The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've learned from Patagonia's First 50 Years (by Yvon Chouinard & Vincent Stanley)

• Published by Patagonia, The Future of the Responsible Company offers simple but powerful business advice on how and why to rethink business structure

Patagonia has been recognised as much for its ground-breaking environmental, social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In 2022, the Chouinard family gave their company away, converting ownership to a simple structure of trusts and nonprofits, so that all the profits from the company can be used to protect our home planet and work to reverse climate chaos. Stanley and Chouinard recount how the company and its culture gained confidence, especially through missteps, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately challenge other companies, as big as Wal-Mart and as small as the corner store, to do the same.