Sustainability

2025 POW Gift Guide

The 2024 holiday rollout arrives at a critical juncture for the outdoor industry. According to data from the Bureau of…

Receipts in Hand: How the Outdoor State Showed Up for the Arctic

A high-profile coalition of professional athletes, climate scientists, Indigenous representatives, and conservation advocates convened on Capitol Hill last week to…

COP30 in Belém: Global Climate Ambition Confronts Geopolitical Hurdles and the Absence of Official United States Representation

The 30th Annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30, concluded in Belém, Brazil, leaving a complex legacy of…

Federal Policy Shifts Target Clean Energy Projects and Climate Research Infrastructure Amid Push for Fossil Fuel Expansion

The United States energy and environmental landscape is undergoing a rapid and fundamental transformation as the Trump administration executes a…

Protect Our Winters Calls for Resignation of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Following Repeal of Landmark Climate Endangerment Finding

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially repealed the 2009 Endangerment Finding, a move that strips the federal government of…

The Vanishing Ice of Whistler Blackcomb: How Salomon and Protect Our Winters Are Redefining Corporate Responsibility in the Face of a Changing Climate

The environmental transformation of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia has reached a critical inflection point, as evidenced by the…

Federal Leasing Commences in Alaskas Western Arctic Amid Growing Environmental and Economic Debates

The United States federal government has officially initiated the first of five mandated oil and gas lease sales in the…

The Global Proliferation of Renewable Energy Disinformation and the Strategic Push for a Clean Energy Transition

The rapid scaling of renewable energy infrastructure across the globe has been met with a parallel increase in organized opposition,…

Indigenous Sovereignty and Environmental Conservation Converge at Emergency Gwich’in Gathering to Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

In early September, Brennan Lagasse, a member of the Protect Our Winters (POW) Creative Alliance and a professor of sustainability…

Origins Project: Reclaiming Americas Vanishing Trail Networks from Wildfire and Climate Erasure

The rapid intensification of wildfire activity across the Western United States has initiated a quiet crisis in public land management:…