{"id":2450307,"date":"2019-10-24T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/patagonias-sustainable-jackets\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:56:00","slug":"gear-review-patagonias-sustainable-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/gear-review-patagonias-sustainable-jackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear Review: Patagonia\u2019s Sustainable Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/gear-atw-102419-1024x678.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/gear-atw-102419-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/gear-atw-102419-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/gear-atw-102419-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Calling it a \u201cfirst in the industry,\u201d Patagonia announced that every one of its waterproof shell jackets, from lifestyle to alpine, now must meet a new sustainability standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Plenty of brands use recycled materials in their jackets. And plenty commit to fair-trade practices. But Patagonia says none do both for their entire shell-jacket line \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The company\u2019s entire line, 61 garments in total, use both recycled material and Fair Trade Certified factories for sewing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cThe conversion to using recycled materials in each and every shell (jacket) was slow and gradual, then sudden,\u201d the brand said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve now reached a point where we can draw a line in the sand that every shell uses recycled fabrics \u2014 and is Fair Trade Certified sewn \u2014 or we simply don\u2019t make it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Pategonia\u2019s sustainable jackets from <span>Stephen Regenold, who writes about outdoors gear at <a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"www.gearjunkie.com (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/www.gearjunkie.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/patagonias-sustainable-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling it a \u201cfirst in the industry,\u201d Patagonia announced that every one of its waterproof shell jackets, from lifestyle to alpine, now must meet a new sustainability standard. Plenty of brands use recycled materials in their jackets. And plenty commit to fair-trade practices. But Patagonia says none do both for their entire shell-jacket line \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 11:59:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}