About Patagonia Store

Patagonia is Mission Statement Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. Our Reason for Being Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling and trail running. These are all silent sports. None require a motor; none deliver the cheers of a crowd. In each sport, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments of connection between us and nature. Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted. The approach we take towards product design demonstrates a bias for simplicity and utility. For us at Patagonia, a love of wild and beautiful places demands participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in the overall environmental health of our planet. We donate our time, services and at least 1% of our sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups all over the world who work to help reverse the tide. We know that our business activity from lighting stores to dyeing shirts creates pollution as a by product. So we work steadily to reduce those harms. We use recycled polyester in many of our clothes and only organic, rather than pesticide intensive, cotton. Staying true to our core values during thirty