 |  | | Our definition of quality includes a mandate for building products and working with processes that cause the least harm to the environment. We evaluate raw materials, invest in innovative technologies, rigorously police our waste and use a portion of our profits to support groups working to make a real difference. We acknowledge that the wild world we love best is disappearing. That is why those of us who work here share a strong commitment to protecting undomesticated lands and waters. We believe in using business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis. |  |  |  | There's never been a better time to get our house in order. In fact, as individuals and businesses, we have to take responsibility for pollution and over-consumption, and begin work on a new, more sustainable society. Read more. | |  | | |  | | | Enviro Essays: Learn more about the issues we're concerned with: Getting Our House in Order, the 2004 election's Vote the Environment campaign, the plight of Wild Salmon, efforts to keep land Big, Wild and Connected and the perils of Genetic Engineering. | | The Big Open: Mountaineer Rick Ridgeway's account of crossing Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau in search of an endangered antelopes' calving grounds. | | Conservacion Patagonica: Help protect the wild heart of Patagonia. | | Arctic Dance: A film about the life of Mardy Murie, defender of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. | Main Photo: Dr. Tom Reimschen unlocking mysteries in British Columbia's remote coastal Great Bear Rainforest. By analyzing tree cores for marine-based nitrogen signatures, scientists can trace the historical record of salmon abundance and decline. Photo: Ian McAllister |  | | | |  | | |