September 6, 2023 Most people won’t climb K2, why do we keep overengineering gear as if they will?
Most people won't climb K2. What are the environmental and inclusivity implications of over-engineering gear as if they will?...
May 2, 2023 ETH: From Sustainability to Regeneration
The ETH Zurich executive study program in Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS) offers a novel approach to impact-studying while integrating new skills and cultures into the outdoor industry, amongst other economic sectors....
March 3, 2023 Tracking the Elusive Product Climate Footprint
We’ve calculated global and national carbon emissions, and businesses have increasingly measured carbon footprints from Scopes 1-3. But somehow, an accurate carbon footprint for a single product continues to thwart us. Until now?...
October 24, 2022 Hohenstein Performance Index
Buying outdoor clothing that proves to be unsuitable for the outdoors is not sustainable. The Hohenstein Performance Index enables an objective assessment of the suitability of textiles for their planned use even before buying them....
October 3, 2022 “Strong will to put an end to ‘Forever Chemicals'”
Hazardous highly fluorinated substances or PFAS, are being phased out, but it's proving to be a job easier said than done. Lisa Skedung, co-editor of the recently released PFAS Substitution Guide, shares how to put an end to them....
August 2, 2022 HIGG: “Goal isn’t to advocate for one material over another.”
The outdoor industry’s leading tool for measuring its environmental impacts is under fire. Higg's Senior VP of Market Impact, Del Hudson, responds to the recent controversy and critique surrounding the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI)....
February 3, 2022 Get outside to design sustainable outdoor gear
Suston's Editor-in-chief Gabriel Arthur reflects on what it takes to design a sustainable product: a degree, or personal, dirty, knee-deep experience in the outdoors?...
February 25, 2021 Earlybird Skis Founder Interview
2021 Sustainability Achievement Award recipient - it looks like the early bird really does get the worm. Suston meets Earlybird Skis' founder Hanno Schwab to get the dirt on why the rest of the ski industry still hasn't woken up....
February 24, 2021 Detox My Skis
A recent report on the ski industry asked the tough questions to find there are (almost) no sustainable skis and that good ski or bad, they all end up in the same fiery inferno....
October 13, 2020 A Water-Efficient Innovation
Nature continues to provoke and inspire ECCO’s researchers who have developed DriTan™, an innovative technology that drastically reduces the amount of water needed to tan leathers....