the energy needed to change the trajectory

kicked off the conference as our keynote speaker. The next

of the environmental crisis. Getting everyone together

four days of skills trainings were filled with presentations,

in the same place set foundations for future partnerships

hands-on workshops and one-on-one consulting sessions

and friendships and enforced the understanding that no

covering practical topics that will help us all to become

one is alone in this fight, and that we have the strength as

more effective activists. These included campaign strategy,

a community in Europe to influence decision making on

communications, fundraising, lobbying and how to work

environmental issues at all levels of government.

with business. The information imparted was invaluable, and so was the coming together, as a community, to share best practices, experiences and challenges, and going away with the energizing feeling of knowing you are part of a much greater movement.

Japan As snow fell for the first time in 54 years on the KEEP Association’s Seisen-Ryo in Kiyosato, Yamanashi Prefecture, 35 people representing 20 environmental organizations and other entities from all over Japan gathered November

Europe

24–27, 2016, for Japan’s fifth Tools for Grassroots

Patagonia Europe held its first European Tools for

Activists Conference. The objective was simple: to learn

Grassroots Activists Conference September 28–30, 2016,

the skills necessary to do a better job of protecting our air,

at Ambleside, in the UK’s Lake District. Activists from 43

water and soil for future generations. A central theme of

NGOs in 13 countries across Europe and 15 of our own

this conference was the difference between “announcing”

Patagonia employees joined, sleeping in tents and taking

and “transmitting.” An announcement can be made by

shelter in an old farmhouse in the evenings. It rained all

one person, but transmission requires someone actually

three days, but spirits stayed high. Marjan Minnesma, from

listening. It was instructive to be reminded that the listener

the Dutch NGO Urgenda, was the keynote speaker. In the

will hear only what they’re really interested in. As you might

mornings, participants would walk over to the University

expect, the conference focused on the present and the

of Cumbria to work in teams on campaign strategy,

challenges we face. But it also sought to clarify participants’

leadership, storytelling, fundraising, working with business,

expectations for their visions and aims. Many struggled to

best case studies and debates. Activists from Riverwatch,

identify their stakeholders and clearly formulate strategies

Surfers Against Sewage, People and Planet, and the Sea

and tactics, and a lot of time was devoted to figuring these

Ranger Service were invited to discuss their learnings and

things out and conveying them concisely.

1st

TOOLS FOR GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS TRAINING HELD IN EUROPE

CONTINENTS ON WHICH WE’VE NOW HELD TRAININGS

ACTIVISTS FROM EUROPEAN NGOS WHO AT TENDED THIS YEAR’S CONFERENCE IN THE UK

COUNTRIES FROM WHICH THOSE ACTIVISTS HAIL

In addition to our skills trainings, we also captured the Tools Conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Activists from 43 NGOs and 13 dif ferent countries joined 15 Patagonia employees

best wisdom and advice in a book, titled Tools for Grassroots Activists.

at our first European Tools Conference in Ambleside, Lake District, UK.

Go to patagonia.com/books for more information.

BEN READ

Big Bawa, a Gobi grizzly bear, among the Phragmites grasses. JOE RIIS

Stories That Inspire Whether it is protecting little-known grizzlies of the Gobi Desert or spawning steelhead in a river in Oregon, or gathering a community of the island nations of planet Earth to combat climate change, another way Patagonia gives back is to capture the stories of efforts made around the world to preserve our environment. This year’s titles from Patagonia Books include: Tracking Gobi Grizzlies, by Douglas Chadwick (BK770), is a portrait of the rarest of bears’ fight for survival in one of the toughest environments on Earth. It’s a parable of environmental stewardship in a legendary realm. A Temporary Refuge, by Lee Spencer (BK785), transports the reader to the North Umpqua’s Steamboat Creek. Here, Lee Spencer has documented 14 years of detailed observations into a surprisingly engaging almanac teeming with fish, water, vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, reptiles and amphibians, seasonal changes, and interesting events and stories. Spencer is a modern-day Thoreau, and the steelhead pool is his Walden Pond. Mālama Honua: Hōkūle´a–A Voyage of Hope, by Jennifer Allen (BK782), chronicles an epic mission to raise awareness of how we can care for our planet. This is a story about our need to draw together into one global community and commit to living in ecological balance.

Answer with Action Patagonia Action Works: Connecting Individuals and Grassroots Organizations to Bring About Positive Change on Behalf of the Planet

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In 1972, Patagonia opened the doors of our corporate offices to a young graduate student, Mark Capelli. Mark was fighting to protect the Ventura River, which flows seasonally behind our headquarters, from an ambitious commercial development in the floodplain, and his science and passion inspired us. It didn’t hurt that Mark’s research might also help to protect C Street, one of our favorite point breaks. We gave Mark a desk and mailbox and occasionally a grant check. And as Patagonia grew, so did our support for Mark’s environmental group, Friends of the Ventura River. It was gratifying to see how our money and interest in his cause could help to protect a place we all cared about (the development was stopped), and also aid Mark in setting some far-reaching legal precedents for protecting waters statewide. Since those early days we’ve donated more than $89 million to thousands of grassroots groups all over the globe, all working to create positive change for the planet in their own backyard. This diverse and scrappy bunch try to protect our land and water, encourage biodiversity

Along with grant money, we’ve supported this ever-growing

and civic engagement, and fight the biggest threat of all—

group with employee volunteers, store events, skills training,

climate change and its ramifications. They all have different

lobbying and publicity through ads, social media and the

origin stories, needs and capacities. Some consist of two

Patagonia website. Now, we’re pleased to announce we’ve

people, a garage and borrowed time. Others are larger,

developed a new set of modern, scalable tools to connect

more cultivated and more practiced. All are dedicated and

our grantees with a uniquely valuable asset: our 2.7 million

ready to do what’s needed to assure the places we love are

member community.

protected and restored.

Patagonia employees plan their workday with Conservación Patagónica, restoring a former sheep ranch for donation as a national park. Valle Chacabuco, Chile. EUGÉNIE FRERICHS

Patagonia customers and others can now go to Patagonia.com/actionworks to connect directly with the groups we support. We spent a good part of 2017 designing an incredible new

We hope with the launch of Patagonia Action Works that

way to offer simple, relevant ways to get involved. Through

meaningful and long-lasting collaborations will emerge,

Patagonia Action Works, you can learn about environmental

strong, diverse coalitions will be fostered, and the energy

causes, find out about grantee events, donate money and

that is alive and well in our community will afford our

volunteer your time and skills.

grantees the best tools possible to protect the places and

We created this dynamic system to offer our community

communities we all need and love.

more tangible solutions to the environmental crisis, and

From Friends of the Ventura River in Southern California

frankly, we were inspired by the response of our customers

to Kaminoseki Nature Conservation Association in Japan,

on Black Friday 2016. On that day, the biggest shopping

around the world people are hard at work long after their

day of the year, our company directed 100% of our global

day job or parenting has quieted, fighting the good fight.

sales dollars to our environmental grants program—calling

There is room for you and your skills in the effort no matter

it “100% for the Planet.” When customers learned of it, they

your level of experience, availability or money.

turned out in a huge way, spending $10 million dollars in a single day in an expression of overwhelming support for our worldwide grantee network. We saw and felt their excitement, and took this lesson to heart: In these divisive times, our community wants to take part in supporting work that matters.

We know community activism works—but only if the community is engaged. We hope you will get involved with Patagonia Action Works. There are opportunities all around the world and across the environmental spectrum that will interest, inspire and reward you.

(Previous Spread) As an activist company, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been extremely busy this

We pledged all of the $10 million we made from

year working for the things we hold valuable and fighting those we reject.

sales on Black Friday 2016 to environmental work. GARRET T GROVE

Groups We Support Environmental Grant Recipients in Fiscal Year ‘17 (May 1, 2016-April 30, 2017)

Calling it 100% for the Planet, we pledged

North America, we’ve been working to grow

every dollar of the $10 million we earned on

our partnerships within the outdoor industry

Black Friday 2016 to defend our climate, air,

and at the community level.

water and soil. We used the money to bolster our traditional 1% giving, enabling us to step up our giving this year, and next, deepening our already considerable support for the grassroots in this time of worldwide need.

As usual, we’ve been investing almost all of it at the local and state levels, this year funding some 954 mostly small, grassroots environmental groups working toward long-term solutions for a healthier planet. We almost doubled the size of individual grants, and are trying to get more money our existing network of environmental organizations. Through increased spending in our wholesale and retail grant programs in

business in also utilized a portion of the $10 million we raised on Black Friday. Working with them to come up with funding strategies that best meet their most urgent needs, Japan and Europe are using a part of their money to support key battles, paid for with larger grants that help build capacity and influence outcomes, while Australia is now supporting more grassroots organizations working to counter efforts to stifle citizen activism in that country. The situation is dire seemingly everywhere, but there are some positive developments. We are witnessing a more collaborative, diverse, unified movement forming. We are seeing new alliances that bridge environmental and social movements, as well as collaborative funding initiatives, and unprecedented displays of citizen activism like the Women’s March. These are dark times for the planet, but we remain determined, and hopeful.

2017 GR ANT LISTINGS

to work on the ground faster through

Outside of the U.S., each region we do

A LBA N I A

350 Australia Queen’s Park, New South Wales

Nature Conservation Council of NSW Sydney, New South Wales

EcoAlbania Tirana

350 Australia works with a network of campaigners and groups across the country to help coordinate online campaigns, grassroots organizing and mass public actions aimed at halting the climate crisis.

Nature Conservation Council of NSW works to ensure that nature is respected, protected and embraced by an ecologically sustainable society.

Created by the department of biology at Tirana University and the Save the Blue Heart of Europe team in Albania, EcoAlbania seeks to strengthen the friendly coexistence of man and nature in Albania.

A RG E N T I N A Andean Cat Alliance Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba Province The Andean Cat Alliance exists to contribute to the knowledge and conservation of the Andean cat and its habitat.

Australian Marine Conservation Foundation Brisbane, Queensland This group works to create large marine sanctuaries, make fisheries sustainable, and protect and recover threatened ocean wildlife, such as sharks, seals and whales.

Australian Youth Climate Coalition Carlton, Victoria

Asociación Ambiente Sur Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province

AYCC and Seed are building a movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people to protect their country from the causes and impacts of climate change.

Asociación Ambiente Sur seeks to raise awareness and promote active involvement of citizens in the local and regional environment.

Bob Brown Foundation Hobart, Tasmania

Fundación Agroecológica Iguazú Comandante Andresito, Misiones Province

Bob Brown Foundation campaigns to protect the wild and scenic beauty of Tasmania and the ecological integrity of Australia.

Fundación Agroecológica Iguazú works for the protection of the Atlantic forest bioregion of Argentina.

Boomerang Bags Burleigh Heads, Queensland

Fundación Bosques Nativos Argentinos para la Biodiversidad Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province This organization promotes the regeneration of Argentine native forests, encourages the recovery of biodiversity, and supports Argentine scientific investigations.

Boomerang Bags aims to raise awareness and stop plastic bag pollution at its source by engaging communities in the development of a free, sustainable alternative: community-made, reusable Boomerang Bags.

Environment Victoria Carlton, Victoria

FuNaFu works for conservation and a respect for nature, promoting the value of natural places and sustainable development.

Environment Victoria seeks a more sustainable state where the climate is safe and stable, where nature has been restored and healthy ecosystems support lives, and where every Victorian lives within the means of the one planet we share.

Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province

Environmental Justice Australia Melbourne, Victoria

Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina promotes the sustainable use of natural resources, conservation and environmentally responsible behavior in a context of climate change.

Environmental Justice Australia empowers communities to protect the environment and to be a powerful force for change that delivers justice to people and the planet.

Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province

Environs Kimberley Broome, Western Australia

ICB is dedicated to the conservation of whales and their environment through research and education.

Environs Kimberley works to conserve and promote the natural environment and cultural values of the Kimberley.

Fundación Naturaleza para el Futuro Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province

AUS T R A LI A 3000Acres Grow Collingwood, Victoria 3000Acres exists to help anyone interested in growing food find the land, community, resources and support that they need.

Lock the Gate Alliance Chatswood, New South Wales Lock the Gate Alliance is working to protect Australia's natural, cultural and agricultural resources from inappropriate mining and to educate and empower all Australians to demand sustainable solutions to food and energy production.

Port Phillip EcoCentre St Kilda, Victoria Port Phillip EcoCentre is working to inspire, educate and demonstrate sustainable environmental practice and reconnect people to the natural world.

Solar Citizens Newtown, New South Wales Solar Citizens works to protect and grow solar in Australia, advocating for the rights of more than five million solar owners and millions more who wish to go solar.

Surfrider Foundation Australia Collaroy, New South Wales Surfrider Foundation Australia is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of Australia’s oceans, waves and beaches for all people.

The Wilderness Society Hobart, Tasmania The Wilderness Society is dedicated to protecting, promoting and restoring wilderness and natural processes across Australia.

Wildcare Hobart, Tasmania Wildcare collects, documents and educates people on the impacts of marine debris in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, and monitors changes in this otherwise pristine coastal ecosystem.

AUS T R I A Finance & Trade Watch Vienna Finance & Trade Watch works with activists to fight against climate change and promote a just and ecological transition in the global economy.

RiverWatch Vienna This organization aspires to conserve unimpaired rivers and floodplains by drawing attention to the value of rivers, flora and fauna, and humans.

WET – Wildwasser erhalten Tirol Natters, Tyrol This group seeks to protect the last remaining free-flowing whitewater rivers in Tyrol.

B E LG I U M Pesticide Action Network Europe Brussels Pesticide Action Network Europe works to protect people and the planet from pesticides, raising awareness of the problems with pesticides, eliminating the use of hazardous ones and reducing our dependence in favor of sustainable ecological alternatives.

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BOS N I A A N D H E R Z EGOV I N A Centar za zivotnu sredinu Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska Centar za zivotnu sredinu is dedicated to protecting and improving the environment by advocating principles of sustainable development and public participation in decision-making.

C A N A DA Alberta Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society— Southern Alberta Chapter Calgary, Alberta CPAWS Southern Alberta seeks to be the community voice for wilderness protection in Southern Alberta, working collaboratively to develop solutions to conserve natural landscapes and watersheds.

Australians are facing a concerning trend as state governments adopt legislation

British Columbia

face fines of up to $5,500 and jail for up to seven years for peacefully protesting

BC Spaces for Nature Gibsons, British Columbia

on site. In another state, individuals are looking at fines of up to $10,000 or up to

BC Spaces for Nature is working to protect British Columbia's wild spaces.

Burns Bog Conservation Society Delta, British Columbia Burns Bog Conservation Society champions the conservation of Burns Bog and other peatlands through education and public awareness.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society— BC Chapter Vancouver, British Columbia

that undermines the right to peaceful protest. In one state, farmers seeking to protect scarce water resources from pollution by coal seam gas companies now

four years in prison for peacefully protesting the clearing of ancient forests, home to hundred-year-old trees and many endangered species, and for asking that these forests be protected for our children and children’s children. This legislation does not serve our communities, instead privileging a few wealthy individuals and multinational corporations. In protest, Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario and Patagonia Australian Country Director Dane O’Shanassy co-signed a letter sent to more than 170 sitting members of parliament in the New South Wales and Tasmanian state governments. Customers joined them, signing and sending 8,100 letters asking government officials to repeal this legislation.

CPAWS seeks to keep at least half of Canada’s public lands and water wild forever.

Patagonia also donated AUD$50,000 to a group of activists that challenged this

Central Westcoast Forest Society Ucluelet, British Columbia

freedom of political communication outlined in the Australian constitution. The outcome of the case has yet to be determined. Patagonia Australia believes that protest is critical to our ability to safeguard the health and well-being of our families and our communities. And restricting our right to it risks the loss of a livable environment for future generations. Patagonia will continue to support grassroots activists campaigning for the protection of our natural heritage. Patagonia joined the fight to protect the right to peaceful protest in New South Wales and Tasmania. Treetop vigil in the Tarkine, Tasmania. KRYSTLE WRIGHT

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Central Westcoast Forest Society works to restore forest and stream ecosystems, conduct research and monitoring projects, and provide community engagement through education and employment.

legislation in the High Court of Australia, arguing it goes against the implied

Clayoquot Action Society Tofino, British Columbia

Raincoast Conservation Foundation Sidney, British Columbia

Clayoquot Action is committed to protecting the biocultural diversity of Clayoquot Sound through education, research and advocacy.

This team of conservationists and scientists is working to protect the lands, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia through advocacy, science, applied ethics and grassroots activism.

Dogwood BC Victoria, British Columbia Dogwood brings together everyday British Columbians to reclaim decision-making power over their air, land and water.

Ecojustice Canada Vancouver, British Columbia Ecojustice combines law and science to set precedents that strengthen environmental laws.

Ecotrust Canada Vancouver, British Columbia Ecotrust Canada designs economic alternatives that benefit people in the places they call home.

Fraser Riverkeeper Vancouver, British Columbia Fraser Riverkeeper is dedicated to protecting and restoring the Fraser River and its watershed.

Georgia Strait Alliance Vancouver, British Columbia Georgia Strait Alliance seeks to protect and restore the marine environment and promote the sustainability of Georgia Strait.

Granby Wilderness Society Grand Forks, British Columbia Granby Wilderness Society aims to conserve the ecosystems of the Boundary region and the species that live there, through conservation work, public outreach and promoting land stewardship.

Watershed Watch Salmon Society Vancouver, British Columbia

RAVEN raises legal defense funds to assist indigenous peoples who enforce their rights and title to protect their traditional territories.

Watershed Watch Salmon Society seeks to catalyze efforts to protect and restore British Columbia's wild salmon and their habitat.

Salmon Coast Field Station Simoom Sound, British Columbia

West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation Vancouver, British Columbia

Salmon Coast is a hub for coastal research and conservation, working to help researchers understand and restore coastal ecosystems, exemplifying sustainable living, and educating and inspiring individuals to take action on conservation.

Sierra Club of BC Foundation Victoria, British Columbia Sierra Club BC seeks to protect and conserve British Columbia's wilderness, species and ecosystems by providing the government and First Nations with science-based conservation viewpoints and advice.

Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition Hazelton, British Columbia Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition seeks to cultivate a sustainable environment rooted in the Skeena’s culture and thriving wild salmon ecosystem.

Stanley Park Ecology Society Vancouver, British Columbia

Heiltsuk Tribal Council Bella Bella, British Columbia Heiltsuk Tribal Council embraces traditional and modern practices in an effort to protect the tribe’s way of life.

Surfrider Foundation Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia

Ktunaxa Nation Council Society Cranbrook, British Columbia

The Vancouver chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.

Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development Vancouver, British Columbia Working to solve today’s greatest climate and energy challenges, the Pembina Institute seeks to reduce the harmful impacts of fossil fuels while supporting the transition to an energy system that is clean, safe and sustains a high quality of life.

This group provides critical information on the state of wild populations of whales, dolphins and porpoises to inform species protection and recovery plans.

RAVEN Victoria, British Columbia

Stanley Park Ecology Society promotes the awareness of, and respect for, the natural world, and plays a leadership role in the stewardship of Stanley Park—Vancouver’s 1,000-acre urban forest.

Ktunaxa Nation Council Society works to manage its ancestral homelands and resources within a self-sufficient, self-governing nation.

Vancouver Aquarium B.C. Cetaceans Sightings Network Vancouver, British Columbia

Swiilawiid Sustainability Society Skidegate, British Columbia Swiilawiid Sustainability Society organizes and engages people to build a healthy, resilient and thriving community.

Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust Initiative North Vancouver, British Columbia An initiative of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, the Sacred Trust works to oppose and stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project.

This group is dedicated to a just and sustainable society where people are empowered to protect the environment and where environmental protection is law.

West Kootenay EcoSociety Nelson, British Columbia West Kootenay EcoSociety works to bring together residents to protect the natural environment, while building just, equitable, healthy and livable communities in the West Kootenay region.

Western Canada Wilderness Committee Vancouver, British Columbia This group seeks to protect Canada's lifegiving biological diversity through strategic research and grassroots public education.

Wildlife Defence League North Vancouver, British Columbia Wildlife Defence League is dedicated to defending wildlife from exploitation in British Columbia.

Wildsight Kimberley, British Columbia Wildsight promotes biodiversity and sustainable communities in Canada's Columbia and southern Rocky Mountain ecoregions.

Manitoba Lake Winnipeg Foundation Winnipeg, Manitoba LWF works to identify and support solutions that restore and protect the health of Lake Winnipeg and its watershed through research, public education, stewardship and collaboration.

Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition is working to eliminate fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction in Manitoba.

New Brunswick Atlantic Coastal Action Program Saint John Saint John, New Brunswick ACAP works with its community to improve the environmental health and integrity of the Saint John Harbour and its estuaries.

Nova Scotia Business Improvement and Development Association for North Sydney North Sydney, Nova Scotia The BIDA supports the economic and cultural development of downtown North Sydney, Nova Scotia.

International Conservation Fund of Canada Chester, Nova Scotia This organization seeks to advance the longterm preservation of nature and biodiversity in the tropics and other priority areas worldwide.

Ontario Friends of the Rouge Watershed Scarborough, Ontario

WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada Toronto, Ontario Wildlife Conservation Society Canada seeks to protect Canada’s wildlife with its science and with the help of community organizations, citizen scientists, conservation groups and governments.

Wildlands League Toronto, Ontario CPAWS Wildlands League works to protect wilderness on public lands in Ontario, promoting solutions based on science and in cooperation with governments, communities, scientists, the public and industry.

Quebec Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society— Quebec Chapter Montreal, Quebec This group is working to protect important ecosystems and promote better management of natural resources.

Saskatchewan

Friends of the Rouge Watershed encourages a community, ecosystem and watershed approach to protection policy and planning, educates youth and community, restores natural habitat, and monitors the health of its watershed.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society— Saskatchewan Chapter Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Ontario Nature Toronto, Ontario

Yukon

Ontario Nature protects wild species and wild spaces through conservation, education and public engagement.

rare Charitable Research Reserve Cambridge, Ontario The reserve’s network of natural landscapes are set aside for their natural and heritage value and to provide opportunities in ecological and cultural research, education, community engagement and recreation.

Sierra Club of Canada Foundation Ottawa, Ontario Sierra Club Canada Foundation seeks to protect our natural environment by funding a wide range of projects.

South Nation Conservation Finch, Ontario South Nation Conservation seeks to ensure that the management of natural occurrences, natural resources and human activities result in the protection or improvement of water resources.

TIK enhances local resiliency to climate change through direct action.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society— Yukon Chapter Whitehorse, Yukon

Futaleufú Riverkeeper seeks to protect the Futaleufú River in Patagonia, which faces threats from dams.

Maule-Itata Coastkeeper Maule, Maule Region Maule-Itata Coastkeeper seeks to protect the coastal waters between the Maule and Itata rivers in south-central Chile.

COS TA R I C A Asociación Conservacionista Costas Verdes San José This group seeks to promote the conservation and restoration of coastal ecosystems through the active involvement of communities.

C Z EC H R E PU B LI C Bieno Prague Bieno exists to create and sustain urban public spaces that build stronger communities.

CEE Bankwatch Network Prague Bankwatch works with communities in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to prevent dubious public investments that harm the planet and people’s well-being.

CPAWS Yukon aims to establish and maintain a comprehensive system of protected areas in the Yukon and to safeguard wilderness and wildlife throughout the north.

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Ziva voda Provodov Šonov, Kralovehradecky

Corporación Puelo Patagonia Puerto Varas, Los Lagos Region

Ziva voda plants trees, restores natural areas and seeks to ban fracking in the Czech Republic.

Corporación Puelo Patagonia works to boost and strengthen the sustainable development of the Puelo and Cochamo river basins, conserving the landscape and their natural and cultural heritage.

Ecosistemas Providencia, Metropolitan Region Ecosistemas exists to contribute to the deployment of a more balanced society through environmental education, informed and peaceful public participation, deep ecological thought, communications management and eco-cultural promotion.

Fiscalia Del Medio Ambiente Santiago, Metropolitan Region This group promotes the right to live in a pollution-free environment and to protect Chile’s rich environmental heritage.

This group plants trees and shrubs in the places where nobody else would plant them, working with volunteers to restore nature.

FR ANCE ADDEAR de Haute-Savoie Annecy, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes ADDEAR de Haute-Savoie encourages the conservation and use of local varieties of heirloom seeds by promoting a network for seed exchange and sharing of know-how.

Association Al'Terre Breizh Quimper, Bretagne Association Al'Terre Breizh aims to ease a transition toward more sustainable living by helping to reconcile human development and a natural balance.

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Transition Initiative Kenora Kenora, Ontario

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is dedicated to the protection of Canada’s public land and water.

Fundación Futaleufú Riverkeeper Futaleuf ú, Los Lagos Region

Avenir Haute-Durance Puy-Saint-Eusèbe, Hautes-Alpes

LINGO Radebeul, Sachsen

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Avenir Haute-Durance works to encourage energy conservation and to preserve and protect the environment, landscapes and quality of life within the Haute-Durance Valley and its tributaries.

LINGO works to accelerate the transition to a climate-friendly, zero fossil fuels, 100% clean energy world, keeping coal, oil and gas in the ground.

Associazione Montagna Grande Onlus Bisegna, Abruzzo

European Rivers Network France—SOS Loire Vivante Le Puy-En-Velay, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes This group works to protect river and aquatic environments in France and the rest of Europe.

Mountain Wilderness France Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes This group works to preserve mountain wilderness against the attacks that threaten it by promoting the creation and good management of protected areas.

Res’OGM Info Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Res’OGM Info raises public awareness about the core challenges and risks induced by genetically engineered crops and promotes agro-ecological alternatives.

Réseau Semences Paysannes Aiguillon, Aquitaine This group creates farmers’ seed banks, promotes research and works for greater biodiversity in agriculture.

GERMANY Bund Naturschutz in Bayern Munich, Bavaria This group works on behalf of the great crested newt, an endangered amphibian that lives in only a few refuges in the western area of Munich.

Green City Munich, Bavaria Green City works to promote sustainable transport, renewable energies and urban planning and greenery.

Grüne Liga Berlin, Berlin Brandenburg Grüne Liga works on water policy in Germany, informing, networking and engaging on the federal and EU level.

Klimagerechtigkeit Jetzt Leipzig, Sachsen This group is working to phase out the use of coal to generate electricity in Germany in a socially and ecologically responsible manner.

Pestizid Aktions-Netzwerk Hamburg, Hamburg PAN Germany seeks to protect humanity and the environment from pesticides, promoting less harmful alternatives.

Rehab Republic Munich, Bavaria Rehab Republic works to foster sustainability as a societal value and make sustainable habits more attractive.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Munich, Bavaria This group is dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales and dolphins, defending these animals against the many threats they face through conservation campaigns, advising governments, and research and rescue.

I N DO N E S I A Project Clean Uluwatu Bali PCU creates sustainable environmental solutions for the Uluwatu so this world-famous surf break can be preserved.

IREL AND Cork Nature Network Ballinvoher, Castletownroche, Cork Cork Nature Network seeks to benefit the community of Cork by promoting and encouraging the conservation of wildlife and habitats in Cork city and county.

Irish Wildlife Trust Dublin, Leinster Irish Wildlife Trust empowers the people of Ireland to protect wildlife and habitat through gaining knowledge and taking action.

The Sustainable Water Network Dublin, Leinster SWAN is an umbrella network of 26 of Ireland’s leading environmental groups working together to protect their waters.

Wild Inishowen Club Londonderry, County Londonderry The Wild Inishowen Club aims to conserve and preserve the rich diversity of habitats within Inishowen.

Montagna Grande works for the protection of brown bear habitat inside national parks in Abruzzo.

Associazione Salvaguardia Val Mastallone Cravagliana, Piedmont Associazione Salvaguardia Val Mastallone seeks to protect and enhance the mountain environment of the Mastallone Valley and Valsesia with a particular focus on stopping hydroelectric exploitation of its waterways.

CITTADINI PER L’ARIA Milan, Lombardy Cittadini per l’Aria (Citizens for Air) works for better air quality, and on other environmental issues, empowering citizens around Italy to become more effective advocates.

Comitato Bellunese Acqua Bene Comune Lentai, Belluno This organization aims to save the rivers of its province from the excess of hydroelectric exploitation.

Delegazione Europea per l’Agricoltura Familiare in Asia, Africa e America Latina Milan, Lombardy DEAFAL works in the rural development sector on behalf of family farmers and vulnerable people, seeking environmental sustainability, preservation of biodiversity, and food security and sovereignty.

Genitori Antismog Milan, Lombardy Genitori Antismog works to reduce air pollution through advocacy and providing information about the impact of smog on health.

Isola Pepe Verde Milan, Lombardy Isola Pepe Verde works to protect nature in Milan, Italy, by converting abandoned lots into community gardens and applying best practices in solar, water, flora and fauna.

Istituto Oikos Milan, Lombardy Oikos operates in Europe and developing countries to safeguard biodiversity by contributing to preserving ecosystems and supporting development through professionalism, innovation and participation.

Salviamo l'Orso Montesilvano, Pescara Salviamo l'Orso works with national parks and local governments to protect the Marsican brown bear.

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Chile Punta de Lobos Preserved

Punta de Lobos, Chile, is one of the world’s best left-point

This year, we worked with campaign partners to close the

surf breaks and home to Patagonia surf ambassador Ramón

$350,000 gap, managing to raise all of the funds necessary

Navarro. Like so many special places, particularly ones on

to transfer ownership of the first parcel of land at Punta de

the coast, builders wanted to develop the point for private

Lobos to the community. Preserving the way of life for multi-

gain. For the past several years, Ramón and members of his

generational fishing families like the Navarros went hand

community, with support from Patagonia and our partners at

in hand with safeguarding the rich marine and terrestrial

Save The Waves, have been working to raise money to buy

biodiversity of Chile’s coast. And now an ongoing Lobos

the land and protect Punta de Lobos forever.

Por Siempre campaign, with a goal of protecting and

The fight to save Punta de Lobos gained momentum in 2014, when Patagonia released The Fisherman’s Son, a film

managing the entire point, is led by Chile’s own Fundación Punta De Lobos.

about Ramón and his environmental work. With the energy

We celebrated the success of this community-led effort to

and support generated by the film, a global crowdfunding

protect Punta de Lobos on November 15, 2017, a success

campaign

that shows the undeniable power of grassroots activism and

contribute, raising more than $374,000. Local entrepreneur

fundraising, and one that has inspired other philanthropic

and philanthropist Nicholas Davis added more to the pot

campaigns across Chile.

inspired

individuals

and

foundations

hold in trust until the remaining money could be raised. We contributed more from our Black Friday (100% for the Planet) campaign, along with licensing the fees we earned from a big-wave inflation vest. Patagonia was instrumental in suppor ting a successful community-led ef for t to protect Punta de Lobos from development. Chile. PHILIP MULLER

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and bought the first, and most iconic, parcel of land to

Selva Urbana Sesto San Giovanni, Lombardy Selva Urbana is helping to reforest the suburb of Arese, a former industrial area, to protect and increase biodiversity.

JA PA N A SEED JAPAN Taito, Tokyo A SEED works for a sustainable and fair society by seeking to eliminate mass production, consumption, disposal and disparities between regions and generations.

Cosmic Seed Shizukuishi, Iwate Cosmic Seed exists to restore the practice of home seed-raising to reproduce healthy foods suitable for Japan.

First Ascent Japan Sendai, Miyagi First Ascent Japan promotes outdoor recreation at Kinka Mountain in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, which has seen a drastic decrease in tourism since the earthquake, and works to contribute to the resuscitation and preservation of the environment.

Friends of the Earth Japan Itabashi, Tokyo Friends of the Earth Japan focuses on global warming, deforestation and aid to developing nations, seeking to create an existence in which all people can live peacefully and equitably.

Group for the Promotion of Local Economy by Planting Native Plants in Iriomote Taketomi, Okinawa This group works to conserve the natural environment in Iriomote by planting native species and eradicating nonnative species.

Iga Mizu To Midori No Kai Iga, Mie This organization aims to preserve salamander habitat and prevent government waste associated with Kawakami Dam.

Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies Nakano, Tokyo This group is working for a fair, transparent, decentralized, self-supporting, efficient energy system powered by renewable energy.

Ishikigawa Mamori Tai Sasebo, Nagasaki Ishikigawa Mamori Tai seeks to stop construction of Ishiki Dam on the Ishikigawa River.

Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society Chiyoda, Tokyo JACSES seeks global environmental and social justice through research, promoting policy uninfluenced by special interests and by providing information on which people can act.

Japan Community Power Association Nakano, Tokyo Japan Community Power Association promotes the development of decentralized renewable energy.

Japan Endocrine-Disruptor Preventive Action Tokyo, Tokyo This group seeks to protect living things from hazardous chemicals, including endocrine disruptors.

Japan Tropical Forest Action Network Shinjuku, Tokyo Japan Tropical Forest Action Network seeks to stop deforestation of tropical forests.

Kamigo Segami No Shizen Wo Mamoru Kai Yokohama, Kanagawa

Mothers’ Radiation Lab Fukushima Iwaki, Fukushima Mothers’ Radiation Lab Fukushima collects information about radioactive contamination in an effort to restore the ecosystem.

NACS.J-O Ogasawara, Tokyo NACS.J-O works towards a healthier Ogasawara, seeking to raise awareness about and protect the ecosystem and by offering advice at administrative conferences and regional gatherings.

National Council of Organic Agriculture Promotion Tokyo, Tokyo This group is working to promote organic agriculture to create a world that lives in harmony with all life.

NPO Better Than Today Meguro, Tokyo NPO Better Than Today supports the social and environmental activities of nonprofits in Japan that have small budgets and can’t get publicity.

NPO Kinshizen Forestry Association Minato, Tokyo

This organization is working to protect the natural environment of Segamisawa from a massive urban development planned near Yokohama.

This group teaches skills that promote the reintroduction of native species which protect forested areas from high tides, rehabilitate disasters areas and reclaim neglected spaces.

Kaminoseki no Shizen wo mamoru kai Kagoshima, Kagoshima

Pacific Asia Resource Center Chiyoda, Tokyo

This group is working to stop a nuclear plant planned near a precious ecosystem called the “Miracle Sea,” hoping instead to see the area registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

PARC aims to create a society where people can live equally, sponsoring various campaigns that include sharing information globally, conducting research, providing public lectures on liberal education, workshops and political policy proposals.

Kiko Network Chyoda, Tokyo Kiko Network is tackling climate change by creating new models and working on education problems on the local level.

Kyouzon No Mori Network Setagaya, Tokyo This group is working with high school and university students to create a society that lives in harmony with nature and shared values.

Maniwa Isan Kenkyukai Maniwa, Okayama

Ryuiki No Shizen Wo Kangaeru Network Nanae, Hokkaido This group studies the natural systems of rivers on behalf of wild animals and their habitats.

Save the Dugong Campaign Center Shinjuku, Tokyo This group works on behalf of the dugong, working to preserve its habitat and the biodiversity of Henoko Ohoura Bay, which is a main feeding ground.

This group seeks to preserve the biodiversity and landscape of the Maniwa region.

Shizensaibai-Party Matsuyama, Ehime

Mogami-Ogunigawa No Seiryu Wo Mamoru Kai Shinjo, Yamagata

This group works to reinvigorate abandoned farmland, rebuild a work ethic and promote wage levels that lead to the renewal of farming communities.

This group is working to stop the MogamiOguni River dam project in favor of a sustainable alternative that preserves the river basin’s rich ecosystem.

Hotaru No Furusato Segamizawa Kikin Yokohama, Kanagawa This group works to protect Segami swamp—a rich ecosystem that holds a variety of culturally significant artifacts.

Yamba Ashita-no Kai Naganohara, Gunma Yamba Ashita-no Kai is working to increase awareness about the shortcomings of the Yamba Dam project in the hopes of seeing it revised.

Yoshinogawa Ramsar Network Tokushima, Tokushima This group seeks to protect biodiversity in the Yoshino River estuary.

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Japan Stopping a Nuclear Power Plant

K E N YA Muungano Development Gateways Busia Muungano Development Gateways works to protect the Yala swamp ecosystem, a huge wetland on Lake Victoria where several endangered native fish species occur and where large rivers empty into the lake.

M E X I CO Kanan Kab Protección del Mundo Mérida, Yucatan This organization aims to increase, recover and improve the quality of green areas in Mérida through the design and implementation of reforestation projects and environmental education.

N E T H E R L A N DS ASEED Europe Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

The ocean surrounding Iwai Island and Nagashima in Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Kaminoseki Town is home to precious and endangered creatures, such as the

ASEED Europe seeks to address the structural causes of environmental destruction and social injustice.

crested murrelet, finless porpoise and numerous rare endemic fish, shellfish and

Designathon Works Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

power plant there, which would be the first one built since the Fukushima meltdown

Designathon Works is working to unleash the creativity of one million children worldwide, teaching them to become designers for change.

Sea Ranger Service Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland Sea Ranger Service supports young navy veterans by training unemployed youth as Sea Rangers, who restore underwater landscape in Marine Protected Areas.

Stichting Plastic Soup Foundation Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

the Inland Sea of the past. But there are plans afoot to build Japan’s newest nuclear in 2011. Its construction would destroy an ancient way of life and further threaten fragile species at this potential World Heritage site. Patagonia grantee and activist Midori Takashima, founder of the Kaminoseki Nature Conservation Association, along with fishermen and farmers who have been fighting construction of the plant for 35 years, continue the battle to preserve Kaminoseki’s sea and natural environment. This year, Patagonia Japan helped them to organize stakeholders and held workshops to support their vision and further strategic planning to stop the power plant. Likewise, we spread awareness through crowdfunding and surpassed our ¥5 million (USD$46,000) fundraising goal to repair an old house, then turn it into a conference hotel that will serve as a base for sustainable urban development centered around the ocean and nature. Through the Granted Film Festival, we held screening parties for Sea of Miracles, a Patagonia-produced film that explored the issue, at 22 Patagonia stores in four cities throughout Japan. The film significantly increased public awareness, highlighting both the accomplishments and the challenges that lie ahead. Through all of this work, a ring of support like never before is expanding to aid new efforts to stop construction and protect this valuable area. Activists have been fighting against the construction of the Kaminoseki nuclear power plant for 35 years. Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. KEIKO NASU

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Stichting Plastic Soup Foundation seeks to put an end to the increasing pollution of the seas and oceans with plastics.

seabirds. It’s an area with many natural beaches—one that retains an atmosphere of

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Stichting Plastic Whale/Plastic Whale Foundation Amsterdam, Noord-Holland Plastic Whale is the first professional plastic fishing company in the world, working to make the world’s waters plastic-free and create value from plastic waste.

Stichting The Tipping Point Amsterdam, Noord-Holland Stichting The Tipping Point is working to accelerate the transition to a sustainable society by initiating audacious, creative and ecologically sound projects.

N O RWAY Nordic Ocean Watch Oslo Nordic Ocean Watch seeks to create a culture where ocean users contribute to a better ocean.

PE RU Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental San Isidro, Lima Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental seeks to foster citizen-led conservation and promote sustainable lifestyles.

Mission We work to pursue a “green society,” where every member is equal and where human beings can coexist with nature. We also seek to bring together women who are environmental activists. Activities We launched various campaigns to raise awareness about the issue of microbeads (tiny bits of plastic found in rinse-off cosmetics) and to reduce plastic waste in everyday life. We held more than 20 classes and developed a Plastic Island

PO R T U G A L SOS – Salvem o Surf Lisboa, Carcavelos This group works to protect and restore Portuguese coastlines and surf spots and create legal surf reserves.

exhibition to educate the public. We conducted performance and street campaigns to demonstrate the microbeads issue on World Oceans Day, June 8. We launched an online campaign with a list of cosmetics that contain microbeads, asking readers to participate in a #microplastic_free declaration. We also worked with Greenpeace to submit 25,000 petitions to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety asking it to ban the use of microbeads in cosmetics. Because the issue of microbeads came up in parliament, more than 10 media outlets—including major TV networks and daily newspapers—covered the issue. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the National Institute of Environmental Research, made plans to conduct research. Accomplishments These efforts resulted in the cosmetics industry voluntarily agreeing to restrict the use of microbeads and led the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety to revise the nation’s laws governing cosmetics. The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea enacted a law to ban microbeads in all rinse-off cosmetics in 2016. Beginning in July 2017, using microbeads in personal-care products is prohibited by law.

Raising public awareness was key to KWEN’s successful ef for ts to enact a ban on the use of ocean-polluting microbeads in personal-care products in South Korea. YEONJEONG KIM

S LOV E N I A Leeway Collective Kamna Gorica, Gorenjska Leeway Collective is dedicated to saving the last free-flowing rivers of Europe.

SO U T H KO R E A Buddhist Environmental Solidarity Seoul Buddhist Environmental Solidarity works to preserve natural ecosystems around religious communities to realize a world where all beings can live peacefully and purely together.

Cheongju Chungbuk Korean Federation for Environmental Movement Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do

Korean Federation for Environmental Movement in Masan Changwon Jinhae Changwon-si

This group seeks to transform its town into a green society based on the values of life, peace and participation, helping to create a more sustainable world in harmony with nature and human beings.

This group works to preserve Junam Reservoir as a habitat for more than a hundred species of birds aquatic plants.

Citizens’ Movement for Environmental Justice Seoul Citizens’ Movement for Environmental Justice works to protect the waters, preserve the ecology and educate people about Jungrang Stream.

Citizens’ Survey on Saemangeum Ecology Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do Citizens’ Survey on Saemangeum Ecology is working to restore the tidal flats at Saemangeum for the benefit of birds and fishermen.

Green Korea United Seoul Green Korea United works to engender a respect for life, a more sustainable and nonviolent community and environmental autonomy.

Institute for Environment and Community Development Studies Pusan This group proposes and implements environmental alternatives to help secure an existence free from threats of environmental damage, toxic chemicals and radioactive substances for citizens of Pusan.

Jirisan Network Jeollabook-do Jirisan Network works to preserve the life, ecosystem, culture, history and harmonious coexistence of nature and people of Jirisan.

KFEM Seoul Devoted to the core values of life, peace, ecology and participation, KFEM is working to create a more sustainable world.

Korea Institute for Sustainable Society Seoul KISS is a social think tank working on behalf of more sustainable development and an ecologically minded society that values nature.

Korean Federation for Environmental Movement in Daegu Daegu

This group seeks to protect mountains, seas and lagoons in the Sokcho, Goseong, Yangyang area.

Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, Jinju Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do KFEM Jinju works to create a more sustainable society in harmony with nature.

KWEN Seoul KWEN is working toward a Green Society, where every member is equal and coexists with nature.

National Park Conservation Network Seoul NPCN works to conserve the natural ecosystems and beautiful landscapes of South Korea's national parks.

The Island Institute Seoul

La Paniquella, associació naturalista is working to stop environmental degradation, raise awareness of natural heritage and promote sustainable development.

La Sabina Lleida, Catalonia La Sabina works for the conservation of biodiversity and nature, especially wild birds, using direct in-field action, conservation management and raising awareness to help safeguard natural heritage.

SRI L ANK A Carbon Consulting Company Colombo, Western Province Carbon Consulting Company works to broaden the scope of the carbon market to include environmental and social considerations.

SWEDEN Älvräddarnas Samorganisation Näsåker ÄlvS works on hydropower issues, seeking new legislation governing its use in Sweden.

The Island Institute is working to stop the destruction of the environment and preserve the ecosystem of islands in Korea.

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Filme fuer die Erde uses environmental films to share knowledge about sustainability and inspire people to take action.

Asociación de Vecinos de Ulia San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa This group aims to provide a new idea of a public garden—one designed for and by citizens, that provides food for its community and also nourishes human relations in a free green space.

Escalada Sostenible Zona Centro Madrid, Mejorada del Campo Escalada Sostenible Zona Centro is a voice for the climbing community, helping to educate climbers and work with landowners and land managers to ensure the responsible use of climbing resources.

FAPAS Llanes, Asturias FAPAS works to protect wild animals and their habitats.

Filme fuer die Erde Zurich, Kanton Zurich

Stop Plastic Pollution Switzerland Zurich Stop Plastic Pollution Switzerland aims at reducing plastic pollution in Switzerland and globally, working with groups of volunteers who become active in cleanups, citizenscientist projects and anti-littering campaigns.

U N IT E D K I N G D O M 10:10 London 10:10 works with people and communities to secure a low-carbon future.

Ayrshire Rivers Trust Ayr Ayrshire Rivers Trust seeks to create, promote and support initiatives designed to conserve and enhance its river environments.

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KFEM Daegu works to resolve environmental problems in Daegu by carrying out various campaigns and actions to protect the Nakdong and Geumho rivers and make Daegu a safe and healthy city.

Korean Federation for Environmental Movement in Sokcho, Gosung, Yangyang Sokcho-si, Gangwon-do

La Paniquella, associació naturalista Llavorsí, Catalonia

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Mission Ende Gelände means “Here and no further” in German, and we challenge the German fossil-fuels industry to stop mining. We use well-organized acts of civil disobedience that say very clearly: not a meter more, here is Ende Gelände, here is the end of the road. The single-largest contributor to Germany’s CO2 emissions is the lignite mining industry— and that industry is our target. We organize large-scale demonstrations that unite thousands of people around a goal—such as stopping the expansion of a mine—but also provide protesters with legal aid, action trainings, security advice, and medical assistance. Ultimately, we want to limit global warming by phasing out fossil fuels, and we believe that to stop climate change we need to take action ourselves, using civil disobedience as a powerful means for real action to put our climate before profit. Activities We started by blocking coal trains seven years ago and have grown both our numbers and our strategy since then. Small groups of climate justice activists blockaded trains from the Hambach mine in 2011-2013, and blockaded a digger at the Garzweiler mine in 2014. Through the success of the digger blockade in 2014, the idea of a mass blockade emerged—the Ende Gelände alliance was born to mobilize for this mass action. In August 2015, over one thousand people entered the Garzweiler coal mine again to obstruct operations. In May 2016, 4,000 people blocked the coal mine and mining infrastructure around the Welzow-Süd mine and a coal-fired power plant in East Germany. In August 2017, we went back to the Rhineland and formed a human chain of 3,500 people to draw a “red line” against lignite mining.

In addition, we blockaded coal infrastructure together with an even broader alliance of climate justice activists from all over Europe. Our goal was to connect to other struggles like those of the working class, queer-feminists, and food sovereignty concerns. Accomplishments The work over the last years–not only by Ende Gelände but by the whole movement—has resulted in a broad awareness of the impact of coal-fired power plants on climate change. Our actions are becoming increasingly interconnected, attracting thousands more participants and proving that broad-based participation and creativity will continue to challenge the fossil fuels industry. In 2017, climate camps and mass blockades in the style of Ende Gelände took place in different European countries. For example, under the name Code Rood in the Netherlands or Limity Jsme My (We are the limits) in the Czech Republic Ende Gelände has become a loud voice in discussions on energy transition and gained broad media attention. A large majority of the German population wants to phase out coal and we continue to put pressure on our government to follow the will of the people. In November, the next round of climate negotiations will take place in Bonn and will be hosted by Fiji. We are currently working with grassroots movements all over the world to organize an action that will bring large media attention to the fact that Germany is the lignite world champion, a title we’d like to soundly renounce. Find out more about our efforts at ende-gelaende.org/en/

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(Above) Ende Gelände activists block trains

group’s peaceful ef for ts to phase out fossil fuels in Europe and reduce global warming. TIM WAGNER

delivering coal to German power plants. FELIX SPIRA

City of Trees Salford, Greater Manchester

Pesticide Action Network UK Brighton, East Sussex

City of Trees is working to reinvigorate Greater Manchester’s landscape by restoring underused, unloved woodland and planting three million trees—one for every resident.

Pesticide Action Network UK works to protect people and the planet from pesticides, raising awareness of the problems with pesticides, eliminating the use of hazardous ones and reducing our dependence in favor of sustainable ecological alternatives.

City to Sea Bristol City to Sea runs campaigns to stop marine plastic pollution at the source.

Reclaim the Power Leeds

Coal Action Network Humshaugh, Hexham

Reclaim the Power takes creative direct action on environmental, economic and social justice issues, working in solidarity with affected communities.

CAN aims to end opencast coal mining within the UK and close coal power stations to protect human health, the environment and slow climate change.

Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust Cornwall This group is engaging an army of people to record, photograph and remove discarded fishing gear from the sea and the land around the Cornish coast.

Culture Unstained Oxford, Oxfordshire Culture Unstained brings ethical scrutiny to bear on the oil industry’s sponsorship deals with cultural institutions and calls on the cultural sector to cut its ties to the fossil-fuel industry.

Friends of the Earth London Friends of the Earth is working for a new positive relationship between people and the planet.

London Waterkeeper London London Waterkeeper defends rivers and challenges polluters.

Lynx UK Trust St Asaph Lynx UK Trust is working to carry out a five-year trial reintroduction of Eurasian lynx into the UK to facilitate the long-term establishment of a sustainable population.

North West Red Squirrel Group Londonderry, County Londonderry This group works to safeguard the future of red squirrels by helping communities understand how we can work together to save them.

People & Planet Oxford, Oxon

Alabama Alabama Rivers Alliance Birmingham, Alabama Alabama Rivers Alliance works to protect and restore Alabama’s rivers by advocating for smart water policy, organizing at the grassroots level and empowering citizens to ensure a healthy Alabama.

Black Warrior Riverkeeper Birmingham, Alabama Black Warrior Riverkeeper works to protect and restore the Black Warrior River and its tributaries.

RegenAg UK facilitates implementation of regenerative agricultural practices across the UK, raising the profile of alternatives to destructive land-use practices and connecting the inspired with pioneers, experts and trainers from whom to learn.

Conservation Alabama Foundation Mobile, Alabama

Save the Conwy Rhiwddolion, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy

Coosa Riverkeeper Birmingham, Alabama

Conservation Alabama Foundation protects people and places by building the ability of Alabama’s citizens to promote conservation through government and civic action.

Save the Conwy exists to oppose a hydroelectric plant planned on the River Conwy in Snowdonia National Park.

Coosa Riverkeeper works to protect, restore and promote the Coosa River and its tributaries in Alabama.

Surfers Against Sewage St Agnes, Cornwall

Fresh Air Family Birmingham, Alabama

Surfers Against Sewage works to protect the United Kingdom's oceans, waves and beaches through education, community action, scientific research and volunteer conservation campaigns.

Fresh Air Family offers outdoor activities and does outreach to teach that every living thing deserves respect.

The Carbon Literacy Trust Manchester, Greater Manchester

Land Trust of North Alabama is dedicated to preserving land, water and wildlife habitat for recreation, health, education and conservation.

The Carbon Literacy Trust offers everyone access to a day’s worth of climate-change learning, certifying successful participants and organizations, and their learning and action, as Carbon Literate.

Women’s Environmental Network London WEN works on issues that link women, health and the environment, seeking an environmentally sustainable world in which we have achieved gender equality.

Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust Carperby, Leyburn, North Yorkshire Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust seeks to deliver practical measures to restore and enhance Yorkshire’s rivers and to promote people’s enjoyment and understanding of these environments.

Land Trust of North Alabama Huntsville, Alabama

Mobile Baykeeper Mobile, Alabama Mobile Baykeeper protects and preserves the Mobile Bay Watershed, researching environmental issues, educating and advocating, and building partnerships to ensure clean water, clean air and a healthy community.

Tennessee Riverkeeper Decatur, Alabama Tennessee Riverkeeper stands as a watchdog over the Tennessee River and its tributaries by enforcing environmental laws and educating the public.

Alaska Alaska Conservation Foundation Anchorage, Alaska Alaska Conservation Foundation protects Alaska’s natural environment and the diverse cultures and ways of life it sustains.

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People & Planet supports a diverse and democratic student movement working to tackle the root causes of the climate crisis and economic injustice in the electronics and garment supply chains.

RegenAg UK Wiveliscombe, Taunton, Somerset

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Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association Sitka, Alaska ALFA is an alliance of small-boat commercial fishermen that supports science-based fisheries management through collaborative research, advocacy and innovation.

Alaska Marine Conservation Council Anchorage, Alaska Alaska Marine Conservation Council promotes the integrity of Alaska’s marine ecosystems and the health of ocean-dependent coastal communities through sustainable fishing, habitat protection and local stewardship.

Artchange Sitka, Alaska Artchange seeks to sustain the wild nature of the transboundary area in the Alaska-BC region through documentary film and a multimedia campaign.

Cook Inletkeeper Homer, Alaska Cook Inletkeeper works to protect Alaska’s Cook Inlet watershed and the life it sustains through advocacy, monitoring and education.

Eyak Preservation Council Cordova, Alaska Eyak Preservation Council preserves, restores and celebrates wild salmon culture and habitat through education and the promotion of sustainable livelihoods within the Copper River and Prince William Sound watersheds.

Mission Since its founding in 2009 by filmmaker and artist Ellen Frankenstein, Artchange has been starting conversations and sharing stories about food, culture, sustainability and climate change. Artchange supports the creation of documentary media, contemporary art and community projects that foster participation, collaboration and interaction in our Alaskan communities and beyond. Through communication and art—including theater, video, photography, radio and audio storytelling, writing and public art—we work to create dialogue and community for a more sustainable and just future. Activities Artchange has many irons in the fire, including two documentaries at the intersection of clean water, wild fish and unique cultures. Uprivers is the story of two indigenous women and their communities on either side of the US/Canadian border reacting and adapting to the threat of rampant mining in their watersheds. Last Man Fishing is a documentary on the future of America’s sustainable smallscale fisheries. Accomplishments Artchange has a bevy of successful documentaries under its belt including Carved From the Heart, Eating Alaska and Tracing Roots, which cover topics as diverse as suicide in Alaska Native villages, Alaska’s unique food system and the intersection of Haida basketry and climate change. The Artchange documentary Uprivers uses the true stories of two women who are redefining what it means to be a part of their landscapes and watersheds and who are involved in a coordinated international campaign to protect Alaska’s and British Columbia’s transboundary waterways from destructive mining that puts their shared salmon habitat at risk. Uprivers hits theaters from Anchorage to Halifax in January 2018. Learn more at uprivers.org Subsistence salmon fishing is central to life along transboundary waterways as chronicled in Ar tchange’s Uprivers. ELLIE SCHMIDT

Lynn Canal Conservation Haines, Alaska Lynn Canal Conservation promotes integrity of wild lands, protects quality of life and fosters environmental awareness in the Chilkat and Chilkoot watersheds and coastal areas of the upper Lynn Canal.

Northern Alaska Environmental Center Fairbanks, Alaska The Northern Alaska Environmental Center promotes conservation and resource stewardship through education and advocacy.

SalmonState Homer, Alaska SalmonState works to protect habitat and promote policies that guarantee that Alaska remains the Salmon State: home of the world’s largest, healthiest wild salmon resource.

Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Juneau, Alaska Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is devoted to promoting conservation, advocating for sustainability and protecting the special places of the Tongass National Forest.

Susitna River Coalition Talkeetna, Alaska

Grand Canyon Wildlands Council Flagstaff, Arizona

Friends of Little Sugar Creek Bentonville, Arkansas

This group supports a free-flowing Susitna River through collaboration, advocacy and promoting awareness of sustainable energy alternatives to the Susitna mega-dam.

Through land stewardship, volunteer opportunities and science-based solutions, this group works to preserve and restore safe havens for the wild creatures of the Grand Canyon ecoregion.

Friends of Little Sugar Creek is working for the removal of the failed Lake Bella Vista Dam and the restoration of Little Sugar Creek.

TOPtoTOP Global Climate Expedition Cordova, Alaska TOPtoTOP Global Climate Expedition exists to inspire the youth to save our planet.

Trout Unlimited Alaska Program Anchorage, Alaska TU seeks to conserve, protect and restore North America’s cold-water fisheries and their watersheds.

Trustees for Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Trustees for Alaska works to protect and sustain Alaska’s natural environment by providing legal counsel to conservation groups, community groups, Native American villages and individual Alaskans.

Arizona 4 Corner Film Logistics Flagstaff, Arizona 4 Corner Film Logistics uses media to help the many organizations working to save the Grand Canyon and the Confluence from certain destruction.

Arizona Mining Reform Coalition Tucson, Arizona This coalition works to ensure that the mining industry cleans up after itself and complies fully with the spirit of safeguards in place to protect Arizona.

Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection Tucson, Arizona This group is working for the long-term conservation of biological diversity and ecological function of the Sonoran Desert.

Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival Flagstaff, Arizona FMFF offers a cultural alternative to the mainstream commercial film experience and celebrates, promotes, nurtures and teaches nonfiction filmmaking.

Grand Canyon Trust Flagstaff, Arizona Grand Canyon Trust seeks to protect and restore the Colorado Plateau—its spectacular landscapes, flowing rivers, clean air, diversity of plants and animals, and areas of beauty and solitude.

Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project Flagstaff, Arizona Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project is dedicated to bringing back wolves and restoring ecological health in the Grand Canyon region through grassroots advocacy and education.

Lobo Coalition Tucson, Arizona Lobo Coalition seeks to help the critically endangered Mexican gray wolf recover and restore it to its essential natural role.

Northern Jaguar Project Tucson, Arizona Northern Jaguar Project works to preserve and recover the world’s northernmost jaguar population and its natural habitats through educational programs and the establishment, care and expansion of a safe-haven sanctuary in northern Mexico.

Paving Tundra Flagstaff, Arizona Paving Tundra is working to stop the Ambler Road, a 211-mile industry-only road through wild areas of Arctic Alaska.

Sky Island Alliance Tucson, Arizona Sky Island Alliance protects and restores the biodiversity and natural heritage of the Sky Islands.

Wilderness Volunteers Flagstaff, Arizona Wilderness Volunteers works to steward America’s wild lands through organizing and promoting volunteer service in cooperation with public land agencies across the United States.

Arkansas Beaver Watershed Alliance Springdale, Arkansas This organization works to protect, maintain and enhance the water quality of Beaver Lake and the integrity of its watershed.

Buffalo River Watershed Alliance Jasper, Arkansas

All One Ocean Mill Valley, California This group seeks to educate people about the destructive impacts of trash by providing a simple way for beachgoers to help clean up our oceans, beautify beaches and prevent needless death and suffering to marine life.

Amargosa Conservancy Shoshone, California Amargosa Conservancy stands up for the wilds, waters and communities of the scenic Amargosa River Basin and eastern Mojave Desert.

American Alpine Club—Los Padres Chapter Ventura, California This group provides leadership to advance climbing interests, broaden the climbing community and promote conservation.

AquAlliance Chico, California AquAlliance challenges campaigns to divert water from the northern Sacramento River region and defends Northern California waters through advocacy, education and litigation.

Arroyo Seco Foundation Los Angeles, California The Arroyo Seco Foundation exists to preserve and enhance the Arroyo Seco River and its watershed.

Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy Pasadena, California Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy preserves land and restores habitat in and around the San Gabriel and Crescenta valleys, thereby protecting natural areas for birds and wildlife and providing access and educational experiences for the community.

Asociación de Gente Unida por el Agua Visalia, California AGUA is a grassroots coalition dedicated to securing safe, clean and affordable drinking water in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

Audubon Canyon Ranch Stinson Beach, California Audubon Canyon Ranch aims to protect our natural and human communities through land preservation, nature education and conservation science.

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Buffalo River Watershed Alliance seeks to preserve and protect the scenic beauty and pristine water quality of the Buffalo National River through public outreach and education, advocacy and direct actions.

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Becket Films Ojai, California

California Wilderness Coalition Oakland, California

Coalition for Clean Air Los Angeles, California

Becket Films uses film to inspire action towards a healthy environment and social justice.

California Wilderness Coalition is dedicated to protecting and restoring California’s wild places and native biodiversity.

Coalition for Clean Air is dedicated to restoring clean, healthy air to California by advocating for effective public policy and practical business solutions.

Big Sur Land Trust Monterey, California The Big Sur Land Trust works to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.

Blue Latitudes La Jolla, California Blue Latitudes seeks to publicize the ecological and economic value of converting offshore oil rigs to reefs.

Butte Environmental Council Chico, California Butte Environmental Council protects and defends the land, air and water of Northern California’s Butte County and the surrounding region through educational programs and advocacy campaigns.

California Climate and Agriculture Network Sebastopol, California CalCAN advances policy solutions encouraging and supporting sustainable agricultural practices.

California Coastal Protection Network Santa Barbara, California California Coastal Protection Network educates about the fragile nature of California’s coastal environment, and encourages public participation in matters pertaining to planning, protection and development of its coastal resources.

California Environmental Justice Alliance Oakland, California CEJA works for environmental justice by organizing in the low-income communities and communities of color most affected by pollution.

California Institute of Environmental Studies Davis, California This organization specializes in seabird ecology and is dedicated to promoting the conservation of natural resources.

California Trout San Francisco, California California Trout works to protect and restore wild trout, steelhead, salmon and their waters throughout California.

California Water Impact Network Santa Barbara, California This network advocates for equitable and environmentally sensitive use of California’s water through research, planning, public education and litigation.

California Wildlife Center Malibu, California California Wildlife Center takes responsibility for the protection of native wildlife through rehabilitation, education and conservation.

Californians Against Fracking Oakland, California This coalition of environmental, business, health, agriculture, labor and political organizations works to enact a statewide ban on fracking in California.

Californians for Pesticide Reform Oakland, California CPR works to protect public health, improve environmental quality and support a sustainable and just agricultural system by building a diverse movement to change state and local pesticide policies and practices.

Canopy Palo Alto, California Canopy plants and cares for trees, bringing their life-giving benefits to schools, neighborhoods and public spaces in the San Francisco midpeninsula.

Carbon Cycle Institute Petaluma, California CCI works to stop and reverse climate change by advancing science-based solutions that reduce atmospheric carbon while promoting environmental stewardship, social equity and economic sustainability.

CAUSE Ventura, California CAUSE works to build grassroots power to invoke social, economic and environmental justice for the people of California’s Central Coast.

Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Twain Harte, California CSERC works to defend water, wildlife and wild places across the northern Yosemite region and to raise environmental awareness.

Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute Santa Barbara, California This group rescues and rehabilitates marine mammals, conducts research, and educates to promote ocean and human health.

Citizens for Responsible Oil and Gas Ojai, California CFROG works to ensure oil and gas activities in Ventura County are only allowed when the environment and public health are protected.

Coastal Watershed Council Santa Cruz, California Coastal Watershed Council exists to preserve and protect coastal watersheds through community stewardship, education and monitoring.

Earth Island Institute Berkeley, California Earth Island Institute seeks to protect and maintain the beneficial uses of all public waters by advocating for the full implementation of the goals and objectives of the Clean Water Act.

Earth Law Center Redwood City, California Earth Law Center seeks to transform laws, economies, policies and governance systems to recognize the inherent rights of all earth's inhabitants and ecosystems to coexist, thrive and evolve.

Earthjustice San Francisco, California This public-interest law firm advances legislation and litigates to defend the magnificent places, natural resources and wildlife of the world.

EarthTeam Richmond, California EarthTeam trains and empowers teens to become lifelong environmental stewards through experiential education, skills development and the building of community connections through environmental-action projects.

Eel River Recovery Project Loleta, California Eel River Recovery Project seeks to empower communities to collaborate in monitoring the ecological conditions of the Eel River, share information about the health of the watershed and work together to formulate and implement an ecological restoration strategy.

Environmental Defense Center Santa Barbara, California The Environmental Defense Center protects and enhances the environment of California’s south central coast through education, advocacy and legal services.

Environmental Health Coalition National City, California Dedicated to environmental and social justice, EHC organizes and advocates to protect the environment and public health threatened by toxic pollution.

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World Trout

The World Trout Initiativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission is both simple and

fish-inspired artwork from Prosek, Tim Borski, Alan James

profound: To identify and support individuals and groups

Robinson and other artists. A percentage of the proceeds

whose efforts embrace the hard work it takes to restore and

from their sale go to World Trout. A few years ago, after

protect populations of wild, self-sustaining trout, salmon

receiving more grant proposals than World Trout could fund

and other fish within their native range. This includes both

on its own, we added Patagonia grant dollars to the pot from

indigenous freshwater and saltwater fish. We believe the best

our 1% for the PlanetÂŽ giving. As of April 2017, the initiative

way to accomplish this over the long-term is to help groups

has donated more than $2.3 million to 300 nonprofit groups

working to ensure that fish populations have high-quality

focused on fish.

habitats and adequate stream flows, can migrate between habitats without human intervention, are not negatively impacted by hatchery and aquaculture operations, have protection from harmful non-native species and disease, and are not overharvested. Patagonia owner Yvon Chouinard and author/artist James Prosek founded the World Trout Initiative in 2005, in the belief was required to address multiple threats facing fish and their habitats. We raise funds for this program, and awareness for threatened fish, with T-shirts and caps featuring original A native brute is released into the icy waters of Great

Among them were Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Eel River Recovery Project, SalmonState, Central Westcoast Forest Society, and the Wild Salmon Center. Native fish populations around the world are dying, but we see hope and success in the work of the groups we support. Their love of native fish and their habitat is inspiring and we will continue to support them in the years to come. Get grant guidelines and learn more at patagonia.com/worldtrout

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that immediate, hands-on action by local grassroots groups

This year alone, World Trout gave $522,000 to 63 groups.

Bear Lake. Nor thwest Territories. BRYAN GREGSON

Environmental Protection Information Center Arcata, California

Friends of the Los Angeles River Los Angeles, California

Habitat Works La Crescenta, California

Friends of the Los Angeles River is working to protect and restore the natural and historic heritage of the Los Angeles River and its riparian habitat through inclusive planning, education and wise stewardship.

Habitat Works seeks to improve habitat conditions for native flora and fauna in national forests, wildlife refuges, state parks, private preserves and other wildlands in Southern California.

Friends of the River Sacramento, California

Heal the Bay Santa Monica, California

Friends of the River works to preserve, restore and sustain California’s free-flowing rivers and streams.

Heal the Bay is dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds of greater Los Angeles safe, healthy and clean.

Fibershed San Geronimo, California

Friends of the San Francisco Estuary Oakland, California

I Love A Clean San Diego San Diego, California

Fibershed is working for the emergence of an international system of regional textile communities that enliven connection and ownership of soil-to-soil textile processes designed to build soil carbon stocks on working landscapes.

Friends of the San Francisco Estuary works to protect, restore and enhance the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary through advocacy, education, outreach, information sharing and collaboration.

Through outreach, community involvement and example, I Love A Clean San Diego leads and educates its community to actively conserve and enhance the environment.

EPIC advocates for science-based protection and restoration of Northwest California’s forests.

Felidae Conservation Fund Mill Valley, California Felidae Conservation Fund seeks to conserve wildcat populations, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, through research, education and technology.

Food for Thought Ojai, California Food for Thought works with its community to support, educate and inspire Ojai’s youth and their families to make healthier food choices and lead lives of environmental stewardship.

Foothill Conservancy Jackson, California Foothill Conservancy works to protect, restore and sustain the natural and human environment in Amador and Calaveras counties through education, events, advocacy campaigns and policy work.

Foothills Water Network Coloma, California Foothills Water Network is a coalition of conservation, angling and recreation groups whose mission is to protect and enhance aquatic ecosystem health and recreation opportunities in over 375 miles of the Yuba, Bear and American rivers.

Friends of Rose Canyon San Diego, California Friends of Rose Canyon works to protect, preserve and restore San Diego’s Rose Canyon and the Rose Creek watershed through volunteer events, educational programs and conservation work.

Friends of the Inyo Bishop, California Friends of the Inyo helps to protect the public lands and wildlife of the Eastern Sierra by getting citizens involved in exploring and preserving the area’s natural heritage.

Friends of the Urban Forest San Francisco, California FUF works to promote a larger, healthier urban forest as part of San Francisco’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education and advocacy.

Gaviota Coast Conservancy Goleta, California The Gaviota Coast Conservancy is dedicated to enhancing the rural character and environmental integrity of the Gaviota coast.

Global Environmental Legacy Foundation San Clemente, California Global Environmental Legacy Foundation works with communities, universities and governments to clean up water contamination.

Grassroots Ecology Palo Alto, California Grassroots Ecology strives to involve and educate the public to restore local ecosystems.

Greater Farallones Association San Francisco, California Greater Farallones Association is dedicated to protecting the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary’s wildlife and habitats.

Growing Solutions Restoration Education Institute Santa Barbara, California Growing Solutions seeks to create a friendly, personal, kinesthetic educational experience for students interested in learning about smallscale agriculture and sustainable-living strategies through a summer-long intensive apprenticeship.

Interfaith Power & Light San Francisco, California Interfaith Power & Light is working to slow global warming through the promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

International Rivers Network Berkeley, California International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Julian Center for Science and Education Julian, California This group’s California Wolf Center is dedicated to the recovery of wolves in the wildlands they once roamed.

Klamath Riverkeeper Somes Bar, California Klamath Riverkeeper restores water quality and fisheries throughout the Klamath Basin and advances its mission through grassroots organizing, policy advocacy and legal action.

LA Compost West Covina, California LA Compost works to equip and empower residents to facilitate their own green spaces, counteracting the epidemic of wastefulness in order to restore healthy soil, reconnect soil and people, and create sustainable communities across Los Angeles.

Living Classroom Los Altos, California Living Classroom inspires children to learn and value the natural world through garden-based education.

Los Angeles Waterkeeper Santa Monica, California Los Angeles Waterkeeper works to protect and restore the Santa Monica Bay, San Pedro Bay and adjacent waters.

Los Padres ForestWatch Santa Barbara, California

Ocean Discovery Institute San Diego, California

Resources Legacy Fund Sacramento, California

Los Padres ForestWatch uses legal advocacy, scientific collaboration, community outreach and volunteerism to protect and restore the natural and cultural heritage of the Los Padres National Forest.

Ocean Discovery Institute engages, educates and inspires young people from diverse backgrounds through science-based exploration of the ocean and nature, preparing them to be tomorrow's scientific and environmental leaders.

Resources Legacy Fund engages in charitable and educational activities that promote conservation of the environment and natural resources, education and healthy communities.

Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge Santa Cruz, California Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Restore Hetch Hetchy is working to return the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park to its natural splendor, while continuing to meet the water and power needs of all communities that depend on the Tuolumne River.

Ojai Valley Green Coalition Ojai, California

Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary Tiburon, California

Mojave Desert Land Trust seeks to protect the Mojave Desert ecosystem and its scenic and cultural resource values.

Ojai Valley Green Coalition seeks to advance a sustainable, regenerative and resilient Ojai Valley around water security, local food production and healthy soil.

Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary works for the conservation of waterbirds, their habitats, and their co-inhabitants in its sanctuary and in northern San Francisco Bay.

Mono Lake Committee Lee Vining, California

Once Upon a Watershed Ojai, California

Riverside Land Conservancy Riverside, California

Mono Lake Committee aims to protect and restore the Mono Basin, educate the public about Mono Lake and the impacts of excessive water use, and promote cooperative solutions.

Once Upon a Watershed seeks to awaken wonder, appreciation, discovery and connection with the natural world through hands-on watershed education, restoration and stewardship experiences.

This group inspires stewardship for the Santa Ana River through projects that increase usage of the Santa Ana River Trail.

Outdoor Outreach San Diego, California

Sacred Rok helps young people learn to respect nature and through that, respect themselves.

MightyCanoe Joshua Tree, California MightyCanoe’s Dreaming of a Vetter World is a compelling feature-length documentary centered around one family who recognized the American agricultural system was broken— and found a solution—long before most people noticed there was a problem.

Mojave Desert Land Trust Joshua Tree, California

Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center Mount Shasta, California Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center defends Mount Shasta and its bioregion from potential threats to its water, natural sanctuaries and biodiversity.

Outdoor Outreach connects youth to the transformative power of the outdoors.

Mountain Area Preservation Foundation Truckee, California

Planting Justice seeks to empower urban residents with the skills, resources and knowledge to grow organic food, expand economic opportunities and ensure environmental sustainability in our neighborhoods.

Mountain Area Preservation Foundation works to preserve the Truckee region’s community character and the natural environment.

NextGen Climate America San Francisco, California NextGen Climate America is working to advance policies to prevent climate disaster and promote prosperity for every American.

Occidental Arts & Ecology Center Occidental, California Occidental Arts & Ecology Center develops science-based solutions to address the impacts of climate change and the legacy of hydrologically destructive land-use practices and policies on California’s watersheds.

Ocean Defenders Alliance Huntington Beach, California

Point Blue Conservation Science Petaluma, California Point Blue Conservation Science seeks to advance the conservation of birds, other wildlife and ecosystems through science, partnerships and outreach.

Rainforest Action Network San Francisco, California Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace.

Resource Renewal Institute Mill Valley, California RRI seeks to strengthen society's ability to secure the future health of the planet by fostering innovative solutions to increasingly complex environmental problems.

Sacred Rok Yosemite, California

Salmon Protection and Watershed Network Forest Knolls, California SPAWN fights to save California's wild endangered coho salmon and their stream, watershed and forest habitats.

Salmon River Restoration Council Sawyers Bar, California Salmon River Restoration Council seeks to assess, protect and maintain the Salmon River ecosystem.

San Diego Coastkeeper San Diego, California San Diego Coastkeeper protects and restores fishable, swimmable, drinkable water in San Diego County.

San Diego River Park Foundation San Diego, California This organization is dedicated to fostering stewardship and appreciation of its namesake waterway by engaging people to work toward the vision of a 52-mile, river-long system of parks, open spaces and community places.

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Ocean Defenders Alliance protects marine ecosystems through direct action, documentation and education, with a primary focus on removing derelict ghost-fishing gear and other man-made debris harming ocean wildlife and habitat.

Planting Justice Oakland, California

Restore Hetch Hetchy Oakland, California

Sanctuary Forest Whitehorn, California

Shane McConkey Foundation Olympic Valley, California

South Coast Habitat Restoration Carpinteria, California

Sanctuary Forest works in cooperation with its diverse community to conserve the Mattole River watershed and surrounding areas for wildlife habitat and aesthetic, spiritual and intrinsic values.

The Shane McConkey Foundation exists to carry on Shane’s legacy through random acts of kindness and charitable giving, and to inspire others to make a difference in the world at large.

South Coast Habitat Restoration seeks to protect, conserve and restore the various habitats and native biodiversity of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Santa Barbara, California

Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship Clio, California

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper advances the protection of the Santa Barbara Channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, fieldwork and ruleenforcement initiatives.

Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship preserves, enhances and restores the trails of the Sierra Buttes region for trail users through collaboration, education, stewardship and recreation.

Save Mount Diablo Walnut Creek, California

Sierra Club Oakland, California

Save Mount Diablo works to preserve Mount Diablo’s peaks, foothills and watersheds, enhance the area's quality of life and provide recreational opportunities consistent with protection of natural resources.

Sierra Club exists to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth.

Save Open Space/Santa Monica Mountains Agoura Hills, California

This group works to promote healthy and sustainable forests and watersheds by investing in the well-being of rural communities and strengthening their participation in natural resource decisions.

Save Open Space is working to protect Chesebro Meadow from development for the benefit of wildlife.

Save The Bay Oakland, California Save The Bay works to protect, restore and celebrate San Francisco Bay.

Save The Waves Coalition Davenport, California Save The Waves Coalition is dedicated to protecting and preserving the coastal environment, with an emphasis on the surf zone, and educating the public about its value.

Sierra Institute for Community and Environment Taylorsville, California

Sierra Nevada Alliance South Lake Tahoe, California Sierra Nevada Alliance aims to protect and restore the natural resources of the Sierra Nevada while promoting sustainable communities.

Sierra Streams Institute Nevada City, California Sierra Streams Institute links water, science and people for the benefit of human and environmental health.

Scott River Watershed Council Etna, California

Siskiyou Land Conservancy Arcata, California

This group works to conserve watershed resources and enhance natural ecosystem processes, while providing leadership in restoration planning and innovative projects.

Siskiyou Land Conservancy protects biologically important lands and streams in the five northwestern counties of California and encourages residents to build sustainable communities that naturally integrate with these lands.

Sea Turtle Restoration Project Forest Knolls, California Sea Turtle Restoration Project works to protect sea turtles and their marine environment through education, consumer empowerment, litigation and the promotion of sustainable marine policies.

Sequoia ForestKeeper Kernville, California Sequoia ForestKeeper serves as the eyes, ears and voice of the forest in the southern Sierra Nevada, protecting and restoring its ecosystems through monitoring, enforcement, education and litigation.

Smith River Alliance Crescent City, California The Smith River Alliance seeks to provide for the long-term protection, restoration and stewardship of natural resources in California’s Smith watershed.

SOAR Ventura, California SOAR works to limit urban sprawl, protect open space and agricultural lands, and promote livable and sustainable communities in Ventura County and surrounding regions.

South Yuba River Citizens League Nevada City, California SYRCL seeks to protect the Yuba River and its wild salmon population through its River Ambassadors program, education, an annual film festival, water-quality testing and longrange planning advocacy.

Stand San Francisco, California Stand challenges governments and corporations to make the health of our communities, our environment and our climate the top priority.

Student Conservation Association Oakland, California Student Conservation Association is working to build the next generation of conservationists and inspire lifelong stewardship of our environment and communities by engaging youth and young adults in hands-on conservation service to the land.

Sugar Pine Foundation South Lake Tahoe, California Sugar Pine Foundation is dedicated to restoring sugar pines and other white pines in California's Lake Tahoe region by involving youth and community in hands-on forest stewardship.

Surfrider Foundation San Clemente, California Surfrider Foundation protects and preserves the world’s oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.

Surfrider Foundation—West LA/Malibu Chapter Santa Monica, California Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's ocean, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.

Surfrider Foundation—Newport Beach Chapter Newport Beach, California The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.

Sustainable San Mateo County San Mateo, California Sustainable San Mateo County is dedicated to the long-term health and vitality of the region.

Tahoe Food Hub Truckee, California

The Watershed Project Richmond, California

Ventana Wildlife Society Salinas, California

Tahoe Food Hub seeks to galvanize its community to build a regional, sustainable and equitable food system in North Lake Tahoe.

The Watershed Project seeks to inspire San Francisco Bay communities to understand, appreciate and protect its watersheds.

Ventana Wildlife Society conserves native wildlife and its habitat.

Tehama Conservation Fund Red Bluff, California

TreePeople Beverly Hills, California

Tehama Conservation Fund provides assistance and facilitates collaborative planning efforts to parties involved in the conservation of natural resources and cultural heritage in Tehama County.

TreePeople exists to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable.

Ventura Hillsides Conservancy protects and conserves open-space resources through acquisition of land and easements, stewardship of protected lands and public education about local natural resources.

Tri-Valley CAREs Livermore, California

Vida Verde Nature Education San Gregorio, California

The 5 Gyres Institute empowers action against the global health crisis of plastic pollution through science, art, education and adventure.

Tri-Valley CAREs is dedicated to the cleanup of nuclear pollution at Livermore Lab and the conversion of the lab to a center for socially beneficial research.

Vida Verde promotes educational equity by providing free, overnight, environmental learning experiences for students who don't otherwise get the opportunity.

The Bay Foundation Los Angeles, California

Truckee River Watershed Council Truckee, California

Watsonville Wetlands Watch Freedom, California

The Bay Foundation aims to improve water quality, conserve and rehabilitate natural resources, and protect the Santa Monica Bay's benefits and values.

Truckee River Watershed Council works to bring the community together to protect, enhance and restore the Truckee River watershed.

Watsonville Wetlands Watch protects, restores and fosters an appreciation of the wetlands of the Pájaro Valley.

The Bay Institute San Francisco, California

Turning Green Sausalito, California

The Bay Institute works to protect, restore and inspire conservation of San Francisco Bay and its watershed, from the Sierra to the sea.

Turning Green is a student-led movement devoted to cultivating a healthy, just and thriving planet through education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices.

The 5 Gyres Institute Santa Monica, California

The Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership Bridgeport, California This group is working to create a healthy, sustainable future for the Bodie Hills that combines conservation and access, honors tradition and promotes the region’s scenic beauty.

The Field Semester Berkeley, California The Field Semester brings together high school students from diverse communities across the United States for a memorable term of study and action, together learning the science, culture and meaning of place and exploring first hand the true depths of community and sustainability.

The Institute for Fisheries Resources San Francisco, California The Institute for Fisheries Resources supports sustainable fisheries, communities and economies by protecting, restoring and enhancing species and habitats.

The Trust for Public Land San Francisco, California

Urban Sprouts builds opportunities to connect with the natural environment through researchtested, garden-based, environmental and social justice programing.

Valley Verde San Jose, California Valley Verde is working to transform how communities in need are challenging food insecurity by establishing environmental and economic sustainability and self-reliance that leads to a healthy ecosystem and healthy lives.

VCCool Ventura, California VCCool champions sustainable, carbon-neutral living by providing tools and expertise for change, influencing policy, and supporting a resilient green economy.

Ventana Wilderness Alliance Santa Cruz, California The Ventana Wilderness Alliance exists to protect, preserve and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of public lands within California’s northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.

WILDCOAST Imperial Beach, California WILDCOAST conserves coastal and marine ecosystems and wildlife.

Wishtoyo Foundation Ventura, California Wishtoyo enhances the well-being of communities by preserving and protecting Chumash culture and the natural resources all people depend upon.

Yosemite Climbing Association Yosemite, California Yosemite Climbing Association aims to preserve and protect Yosemite climbing history and make it available for public interpretation.

Colorado 1% for Open Space Crested Butte, Colorado 1% for Open Space supports and funds open space projects in Gunnison County for the preservation of lands, ecosystems, watersheds, recreational access, vistas and working ranches.

Alliance for Climate Education Boulder, Colorado Alliance for Climate Education works to educate youth on the science of climate change and empower them to take action.

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The Trust for Public Land seeks to create parks and protect land for people, thereby ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come.

Urban Sprouts San Francisco, California

Ventura Hillsides Conservancy Ventura, California

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies Aspen, Colorado

Colorado Farm & Food Alliance Paonia, Colorado

EcoFlight Aspen, Colorado

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies exists to inspire a lifelong commitment to the planet by teaching environmental responsibility, conserving and restoring the balance of natural communities, and advancing the ethic that earth must be respected and nurtured.

Colorado Farm & Food Alliance mobilizes rural communities, local food and drink producers, and food-oriented consumers to support sound environmental policies.

EcoFlight uses small aircraft to promote protection of remaining wild lands and wildlife habitat in the western U.S., providing an aerial perspective and educational programs that encourage environmental stewardship.

Audubon Rockies Fort Collins, Colorado

Colorado Fourteeners Initiative seeks to protect and preserve the natural integrity of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks through active stewardship and public education.

Audubon Rockies promotes the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and biological diversity.

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Fort Collins, Colorado This organization works to conserve birds and their habitats through science, stewardship and education.

Bluff Lake Nature Center Denver, Colorado This group shares its urban natural area and inspires environmental connectedness and stewardship through experiential education, environmental engagement, preservation and restoration.

Boulder Food Rescue Boulder, Colorado Boulder Food Rescue seeks to create a more just and less wasteful food system through the redistribution of food, which would otherwise be discarded, to agencies that serve lowincome individuals.

Butterfly Pavilion Westminster, Colorado Butterfly Pavilion works to foster an appreciation of invertebrates and educate the public about the importance of conservation of threatened habitats.

Center for ReSource Conservation Boulder, Colorado

Colorado Fourteeners Initiative Golden, Colorado

Colorado Water Trust Denver, Colorado Colorado Water Trust engages in and supports voluntary efforts to restore and protect stream flows in Colorado to sustain healthy aquatic ecosystems.

Energy & Conservation Law provides free, experienced and specialized legal services in Colorado to communities facing threats from nonrenewable resource extraction, especially uranium mining and milling.

Great Old Broads for Wilderness Durango, Colorado

Colorado Wild Public Lands Basalt, Colorado

Great Old Broads for Wilderness helps to preserve and protect U.S. wilderness and wild lands by using the voices and activism of elders in everything from educational programs to litigation.

Colorado Wild Public Lands is working to protect the integrity, size and quality of public lands in Colorado.

Growe Foundation Louisville, Colorado

Conejos Clean Water Antonito, Colorado

Growe Foundation uses experiential learning to educate children about the benefits of healthy eating and environmental stewardship.

This group seeks to build public awareness and encourage advocacy and education around environmental, social, economic and food justice issues in the Conejos Land Grant Region.

Conservation Colorado Education Fund Denver, Colorado Conservation Colorado Education Fund aims to educate and mobilize people to protect Colorado’s environment and quality of life.

Conservation Lands Foundation Durango, Colorado Conservation Lands Foundation protects, restores and expands National Conservation Lands through education, advocacy and partnerships.

Center for ReSource Conservation tackles resource conservation issues in its community, seeking to provide accessible and affordable conservation solutions, and reduce the negative environmental impacts associated with non-sustainable practices.

EarthLinks Denver, Colorado

Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute Estes Park, Colorado

Eco-Cycle Boulder, Colorado

This group works to conserve bird species, studies their ecology with an emphasis on raptors, provides information about birds’ natural history and rehabilitates and releases injured and orphaned wild birds.

Energy & Conservation Law Durango, Colorado

EarthLinks promotes organic gardening, natural beekeeping and composting to sustain people and the planet through the creation of earth-friendly products.

Eco-Cycle promotes a zero-waste culture through recycling programs at area businesses, educational programs for kids, a Q&A recycling hotline and its Center for Hardto-Recycle Materials.

Growing Gardens Boulder, Colorado Growing Gardens enriches the lives of Boulder residents through sustainable urban agriculture.

High Country Conservation Advocates Crested Butte, Colorado High Country Conservation Advocates protects the health and natural beauty of the land, rivers and wildlife in and around Gunnison County.

High Country Conservation Center Dillon, Colorado High Country Conservation Center works to reduce waste and conserve resources in its mountain community.

Independence Pass Foundation Aspen, Colorado Independence Pass Foundation works with government agencies to develop and implement projects that maintain and enhance the ecology, beauty and safety of Colorado’s Independence Pass.

Institute for Environmental Solutions Denver, Colorado Institute for Environmental Solutions delivers scientific solutions to improve our health and environment.

International Mountain Bicycling Association Boulder, Colorado IMBA exists to create, enhance and preserve great mountain biking experiences, including the landscapes where people recreate.

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Media Grants

Keystone Policy Center Keystone, Colorado Keystone Policy Center brings together public, private and civic sector leaders with diverse perspectives and a common desire to find lasting solutions to significant policy problems.

Mosquito Range Heritage Initiative Alma, Colorado The Mosquito Range Heritage Initiative, through cooperative efforts, seeks to conserve natural areas, preserve historic and cultural sites, promote diverse recreation and develop community business opportunities.

Mountainfilm Telluride, Colorado Mountainfilm uses the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.

Prairie Dog Coalition Boulder, Colorado PDC works to protect prairie dogs and restore their ecosystem.

Protect Our Winters Boulder, Colorado Protect Our Winters mobilizes the winter sports community to fight climate change through educational programs and community-based activism.

Quiet Use Coalition Salida, Colorado QUC promotes quiet, ecologically sound recreation on public lands and waters.

River Network Boulder, Colorado River Network connects more than 2,000 organizations working to protect water— America’s most vital natural resource.

Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Basalt, Colorado Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers promotes stewardship of public lands in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley by creating volunteer opportunities for trail work and conservation projects.

Rock the Earth Denver, Colorado

Film is a powerful medium capable of bringing important issues to life and transforming audiences into activists. We know this from our own experience making films at Patagonia. Last year we released This Is Bears Ears, which explored Bears Ears in southeastern Utah and helped to bring the magical, yet little known, expanse of red-rock desert and sacred cultural sites into the spotlight and build a groundswell of citizen support leading to its protection as a national monument. To help grassroots environmental groups that also use film as a form of activism, in 2014, we created a grants program specializing in funding the creation of media, mostly film, as a tool tightly linked to campaigns. We selected employees with strong backgrounds in film and other media to serve on our media grants council, which is charged with evaluating the proposals we receive and disbursing donations. In 2017, we gave $149,000 to 12 film projects. One, by Artchange, documents stories of resilience and resistance to mining in the watersheds of the Alaska-British Columbia border area. Another, by the Montana Wilderness Association, raises awareness about the Badger-Two Medicine region, an important wildlife corridor in Montana threatened by oil and gas exploration. To date, we’ve given 34 grants totaling $411,500 to groups working to protect the Colorado River, encourage regenerative agriculture, preserve sustainable fisheries and more.

The filming of Our Last Refuge, about the Blackfeet Nation’s fight to protect the wild and sacred Badger-Two Medicine from industrial development. DANIEL GLICK

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Rock the Earth works to protect and defend America’s natural resources in partnership with the music industry and the environmental community.

Rocky Mountain Field Institute Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Growing Project Fort Collins, Colorado

Western Slope Conservation Center Paonia, Colorado

Rocky Mountain Field Institute protects and enhances the ecological health of our land and water resources.

TGP addresses environmental and food insecurity issues by promoting a strong, diverse and just local food system to all residents of northern Colorado through direct agricultural experiences, education and advocacy.

Western Slope Conservation Center builds an active and aware community to protect and enhance the lands, air, water and wildlife of the lower Gunnison River watershed.

Thompson Divide Coalition Carbondale, Colorado

Wild Connections identifies, protects and restores lands of the Upper Arkansas and South Platte watersheds to ensure the survival of native species and ecological richness.

Rocky Mountain Wild Denver, Colorado Rocky Mountain Wild works to protect, connect and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern Rockies of Colorado, southern Wyoming, and eastern Utah.

San Juan Citizens Alliance Durango, Colorado San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water and healthy lands—the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.

Save The Colorado Fort Collins, Colorado Save The Colorado works to protect and restore the ecological health of the Colorado River by raising public awareness and by inspiring and supporting environmental organizations.

Save The Poudre Fort Collins, Colorado Save The Poudre is working to protect and restore the Cache La Poudre River and its tributaries through public education, scientific research and restoration of the river’s ecology.

Sheep Mountain Alliance Telluride, Colorado Sheep Mountain Alliance is dedicated to preserving the natural environment in the Telluride region and southwest Colorado.

Snowriders International Denver, Colorado Snowriders International is dedicated to the promotion of winter sports and protection of the environment.

Southern Plains Land Trust Centennial, Colorado Southern Plains Land Trust is working to create a short-grass prairie preserve network that enables native plant and animal communities to once again thrive.

Telluride Mountain Club Telluride, Colorado Telluride Mountain Club advocates for safe, enjoyable and environmentally responsible opportunities for human-powered recreational activity in the Telluride region.

The Access Fund Boulder, Colorado The Access Fund works to keep climbing areas open and to conserve the climbing environment.

Thompson Divide Coalition seeks to secure permanent protection from oil and gas development on federal lands in Colorado’s Thompson Divide area by educating the public and working with lawmakers and government agencies.

Trout Unlimited—Colorado River Headwaters Chapter Fraser, Colorado Trout Unlimited is working to conserve, protect and restore North America’s cold-water fisheries and their watersheds.

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado Denver, Colorado Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado mobilizes people to volunteer in Colorado’s wild places to create a corps of wilderness stewards.

Western Clean Energy Campaign Denver, Colorado The Western Clean Energy Campaign is working to promote a transition from reliance on aging coal-burning power plants toward clean, renewable energy.

Western Colorado Congress Grand Junction, Colorado WCC protects the quality of life in western Colorado by acting as an environmental watchdog over oil and gas drilling, food and agriculture, public lands, uranium mining and oil shale.

Western Mining Action Project Lyons, Colorado Western Mining Action Project provides free legal services for grassroots organizations and Native American tribes on mining issues in the western U.S. to protect air and water quality, biological diversity, and wild and sacred lands.

Western Resource Advocates Boulder, Colorado Western Resource Advocates works to protect the West’s land, air and water by promoting a clean energy future, protecting rivers and advancing urban water conservation, and countering poorly planned energy development.

Wild Connections Colorado Springs, Colorado

Wilderness Workshop Carbondale, Colorado Wilderness Workshop works to protect and conserve the wilderness and natural resources of the Roaring Fork watershed, the White River National Forest and adjacent public lands.

Wildlands Restoration Volunteers Boulder, Colorado This organization is dedicated to fostering a community spirit of shared responsibility for the stewardship and restoration of public, protected and ecologically important lands.

Connecticut Connecticut Audubon Society Fairfield, Connecticut CAS conserves Connecticut’s environment through advocacy, open space preservation and science-based education focused on the state's bird populations and diverse habitats.

Earthplace Westport, Connecticut Earthplace is working to build a passion in its community for nature and the environment through education, experience and action.

GMO Free USA Unionville, Connecticut GMO Free USA harnesses independent science and agro-ecological concepts to advocate for sustainable food and ecological systems.

GreenWave New Haven, Connecticut GreenWave supports a new generation of ocean farmers and innovators working to restore ecosystems, mitigate climate change and build a blue-green economy.

Mianus Chapter of Trout Unlimited Wilton, Connecticut The Mianus Chapter of Trout Unlimited works to preserve, protect, restore and sustain lower Fairfield County’s cold-water rivers and streams to ensure cold, clean, abundant water for healthy ecosystems.

NAMEPA Southport, Connecticut

DC Greens Washington, District of Columbia

NAMEPA seeks to preserve the marine environment by promoting sustainable marine industry best practices and educating about the need and strategies for protecting global ocean resources.

DC Greens is working toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom and where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape.

New Haven Farms New Haven, Connecticut New Haven Farms promotes health and community development through urban agriculture.

Solar Youth New Haven, Connecticut Solar Youth empowers youth from New Haven’s low-income neighborhoods to achieve lifelong success through programs that connect them to the environment, their communities and each other.

Delaware Delaware Nature Society Hockessin, Delaware Delaware Nature Society uses education, advocacy and conservation to connect people with the natural world.

District of Columbia Alaska Wilderness League Washington, District of Columbia Alaska Wilderness League works to preserve Alaska’s wild lands and waters by engaging citizens and decision makers with a courageous, constant, victorious voice for Alaska.

Amazon Conservation Association Washington, District of Columbia Amazon Conservation Association seeks to protect the world's most diverse landscapes, train the next generation of Amazonian conservationists, and partner with communities to support livelihoods that sustain biodiversity.

American Farmland Trust Washington, District of Columbia AFT works to protect farm land, promote sound farming practices and keep farmers on the land.

American Sustainable Business Institute Washington, District of Columbia ASBI works to unify the voice of business to create systemic change, leading to a sustainable economy by shifting markets and policies.

City Kids Wilderness Project Washington, District of Columbia

Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection and restoration of wildlife and plants in their natural communities.

Dreaming Out Loud Washington, District of Columbia Dreaming Out Loud works to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through building a healthy, equitable food system.

Earthworks Washington, District of Columbia Earthworks counters the negative impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development by working with communities and grassroots groups to reform government policies, improve corporate practices, influence investment decisions and encourage responsible materials sourcing and consumption.

Endangered Species Coalition Washington, District of Columbia Endangered Species Coalition helps to protect endangered species through grassroots organizing.

Environmental Integrity Project Washington, District of Columbia Environmental Integrity Project promotes stronger compliance with the nation's antipollution laws by combining research, reporting and media outreach to spotlight illegal pollution, expose political intimidation of enforcement staff, and encourage federal and state agencies to take enforcement action.

Environmental Working Group Washington, District of Columbia Environmental Working Group seeks to transform government policies and the marketplace to conserve land and water, produce and use energy responsibly, and ensure that food and consumer products are free of harmful chemicals.

League of Conservation Voters Education Fund Washington, District of Columbia LCVEF educates the public, media and policymakers about environmental issues, works to increase voter participation and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

Living Classrooms strengthens communities and inspires young people to achieve their potential through hands-on education and job training.

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Washington, District of Columbia NSAC advocates reform of federal policy for sustainable agriculture, envisioning a system where family farmers produce healthy, affordable food while protecting our environment and communities.

Ocean Conservancy Washington, District of Columbia Ocean Conservancy works across sectors to protect the ocean from today’s greatest global challenges, creating science-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife communities that depend on it.

Organic Voices Washington, District of Columbia Organic Voices aims to make the country's food system stronger and more transparent by empowering consumers with information about GMOs and the importance of GMO labeling in the U.S.

Florida Apalachicola Riverkeeper Apalachicola, Florida Apalachicola Riverkeeper seeks to protect Florida's Apalachicola River, Bay, tributaries and watersheds.

Bullsugar Alliance Stuart, Florida Bullsugar Alliance works to restore the Everglades and South Florida's estuaries by educating, connecting and coordinating people and organizations to speak up for government action.

Everglades Foundation Palmetto Bay, Florida The Everglades Foundation is dedicated to protecting and restoring America’s Everglades, whose unique ecosystem provides economic, recreational and life-sustaining benefits to the millions of people in Florida who depend on its health.

Florida Greenways and Trails Foundation Tallahassee, Florida Florida Greenways and Trails Foundation advocates for and helps to create a statewide system of trails and greenways to advance health, recreation, transportation and tourism.

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City Kids Wilderness Project exists to provide enriching life experiences for under-resourced DC children that can enhance their lives, the lives of their families and the greater community.

Defenders of Wildlife Washington, District of Columbia

Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region Washington, District of Columbia

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Seed

Mission Seed is Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first indigenous youth climate

fracking. We will continue to pressure both the federal and

network. We are building a movement led by Aboriginal and

territory government to ban the practice for good.

Torres Strait Islander young people to protect our country, culture and communities from the causes and impacts of climate change. Seed is a branch of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.

Accomplishments Earlier this year, we lobbied the Northern Territory government to ensure that the inquiry into fracking would deliver a fair consultation process that ensured the voices and concerns of Aboriginal people were heard. Our

Activities Since launching in July 2014, Seed has built a

efforts saw the terms of reference expanded to include

grassroots volunteer network of over 100 Aboriginal and

cultural, social and climate change impacts and also ensured

Torres Strait Islander young people who are taking action for

that community hearings were to be held in regional, as

climate justice in cities, towns, remote and regional areas all

well as remote communities. We then supported over a

across the country. We do this by running campaigns to keep

thousand people to attend community meetings across eight

fossil fuels in the ground whilst building capacity of young

communities. Since then, a strong team of Seed staff and

people to create change in their communities. With over 85%

volunteers have been leading surveys in communities across

of the Northern Territory covered in exploration for oil or

the territory, including in Borroloola, where they will soon

gas licenses, we have been working with Traditional Owners,

be declaring their community a â&#x20AC;&#x153;no-go zone.â&#x20AC;? Already over

Aboriginal station owners, young people and communities

half of the community has been surveyed and the response

who are standing up to dangerous shale gas fracking. Seed

so far shows an overwhelming majority would support

has been supporting young people who are mobilizing their

a ban on fracking as well as a plan to transition toward

communities and educating people about the impacts of

renewable energy. Young people from Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network at Gurindji Freedom Day in the Nor thern Territory, Australia. JEFF TAN

Miami Waterkeeper Miami, Florida

Georgia ForestWatch Dahlonega, Georgia

Trees Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia

Miami Waterkeeper works for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water in Biscayne Bay and the surrounding watershed.

Georgia ForestWatch works to preserve, protect and restore native ecosystems of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, and inform and inspire the public to be good stewards of these lands.

Trees Atlanta helps citizens protect and improve Atlanta’s urban environment through plantings, conservation and educational programs.

ReThink Energy Florida Tallahassee, Florida This group engages, educates and empowers citizens to take action and achieve energy independence in a healthier, more sustainable environment.

Sea Turtle Conservancy Gainesville, Florida Sea Turtle Conservancy advocates for sea turtles and their habitats through research, education and protection programs inside and outside the U.S.

Georgia Atlanta BeltLine Partnership Atlanta, Georgia ABP enables the Atlanta BeltLine project by raising money from the private sector, engaging the public and empowering residents.

Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Atlanta, Georgia Chattahoochee Riverkeeper advocates and works to secure the protection and stewardship of the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed.

Chattooga Conservancy Clayton, Georgia Chattooga Conservancy helps to protect and restore the ecological integrity of the Chattooga watershed and empowers communities to practice good stewardship on public and private lands.

Coosa River Basin Initiative/Upper Coosa Riverkeeper Rome, Georgia CRBI informs and empowers citizens to protect, preserve and restore the Coosa River basin.

EarthShare of Georgia Atlanta, Georgia EarthShare of Georgia connects people to trusted nonprofit organizations dedicated to conserving and protecting our air, land and water.

Georgia Conservancy Atlanta, Georgia The Georgia Conservancy is working to protect and conserve Georgia’s natural resources through advocacy, engagement and collaboration.

Hawai‘i Georgia River Network Athens, Georgia Georgia River Network seeks to ensure a cleanwater legacy by engaging and empowering Georgians to protect and restore their rivers from the mountains to the coast.

GreenLaw Atlanta, Georgia GreenLaw provides free legal and technical assistance to environmental organizations and community groups throughout Georgia, helping to prevent pollution that endangers human health and the environment.

Keeping It Wild Decatur, Georgia Keeping It Wild works to increase the number of people of color who enjoy the natural environment and encourages good environmental stewardship.

Let Us Compost Athens, Georgia Let Us Compost is a bike-based composting business that makes food-based compost for local farmers.

Mountain Stewards Jasper, Georgia Mountain Stewards advocates and contributes to the preservation, development, maintenance, enjoyment and appropriate use of trails and open spaces in the southern Appalachian Mountains.

Ogeechee Riverkeeper Savannah, Georgia Ogeechee Riverkeeper seeks to protect, preserve and improve water quality in the Ogeechee River basin.

Satilla Riverkeeper Woodbine, Georgia Satilla Riverkeeper is working to protect, restore and educate about the ecological values and beauty of the Satilla River.

Savannah Riverkeeper Augusta, Georgia Savannah Riverkeeper serves as the primary guardian of the Savannah River, striving to respect, protect and improve the entire river basin through education, advocacy and action.

Akaka Foundation for Tropical Forests Hilo, Hawaii This group works to enhance and promote a forest stewardship ethic that embraces biocultural restoration and conservation strategies through integration of traditional and western knowledge and strategic cooperation among private and public organizations.

Garden Island Resource Conservation & Development Lihue, Hawaii GIRC&D uses natural and human resources to improve Kauai’s environment, economy and society, with emphasis on preserving the island’s native forest.

Hālau Kū Māna Honolulu, Hawaii Hālau Kū Māna fosters lifelong learners who think, feel and act in ways that are pono (Hawaiian for righteous) as they seek positive, systemic change in their local, regional and global communities.

Hawaii Marine Mammal Alliance Kailua, Hawaii Hawaii Marine Mammal Alliance seeks to inspire preservation, recovery and stewardship of Hawaii’s endangered marine mammals and the coastal ecosystem.

Huli the Movement Honolulu, Hawaii Huli is a collective of ocean-based individuals who promote environmental stewardship and cultural awareness.

Laukahi Honolulu, Hawaii Laukahi and its partners are dedicated to conserving Hawaii’s native plants—the foundation of healthy ecosystems that sustain all life.

National Tropical Botanical Garden Kalaheo, Hawaii National Tropical Botanical Garden seeks to perpetuate the survival of plants, ecosystems and cultural knowledge of tropical regions.

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North Shore Community Land Trust works to protect, steward and enhance the natural landscapes, cultural heritage and rural character of ahupua'a from Kahuku Point to Ka'ena.

‘Ohu ‘Ohu Ko’olau Pearl City, Hawaii

Idaho Rivers United Boise, Idaho

‘Ohu ‘Ohu Ko’olau works to maintain a healthy watershed as a reliable source of high-quality water for O’ahu’s people.

Idaho Rivers United helps to protect and restore the rivers and native fish of Idaho through grassroots campaigns, outreach and advocacy work.

Polynesian Voyaging Society Honolulu, Hawaii This group’s voyaging canoes are journeying around the world to explore and strengthen the global community working to save our oceans and Island Earth.

Idaho Advocates for the West Boise, Idaho Advocates for the West uses law and science to restore streams and watersheds, protect public lands and wildlife, and ensure clean and sustainable communities in the American West.

Conservation Geography Boise, Idaho Conservation Geography works to protect and restore wild places and wildlife by challenging the status quo with geographic and scientific analyses.

Conservation Voters for Idaho Education Fund Boise, Idaho Conservation Voters for Idaho Education Fund protects Idaho’s environment and quality of life by informing, engaging and empowering citizens who care about the state’s natural heritage and healthy communities.

Dunes Learning Center Chesterton, Idaho Dunes Learning Center works to inspire lasting curiosity and stewardship through hands-on learning.

Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Sandpoint, Idaho Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness conducts education, outreach and stewardship and advocacy activities to preserve the Scotchman Peaks Roadless area.

Friends of the Teton River Driggs, Idaho FTR works with its community to protect and improve clean water, healthy streams and a resilient native trout fishery in the Teton watershed.

Idaho Conservation League Boise, Idaho ICL seeks to ensure that wild Idaho remains wild and works to protect the values that define it by building a robust conservation community and advocating for clean water, clean air and healthy families.

Lava Lake Institute for Science & Conservation Hailey, Idaho This group’s Wood River Wolf Project promotes the coexistence of livestock and wolves by using nonlethal measures to prevent depredation.

Snake River Alliance Education Fund Boise, Idaho Idaho’s grassroots nuclear watchdog and clean energy advocate, Snake River Alliance works to raise community awareness about nuclear dangers while working for sustainable energy.

Snake River Waterkeeper Boise, Idaho Snake River Waterkeeper applies law and science to conserve, protect and promote sustainable use of the Snake River and its tributaries.

The Peregrine Fund Boise, Idaho The Peregrine Fund works to restore rare species through captive breeding and releases, improves capacity for conservation, conducts scientific research and environmental education, and conserves habitat.

Winter Wildlands Alliance Boise, Idaho Winter Wildlands Alliance advocates for winter wild lands and human-powered snow sports on public lands, and provides innovative programming, such as the Backcountry Film Festival.

Wood River Land Trust Hailey, Idaho Wood River Land Trust protects and restores land, water, wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities in the Wood River Valley and its surrounding areas by working cooperatively with private landowners and local communities.

Illinois Alliance for the Great Lakes Chicago, Illinois Alliance for the Great Lakes works to conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource, using policy, education and local efforts.

Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago, Illinois This organization works to grow its region’s urban connection to the world of nature and science through collaborations, education, research and collections, exhibitions and public forums.

Chicago Botanic Garden Glencoe, Illinois Chicago Botanic Garden cultivates the power of plants to sustain and enrich life.

Chicago Wilderness Chicago, Illinois Chicago Wilderness is a regional alliance working to preserve, improve, and expand nature and quality of life.

Environmental Law & Policy Center Chicago, Illinois ELPC develops and leads strategic environmental advocacy campaigns to protect natural resources and the environment with a focus on the Midwest.

Friends of the Chicago River Chicago, Illinois Friends of the Chicago River seeks to improve and protect the Chicago River system for people, plants and animals.

Friends of the Green Bay Trail Glencoe, Illinois Friends of the Green Bay Trail replaces invasive plants with native species along the trail, thus creating a healthy ecosystem to support birds, butterflies and other pollinators.

Friends of the Parks Chicago, Illinois Friends of the Parks aims to preserve, protect, improve and promote the use of Chicago’s parks and open spaces for the benefit of all neighborhoods and citizens.

Gardeneers Chicago, Illinois Gardeneers empowers students to connect with healthy food through experiential, garden-based learning.

Illinois Climbers Association Makanda, Illinois The Illinois Climbers Association is dedicated to preserving climbing and bouldering access in Illinois through education, conservation and cooperation.

John G. Shedd Aquarium Chicago, Illinois John G. Shedd Aquarium is committed to the preservation of aquatic life and ecosystems throughout the world and at home in the Great Lakes.

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization Chicago, Illinois

Indiana

LVEJO works for environmental justice in Little Village, seeking self-determination for immigrant, low-income and working-class families.

Friends of the White River strives to preserve, protect and enhance the White River, educating and informing the central Indiana community about the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value, while engaging a variety of interests with ways to improve it.

Metropolitan Planning Council Chicago, Illinois The Metropolitan Planning Council works to shape a sustainable and prosperous Chicago region.

Midwest Pesticide Action Center Chicago, Illinois This organization aims to reduce the health risks and environmental impacts of pesticides, working at the local, state and regional levels to implement long-term policy changes and develop innovative programs.

Openlands Chicago, Illinois Openlands protects the natural and open spaces of northeastern Illinois and the surrounding region.

Operation Endangered Species Chicago, Illinois Operation Endangered Species is working to reintroduce alligator snapping turtles, an endangered keystone species, back into the wild.

Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside Chicago, Illinois This organization builds collective power to eliminate injustice through community organizing, developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change.

Prairie Rivers Network Champaign, Illinois Prairie Rivers Network champions clean, healthy rivers and lakes and safe drinking water to benefit the people and wildlife of Illinois.

Save Our Illinois Land Bartlett, Illinois This group works to halt permitting and expansion of oil and gas pipeline infrastructure in Illinois and keep fossil fuels in the ground.

The Wetlands Initiative Chicago, Illinois The Wetlands Initiative is dedicated to restoring the wetland resources of the Midwest to improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and reduce flood damage.

TODO connects people to the planet through science, art, technology and outdoor adventure sports.

Last Man Fishing Indianapolis, Indiana This documentary film looks at the ways in which groups of fishermen are working with others to forge new systems that enhance the health and well-being of players up and down the seafood supply chain.

Iowa Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Des Moines, Iowa This group empowers and unites people of all ethnic backgrounds to take control of their communities, identify and address problems, and act as a vehicle for social, economic and environmental justice.

Jones County Conservation Center Junction, Iowa Jones County Conservation exists to acquire, develop and maintain public museums, parks, preserves, playgrounds, recreational centers, county forests, wildlife and other conservation areas, and provide recreation programs.

Kentucky 21st Century Parks Louisville, Kentucky 21st Century Parks serves as a steward entrusted to create and preserve unparalleled parks that reflect the needs and values of its community.

Friends of Wolf Run Lexington, Kentucky Friends of Wolf Run are dedicated to the proposition that neighbors, with the right information, working together, can make a difference in the quality of its creek.

Kentucky Heartwood Berea, Kentucky Kentucky Heartwood works to protect and restore the integrity, stability and beauty of Kentuckyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s native forests and biotic communities through research, education, advocacy and nonviolent intervention.

Kentucky Natural Lands Trust Berea, Kentucky Kentucky Natural Lands Trust is a statewide land trust committed to protecting, connecting and restoring wildlands in ways that ensure the resiliency, health and sustainability of local, regional and global communities.

Kentucky Waterways Alliance Louisville, Kentucky This organization aims to protect and restore Kentucky's waterways.

Seedleaf Lexington, Kentucky Seedleaf is working to nourish communities by growing and sharing food through its network of community gardens located in food deserts throughout Lexington, Kentucky.

Louisiana Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Plaquemine, Louisiana Atchafalaya Basinkeeper helps to protect and restore ecosystems within the Atchafalaya Basin through education, research, monitoring and advocacy programs.

Maine

Appalachian Roots Martin, Kentucky

350 Maine Portland, Maine

Appalachian Roots is dedicated to reconnecting central Appalachia to its sustainable agriculture past by supporting the local food movement, promoting organic practices and initiating pilot plantings for innovative agricultural products.

350 Maine is dedicated to building a sustainable life for people and the planet by ending our dependence on fossil fuels.

Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park Mammoth Cave, Kentucky Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park works with the National Park Service to fund projects and programs to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources, and enhance the visitor experience, of Mammoth Cave National Park.

Appalachian Mountain Club Portland, Maine Appalachian Mountain Club promotes the protection, enjoyment and understanding of the mountains, forests, waters and trails of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Center for an Ecology-Based Economy Norway, Maine This group engages its community in developing practical, ecological solutions in the areas of food, shelter, energy and transportation.

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TODO Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Friends of the White River Indianapolis, Indiana

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Conservation Law Foundation Portland, Maine CLF protects New England’s environment for the benefit of all people, using the law, science and the market to create solutions that preserve our natural resources, build healthy communities and sustain a vibrant economy.

Downeast Salmon Federation Columbia Falls, Maine Downeast Salmon Federation seeks to conserve wild Atlantic salmon and other searun fish and their habitats, restore a viable sports salmon fishery and protect other important river, scenic, recreational and ecological resources in eastern Maine.

Friends of Baxter State Park Belfast, Maine Friends of Baxter State Park exists to preserve, support and enhance the wilderness character of Baxter State Park.

Hurricane Island Foundation's Center for Science & Leadership Rockland, Maine

Mission FLOW seeks to empower citizens and communities with public-trust strategies to protect the waters of the Great Lakes Basin, working to assure public ownership of and access to the Great Lakes, which contain 20% of the world’s fresh surface water. Activities At the junction of Lakes Michigan and Huron, two decaying pipelines built in 1953 pump up to 23 million gallons of oil and gas every day through the heart of the Great Lakes. Enbridge’s Line 5 is a ticking time bomb in the worst possible place for an oil spill. We’ve built a strong legal and scientific case for shutting the pipeline down. On another front, Nestlé is seeking to dramatically increase its water extraction from the headwaters of vulnerable creeks in west central Lower Michigan. Large-volume pumping near headwater creeks and wetlands reduces water levels in lakes and streams—often causing irreversible damage to fish, other animals and aquatic plants, not to mention untold effects from 24/7 long-term water depletion. FLOW made the legal and technical case against Nestlé’s proposal and joined thousands of citizens in saying Michigan water is not for sale and that this application must be denied. Accomplishments FLOW was the leading organization to unearth and highlight the 1953 legal agreement between Enbridge and the State of Michigan that allows this Canadian oil company to occupy our publicly owned waters and bottomlands. For over three years, we have played a legal, technical and policy leadership role as part of the Oil & Water Don’t Mix campaign to remove the threat of a catastrophic oil spill in the heart of the Great Lakes. We also worked with Patagonia to produce a film on Line 5, Great Lakes, Bad Lines, which has significantly increased awareness and citizen engagement on the issue. As for Nestlé, acting in part on scientific evidence developed and submitted by our expert team, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality directed the company to reassess the likely impact of its proposed water extraction on local wetlands, streams and natural springs.

The Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet, and Line 5, a 64-yearold underwater oil pipeline, is a disaster waiting to happen. MARTHA H. BOWMAN

Through experiential, place-based education and research opportunities, this group inspires individuals to become impassioned change leaders and informed citizens to confront environmental challenges.

Lakes Environmental Association Bridgton, Maine Lakes Environmental Association works to preserve and restore the high water quality and traditional character of Maine’s lakes, watersheds and natural resources.

Maine Conservation Alliance Augusta, Maine Maine Conservation Alliance encourages Maine’s environmental community to pass forward-thinking conservation laws, mobilizes citizens to become informed voters and advocates for policies that protect the environment.

Maine Lakes Society Belgrade Lakes, Maine Maine Lakes Society protects and preserves the values and benefits of Maine’s lakes, ponds and watersheds through science-based action, education and advocacy.

Maine Rivers Yarmouth, Maine Maine Rivers seeks to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine’s river systems.

Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program Auburn, Maine

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Silver Spring, Maryland

The Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program works to protect Maine’s lakes through widespread citizen engagement in the gathering and dissemination of scientific information.

PEER is an alliance of resource managers, scientists and other government professionals committed to upholding the public trust through responsible management of the nation's environment.

Mousam and Kennebunk Rivers Alliance Kennebunk, Maine

Ridge to Reefs Skyesville, Maryland

Mousam and Kennebunk Rivers Alliance seeks to improve the ecological health of the Mousam and Kennebunk river watersheds for wildlife and people.

Ridge to Reefs is dedicated to supporting local creation and implementation of watershed plans, primarily in coastal and coral reef watersheds, to achieve tangible environmental outcomes.

National Audubon Society’s Seabird Restoration Program Bremen, Maine

South River Federation Edgewater, Maryland

This group develops techniques for restoring seabirds to historic ranges and encourages their protection and appreciation worldwide.

South River Federation works to protect, preserve, restore and celebrate the South River and its interdependent living community.

Natural Resources Council of Maine Augusta, Maine

Massachusetts

Natural Resources Council of Maine seeks to protect, conserve and restore Maine’s environment through legislative and policy work, conservation programs and advocacy campaigns.

Wild Seed Project Portland, Maine Wild Seed Project increases the use of native plants in all landscapes to conserve biodiversity, encourage plant adaptation in the face of climate change, safeguard habitat and create pollination and migration corridors for wildlife.

Maryland Chesapeake Bay Foundation Annapolis, Maryland Chesapeake Bay Foundation exists to save Chesapeake Bay through environmental education, advocacy, strategic litigation and environmental restoration.

Chesapeake Climate Action Network Takoma Park, Maryland Chesapeake Climate Action Network seeks to build and mobilize a powerful grassroots movement in its region to call for state, national and international policies that put us on a path to climate stability.

Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy Easton, Maryland MRC is dedicated to the restoration and protection of the Choptank, Miles and Wye rivers and their tributaries.

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Orleans, Massachusetts This group supports scientific research, improves public safety, and educates the community to inspire conservation of Atlantic white sharks.

Backyard Growers Gloucester, Massachusetts Backyard Growers provides resources and support to establish organic vegetable gardens in housing communities, homes, organizations and schools.

Berkshire Natural Resources Council Pittsfield, Massachusetts Berkshire Natural Resources Council works to protect and preserve the scenic beauty and ecological integrity of the Berkshires for public benefit and enjoyment.

Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Chatham, Massachusetts Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance seeks to build a healthy marine environment and a better way of managing our fisheries.

Charles River Clean Up Boat Framingham, Massachusetts This group works to remove floating trash from the Charles River between Watertown and the dam at Boston Harbor.

Charles River Watershed Association Weston, Massachusetts

CRWC works to protect the Connecticut River watershed from source to sea.

Food Link Arlington, Massachusetts Food Link alleviates hunger, reduces food waste and contributes to environmental sustainability.

Hoosic River Revival North Adams, Massachusetts Hoosic River Revival is working to connect a healthy river to the city of North Adams, maintain flood protection, and promote recreation, economic development and community building.

Jones River Watershed Association Kingston, Massachusetts JRWA seeks to protect, enhance and restore the quality of natural resources in southeastern Massachusetts, while cultivating effective stewardship of its regional environment.

Mystic River Watershed Association Arlington, Massachusetts This group works to protect and restore the Mystic River, its tributaries and watershed lands, and to celebrate the value, importance and great beauty of these natural resources.

National Marine Life Center Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts The National Marine Life Center rehabilitates and releases stranded marine mammals and sea turtles to advance science and education in marine wildlife health and conservation.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing Boston, Massachusetts NOAH collaborates with and supports residents and communities in their pursuit of affordable housing strategies, environmental justice and resiliency, community planning and leadership development.

NOFA/Mass Barre, Massachusetts Through education and advocacy, NOFA/Mass promotes organic agriculture to expand the production and availability of nutritious food.

Partnership for Policy Integrity Pelham, Massachusetts PFPI provides science and legal support so that citizen groups, environmental organizations and policymakers can better understand energy impacts.

Regional Environmental Council Worcester, Massachusetts REC is working to build healthy, sustainable and just communities in Worcester and beyond.

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Charles River Watershed Association is dedicated to protecting, preserving and enhancing the Charles River and its watershed through science, advocacy and the law.

Connecticut River Watershed Council Greenfield, Massachusetts

South Boston Grows Boston, Massachusetts

Kalamazoo River Watershed Council Kalamazoo, Michigan

South Boston Grows works to improve community green space and advance knowledge about growing edible plants in order to increase access to and consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs.

Kalamazoo River Watershed Council works collaboratively with the community, government agencies, officials and businesses to improve and protect the health of the Kalamazoo River, its tributaries and its watershed.

Sustainable Westford Westford, Massachusetts Sustainable Westford creates opportunities for the community to work toward sustainable practices through its local and sustainable food system, recycling services and waterbottle filling stations.

Urban Farming Institute of Boston Roxbury, Massachusetts This organization promotes and develops urban farming as a creator of green-collar jobs, and engages urban communities to build a healthier, more locally based food system.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Plymouth, Massachusetts This group is dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales and dolphins, defending these animals against the many threats they face through conservation campaigns, advising governments, and research and rescue.

Michigan Boardman River Clean Sweep Traverse City, Michigan Boardman River Clean Sweep recruits and organizes volunteers and equipment to perform an annual cleanup of the Boardman River.

Detroiters Working for Environmental Justiceâ&#x20AC;Š Detroit, Michigan DWEJ champions local and national collaboration to advance environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment.

For Love of Water Traverse City, Michigan FLOW exists to protect the common waters of the Great Lakes Basin through public trust solutions.

Grand Rapids Whitewater Grand Rapids, Michigan Grand Rapids Whitewater is dedicated to restoring its namesake rapids on the Grand River to create a safer, more accessible and more exciting river experience for everyone.

Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Traverse City, Michigan This group builds partnerships, raises awareness and does its best to support an exciting community resilience movement.

Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness Minneapolis, Minnesota Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness is working to protect, preserve and restore the wilderness character of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Quetico-Superior ecosystem.

Michigan Environmental Council Lansing, Michigan

Gardening Matters Minneapolis, Minnesota

MEC drives Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental agenda, leading diverse coalitions that inspire policymakers to adopt pioneering solutions.

Gardening Matters supports gardens and inspires gardeners to build resilient communities as they grow their own food.

Sierra Club, Michigan Chapter Lansing, Michigan

Honor the Earth Callaway, Minnesota

The Sierra Club exists to explore, enjoy and protect the planet.

Honor the Earth works on climate change, opposes extreme resource extraction and seeks to restore indigenous economies in Native American communities.

SustainUS Grandville, Michigan SustainUS advances justice and sustainability by empowering young people to engage in advocacy at the domestic and international levels.

The Nature Conservancy Lansing, Michigan The Nature Conservancy helps to protect nature by carrying out large-scale, sciencebased conservation projects throughout the world.

Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council Petoskey, Michigan This group is dedicated to protecting the lakes, streams, wetlands and groundwater of northern Michigan through advocacy, education, water-quality monitoring, research and restoration.

Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Big Bay, Michigan This group works to preserve and protect the Yellow Dog River watershed in its most natural state for the benefit of present and future generations.

Minnesota Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy Minneapolis, Minnesota This group works to ensure that communities and policymakers have the tools and information they need to create just, sustainable energy and environmental policy.

Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy Minneapolis, Minnesota Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy educates and empowers people to engage in solutions to climate change.

Cycles for Change Saint Paul, Minnesota Cycles for Change seeks to build a diverse and empowered community of bicyclists.

iMatter St. Louis Park, Minnesota iMatter is a youth-driven organization dedicated to listening to and amplifying the voice of the generation that will be most impacted by the effects of climate change.

Indigenous Environmental Network Bemidji, Minnesota This network of grassroots indigenous peoples seeks to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting traditional teachings and natural laws.

Minnesota Food Association Marine on St Croix, Minnesota MFA seeks to build a sustainable food system based on social, economic and environmental justice through education, training and partnerships.

Mississippi River Fund St Paul, Minnesota Mississippi River Fund works to strengthen the connection between people and the Mississippi River and build community support for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.

MN350 Minneapolis, Minnesota MN350 is building a climate movement by inviting individuals and communities to take powerful, collective action.

Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness Ely, Minnesota Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness seeks to protect and preserve wilderness and to advocate for the protection of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Pollinator Friendly Alliance Stillwater, Minnesota The Pollinator Friendly Alliance works to protect and restore pollinators to improve the environment and sustain our food supply.

Red-headed Woodpecker Recovery Project Minneapolis, Minnesota This group works to reverse the decline and promote the recovery of red-headed woodpeckers in Minnesota, through the preservation and expansion of breeding habitat and over-wintering grounds.

Regeneration International Minneapolis, Minnesota Regeneration International aims to build a global network of farmers, scientists, businesses, activists, educators, journalists, policymakers and consumers who promote and practice regenerative agriculture and land use.

Sierra Club, North Star Chapter Minneapolis, Minnesota The Sierra Club exists to explore, enjoy and protect the planet.

Superior Hiking Trail Association Two Harbors, Minnesota Superior Hiking Trail Association seeks to build, maintain and promote the Superior Hiking Trail as a 310-mile footpath along Minnesota’s Lake Superior north shore.

The Loppet Foundation Minneapolis, Minnesota The Loppet Foundation provides opportunities for outdoor activities and adventures in the Twin Cities: running outdoor events; coaching youth in skiing, biking and canoeing; and working with the Minneapolis Park Board to provide trails.

Toxic Taters Coalition Callaway, Minnesota Toxic Taters Coalition organizes people to work together to protect their land, air, water and lives from chemically intensive potato farming in Minnesota.

Twin Cities Trout Unlimited Minneapolis, Minnesota Trout Unlimited is dedicated to preserving, reconnecting and restoring America’s coldwater streams.

WaterLegacy Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota

Ozark Trail Association Potosi, Missouri Ozark Trail Association works to develop, maintain, preserve, promote and protect the rugged natural beauty of the Ozark Trail.

Montana Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation Red Lodge, Montana Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation fosters stewardship of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness and the appreciation of wild lands.

Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation Bozeman, Montana This group brings outdoor adventurers and scientists together to promote conservation around the globe.

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Missoula, Montana Backcountry Hunters & Anglers exists to ensure North America’s outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting, through education and work on behalf of wild public lands and waters.

Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited Ovando, Montana BBCTU works to restore and conserve the coldwater fishery of the Big Blackfoot River and its tributaries.

Big Hole Watershed Committee Divide, Montana Big Hole Watershed Committee seeks understanding and agreement among individuals and groups with diverse viewpoints on water use and management in the Big Hole River watershed of southwest Montana.

Big Sky Upland Bird Association Missoula, Montana This group seeks to advance the conservation and management of habitat and populations of all of Montana’s upland game birds.

Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation Hungry Horse, Montana BMWF connects Americans with their wilderness heritage by providing access to and stewardship of Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.

Buffalo Field Campaign West Yellowstone, Montana Dedicated to stopping the harassment and slaughter of wild Yellowstone buffalo, the Buffalo Field Campaign helps protect wildlife habitat and works with indigenous nations to honor the sacredness of wild buffalo.

Center for Large Landscape Conservation Bozeman, Montana CLLC conserves nature by connecting people across cultures and geographies.

Clark Fork Coalition Missoula, Montana Clark Fork Coalition seeks to protect and restore the Clark Fork River watershed in western Montana and northern Idaho.

Climate Smart Missoula Missoula, Montana Climate Smart Missoula is the hub that fosters partnerships and actions to address climate change in its community.

Conservation Congress Livingston, Montana Conservation Congress works to protect National Forest lands and imperiled wildlife in northern California.

Five Valleys Land Trust Missoula, Montana FVLT aims to protect and preserve western Montana's river corridors, wildlife habitat, agricultural lands and scenic open spaces.

Friends of the Wild Swan Bigfork, Montana Friends of the Wild Swan seeks to protect and restore water quality, fish and wildlife habitat on state and federal public lands in northwest Montana.

Gallatin River Task Force Big Sky, Montana Gallatin River Task Force partners with its community to inspire stewardship of the Upper Gallatin River watershed.

Great Burn Study Group Missoula, Montana Through on-the-ground stewardship, advocacy and education, the Great Burn Study Group works to permanently protect the wild and remote character and ecological integrity of the northern Bitterroot Mountains.

Grizzly Times Livingston, Montana Grizzly Times is a voice for imperiled grizzly bears and the ecosystems that sustain them in the American West.

Headwaters Montana Whitefish, Montana Headwaters Montana works to protect water, wildlife and the traditional outdoor heritage of Montana and southeast British Columbia.

Madison River Foundation Ennis, Montana Madison River Foundation seeks to preserve, protect and enhance the Madison River ecosystem.

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WaterLegacy seeks to protect Minnesota’s waters from sulfide mining and other threats, and works to safeguard the human and ecological communities that rely on these natural resources.

Missouri

Montana Environmental Information Center Helena, Montana Montana Environmental Information Center is committed to protecting and preserving Montana's natural environment through policy work, media outreach and government watchdog efforts.

Montana Raptor Conservation Center Bozeman, Montana Montana Raptor Conservation Center seeks to improve the welfare of raptors across Montana by rehabilitating injured birds of prey, educating, and forging partnerships for raptor conservation and research.

Montana State University Alumni Foundation Bozeman, Montana The Montana State University Alumni Foundation seeks to cultivate lifelong relationships and secure private support to advance Montana State University.

Montana Wildlife Federation Helena, Montana Montana Wildlife Federation works to involve conservation-minded people in protecting and enhancing Montana’s public wildlife, lands, waters and fair-chase hunting and fishing heritage.

National Forest Foundation Missoula, Montana National Forest Foundation engages Americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre National Forest System.

Northern Plains Resource Council Billings, Montana This group organizes Montana citizens to safeguard water quality, family farms and ranches, and the state’s quality of life.

Park County Environmental Council Livingston, Montana Park County Environmental Council gets people working together to protect and enrich the quality of life in Park County by preserving and restoring rivers, wildlife and landscapes.

People and Carnivores Bozeman, Montana People and Carnivores connects people, ideas and resources to advance carnivore conservation and rangeland stewardship in the American West.

Prickly Pear Land Trust Helena, Montana Prickly Pear Land Trust defends the natural diversity and rural character of Montana’s Prickly Pear Valley and adjoining lands through cooperative efforts with landowners.

Public Land/Water Access Association Billings, Montana

WildWest Institute Missoula, Montana

PLWA works to maintain, restore and perpetuate public access to the boundaries of all Montana public land and waters.

WildWest Institute exists to protect and restore forests, wild lands, watersheds and wildlife in the northern Rockies, empowering citizens to effectively participate in public land management decision processes.

Save the Yellowstone Grizzly Emigrant, Montana Save the Yellowstone Grizzly is a campaign organized to fight the removal of Endangered Species Act protections from Yellowstone’s grizzly bears and avert the possibility of a trophy hunt.

Sierra Club Bozeman, Montana

Yaak Valley Forest Council Troy, Montana Yaak Valley Forest Council protects roadless areas, restores habitat, works to build an economy based on restoration and cultivates dialogue between historically polarized groups.

Sierra Club exists to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth.

Yellowstone Forever Bozeman, Montana

Swan Valley Connections Condon, Montana

Yellowstone Forever partners with Yellowstone National Park to create opportunities for all people to experience, enhance and preserve Yellowstone forever.

Swan Valley Connections aims to strengthen the relationships between people and landscapes through pioneering a new brand of collaborative conservation.

Swan View Coalition Kalispell, Montana Swan View Coalition helps communities in Montana’s Swan Range protect their sources of quiet recreation, clean water and wildlife security from logging, pesticides, extreme sports events and motorized vehicles.

Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Bozeman, Montana This group seeks to defend Montana’s Upper Missouri River and its tributaries from pollution, and enforce and improve environmental laws that protect community health.

Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project Billings, Montana This group seeks to build a grassroots base of citizens working for stewardship and conservation of the land, water and natural resources of the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.

Western Sustainability Exchange Livingston, Montana Western Sustainability Exchange conserves what’s best about the West—open space, wildlife habitat, farming and ranching heritage—while strengthening rural economies.

Wildlife Conservation Society Ennis, Montana The Wildlife Conservation Society works to save wildlife and wild places through science, conservation action, education and inspiring people to value nature.

Yellowstone River Parks Association Billings, Montana YRPA exists to improve public spaces along the Yellowstone River for recreation and the enjoyment of the community and its visitors, free of charge.

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Bozeman, Montana Combining science and stewardship, this group seeks to ensure that the worldrenowned wilderness and wildlife of the Y2Y region can support all of its natural and human communities.

Nebraska Center for Rural Affairs Lyons, Nebraska Center for Rural Affairs stands up for rural communities and brings their voices to policymakers, advocating for better health care, clean energy, sustainable agriculture and community development in rural America.

Nebraska Chapter—Sierra Club Foundation Omaha, Nebraska Nebraska Sierra Club seeks to create a safe and healthy community in which to live, an enduring legacy for America’s wild places and smart energy solutions to combat global warming.

Nevada Friends of Nevada Wilderness Reno, Nevada Friends of Nevada Wilderness is dedicated to preserving qualified Nevada public lands as wilderness, protecting them from threats, informing the public about the values and need for wilderness, and restoring and improving the management of wild lands.

Great Basin Resource Watch Reno, Nevada Great Basin Resource Watch defends the health and well-being of the Great Basin’s land, air, water, wildlife and communities from the adverse effects of industrial development and resource extraction.

Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization Mahwah, New Jersey MEVO seeks to be the model for the creation of scalable ecological solutions that inspire and empower people to take action for a better future.

Great Basin Water Network Baker, Nevada

New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Mahwah, New Jersey

Great Basin Water Network unites disparate communities to protect the water resources of the Great Basin for residents, animals and plants.

This group is building, maintaining and protecting 2,150 miles of trails and their natural surroundings in 22 counties in southern New York and northern New Jersey.

Safe Haven Wildlife Sanctuary Imlay, Nevada

People’s Climate Movement Highland Park, New Jersey

Safe Haven Wildlife Sanctuary works to provide lifelong care to nonreleasable wildlife and interim care to native wildlife eligible for release.

PCM seeks to build a broad-based movement that will shift our country to a clean energy economy that reduces carbon emissions, rebuilds our communities and helps to create jobs for the unemployed, all while strengthening frontline communities.

The Nature Conservancy in Nevada Reno, Nevada The Nature Conservancy in Nevada works to preserve the state’s lands and waters through scientific study and partnerships.

Two Hands Collective Reno, Nevada This group is working to create a more just and life-sustaining culture through service, simplicity and direct action.

New Hampshire Post-Landfill Action Network Dover, New Hampshire PLAN cultivates and inspires the student-led Zero Waste movement, informing students about the waste crisis and equipping them with the tools to implement solutions in their campus communities.

New Jersey American Indian Law Alliance Union City, New Jersey This organization works with indigenous nations and communities in their struggle for sovereignty, human rights and social justice for their peoples.

Clean Ocean Action Highlands, New Jersey Clean Ocean Action works to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast.

Hunterdon County Educational Services Commission Califon, New Jersey

Audubon New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico Audubon seeks to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats, for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.

Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund Santa Fe, New Mexico This group works to engage New Mexicans to protect their air, land, water and communities by mobilizing people to advocate on policy, enhancing the voting process, cultivating conservation leaders and amplifying the voices of those most affected.

Holistic Management International Albuquerque, New Mexico HMI educates people in regenerative agriculture for healthy land and thriving communities.

New Energy Economy Santa Fe, New Mexico NEE is working to build a carbon-free energy future for our health and the environment.

New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fe, New Mexico New Mexico Environmental Law Center works to protect the natural environment and achieve environmental justice for New Mexico's communities through legal representation, policy advocacy and public education.

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Albuquerque, New Mexico New Mexico Wilderness Alliance advances the protection, restoration and continued enjoyment of New Mexico’s wild lands and wilderness areas.

Quivira Coalition works to build resilience by fostering ecological, economic and social health on Western landscapes.

WildEarth Guardians Sante Fe, New Mexico WildEarth Guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild rivers and wild places of the American West through advocacy, grassroots-action campaigns, media outreach and litigation.

New York 596 Acres Brooklyn, New York 596 Acres champions resident stewardship of land to build just and equitable cities.

Adirondack Council Elizabethtown, New York Adirondack Council seeks to ensure the ecological integrity and wild character of New York’s 6-million-acre Adirondack Park, a patchwork of public and private lands.

Adirondack Wild Niskayuna, New York This group works to advance New York’s Forever Wild legacy and Forest Preserve policies in Adirondack and Catskill parks, and promote public and private land stewardship that is consistent with wild land values.

Ausable River Association Wilmington, New York Ausable River Association works to identify, conserve and restore the Ausable River watershed’s natural and recreational resources for their ecological value and for the benefit of human communities.

Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger Brooklyn, New York Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger seeks to end hunger by distributing food and empowering people.

BK ROT Brooklyn, New York BK ROT is an urban conservation and composting project stewarding Know Waste Lands community garden in Brooklyn and providing environmental jobs to local youth.

Boquet River Association Elizabethtown, New York Boquet River Association is dedicated to enhancing the quality of water and life in the 280-square-mile Boquet River watershed.

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This group is committed to providing education, and to facilitating community actions and programs, to protect the natural resources of Hunterdon County and preserve water quality in the Raritan River’s Ken Lockwood Gorge.

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Quivira Coalition Santa Fe, New Mexico

Bronx River Alliance Bronx, New York

H.E.A.L.T.H. for Youths New York, New York

New York City H2O New York, New York

Bronx River Alliance works with others to ensure the river is a healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resource for the communities through which it flows.

This organization strives to combat community deterioration and juvenile delinquency, and improve the quality of education, health care and life skills.

NYC H2O seeks to inspire New Yorkers to learn about, enjoy and protect the city’s local water ecology.

Cafeteria Culture New York, New York Cafeteria Culture works to achieve zero-waste schools and climate-smart communities through arts, media and advocacy with school communities as its partners in change.

Catskill Mountainkeeper Livingston Manor, New York

HeadCount New York, New York HeadCount uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy.

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Beacon, New York Hudson River Sloop Clearwater is dedicated to preserving and protecting the Hudson River.

Catskill Mountainkeeper works to protect the ecological integrity of the Catskill Mountains region and the quality of life.

Human Impacts Institute Brooklyn, New York

City Growers Brooklyn, New York

Human Impacts Institute exists to inspire you to transform environmental challenges into social action for a just and livable world.

City Growers connects urban communities with agriculture, food and environment through farm education and advocacy.

International WOW Company Brooklyn, New York

Freshkills Park Alliance New York, New York The Freshkills Park Alliance works on behalf of Freshkills Park by promoting research and ecological restoration, engaging advocates and volunteers, and sponsoring a range of programs.

Friends of Poke-O-Moonshine Keeseville, New York Friends of Poke-O-Moonshine is dedicated to the preservation of Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain as a natural and educational resource for interpreting the natural and cultural history of the mountain.

Friends of the Upper Delaware River Hancock, New York This organization seeks to protect, preserve and enhance the cold-water ecosystem of the Upper Delaware River watershed.

Friends of Van Cortlandt Park Bronx, New York Friends of Van Cortlandt Park promotes the conservation and improvement of the park through environmental education, restoration and enhancement.

Gowanus Canal Conservancy Brooklyn, New York Gowanus Canal Conservancy brings the Gowanus Canal watershed to life by creating green space and parkland along its shores; protecting its water, soil and air; and fostering a balance of ecological, business and cultural activity in the region.

The WOW Company seeks to position community and culture in an international context and redefine the changing landscape of globalization.

Lower East Side Ecology Center New York, New York Lower East Side Ecology Center is working toward a more sustainable NYC by providing community-based recycling and composting programs, developing local stewardship of green space, and increasing community awareness, involvement and youth development.

Mianus River Gorge Bedford, New York Mianus River Gorge works to preserve, protect and promote appreciation of the natural heritage of the Mianus River watershed.

Mohonk Preserve New Paltz, New York Mohonk Preserve exists to protect the Shawangunk Mountains region and inspire people to care for, enjoy and explore their natural world.

Operation SPLASH Freeport, New York Operation SPLASH is committed to improving the quality of life on Long Island Shores by cleaning the bays and educating citizens.

Riverkeeper Ossining, New York Riverkeeper serves as a watchdog to defend the Hudson River and its tributaries through legal action, education and legislative advocacy, and by operating the Riverkeeper patrol boat.

Rockaway Waterfront Alliance Far Rockaway, New York RWA is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding, respect and connection between communities and the Rockaway waterfront.

Rocking the Boat Bronx, New York Rocking the Boat empowers young people challenged by severe economic, educational and social conditions to develop the selfconfidence needed to set ambitious goals and gain the skills necessary to achieve them.

Sane Energy Project New York, New York This organization seeks to replace the drive to build shale gas infrastructure with a drive to build a renewable energy infrastructure.

Sierra Club, New York City Inspiring Connections Outdoors Forest Hills, New York The Sierra Club’s Inspiring Connections Outdoors provides opportunities for youth to explore and enjoy the natural world.

Sierra Club’s Hudson Mohawk Group Albany, New York Sierra Club exists to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth, carrying out its mission in the Capital District of New York.

Natural Resources Defense Council New York, New York

Surfrider Foundation, NYC Chapter New York, New York

NRDC helps safeguard the earth by combining the grassroots power of over a million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of hundreds of lawyers, scientists and other professionals.

Surfrider Foundation advocates for the protection and enjoyment of our ocean, waves and beaches, through a powerful grassroots activist network.

New York City Audubon New York, New York New York City Audubon exists to protect wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

The Nature Conservancy, Adirondack Chapter Keene Valley, New York This group seeks to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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Rio Santa Cruz Sin Represas

Mission For almost four years, we have been working

Achievements Through alliance member Banco de Bosques,

alongside

defense

we petitioned Argentina’s Supreme Court to stop dam

organizations to protect the Santa Cruz River—Patagonia’s

construction from going forward until a more thorough and

last glacial river running free from the Andes to the sea. Our

accurate environmental report that examines and rules on

mission is to raise awareness and influence public opinion in

the legality of the project is delivered to and approved by the

Argentina, and seek the support of international organizations

National Congress and the Supreme Court. With the help of

that share our desire to stop the river from being dammed.

our alliance, we encouraged dam opponents to participate

preservationist

and

environmental

Activities We formed a working alliance to stop the dams, have raised awareness in local communities that would be affected by the project, and orchestrated communication campaigns aimed at the entire population of the Patagonia region. With the help of Patagonia founder/owner Yvon Chouinard and Gilbert Butler, we filmed and presented the documentary Matar al río. Represas a cualquier costo (To Kill the River. Dams at any Cost). The film features testimonies environmentalists, technical specialists and members of our alliance, demanding energy produced at lower social and environmental costs.

An environmental alliance is fighting to keep Argentina’s Río Santa Cruz

of people visited riosantacruzlibre.org where they were able to email senators, congress people and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, asking them to stop the dams. Also, more than 600 came to an event that featured the screening of Matar al río. Represas a cualquier costo, and we had more than 600,000 views of the documentary, many with comments, via social media. Though the National Congress has already approved the project, the river is for the moment protected, thanks to challenges presented by the alliance. It is our hope that the Supreme Court carefully considers our arguments to end the project for good, ruling in favor of the environment rather than the political and financial interests of the few.

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from key community members in Santa Cruz province,

in a public hearing before the National Congress. Thousands

undammed from the glaciers to the sea. JUAN PABLO RAPOSO

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The River Project New York, New York The River Project is a marine science field station that works to protect and restore the ecosystem of the Hudson River Estuary and NY Harbor.

Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up! Brooklyn, New York With a focus on challenges facing the global environment, Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up! grounds its activities in local community, offering programs that promote environmental awareness, urban ecology, grassroots organization and cleaner modes of transportation.

Two Countries, One Forest Keene Valley, New York Two Countries, One Forest is dedicated to restoring and protecting the natural heritage of the northern Appalachian-Acadian region from New York to Nova Scotia.

UPROSE Brooklyn, New York UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency through community organizing, education, leadership development and cultural/artistic expression.

Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy Bronx, New York Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy seeks to sustain and enhance the park as a vibrant destination for recreation, leisure and the enjoyment of natural landscapes.

Waterkeeper Alliance New York, New York Waterkeeper seeks to strengthen and grow a global network of grassroots leaders protecting everyone's right to clean water.

West Harlem Environmental Action New York, New York WE ACT seeks to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color, and/or low income people, participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.

Westmoreland Sanctuary Mount Kisco, New York Westmoreland Sanctuary seeks to preserve, enrich and restore land for the free use and enjoyment of the public.

Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx, New York The Wildlife Conservation Society protects wildlife and wild lands in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park of upstate New York.

North Carolina American Whitewater Cullowhee, North Carolina American Whitewater conserves and restores our nation's whitewater resources and enhances opportunities to enjoy them safely through policy work and volunteer programs.

Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation Winston-Salem, North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation supports and funds an array of initiatives to preserve this North Carolina treasure, including programs to build and maintain visitor facilities, educate children, and restore and conserve the natural environment.

Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation Charlotte, North Carolina Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation works to protect the Catawba-Wateree River basin's lakes, rivers and streams.

Conservation Trust for North Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina This group works with local land trusts, landowners and communities to protect natural treasures so that all North Carolinians can enjoy safe drinking water, clean air, fresh local foods and recreational opportunities for generations to come.

Dogwood Alliance Asheville, North Carolina

Piedmont Environmental Alliance Winston-Salem, North Carolina This group inspires North Carolinians to make choices that protect and restore nature, providing information on sustainability, supporting environmental groups and green businesses, and leveraging the collective power of individual actions to build a sustainable community.

RAFI-USA Pittsboro, North Carolina RAFI cultivates markets, policies and communities that support thriving, socially just and environmentally sound family farms.

RiverLink Asheville, North Carolina RiverLink promotes the environmental and economic vitality of the French Broad River and its watershed as a place to live, learn, work and play.

Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards Asheville, North Carolina Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards seeks to educate, cultivate and empower an engaged public for the stewardship of protected public lands.

SouthWings Asheville, North Carolina

Dogwood Alliance mobilizes diverse voices to defend the forests and communities of the southern U.S. from destructive industrial forestry.

SouthWings promotes conservation through aviation, giving community organizations the inspiration and evidence they need to take action to protect and restore the forests, rivers, coastlines and wetlands of the Southeast.

Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail Raleigh, North Carolina

The North Carolina Arboretum Society Asheville, North Carolina

Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail brings together communities and volunteers to build, protect and promote a simple footpath connecting North Carolina's natural treasures for the enjoyment and education of people.

MountainTrue Asheville, North Carolina MountainTrue champions resilient forests, clean waters and healthy communities in western North Carolina.

Nantahala Racing Club Almond, North Carolina Nantahala Racing Club is dedicated to strengthening and empowering youth through whitewater sport.

This groups supports The North Carolina Arboretum in its mission to cultivate connections between people and plants through conservation, education, garden demonstration, research and economic development.

Toxic Free NC Raleigh, North Carolina Toxic Free NC engages North Carolinians in initiatives that promote human and environmental health.

Wild South Asheville, North Carolina Wild South inspires people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.

North Dakota Dakota Resource Council Bismarck, North Dakota Dakota Resource Council forms local groups that promote prosperous, environmentally sound rural communities and empower people to influence decision-making processes in issues that affect their lives.

Ohio Buckeye Trail Association Shawnee, Ohio The leader in building, maintaining, protecting and promoting use of Ohio’s longest scenic hiking trail, BTA provides outdoor recreation, education and opportunities to volunteer.

Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed Columbus, Ohio Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed seeks to make the Olentangy River and its tributaries healthy and safe for all to enjoy.

Groundwork Cincinnati—Mill Creek Cincinnati, Ohio Groundwork Cincinnati works with the public to restore its river and natural resources, transform derelict properties, plant trees and gardens, build trails, revitalize Mill Creek neighborhoods and provide green jobs.

Little Miami Conservancy Loveland, Ohio LMC is dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Little Miami National Wild & Scenic River for wildlife, quiet public recreation and clean drinking water.

Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund Cleveland, Ohio Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund provides research and support for community organizing for environmental campaigns.

Ohio Organizing Collaborative Youngstown, Ohio OOC is dedicated to organizing everyday Ohioans to build a transformative base of power for the purpose of achieving environmental, social, racial and economic justice.

Oregon Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council Jacksonville, Oregon Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council promotes ecosystem health across the Applegate watershed through stewardship, education and restoration.

Bus Project Foundation Portland, Oregon Bus Project Foundation seeks to make politics accessible and fun for young people, through mobilization, empowerment and building progressive communities.

Cascade Forest Conservancy Portland, Oregon Cascade Forest Conservancy seeks to protect and sustain forests, streams, wildlife and communities in the heart of the Cascades.

North Clackamas Urban Watersheds Council Milwaukie, Oregon The North Clackamas Urban Watersheds Council works to protect and enhance water quality, fish and wildlife habitat.

Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides Eugene, Oregon

Cascadia Wildlands Eugene, Oregon

The Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides works to protect community and environmental health and inspire the use of ecologically sound solutions to reduce the use of pesticides.

Cascadia Wildlands defends and restores Cascadia’s wild ecosystems in the forests, in the courts and in the streets.

Ocean Blue Project Corvallis, Oregon

Columbia Riverkeeper Hood River, Oregon Columbia Riverkeeper is dedicated to protecting and restoring the water quality of the Columbia River and all life connected to it.

Crag Law Center Portland, Oregon Crag Law Center represents conservation groups and citizens working for sustainable land management in the Pacific Northwest: helping clients with litigation, promoting civic participation, and assisting with campaign strategies, communications, organizing efforts and media relations.

Deschutes River Alliance Maupin, Oregon DRA advocates for water quality, a healthy ecosystem and the establishment and protection of robust populations of resident and anadromous fish throughout the Deschutes River’s entire watershed.

Hells Canyon Preservation Council La Grande, Oregon This group protects and restores the wildlands, pure waters, habitats and biodiversity of the Hells Canyon-Wallowa and Blue Mountain ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.

Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center Ashland, Oregon KS Wild is an advocate for the forests, wildlife and waters of the Klamath and Rogue River basins of southwest Oregon and northwest California.

Ocean Blue Project works to improve urban water quality by using a holistic ecosystembased approach that synergistically reduces pollutants entering rivers, prevents erosion and provides wildlife habitat.

Opal Foundation Beaverton, Oregon Opal Foundation seeks to improve public and private recreational areas in ways that benefit both the community and the environment.

Oregon Natural Desert Association Bend, Oregon ONDA defends and restores Oregon's high desert, working to permanently protect millions of acres of public land that is home to diverse populations of wildlife.

Pacific Rivers Portland, Oregon Pacific Rivers is working to protect and restore the watershed ecosystems of the West to assure river health, biodiversity and clean water.

Rogue Climate Phoenix, Oregon Rogue Climate is a youth-led organization that brings communities in southern Oregon together to support practical solutions to climate change that will result in cleaner energy, sustainable jobs and a healthy environment.

Rogue River Watershed Council Central Point, Oregon

McKenzie River Trust Eugene, Oregon

Rogue River Watershed Council promotes stewardship of its namesake watershed through restoration, education and community involvement.

The McKenzie River Trust helps people protect and care for the lands and rivers they cherish in western Oregon.

Siskiyou Mountain Club Ashland, Oregon

Neighbors for a Livable West Linn works to preserve and restore White Oak Savanna Natural Park and wildlife habitat in West Linn.

Siskiyou Mountain Club is working to restore, maintain and promote primitive trails in the Siskiyou backcountry, and to provide outdoor service opportunities for the public.

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Soda Mountain Wilderness Council Ashland, Oregon Soda Mountain Wilderness Council defends and promotes wild lands in the Soda Mountain/ Pilot Rock area.

The Bus Federation Civic Fund Portland, Oregon The Bus Federation is building a movement of young people, by young people and for all people, to promote civic engagement.

The Conservation Alliance Bend, Oregon The Conservation Alliance engages businesses to fund and partner with organizations throughout North America to protect wild places for their habitat and recreation values.

The Freshwater Trust Portland, Oregon The Freshwater Trust works to preserve and restore America's freshwater ecosystems.

Umpqua Watersheds Roseburg, Oregon Umpqua Watersheds is dedicated to the protection and restoration of the ecosystems of the Umpqua watershed and beyond.

Walama Restoration Project Eugene, Oregon

Mission The Big Bend Conservation Alliance (BBCA) is a volunteer-driven organization that seeks to celebrate and preserve the natural, cultural and economic resources of the Big Bend region of Texas. BBCA was started in response to the Trans-Pecos Pipeline, and in the process of countless hours of research and discovery, our focus has broadened to include landowner rights, clean water, dark skies, due process and stopping the abuse of eminent domain. Activities We stand in solidarity with a broad range of landowners and citizens across the Big Bend region. Under Texas law, a pipeline company is not required to prove that its facilities will be for the “public good.” Our primary focus is to shift the national narrative from anti pipeline to pro political transparency, water conservation, cultural integrity and wilderness preservation through direct action and public advocacy. We utilize community-activist workshops, media campaigns, civic engagement and legal action to implement our campaign strategy. Accomplishments Formed in the winter of 2014, BBCA has grown a cohesive network of citizen advocates, private landowners, municipal leaders, industry experts and conservation groups alike. We have developed programs to help mitigate threats to the cultural and environmental health of the Big Bend region. In May of 2017, BBCA filed its first brief with the D.C. Circuit Court challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permitting the Trans-Pecos Pipeline. Based on legal arguments, the BBCA requested that the court reverse the FERC’s order granting the permit until it complied with National Environmental Policy Act requirements. As we remain steadfast throughout the legal process, we continue to work with media advocates to produce a feature-length documentary that’s a cautionary tale of a pipeline and the taking of Texas land. Big Bend National Park’s South Rim Trail, Texas. WILL MEDERSKI

Walama Restoration Project is dedicated to environmental stewardship and biological diversity through education and habitat restoration.

Western Environmental Law Center Eugene, Oregon Western Environmental Law Center works to protect and restore western wild lands and advocates for a healthy environment on behalf of communities throughout the West.

Wild Salmon Center Portland, Oregon Wild Salmon Center promotes the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim.

Willamette Riverkeeper Portland, Oregon Willamette Riverkeeper works to protect and restore the Willamette River’s water quality and habitat.

World Salmon Council Portland, Oregon World Salmon Council aims to educate, engage and empower communities in wild salmon sustainability.

Pennsylvania Allegheny Defense Project Kane, Pennsylvania

Mid State Trail Association Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Allegheny Defense Project defends the forests and watersheds of the Allegheny Plateau from commercial logging, oil and gas drilling, and other extractive industries.

The Mid State Trail Association seeks out remote, quiet, natural corridors for the Mid State Trail; constructs and maintains footpaths; and acts to protect the resources of the corridor through which the trail passes.

Brandywine Conservancy Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

Rodale Institute Kutztown, Pennsylvania

Brandywine Conservancy works to conserve the natural and cultural resources of the Brandywine watershed, with an emphasis on water conservation and quality.

Rodale Institute works to improve the health and well-being of people and the planet through regenerative organic agriculture that enhances soil and human health.

Brandywine Red Clay Alliance West Chester, Pennsylvania

Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center Petersburg, Pennsylvania

Brandywine Red Clay Alliance promotes the restoration, conservation and enjoyment of the natural resources of the Brandywine and Red Clay watersheds.

ClearWater Conservancy State College, Pennsylvania ClearWater Conservancy exists to conserve and restore the natural resources of central Pennsylvania through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach in the community.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Mercersburg, Pennsylvania Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund works to build sustainable communities by helping people assert their right to local selfgovernment and promote the rights of nature.

Energy Justice Network Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Advocating for a clean, zero-emission, zerowaste future, EJN supports communities threatened by polluting energy and waste technologies.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network Philadelphia, Pennsylvania FFDSN is a youth-led organization at the heart of the global movement to divest from fossil fuels.

Friends of Allegheny Wilderness Warren, Pennsylvania Friends of Allegheny Wilderness fosters an appreciation of wilderness values, working with communities to ensure that increased wilderness protection is a priority in the stewardship of the Allegheny National Forest.

Keystone Trails Association Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Sierra Club Moshannon Group State College, Pennsylvania This chapter of the Sierra Club exists to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth, carrying out its mission in central Pennsylvania.

Stroud Water Research Center Avondale, Pennsylvania Stroud Water Research Center seeks to advance the knowledge of freshwater ecosystems through interdisciplinary research into all aspects of streams, rivers and their watersheds.

The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County Avondale, Pennsylvania TLC exists to ensure the perpetual preservation and stewardship of open space, natural resources, historic sites and working agricultural lands throughout southern Chester County.

Avian Conservation Center Charleston, South Carolina This organization works to identify and address vital environmental issues by providing medical care to injured birds and by creating educational, research and conservation initiatives.

Conservation Voters of South Carolina Education Fund Columbia, South Carolina Conservation Voters of South Carolina Education Fund is dedicated to maximizing the participation of conservation-minded citizens in public-policy decisions made at the state and local levels regarding South Carolina’s environment.

The Outside Foundation Hilton Head, South Carolina The Outside Foundation works to get kids outside and to preserve and protect our environment.

South Dakota Dakota Rural Action Brookings, South Dakota Dakota Rural Action promotes family agriculture and conservation of South Dakota’s environment and way of life through community organizing.

Friends of the Big Sioux River Sioux Falls, South Dakota Friends works to reduce urban and rural pollution of the Big Sioux River.

Tennessee Appalachian Bear Rescue Townsend, Tennessee ABR studies and cares for orphaned and injured black bear cubs for return to the wild, and increases public awareness about coexisting with black bears.

Willistown Conservation Trust Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Cherokee Forest Voices Johnson City, Tennessee

Willistown Conservation Trust is working to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of Willistown and nearby communities.

Cherokee Forest Voices is working to restore biodiversity, improve protection for wildlife and water, and increase the availability of nature-oriented recreation and protection of scenic values.

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Clean Water Expected in East Tennessee Cosby, Tennessee

Clean Ocean Access Middletown, Rhode Island Clean Ocean Access is working to clean marine debris from the shoreline, improve water quality, and protect, preserve and maintain shoreline access.

Save The Bay Providence, Rhode Island Save The Bay seeks to protect and improve Narragansett Bay.

Clean Water Expected in East Tennessee is dedicated to seeing the Pigeon River live up to its full potential by holding upstream polluters accountable to the standards set forth by the Clean Water Act. 2017 GR ANT LISTINGS

Keystone Trails Association seeks to provide, protect, preserve and promote recreational hiking trails and hiking opportunities in Pennsylvania.

Shaver’s Creek teaches, models and provides educational experiences that enable individuals and communities to achieve and maintain harmony between human activities and the natural world.

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Appalachian Voices

Mission Appalachian Voices is driven by a passion for

in coal-impacted communities. At a pivotal moment for our

Appalachia’s communities, landscapes and future. We

region’s future, our staff is making sure the perspectives,

bring people together to defend the region’s rich natural

concerns and aspirations of Appalachian citizens advance a

and cultural heritage by providing them with tools and

transition to an economy that is healthy in the broadest sense.

strategies for successful grassroots campaigns. While best known for our work to end mountaintop-removal coal mining and protect clean water from the life-cycle impacts of coal, Appalachian Voices has emerged in recent years as a leader in the regional movement to revitalize Central Appalachia’s economy as the once-dominant coal industry is outcompeted by cleaner forms of energy.

Accomplishments Our greatest successes are shared with the communities where we work. Over our 20-year history, we’ve played a central role in galvanizing a national grassroots movement to end mountaintop-removal coal mining by educating citizens coast to coast about the way they’re connected to the destruction of one of America’s most treasured landscapes. In more recent years, we’ve had

Activities Today, communities across Appalachia and the

a hand in exposing tens of thousands of Clean Water Act

Southeast are on the frontlines of America’s energy transition.

violations by Kentucky coal companies, defeating the largest

Appalachian Voices is working across the region to ensure

coal-fired power plant ever proposed in Virginia and waging a

citizens have a seat at the table and a say in the decisions

concerted campaign to hold polluters accountable following

that affect their families, communities and environment. Our

the Dan River coal ash spill in North Carolina. Responding to

suite of programs and related campaigns employ grassroots

the urgency and acting on the momentum created by federal

principles to fight against coal pollution and proposed

funding opportunities for locally led initiatives, Appalachian

fracked gas pipelines, advance solar and energy efficiency,

Voices launched its New Economy campaign in early 2015 to

and promote policies to create new economic opportunities

diversify the region’s economy beyond coal.

Mountaintop-removal coal mine near Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. LYNN WILLIS, ON A FLIGHT PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS

Clearfork Community Institute Eagan, Tennessee

Wolf River Conservancy Memphis, Tennessee

Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center Austin, Texas

The Clearfork Community Institute seeks to establish and exercise community-led development that supports and sustains Central Appalachia.

Wolf River Conservancy is dedicated to the protection and enhancement of Tennessee’s Wolf River corridor and watershed as a natural resource through land trusts, education programs and recreational excursions.

Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center promotes the enjoyment and protection of nature through outdoor education.

Cumberland River Compact Nashville, Tennessee Cumberland River Compact aims to improve the health and enjoyment of the Cumberland River and its tributaries through education, action and collaboration.

Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park Kodak, Tennessee Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park assists the National Park Service in its mission to preserve and protect its namesake by raising funds and public awareness, and providing volunteers for needed projects.

Friends of Rocky Fork State Park Flag Pond, Tennessee Friends of Rocky Fork State Park seeks to support and assist park staff to protect, preserve, promote and enhance the park.

Overton Park Conservancy Memphis, Tennessee Overton Park Conservancy seeks to foster a beautiful, welcoming and safe park that encourages its diverse community to explore, learn, create, socialize and play.

Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center Chattanooga, Tennessee Reflection Riding celebrates biodiversity by creating opportunities to play, learn, dream and discover.

Shelby Farms Park Conservancy Memphis, Tennessee Shelby Farms Park Conservancy manages the 4,500-acre Shelby Farms Park and the 11.45mile Shelby Farms Greenline.

Southeastern Climbers Coalition Chattanooga, Tennessee The SCC is dedicated to preserving climbing access in the Southeast.

Tennessee Parks & Greenways Foundation Nashville, Tennessee Tennessee Parks & Greenways Foundation strives to protect Tennessee’s natural treasures.

The Alliance for Appalachia Knoxville, Tennessee

Alamo Resource Conservation & Development Area Boerne, Texas This group helps communities protect their water and land, encourage environmental sustainability, promote agriculture and enhance the quality of life within its 10-county area.

Big Bend Conservation Alliance Alpine, Texas The Big Bend Conservation Alliance seeks to preserve the natural and cultural resources of the Big Bend region through education and advocacy.

Downwinders at Risk Education Fund Dallas, Texas Downwinders at Risk Education Fund is dedicated to taking action on behalf of those being harmed by air pollution.

FlatsWorthy Fulton, Texas With a focus on the increasingly crowded fishing experience in the shallow flats of Texas backwaters, FlatsWorthy promotes respect for others, the law and habitat.

Friends of Enchanted Rock Fredericksburg, Texas Friends of Enchanted Rock is dedicated to the protection of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area through education, preservation and conservation of natural resources.

Keep Austin Beautiful Austin, Texas Keep Austin Beautiful provides resources and education to engage citizens in building more beautiful communities.

Texas Conservation Alliance Dallas, Texas Texas Conservation Alliance coordinates a network of organizations and organizes broadbased grassroots coalitions that build support for acquisition of public wildlife lands and influence Texas water and environmental policies.

The Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund Austin, Texas The Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund aims to engage people and communities through face-to-face public education and grassroots organizing for a cleaner and healthier Texas.

Bike Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Bike Utah promotes safe cycling in Utah through advocacy, education and encouraging people to get out and ride.

Center for Documentary Expression and Art Salt Lake City, Utah CDEA uses all the tools of documentary work to help Utahns look inward to understand the state’s past and present and to gaze outward to discover their connection to the nation and the world.

Friends of Alta Alta, Utah Friends of Alta works to protect Alta’s environment and encourage sustainability in its community.

Friends of Cedar Mesa Bluff, Utah Friends of Cedar Mesa seeks to inspire good stewardship that protects the natural and cultural integrity of public lands in San Juan County.

Glen Canyon Institute Salt Lake City, Utah Glen Canyon Institute works to restore Utah and Arizona's Glen Canyon and a healthy, freeflowing Colorado River through scientific research, informational events and conferences, media outreach and litigation.

Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Escalante, Utah Grand Staircase Escalante Partners is committed to preserving and protecting the vast landscape of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Green River Clean Up Dutch John, Utah Green River Clean Up seeks to improve the quality of the environment and of life for the Green River corridor and its inhabitants.

HawkWatch International Salt Lake City, Utah HawkWatch International helps conserve the environment through long-term monitoring and scientific research on raptors as indicators of ecosystem health and through school programs and community education. 2017 GR ANT LISTINGS

The Alliance for Appalachia is working to end mountaintop removal, put a halt to destructive coal technologies and support a just and sustainable Appalachia.

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I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition

HEAL Utah Salt Lake City, Utah HEAL Utah engages citizens in the decisions that affect their health and environment, promoting clean, sustainable energy; serving as a watchdog for the nuclear industry; and working to ensure that Utah is never again downwind from nuclear weapons testing.

Mountain Trails Foundation Park City, Utah The Mountain Trails Foundation builds, maintains and protects trails for humanpowered recreation in the greater Park City region.

Salt Lake Climbers Alliance Salt Lake City, Utah SLCA promotes climbing opportunities, preserves local access and encourages stewardship of Utah's Wasatch Range.

Save Our Canyons Salt Lake City, Utah Save Our Canyons is dedicated to protecting the beauty and wildness of the Wasatch mountains, canyons and foothills.

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Salt Lake City, Utah

Mission The landscape in Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central Cascades, spanning Snoqualmie Pass and bisected by Interstate 90, forms an important travel corridor for people, goods and wildlife. I-90 is the transportation lifeline for freight and traffic connecting our state east to west. This same freeway bisects an area that biologists have long recognized as a critical connective link in the north-south movement of wildlife in the Cascade Range. These two important corridors, an east-west transportation corridor and north-south wildlife corridor, intersect in what is known as the I-90 corridor. Formed in 2004, the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition has brought together partners to advocate for high-quality wildlife connectivity measures in the expansion and upgrade of 15 miles of I-90 through the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project, while ensuring the habitat adjacent to these structures contributes to their success. Activities The key to our coalition has been bringing new and diverse members together to find shared solutions and advocate for this project. For nearly a decade, we co-hosted a statewide art contest in schools to educate youth on the importance of safe passage for people and wildlife, and then tapped into their creativity for billboard designs to reach motorists. We united voices from the economic and environmental communities in our region to state our support for the project. Accomplishments The Washington State Department of Transportation finalized a design for the 15-mile I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project that includes over 24 locations for crossing structures, including three wildlife overpasses, to facilitate aquatic and terrestrial habitat connectivity. We secured a commitment from the state to fully fund the project, with construction already underway on the first seven miles. Three wildlife underpasses have been completed that are already creating safe passage for fish and wildlife from bull trout to deer, while construction has begun on the first wildlife overpass. Wildlife and motorists are safer thanks to wildlife connectivity measures like this undercrossing on Interstate 90 at Gold Creek, Washington. WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

SUWA helps preserve wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau, advocates for sound management of these lands, and works to defend them from oil and gas development, unnecessary road construction, off-road vehicle use and other threats.

Summit Land Conservancy Park City, Utah Summit Land Conservancy works with its communities to protect and preserve land and water for the benefit of people and nature.

The Green Urban Lunch Box Salt Lake City, Utah The Green Urban Lunch Box seeks to revitalize neglected space to grow food for its community, inspiring people to think creatively about where their food comes from and how it is grown.

Tracy Aviary Salt Lake City, Utah Tracy Aviary inspires curiosity and caring for birds and nature through education and conservation.

TreeUtah Salt Lake City, Utah TreeUtah plants trees and educates the next generation of stewards to protect the natural environment in Utah.

Uranium Watch Moab, Utah Uranium Watch is working to protect the environment and public health from the adverse impacts of uranium mining and milling.

Utah Clean Energy Salt Lake City, Utah

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah Farr West, Utah Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah seeks to empower the entire community to support and engage in conservation and responsible stewardship of wildlife and its habitat.

Utah Clean Energy works to stop energy waste, create clean energy and build a smart energy future by serving as a voice for clean energy in the utility regulatory arena and by collaborating with government agencies and private foundations.

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Utah Dine Bikeyah Salt Lake City, Utah

350 Vermont Burlington, Vermont

Utah Dine Bikeyah works to preserve and protect the cultural and natural resources of ancestral Native American lands to benefit and bring healing to people and the earth.

Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment Salt Lake City, Utah Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment is dedicated to protecting the health and wellbeing of the citizens of Utah by promoting science-based health education and interventions that result in measurable improvements to the environment.

Utah Recycling Alliance Salt Lake City, Utah URA promotes recycling in Utah through education, outreach and advocacy, seeking to change consumption behavior and manage waste responsibly.

Utah Rivers Council Salt Lake City, Utah Utah Rivers Council fosters the conservation of Utah’s rivers through grassroots organizing, advocacy campaigns, education and litigation.

Wasatch Community Gardens Salt Lake City, Utah Wasatch Community Gardens empowers people of all ages and incomes in Utah’s Wasatch Front to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food.

Wild Utah Project Salt Lake City, Utah Wild Utah Project works to maintain and restore the health of natural lands in Utah and adjoining states by providing scientific research and technical support to land managers, citizen activists and other conservation partners.

1% for the Planet Waitsfield, Vermont 1% for the Planet leads a global network of businesses, nonprofits and individuals working together for a healthy planet.

Stowe Land Trust Stowe, Vermont Stowe Land Trust is dedicated to the conservation of scenic, recreational and productive farm and forest lands for the benefit of the greater Stowe community.

The Climate Collaborative Linden, Vermont The Climate Collaborative is working collaboratively with the natural products industry to catalyze bold action, amplify the voice of business and promote sound policy to reverse climate change.

Vermont Natural Resources Council Montpelier, Vermont

350 Vermont uses grassroots organizing and direct action to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in communities throughout Vermont.

Vermont Natural Resources Council uses research, education and advocacy to protect and restore Vermont’s environment and foster sustainable communities.

Batten Kill Watershed Alliance Arlington, Vermont

VPIRG/VPIREF Montpelier, Vermont

This group seeks good stewardship of the Batten Kill and its tributaries through education, outreach, conservation and habitat restoration.

This group works to promote and protect the health of Vermont’s people, environment and locally based economy by informing and mobilizing citizens statewide.

Coming Clean Brattleboro, Vermont

Watersheds United Vermont Montpelier, Vermont

Coming Clean is working to reform polluting chemical and energy industries, and to secure safe chemical and clean energy solutions that allow a sustainable economy to flourish.

Watersheds United Vermont works to empower community-based watershed groups in all parts of the state to protect and restore Vermont’s waters.

Intervale Center Burlington, Vermont

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Intervale Center works to strengthen community food systems.

Lake Champlain International Colchester, Vermont Lake Champlain International works to conserve our waters, habitat and heritage through advocacy and citizen empowerment.

Lake Champlain Land Trust Burlington, Vermont Lake Champlain Land Trust is working to save the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities of Lake Champlain.

Rozalia Project Granville, Vermont Rozalia Project exists to clean and protect the ocean and conserve a healthy, thriving marine ecosystem.

Sierra Club, Vermont Chapter Montpelier, Vermont

Appalachian Voices brings people together to protect the land, air and water of central and southern Appalachia.

Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment Arlington, Virginia ACE protects and improves water, air and open spaces by promoting stewardship of our natural resources and connecting all citizens to practical solutions that achieve a sustainable lifestyle.

Center for Health, Environment & Justice Falls Church, Virginia The Center for Health, Environment & Justice acts to build healthy communities nationwide, with social justice, economic well-being and democratic governance.

Ecosystem Services Charlottesville, Virginia Ecosystem Services is working to mainstream the values of biodiversity and ecosystem services into decision-making at all levels.

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Sierra Club exists to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth, carrying out its mission in Vermont.

Appalachian Voices Charlottesville, Virginia

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Rivanna Conservation Alliance Charlottesville, Virginia

Center for Justice Spokane, Washington

Oceans Initiative Seattle, Washington

This group seeks to protect the Rivanna River and its tributaries through community involvement, conservation, education, recreation, restoration, water-quality monitoring and reporting.

Spokane Riverkeeper is a program of the Center for Justice that’s dedicated to protecting and restoring the health of the Spokane River watershed.

Oceans Initiative is a team on a mission to protect marine life in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Appalachia, Virginia Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards is working to stop the destruction caused by surface coal mining and seeking to build more sustainable communities.

The Clinch Coalition Wise, Virginia The Clinch Coalition helps protect and preserve the forests, wildlife and watersheds of the Clinch Valley Bioreserve by building trails, enhancing tourism and seeking congressionally designated protection.

The Conservation Fund Arlington, Virginia The Conservation Fund forges partnerships to conserve America’s legacy of land and water resources.

Washington 10,000 Years Institute Port Townsend, Washington 10,000 Years Institute develops scientific, educational and resource management approaches to promote sustainable land use practices and ecological integrity.

350 Seattle Seattle, Washington 350 Seattle works for climate justice by educating and engaging people in the building of a powerful people’s movement for a livable planet.

Basel Action Network Seattle, Washington Basel Action Network works to advance global environmental and human health and justice by preventing toxic trade, promoting a toxicsfree future and campaigning for the right to a pollution-free environment for everyone.

Blue Earth Alliance Seattle, Washington Blue Earth Alliance supports visual storytelling on critical environmental, cultural and social issues through assistance to photographers and filmmakers.

Center for Environmental Law & Policy Seattle, Washington The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is working to protect, preserve and restore Washington’s waters.

Columbia Land Trust Vancouver, Washington Columbia Land Trust seeks to conserve and care for the vital lands, waters and wildlife of the Columbia River region through sound science and strong relationships.

Columbia River Bioregional Education Project Oroville, Washington This group promotes a context of economic and social development that sustains the health, beauty and structure of the native ecosystems of the Intermountain Northwest.

Forterra Seattle, Washington Forterra acts to protect, enhance and steward its region's most precious resources—its communities and landscapes.

Grist Magazine Seattle, Washington Setting the agenda by showing how green is reshaping the world, Grist cuts through the noise and empowers a new generation to make change.

I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition Seattle, Washington I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition works for highquality wildlife connectivity measures in the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project, and seeks to increase awareness about the need for safer passage for people and wildlife.

Kettle Range Conservation Group Republic, Washington Kettle Range Conservation Group defends wilderness, protects biodiversity and restores the ecosystems of the Columbia River basin by working collaboratively with rural, urban, business, government and community leaders.

Marine Conservation Institute Seattle, Washington Marine Conservation Institute is dedicated to securing permanent, strong protection for the ocean's most important places.

Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association Bellingham, Washington NSEA strives to recover salmon by engaging its community in restoration, education and stewardship.

Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance Friday Harbor, Washington Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance works to protect the endangered orca of the Salish Sea, using scientific information to educate and advocate for policies, programs and regulations.

Pacific Biodiversity Institute Winthrop, Washington Pacific Biodiversity Institute combines innovative scientific research, education and technical support to inform, enhance and inspire conservation.

Rivers Without Borders Port Townsend, Washington Rivers Without Borders promotes the ecological and cultural values of the Alaska–BC transboundary watersheds, striving to keep them wild and thriving.

Save Our Wild Salmon Seattle, Washington Save Our Wild Salmon seeks to restore abundant wild salmon and steelhead trout to Columbia Basin rivers and streams.

Sound Action Vashon, Washington Sound Action seeks to protect Puget Sound’s nearshore habitats and fish from harmful development by ensuring environmental laws are applied.

Sound Salmon Solutions Lake Stevens, Washington Sound Salmon Solutions seeks to nurture the relationships between people and our wild spaces to support salmon recovery.

The Other 98% Lab Vashon, Washington The Other 98% is a storytelling force that educates people and inspires them to act for climate justice.

The Wilderness Society Seattle, Washington The Wilderness Society works to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places.

Viva Farms Mount Vernon, Washington Viva Farms seeks to preserve a sustainable farming culture and create a strong and just food economy by supporting aspiring farmers with bilingual training in sustainable organic farming, and access to land, infrastructure, equipment, marketing and capital.

Washington State Parks Foundation Seattle, Washington Washington State Parks Foundation works to ensure a vibrant Washington State Parks system for generations to enjoy.

Washington Wild Seattle, Washington Washington Wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in Washington State through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Washington’s National Park Fund Seattle, Washington Washington’s National Park Fund aims to raise private support to deepen the public’s love for, understanding of, and experiences in Mount Rainier, North Cascades and Olympic national parks.

Wild Steelhead Coalition Seattle, Washington Wild Steelhead Coalition helps increase the return of wild steelhead trout to the rivers and streams of the Pacific Northwest by building partnerships, educating stakeholders and helping to improve policy on behalf of the fish.

WSU-Mount Vernon Research Center Burlington, Washington

Wisconsin 350 Madison Madison, Wisconsin 350 Madison Climate Action Team is dedicated to reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide below 350 parts per million by working locally in concert with a powerful global movement.

Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger Merrimac, Wisconsin CSWAB unifies and strengthens citizens working for a healthy and sustainable future for Wisconsin’s Badger Army Ammunition Plant and other contaminated military sites.

Milwaukee Riverkeeper Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee Riverkeeper is working to protect, improve and advocate for water quality, riparian wildlife habitat and sound land management in the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic River watersheds.

Native American Educational Technologies Hayward, Wisconsin Native American Educational Technologies teaches the old ways to the present for the sake of protecting the future.

This organization conducts research and discovery on grain and legume nutrition and flavors, advises on infrastructure build-out and perennial wheat developments, and assists with buckwheat processing and soil science advances.

North Lakeland Discovery Center Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin

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Pacific Wild Alliance Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Appalachian Mountain Advocates Lewisburg, West Virginia This group is fighting for clean water and a clean energy future for Appalachia.

Coal River Mountain Watch Naoma, West Virginia Coal River Mountain Watch is dedicated to stopping the destruction of West Virginia’s communities and environment caused by mountaintop-removal mining, improving the quality of life in its area and rebuilding sustainable communities.

SkyTruth Shepherdstown, West Virginia SkyTruth motivates and empowers new constituencies for environmental protection by using satellite images and other visual technologies to illustrate environmental issues.

West Virginia Rivers Coalition Charleston, West Virginia

Pacific Wild Alliance works to expand research, public awareness and education to realize lasting environmental protection in the lands and waters of the Great Bear Rainforest.

River Alliance of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin This group helps the flowing waters of Wisconsin by bringing people to rivers to appreciate their beauty and needs, engaging with government agencies and empowering citizens and grassroots groups to effect positive change.

Sierra Club Midwest Office Madison, Wisconsin Sierra Club Midwest Office works to reduce climate change threats and explore, enjoy and protect Wisconsin’s water, land and wildlife.

St Croix River Association St Croix Falls, Wisconsin St Croix River Association is working to protect, restore and celebrate the St Croix River and its watershed.

Wisconsin Wetlands Association is dedicated to the protection, restoration and enjoyment of wetlands and associated ecosystems through science-based programs, education and advocacy.

Wyoming Access PanAm Jackson, Wyoming Access PanAm is a climbers access and conservation organization dedicated to protecting climbing environments and building a grassroots approach to conservation and stewardship throughout the Americas.

Friends of Pathways Jackson, Wyoming Friends of Pathways supports a vibrant community by advocating the completion of a safe and sustainable pathways system for healthy recreation and transportation opportunities in Jackson Hole.

GOAL Tribal Coalition Jackson, Wyoming GOAL is committed to reconnecting tribal people to the ancestral landscape of Yellowstone, preserving the grizzly bear and redefining wildlife management.

Grand Teton National Park Foundation Moose, Wyoming Grand Teton National Park Foundation funds projects that protect and enhance Grand Teton National Park’s cultural, historic and natural resources.

Platte River Revival Casper, Wyoming Platte River Revival seeks to foster a healthy and sustainable river system on the North Platte River.

Powder River Basin Resource Council Sheridan, Wyoming This group advocates for the responsible use of the Powder River basin’s natural resources by educating and encouraging citizens to raise a coherent voice in decisions that will impact their environment.

Wyoming Outdoor Council Lander, Wyoming Wyoming Outdoor Council helps protect Wyoming’s treasured landscapes, healthy wildlife, and clean air and water through advocacy and coalition-building.

Wyoming Wilderness Association Sheridan, Wyoming Wyoming Wilderness Association works to protect Wyoming’s public wildlands.

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This group fosters the conservation and restoration of West Virginia’s rivers and streams by improving public participation, publishing informational reports, and serving as a knowledgeable resource for other watershed groups and decision makers.

This organization enriches lives and inspires an ethic of care for Wisconsin’s Northwoods by facilitating connections among nature, people and communities.

Wisconsin Wetlands Association Madison, Wisconsin

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Greater Commons Groups we work with for the greater good We partner with a number of outside associations, coalitions, groups and private entities to help us fulfill our mission to “build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.” We look to them to help us improve our practices relating to social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

1% for the Planet®: Founded by Patagonia founder/owner Yvon Chouinard and Blue Ribbon Flies’ Craig Mathews, 1% for the Planet is an alliance of businesses that understand the necessity of protecting the natural environment. They understand that profit and loss are directly linked to its health, and are concerned with the social and environmental impacts of industry.

American Sustainable Business Council: The American Sustainable Business Council is a nonprofit organization advocating for policy change at the federal and state levels that supports a more sustainable economy. The council spans a growing network of business associations across the United States, which in turn represent over 200,000 businesses and 325,000 business executives, owners, investors and others.

B Corp: B Corp is to business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or USDA Organic certification is to milk. B Corps are for-profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

® bluesign technologies: bluesign The independent technologies works at each step in the industry textilesupply chain to approve chemicals, textile standard processes, materials and products that are safe for the environment, safe for workers and safe for end customers.

Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy: BICEP is an advocacy coalition of businesses committed to working with policymakers to pass meaningful energy and climate legislation that will enable a rapid transition to a lowcarbon, 21st-century economy that will create new jobs and stimulate economic growth while stabilizing our planet’s fragile climate.

The Conservation Alliance: The Conservation Alliance engages businesses to fund and partner with organizations to protect wild places for their habitat and recreation values. Together with others, it has helped protect 45 million acres and 2,972 river miles, removed or halted 28 dams, purchased 11 climbing areas and designated 5 marine reserves.

Corporate Eco Forum: CEF helps accelerate sustainable business innovation by creating the best neutral space for senior business leaders to strategize and exchange best-practice insights. Members represent 18 industries and have combined revenues exceeding $3 trillion.

Outdoor Industry Association: OIA’s Sustainability Working Group is a collaborative effort among more than 300 outdoor brands, retailers, suppliers and other stakeholder organizations working to identify and implement better business practices throughout our shared supply chains.

European Outdoor Group: EOG undertakes a number of projects for the benefit of the European outdoor industry, including coordinating and promoting responsible industry practices.

Environmental Grantmakers Association: EGA works with members and partners to promote effective environmental philanthropy by sharing knowledge, fostering debate, cultivating leadership, facilitating collaboration and catalyzing action.

Fair Labor Association: FLA is a collaborative effort of universities, civil society organizations and socially responsible companies dedicated to protecting workers’ rights around the world.

Textile Exchange: Textile Exchange is a global nonprofit that works to make the textile industry more sustainable. It works with everyone involved in making textiles, including everything from clothes to sheets to towels and more.

Nest: Committed to the social and economic advancement of the fashion and home industry’s informal workforce, Nest works to empower women, alleviate poverty and preserve traditions of artisanship.

NSF International: NSF works to protect and improve global human health by developing public health standards and certifications that help protect food, water, consumer products and the environment.

Fair Factories Clearinghouse: FFC facilitates informed, ethical business decisions for a better and more livable world. It builds scalable software, enabling continuous improvements in social, environmental and security issues, which results in safer, more humane working conditions for workers in consumer goods production supply chains.

Sustainable Apparel Coalition: Sustainable Apparel Coalition is the apparel, footwear and home textile industry’s foremost alliance for sustainable production. Its main focus is on building the Higg Index®, a standardized supply chain measurement tool for all industry participants to understand the environmental, social and labor impacts of making and selling their products and services.

Blue Business Council: Blue Business Council is a network of companies working to protect California’s most vital and threatened natural capital—the coast, ocean, bays, rivers and streams that power our economy.

Fair Trade USA: The leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the U.S., Fair Trade’s rigorous social, environmental and economic standards work to promote safe, healthy working conditions; protect the environment; enable transparency; and empower communities to build strong, thriving businesses.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity: CGBD is a professional association of foundation executives and trustees who make environmental grants. Its 60 member foundations focus on protecting the quality and diversity of life, domestically and internationally.

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders: This group seeks to create networking, educational and collaboration opportunities for the philanthropic community working to support vibrant, healthy and just food and farm systems.

BetterWork: A collaboration between the United Nations International Labour Organization and the International Finance Corporation, and member of the World Bank Group, BetterWork is a comprehensive program bringing together all levels of the garment industry to improve working conditions and respect of labor rights for workers, and boost the competitiveness of apparel businesses.

(Following Spread) Industrial-scale logging in the Tarkine poses a serious threat to the more than 60 rare and endangered species that inhabit its temperate rainforest. Nor th West, Tasmania. KRYSTLE WRIGHT

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“… humans are part of nature… we’re not separate from nature.” —Yvon Chouinard

By the Numbers

Quantifying Some of Our Environmental & Social Work in Fiscal Year 2017 (May 1, 2016-April 30, 2017)

89 MILLION

1,905

954

Dollars donated for environmental work since we started our tithing program in 1985

Number of environmental groups that received a grant this year

156,401

Dollars given to nonprofits through our Employee Charity Match program

75 MILLION

Dollars invested in environmentally and socially minded companies through Tin Shed Ventures®, our venture capital fund

480

Fair Trade Certified™ styles in the Patagonia line as of fall 2017

26,000

Apparel workers who have earned a Fair Trade premium for their labor and/or received improved benefits from Patagonia’s participation in the Fair Trade USA program

121,000

Dollar amount (at our cost) of new and used clothing given through our clothing-donation program

100

Percentage of Patagonia products we take back for recycling

2.8 MILLION

Public comments submitted regarding the importance of public lands, 98% of which supported them

152,191

Public comments Patagonia contributed through our many efforts to defend public lands

14,955

Volunteer hours worked through our environmental internship program

Number of employees who have taken part in our environmental internship program since its inception in 1994

Number of activists trained this year at our Tools for Grassroots Activists conference

855,680

Single-driver car trip miles averted through our Drive-Less program

175 MILLION

Dollars certified by 1% for the Planet® that members have donated to nonprofit environmental groups since its founding in 2002 by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Craig Mathews

50,295

Clothing repairs performed this year at our Reno repair facility—the biggest outdoor gear repair center in the U.S.

Percentage (by weight) of waste-stream materials recycled at our Reno Service Center

4.9 MILLION

Square feet of derelict fishing nets repurposed into skateboard decks, sunglasses, discs and other products by Bureo since Tin Shed Ventures’ investment in September 2014

39.8 MILLION

Pounds of CO2 emissions averted by investing in residential rooftop solar panels in Hawaii and mainland USA through Tin Shed Ventures

193,000

Gallons of water saved through Tersus’ closed loop water-free textile treatment technology, since Tin Shed Ventures’ initial investment in 2014

Cover: The Crane petroglyph on Comb Ridge. Bears Ears National Monument, Utah. MARC TOSO