Protect Our Winters
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New TGR Film Starring Griffin Post Is a Real-Life Treasure Hunt
Photos by Leslie Hittmeier “The Lost Cache,” debuting this fall after years in the making, captures a modern-day quest for historic artifacts abandoned on a remote Yukon glacier in 1937. The chances of finding the hidden cache were, admittedly, low. A film crew and athletes from…
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The Future We Build Depends on the Democracy We Practice
Photo by Creative Alliance member Jeremiah Watt Climate change is often described as an environmental problem. But at its core, it is also a collective action problem, and therefore a democracy problem. No individual caused climate change alone, no individual can stabilize the…
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Fly Fishing, Coastal Advocacy, Climate Solutions: Behind the Scenes of New Blue View
Photos by Creative Alliance member Liam Gallagher Before sunrise on a chilly September morning in the rapidly warming Gulf of Maine, two fly fishermen—one from Washington and one local—float over tidal flats in a small skiff. On this day, the tide is lowest at dawn, making it…
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The Truth (and a Few Lies) About Offshore Wind
Photos by POW Creative Alliance member Dan Holz A new POW-supported film out this month attempts to get to the bottom of why offshore wind power is so controversial. Depending on what you read, offshore wind turbines are either a national security threat that kills whales and…
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Ink and Impact: An Artist’s Role in Climate Advocacy
Photos by Emily Tidwell Change is the only constant. For tattoo artist Angel Lopez, this has been a guiding principle throughout his journey. From Tijuana, Mexico, to the crag and mountain bike trails of California, he’s been intersecting his love for the outdoors with his…
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Get Outside, Give a Shit
Get Outside, Give a Shit Graphics by Emma Murray Most winter mornings at Turnagain, Red Mountain, Snoqualmie, or Teton Pass, a hungry line of trucks idle in the dark at various pullouts along the highway. People inside dig out mittens and take their last swig of coffee, exhaust…
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New Legislation Aims to Restore EPA’s Core Mission
Photos by Micheli Oliver The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used to protect your air and water. Now Congress has to protect the EPA. For five decades, the EPA has stood as a vital institution in American life that both parties helped build and maintain with the shared…
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How an Olympic Nordic Skier Turned Apathy into Action
I found out Donald Trump had won the presidency three days after everyone else. The outcome of the 2024 election has drastically and rapidly changed the future of environmental protection in the United States. From weakening the EPA through numerous policy rollbacks to…
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The EPA Has Stopped Doing Its Job
Photo by Donny O’Neill The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was built on a straightforward promise: to protect human health and the environment. For decades, it fulfilled that mandate through the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the science-backed rules that gave…
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Midterms Matter
Photo by Jeremiah Watt Every great adventure starts with training and preparation. You don’t summit a peak you’ve been eyeing for years by winging it, and you don’t crush an ultra marathon goal without putting in the miles. As outdoors people, we know preparation is everything.…