Peak Design

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...

Two weeks ago, we weren't sure if companies like ours were going to speak out against the death of George Floyd. They did, and that gave us some hope.We continue to watch the masses rise up against police brutality and systemic racism. This gives us some more hope.But the work...

Today we donated to the ACLU, the NAACP, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. We also asked five companies we admire to speak up about racism, make donations of their own, and to encourage five other companies to do the same. We hope that #saysomethinggiveanything catches on.A...

This pandemic sucks.It is bad, dumb, stupid, and dissatisfactory. Used a thesaurus for that last one.But dare we say it has produced something...refreshing? Cue the somber piano music.We're all in this together.It's the battle cry driving everything right now: our behavior, ou...