July 2012
1 post
January 2012
7 posts
“If you are against something, you are always for something. If you are against a dam, you are for a river.”
—David Brower, Damned If We Don’t
“Patagonia is trying to build a company that could last 100 years. 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.”
—Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia Becomes A California Benefit Corporation
December 2011
8 posts
“Business is one of the most powerful ways to make change. Being a martyr – capping our sales, closing our stores – that doesn’t do anything. We have to be successful to show other businesses that it can be done.”
—Christina Speed, Outside Magazine
“The only way to stem this tide of environmental damage is if we collectively consume less.”
—Kendra Pierre-Louis, Digging Beneath Patagonia’s Don’t Buy This Jacket Campaign
“A glacier is an archivist and historian. It saves everything no matter how big or small, including pollen, dust, heavy metals, bugs, bones and minerals. It holds oxygen isotopes in the delicate way we hold eggs. Ice registers every fluctuation of weather. A glacier is time incarnate, a moving image of time.”
—Gretel Erhlich, The End of Ice
November 2011
37 posts
“Synchilla was the Kleenex of fleece, if you will.”
—Rob BonDurant, The Evolution of Fleece, From Scratchy to Snuggie
