April 19, 2021 One Label to Rule Them All?
RWS, RDS, GRS, GOTS, FWF, C2Ccertified, Oeko-tex, Bluesign and Climate Neutral? It's a label jungle out there. Why not use just one eco-label?...
January 30, 2019 Our Three Pre-competitive Pillars
"We know that without nature, there would simply be no outdoor industry...
November 2, 2018 Best-Practices: A License to do Business
For OIA's Beth Jensen, developing sustainability standards and tools is no longer enough - the outdoor industry needs to prove it's actually reducing its impacts....
June 7, 2018 The Hard Deadline: 2 Degrees
A 2 degrees temperature increase is the limit of civilization's ability to cope. We’re now very firmly set on a 3+ degrees trajectory. The Outdoor Industry must respond....
January 17, 2018 Transparency, a Growing Key Concern
As the financial world begins shifting into the new of transparency, it needs new toolsets for evaluating investments and measuring companies around the world. So does the outdoor industry....
June 5, 2017 “Let’s include the suppliers in the discussion”
There is an elephant in the room – and addressing it could really benefit all of us in the industry. The elephant could be called “the absence of level-eyed partnership and collaboration between brands and suppliers”. Like in most industries, we...