Yvon Chouinard

surfing” by Yvon Chouinard makes one ponder that this is a book about mainly the outdoors. Though, the book outlines the history of Patagonia and in what manner they decided to run their company. The company has demonstrated that a business can be a force of good on not only the community, but nonetheless the environment. History For decades, Chouinard had been consecutively running his company founded on what would cause the smallest amount of influence on the environment. When Chouinard began…

that lasts a lifetime. Yvon Chouinard was an environmentalist, climber, businessman, and founder and owner of Patagonia. Chouinard and his father moved to California to start a new life. It was then that he realized he was a craftsman and loved to innovate equipment and tools at such an early age, while engaging in outdoor adventures. One of Chouinard first inventions were pitons. Pitons could be reused and were very stiff and strong. When he was fifteen years old, Chouinard met…

The op-ed piece from the New York Times, “Tear Down Deadbeat Dams” by Yvon Chouinard, and the Outsiders magazine article “Blow Up” by Bruce Barcott both argue that the construction of dams has been extremely harmful to the natural world. Even though they are similar in idea and argument, the ways they communicate their message differ. I will analyze: FINISH “Blow Up” is structured very much like a story in that Barcott gives the reader a sequence of events; we dammed and we dammed and we dammed…

This case is about a founder named Yvon Chouinard that has a passion for saving the environment and rock climbing. Throughout his rock climbing ventures, Chouinard has developed certain hiking gear, equipment, clothing, and other valuables that are also environment friendly. He then began to branch out and created Patagonia in 1973. As business started to take off, Chouinard also brought onto his employees the awareness and teachings of his environmental beliefs. He allowed them to surf during…

contributor Yvon Chouinard and magazine contributor Bruce Barcott feel differently; they want dams to not exist. Chouinard’s Text 1 is a persuasive paper, making use of cold-hard facts and allusions to the fearsome global warming and America’s beloved economy, in order to convince us that dams are bad in all perspectives. Barcott’s Text 2 takes a different path to a similar conclusion: he utilizes the American love of freedom and shocking metaphors to show that dams should be blown up.…

inevitable death is dreary for anybody to think about but as human beings we have the capability to use the emotion for good. Throughout my essay I have described how one company was able to do this and their reasoning for the motive. The interview with Yvon along the river can be compared to the paper I wrote just now and how the depiction of Patagonia through the eyes of an outside source is seen and interpreted. I believe that they have gone above and beyond the call of duty for any company…

But Patagonia isn’t interested in competing with The North Face’s impressive numbers. In fact, their CEO, Yvon Chouinard, says they’re not interested in increasing profits at all. For black Friday in 2011, Patagonia took an “anti-growth” strategy by labeling all their clothes with a tag that read “Don’t buy this jacket”. The tag showed the environmental costs of…

Patagonia’s Pom Beanie “To do things differently, we need to perceive things differently”. In other words, to change the path that we are on, we must first understand where we are headed. For the world to live the way Canadian’s do, we would require 4.7 Earths to sustain the resources. This statistic displays the dramatic need for a shift in the thinking of the use of our resources. To accomplish this, we need to not only change our thinking, we need to change the way we design. Through…

Every summer I spend 6 weeks away from civilization, canoeing and working hard with group of 8-12 young women. I have been doing this for the past 6 summers of my life. Throughout these summers people have told me how much I will value the time I spend in the wilderness. They tell me these experiences that I am so fortunate to have is something that I will truly never forget. But every time I heard this I brushed it off seeing as I was a young kid and all I cared about was having fun (which I…

By conducting business in a non-traditional way, Chouinard created a company with a different outdoor style that makes $270 million in yearly revenues. This organization is among one of the first in America to provide onsite daycare, as well as both maternity and paternity leave, and flextime. Patagonia reuses materials, questions growth, ignores fashion, makes goods that last, and discontinues profitable products. With a laidback atmosphere for employees, its production is at full capacity. Mr.…