“Patagonia’s philosopher-king… Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.”
The New Yorker
Courtesy photo.
SANTA BARBARA — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents an evening with the founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard. Chouinard will present Protecting Public Land, in Conversation with Hal Herring on Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. Pacific. A moderated conversation with Chouinard and featuring clips from Patagonia’s recent film,Public Trust. In a time of growing polarization, Americans still share something in common: 640 million acres of public lands. But today, despite support from voters across the political spectrum, these lands face unprecedented threats from extractive industries and the politicians in their pockets. This conversation with journalist Hal Herring will explore the future of our public lands and our planet.
This virtual event is a part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Winter 2021 House Calls series.
ABOUT
YVON CHOUINARD
Chouinard is an itinerant adventurer, passionate activist and iconoclastic businessman. In 1973, he founded Patagonia, a mission-driven company known for its environmental and social initiatives. Chouinard is a surfer, mountain climber, gardener, falconer and is particularly fond of tenkara fly fishing.
Chouinard has written several books and his latest, Some Stories, is a selection of his favorite stories and memories-a fascinating chronicle that reveals the evolution of his thoughts and philosophies. His business memoir, Let My People Go Surfing has been published in 16 languages and has sold more than 500,000 copies. His other books include The Responsible Company, Simple Fly Fishing and Climbing Ice. He was the executive producer of the 2019 investigative documentary Artifishal and the award-winning documentaries DamNation (2014) and Public Trust (2020).
Chouinard co-founded the Fair Labor Association, 1% for the Planet, the Textile Exchange, The Conservation Alliance and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. On the first day he was legally able to do so, Chouinard personally filed the paperwork in Sacramento, California for the company to become a benefit corporation.
He currently resides in Ventura, California.
HAL HERRING
Hal Herring grew up in north Alabama, where he spent his childhood roaming the woods near his home. His father, a public defender, instilled in him a strict sense of civic responsibility. Herring dropped out of high school to work on government contracts planting seedlings in the sagebrush steppe of the West, but returned to school and earned his journalism degree from Tulane University in Louisiana. He moved to Montana and spent the next decade traveling the country writing about guns, sports and hunting while utilizing America’s public lands for recreation and food. In 1999, a friend sent him an article entitled “How and Why to Privatize All Federal Lands,” and he realized that this threat to America’s public lands could have an enormous impact, not just on his livelihood, but on the future of this shared resource. As a result, Herring turned from writing about the things that public lands provide to focusing on the topic of public lands themselves. Over the past twenty years, he has discovered a murky, yet well-funded effort to wrest control and ownership of these lands away from the American people.
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Yvon Chouinard is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Part of the House Calls series.
Support provided by Forces of Nature series sponsor Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher in memory of J. Brooks Fisher
House Calls Media Sponsors: Santa Barbara Independent, KCRW, Voice Magazine, Noozhawk.
Most House Calls events are hour-long programs.
Tickets for Yvon Chouinard are FREE (advance registration required).
To register, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2020-2021 season.