Back to 0: Can Arc’teryx Close the Loop on a Mountain-Grade Hardshell?
The mountain brand’s most ambitious project yet tackles repairability, recyclability and product recovery to bring circularity to tech outerwear.
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The Circular Puffy: Mammut Sender IN Hooded Jacket
This quality-infused puffy from Mammut might be the most sustainable on the market.
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Earth Month Gear Shed 1: Run/Hike
For Earth Month, ML staff and partners showcase sustainable apparel and gear for all your outdoor pursuits. Part 1: Running and hiking. Picture Abstral+ 2.5L Jacket The Abstral+ (for men…
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Leftovers Served Hot: Peak Performance Helium Utility Flo Jacket
Swedish outdoor apparel maker Peak Performance wanted to make the most of the leftover fabric on its shelves, and the result speaks volumes about good design and sustainability. Part of…
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Hype or Hope? Inside the Zero-Emission Vehicle Transition
Are zero-emission vehicles really the future of transportation? It's complicated. The biggest drawback of going electric is the battery itself, specifically its lifecycle.
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Friday Flick: CONTINUUM
In today's Friday Flick, six pro athletes take upcycled tents—made from 137 jackets destined for the landfill—on a ski/snowboard journey...
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The Ultimate Sustainable Shell: Jack Wolfskin Highest Peak 3L
Jack Wolfskin has developed a proprietary material recycling process to upcycle used textile waste and offcuts by collecting polyester and factory scraps from the manufacturing process.
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How Bureo Tackles the Plastic Pollution Crisis
Amid a global ocean pollution crisis, Bureo does crucial work: upcycling discarded fishing nets and converting them into a premium, 100% traceable nylon 6 material (a widely used synthetic polymer prized for its toughness).
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Gear Shed: Hunter Women’s Play Insulated Rain Boots
A quality winter pull-on boot offers the advantage of step-in ease to get you out the door faster when driving kids to ski/snowboard lessons, shovelling the walkway, fetching the mail, walking the dog, or any other cold-weather sortie.
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Rossignol’s Big Plan
Rossignol is putting sustainability and smart growth first with Ascension 2026—a plan to invest $50 million over the next four years.
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The North Face Launches Circular Design Collections
Crafted to be recycled at the end of their usable lives, The North Face Circular Design products minimize waste in a game-changing way.
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Gear Shed: Turning Algae into Sandals
BLOOM algae material is sourced using a process that both cleans up waterways and ultimately cuts emissions during manufacturing.
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MiiR: Antidote to Single-Use Plastic Bottles
A MiiR product underscores just how insane is our global addiction to single-use plastic bottles. A MiiR bottle will last for years. It's the polar opposite of "single-use."
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Time For Action: Inside TBM’s Community Sustainability Plan
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a complex and arduous task. But Ontario's Town of the Blue Mountains (TBM) is already in a good position to take action.
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Greening the Revy Backcountry with Greg Hill
Ski mountaineer Greg Hill is the embodiment of good news for earth-aware skiers. He's offering a series of guided "green" backcountry skiing trips this winter, focusing on how to lower your carbon footprint while adventuring.
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Radical Transparency: Mont Gele Gear
This year, sustainable ski and winter apparel brand Mont Gele Gear teamed up with renowned photographer Matt Holyoak to create a campaign highlighting the real costs behind their clothing. And…
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TBM Future Story Cafe: Songs for Sustainability
Have you ever witnessed a song being composed in real-time? I have. And it happened in an unexpected place. This summer I attended a Future Story Cafe: a virtual sustainability…
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Stop Patching Your Gear with Duct Tape
words:: Todd Lawson // photos:: Courtesy Noso Patches. We’re all about using gear that makes total sense, and doesn’t break the bank. This is where Kelli Jones and her company,…
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First Light Farm: How Pro Skier Chris Rubens Made The Most of a Global Pandemic
When COVID first hit, my first thought wasn’t about investments (probably because I don’t have any) or money that I had not made—for me it was instantly about food security.
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Alternative Eats: Saying Yes to Crickets
words & photos :: Colin Field After 12 years in Brooklyn, New York, Joe Shouldice and his family decided to pack it in, and sell everything. Joe and his wife…
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