Patagonia Stories

We can't protect our home planet if we lose our basic rights to defend it, says longtime climate advocate Annie Leonard. “Protecting the Right to Protest” read and written by Annie Leonard. This epi...

23 Sep 202410min

Jane Fonda has been angry at politicians for as long as she's been an activist. Here's why she still votes. “Our Power” read and written by Jane Fonda. This episode of Patagonia Stories was produced...

18 Sep 202410min

At 9, Nalleli Cobo set out to shut down an oil well next to her South Los Angeles home that was making her community sick. What unfolded would change history. “Free to Breathe” read and written by Nal...

3 Sep 202411min

All dams are dirty. The Round Butte Dam and its reservoir has been spewing methane, polluting Oregon’s Deschutes River and blocking its iconic salmon and steelhead since 1964. In his piece, “The Wrong...

21 Aug 20247min

Eastern Washington is known for apple trees, hops and college basketball, not verdant forests or loam-lined singletrack. But each spring, when the still-damp soil meets the full brunt of Spokane sunsh...

7 Aug 20244min

"On the Theft of Dreams," 17-year-old writer Maya Rose's winning essay from the youth writing contest we held in April 2024 with Write the World, is an artful experimentation full of scenes from her b...

7 Aug 20248min

Almost no one runs an ultramarathon alone. Behind every race bib, there is a pacer (or two or three). Pacers accompany their runner for portions of the race to help keep the motivation high, the legs ...

31 Jul 202411min

Healthy meadows are wet, spongy and teeming with diversity; but too many lack that swampy hospitality due to the eradication of beavers. Now, crews are recreating beaver dams to encourage complex, hea...

26 Jun 202413min