What happens when Protect Our Winter’s leaders across Europe come together in a national park in Southern Sweden – and what’s next for the organization? Suston asked Jordan Wright from POW Europe to share the outdoor activists’ discussions and insights....
How far is your organization with its supply chain traceability work? Sustainability consultant Joel Svedlund warns that it's well past time to get started, and shares how the outdoor industry can best prepare....
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?...
Seattle-based retailer REI releases the latest update to its Product Sustainability Standards, significantly increasing its requirements on its brand partners' carbon emission reductions, advancement of diversity, and complete elimination of PFAS beginning already next year....
As some show climate leadership, others exaggerate their efforts – whereby instead of reductions they only try to buy time with climate compensation. According to Sustainability specialist Joel Svedlund, that’s time we don’t have....
In the worst start to the winter season in living memory, the European Alps have seen its usual new year snow replaced with grass and mud. What is going on, and can anything be done?...
Citizen Science is a growing outdoor trend, where enthusiasts collect data on the ground for researchers. Two Norwegian adventurers spend eighteen months – including two winters – in a cabin without electricity or water in the Arctic wilderness of Svalbard....
Performance Days in Munich is here, where the functional fabrics industry lines up to present its latest innovations. The show's CEO Marco Weichert shares how this year, it's "time to score" on reducing carbon emissions....
The European Green Deal legislation aims to help the EU achieve its goals of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and of decoupling economic growth from resource extraction through circularity – is about to become a reality. “Outdoor companies...
