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The sun sets on The Big Wild but rises to a new challenge
As summer gives way to adventure and more time spent outdoors, we reflect back on five years of The Big Wild and its impact on Canada’s conservation landscape. The Big Wild began as a partnership...
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Community Contributions by the Numbers
We invest 1% of our annual revenue in grassroots conservation and outdoor recreation, meaning we try to do as much as we can to make sure wild spaces continue to exist and people continue to be...
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Going Through the Garbage in Calgary
Twice a year, teams at MEC stores don coveralls and jump in the dumpsters to do a waste audit. Seth from MEC Calgary gives us a breakdown of what kind of stuff they found out in their latest audit, and...
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Nature Canada: Protecting the Pacific Northwest with Wild Bucks
MEC Wild Bucks (formerly Big Wild Bucks) is back! We have $10,000 to give away to three worthy Canadian organizations – and we need your help choosing the winners. Vote for the project you’d like to...
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Fair Labor Association Accredits MEC’s Social Compliance Program
An embroidery room at a hardgoods factory we’ve been working with for almost 20 years. Taken by Nicholas Lagopoulos, our Production Coordinator, on a recent factory visit to Vietnam. Our goal is to...
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By the Numbers: How We Showed Up in 2013
Association Recreative Milton-Parc We talk a lot about conserving places and enabling people when it comes to our community contributions. Focusing on these two elements helps us to keep space for...
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A Conversation About Conservation: Éric Hébert-Daly
Éric with his nieces Sofie and Katalina, who he is trying to introduce to nature. We read a Salon article not long ago that reported “people don’t want to be associated with environmentalists” due to...
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Finding Your “Sole” Mate
When your entire identity is wrapped up in being a pair, being single can be tough. That’s why in 2010, Jerome Perreault, a former Inventory Team Leader at our Vancouver store, formalized an online...
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Fabric Recycling at MEC: Lightening our environmental load
Since 1970, people around the world celebrate April 22 as Earth Day – 24 hours set aside to revel in the greatness that is nature. This year, as part of their “A billion acts of green” campaign, the...
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Our Sustainable Ways: MEC’s 2013 Accountability Report
Every year, we issue an Accountability Report that captures how we did against our sustainable business targets, which address every area of our business: product design, sourcing and manufacturing,...
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