Boss Yvon Chouinard has ‘given away’ Patagonia to a charitable trust. Any profit not reinvested in running the business will go to fighting climate change.

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By ben_haworth

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too slow…

Patagonia Founder Gives Away Company…

This is impressive, well done Yvon!

Nice work fella, Christ we need more of this.

Isn’t there another thread about this up there?

outstanding. but stop buying bloody stuff all the time. i’m looking at you fresh goods friday.

seems staff get the ability to start double threads, if we did that it would be shut down pronto

[MOD] Staff post articles to the front page. These are then automatically replicated to the (News) forum, regardless of if a thread has already been started in the chat/bike forums.

seems staff get the ability to start double threads, if we did that it would be shut down pronto

Noticed this a few times. Can’t see why they can’t just add a link to the front page story to the original thread that has 49 responses already.

It’s not a manual process. We publish a story and it creates a forum thread. And someone has helpfully done just what you suggested in the very first reply to this story

Corr. There’s a lot of miserable people responding today. Maybe its all the sack cloth and ashes being worn and hourly self flagellation with nettles that’s going on

Lighten up – its good news (and fheck me there’s not much of that at present) – let’s have it 3 times !