Josh Wharton is the most accomplished alpinist you’ve never heard of. But while he’s been quietly crushing ambitious objectives to little or no fanfare, fatherhood, and warming weather have begun

Josh Wharton is the most accomplished alpinist you’ve never heard of. But while he’s been quietly crushing ambitious objectives to little or no fanfare, fatherhood, and warming weather have begun to reshape the world he knew. When Wharton and his climbing partner Vince Anderson attempt to take the 2003 Italian route to the summit of Jirishanca in Peru, they’re forced to account for risk as never before. Check out Josh Wharton's story about the ascent with photos by Drew Smith, originally published in the Spring 2023 Patagonia Journal Link: https://www.patagonia.com/stories/jirishanca/story-135572.html Filmed and photographed on location by Cheyne Lempe, Chris Alstrin, Drew Smith, Vince Anderson, and Josh Wharton Written by Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer Edited by Joshua Steele Minor & Josh Lowell Additional Camera by Chuck Fryberger, Taylor Shaffer, Christian Riepler Executive Producers Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen, Josh Lowell, Alex Lowther, Monika McClure, Justin Roth, and Kristo Torgersen Produced by Halle Johns & Zachary Barr Assistant Editor Freddie Gluck, Alex Ferrante, Tessa Fredericks Motion Graphics & VFX by Alex Ferrante Post Production Coordinator Tessa Fredericks Sound Kip Kuepper / Coupe Studios Color Joshua Steele Minor & Roo Smith Expedition Support Zarela Zomora Subscribe: https://pat.ag/Subscribe Get more from Patagonia: Official site: https://pat.ag/Patagonia Patagonia Stories: https://pat.ag/PatagoniaStories Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patagonia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PATAGONIA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/patagonia TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@patagonia?lang=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/patagonia_2/ About Patagonia: At Patagonia, we appreciate that all life on earth is under threat of extinction. We’re using the resources we have—our business, our investments, our voice and our imaginations—to do something about it.

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More and more businesses are adopting circular economy strategies and pilots, but how do they understand and measure success on the path towards that goal? Ilma Stankeviciute explores the

More and more businesses are adopting circular economy strategies and pilots, but how do they understand and measure success on the path towards that goal? Ilma Stankeviciute explores the Foundation's new analytics tool and speaks with a business already using it. This is our shortened version of the original live stream, which can still be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8dat_ZU7w Circulytics is a new company-level analytics tool, created by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, that reveals the extent to which a company has achieved circularity across its entire operations. Developed in collaboration with a number of companies, including the Foundation’s 13 Global Partners, and tested by over 30 companies in 2019. Ilma Stankeviciute, Learning Designer at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation - creates business focused learning content for the circular economy learning hub as well as designs and facilitates various learning experiences online and face to face. Jarkko Havas, Lead of Data and Metrics Initiative at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation - leads the Foundation's efforts on harnessing data and metrics to accelerate the transition to circular economy, and supports the Foundation’s Global Partners in exploring the value creation potential that circular economy offers. Tom Giddings, Sustainability Data and Reporting Manager at DS Smith - has been one of the leading figures in DS Smith's assessment and use of the Circulytics circular economy measurement tool.

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Founder of The GoodGuide, Dara O'Rourke talks to Heather Smith of NewHope360.com and New Hope Natural Media about engaging consumers and brands at Expo East in Boston. They started out

Founder of The GoodGuide, Dara O'Rourke talks to Heather Smith of NewHope360.com and New Hope Natural Media about engaging consumers and brands at Expo East in Boston. They started out wanting to be independent of retailers and manufacturers, and now we are talking about delivering more information to consumers through retailers.

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Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ The wastefulness of takeaway paper coffee cups and issues of recyclability have regularly featured in the headlines in recent years as topics like ocean

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ The wastefulness of takeaway paper coffee cups and issues of recyclability have regularly featured in the headlines in recent years as topics like ocean plastics become increasingly prominent. Better design and reuse are clearly on top of the agenda, but there's demands for better recycling are also firmly on the agenda of governments, organisations and consumers. Join this session to hear the story of how DS Smith has aimed to tackle this issue, starting by finding a solution to recycling coffee cups at scale in a standard paper mill, and then moving on to consider the system that sits around that technology with the launch of their Coffee Drop Box solution. We'll also be joined in the studio by the Head of Environment from one of the UK's largest coffee retailers, who will talk about the challenge of single use takeaway cups and the respective roles that reuse and recycling can play in changing a consumer's relationship with those products.

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Sir David Attenborough has an update from Blue Planet II about our plastic consumption.

Sir David Frederick Attenborough; born 8 May 1926)is an English broadcaster and natural

Sir David Attenborough has an update from Blue Planet II about our plastic consumption.

Sir David Frederick Attenborough; born 8 May 1926)is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth.

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There is no question that global warming exists, but there is little action among the government and society at large to take steps to combat it. Economist Frank Ackerman argues that the standard

There is no question that global warming exists, but there is little action among the government and society at large to take steps to combat it. Economist Frank Ackerman argues that the standard economic models used to calculate the global cost of protection, versus the cost of destruction of the planet, focus on an incomplete cost-benefit analysis.

Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 28, 2009.

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