1. Rethink Your Commute
Travel companies are creating a generation of digital nomads, flying gig workers and tech nerds to exotic locales where they can pursue dream jobs. These brands make it their business to solve the significant logistical problems that come up when trying to get work done while abroad—but can they solve the problem of other people?
2. Get Schooled
At USU, students in the country’s first program for gear designers aren’t just learning how to sew a bestselling jacket. They’re being groomed to lead the industry’s next big political and environmental fights.
3. Make Yourself Useful
Former pro Jon Rose was chasing the biggest swells in Sumatra when the 2009 earthquake hit, and he spent the next decade providing clean water in remote disaster zones. Last fall his Waves for Water crew was in Saint Croix when Hurricane Maria struck, so the team did what came naturally: got to work.
4. Hustle Your Side Gig
It’s hard to make a living from just one thing. Lauren Fleshman—champion middle-distance runner, cofounder of Picky Bars, coach, and mother of two—lets us in on how she juggles it all.
5. Conjure Up a Storm
How Ray Maker, a man with no formal journalism training, built DC Rainmaker into a site visited by millions—and harnessed the power to make or break your next running watch.
6. Change the Culture
As ϳԹ discovered in its investigation of sexual harassment in outdoor workplaces, unwanted advances, discrimination, and assault are a frequent and destructive occurrence for far too many women working in the outdoors.
7. Step ϳԹ the Box
Creating an office that truly makes us happy and healthy takes a lot more than standing desks and on-site yoga. Thankfully, new research has sparked a growing revolution in workplace design.