Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Gives Company Away To Combat Climate Crisis
Outdoor sports apparel company Patagonia is continuing its mission of giving back to environmental causes in a huge way. This move will be much more substantive than just tweeting a photo of a landscape on Earth Day and not much, like many other brands are guilty of. Yvon Chouinard, a rock climber, philanthropist and entrepreneur who founded the company in the 70s, announced in a statement on the Patagonia website yesterday that he will be giving the company away and transforming it into a nonprofit dedicated to fighting climate change. He said in his statement that he was proud of what the co...