Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com The Outdoor Business Climate Partnership (OBCP)—comprised of the Outdoor Industry Association, Snowsports Industries America and the National Ski Areas ...read more
Last year a Congressional report confirmed what many within the outdoor industry already knew: climate change will transform the way we do business. The report projected that unless serious action is taken to curb global warming, the U.S. economy could shrink by nearly 10 percent ...read more
Snowsports Industries America (SIA) and Colorado-based outdoor companies helped push a climate change bill through the Senate on Wednesday—a step closer to lowering statewide greenhouse gas emissions. It now awaits Democratic Gov. Jared Polis' signature. "Our Colorado members ...read more
Rapper Lil Dicky loves the Earth so much that he gathered more than 30 other singers, musicians, and celebrities to sing a song about it and appear as animated characters in a 7-minute music video. Justin Bieber appears as the baboon, Ariana Grande as the zebra, Zac Brown as the ...read more
In its 11th year, Protect Our Winters achieved a number of wins in fighting climate change and engaging lawmakers to usher carbon neutrality. The nonprofit documented its achievements, from data to impact areas, in its recently-released 2018 Annual Report. "We envision a clean ...read more
More than five years ago, President Barack Obama nominated a new general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Avi Garbow had been a federal environmental crimes prosecutor, with decades of experience tackling the most critical threats to air, water, and land. In ...read more
Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com. Hydro Flask has its own song! The song is part of the "Let's Go" brand campaign launch and the first in a series of artist collaborations the brand will develop ...read more
Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com. After a 1 percent gain in sales over 2017, L.L.Bean's directors are bringing back 5 percent annual pay bonuses for about 5,400 year-round employees and an ...read more
As I sat in the audience of the Industry Breakfast at the most recent Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, my eyes kept drifting to the side of the stage. The esteemed panelists were discussing the Outdoor Business Climate Partnership, a new collaboration between Outdoor Industry ...read more
Meet the future of the outdoor industry. These four have a fierce determination to create a new path forward for the outdoors, and they're doing it with a degree of awareness and intersectionality we've never seen before. 1. Outdoor education Pinar Ates Sinopoulos-Lloyd, 30, ...read more
Boulder-based Protect Our Winters (POW) is demanding that the International Skiing Federation president step down after he questioned climate change. Gian Franco Kasper, 75, in an interview with Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger said, “dictators can organize [big] events ... ...read more
Wash your down, protect the rainforest Allied Feather & Down is launching an outdoor industry first: a palm oil-free home detergent that’s formulated just for down. (Palm oil is in environmentalists’ crosshairs because its cultivation causes deforestation in the tropics.) ALLIED ...read more
1. Snow Show Kickoff Breakfast: A New Era of Collaboration 7:15 to 8:45 a.m. Wednesday (Day 1) in Meeting Room 401: In order to address important issues, position our industries for success, and continue to innovate for the future, industry-wide collaboration is paramount. ...read more
Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com. Feral Mountain Co.'s new Denver location is opening this weekend! Read more here about what you can expect of Jimmy Funkhouser's revamp. Outdoor Research is ...read more
Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com A new study released Monday found that climate change is killing our national parks—and more quickly than we thought. The study looked at data from between 1895 ...read more
Climate change is big—so big that we often assume that no ordinary person could possibly slow its progress. And maybe that’s true: One changed light bulb probably can’t preserve Arctic ice or save New England’s maple trees. But when you recruit a handful of bulb-changers, who in ...read more
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill yesterday that would have created the Office of Sustainable Outdoor Recreation, despite overwhelming bipartisan support. His signing of AB 1918 would have made California the 12th state with an official office or task force to ...read more
On Aug. 14, half of NEMO’s workforce reported for duty at a quiet grove of hardwoods near Barrington, New Hampshire, about a 30-minute drive from company headquarters. Each employee arrived ready to sweat. Their task was to build two bridges on trails through a brand-new, ...read more
During the entire month of July, NEMO’s 24 employees conducted a silent negotiation. Dover, New Hampshire (where NEMO is headquartered) was experiencing record high temperatures, and some employees craved ultra-cool office temperatures. Yet the company had challenged itself to ...read more
NEMO employees love a good contest. While other companies announce “initiatives,” NEMO stages competitions that spark everyone’s urge to win—even if it’s just to claim the honor of being the fastest to load a backpack during the company campout. But the company’s latest challenge ...read more
Amid months of ethics controversies, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned. "I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency," President Donald Trump announced on Twitter. "Within ...read more
As two fires rage in southern Colorado, employees of Durango’s Backcountry Experience are driving to the front lines to deliver wildland boots, sleeping pads, and other essentials for emergency responders. “This is not something I’ve asked them to do but they’re doing it to be ...read more
Don't miss a beat. Read Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? We've created a new form where you can submit tips and story ideas. The National Park Service recently released and buried a 90-page climate change study it tried to censor by cutting phrases ...read more
President Donald Trump's face could melt into the sea if a Finland-based group raises enough money to carve a monstrous ice sculpture of him into an Arctic glacier. It's all to prove to the president that climate change isn't a hoax. The nonprofit, Melting Ice, needs $500,000 ...read more
