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In the Spring of 1619 the San Juan Bautista, a Spanish slave ship, left Luanda, Angola bound for the shores of America. Aboard that ship were approximately 350 kidnapped Africans.Many of these Africans perished during the journey. The ship was intercepted by an English private...

This story was originally published on Earth Day 2022, when we blockaded our website to encourage shoppers to buy used gear instead. This year we've done it again. Read on to find out why.Our product design process is meticulous, time-consuming, and hard.On the marketing side,...

TLDR: We're trying to help. If you want to help journalists reporting on the ground in Ukraine or other conflict zones around the world, check out this crowdfunding campaign that the Rory Peck Trust is running to supply these journalists with protective equipment.In early Marc...

Today, Understory, a film we are immensely proud to have sponsored, makes its public-facing launch, available to watch in its entirety for free. This launch comes after both a very successful trip around the festival circuit AND (from what we’ve heard) a showing or two at the ...

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news about the environment but today we have something worth celebrating.Last week, the Forest Service and USDA announced that they will work to restore protections of the Tongass National Forest, ending large-scale old growth timber sales. ...

Getting right to the point: offsetting cannot be a dirty word if we are going to successfully bridge the gap between our globalized, fossil-fuel-based economy to the carbon-free economy of the future. Offsetting greenhouse gas emissions propels this transition forward, bringin...

Meet Bay Area engineer and inventor Alex Animashaun. We first connected with Alex about a year ago to talk shop about his soon-to-be first Kickstarter project, the Tuck Bike. We're stoked about his product, and we're looking forward to his launch.Our conversations with Alex ha...

L. (short for Lanisha) Renee Blount caught our attention with a thoughtful personal project in which she superimposed the cover art of outdoor industry publications with her images of people of color in the outdoors. The project's aim: show a predominantly white industry what ...

Hi. This is Annie, Peak’s Sustainability Director. I grew up in a Republican (mother) and Libertarian (father) household. I shared the views of my parents consciously and unconsciously for much of my life. While my thinking shifted left as I grew older, I still have great resp...