In 2015, REI Co-op closed its stores on Black Friday for the first time, giving its employees the day off to #OptOutside and encouraging others around the count...
As a certified forest therapy guide who helps people experience how healing immersion in nature can be, I often invite my forest bathing participants to share a...
A deceptively wise young man in Wayfarer shades once reminded us how quickly life goes. “If you don't stop and look around once in a while,” Ferris Bueller says...
I had my first panic attack the morning I dropped my 10-month-old son off at day care for the first time. I wasn’t worried about him starting school; in fact, I...
Imagine yourself in a park on a sunny afternoon, surrounded by a swirl of laughter, birdsong, maybe a breeze blowing through the leaves. Or on the beach some su...
You probably know Amy Tan from her novels The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter or from her memoir, story collections and children’s books. But the Na...
Award-winning nonprofit Ghetto Film School (GFS) and REI Co-op Studios created the “Inside/Outside” mentorship and incubator program to help three filmmakers as...
This story was originally published on September 27, 2023 and was updated on April 5, 2024.
Biking roughly 3,000 miles from the northern tip of Maine to the ...
Co-op members know that REI is a different kind of company: Not only can you can find top-quality gear and a wide range of expertise to aid your outdoor adventu...
Something about a new year makes us want to refresh our to-read (and to-listen and to-watch) lists. We've renewed our intentions to tackle that pile of books we...
In February 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. penned a letter from a Selma, Alabama, jail, which was published as a quarter-page ad in The New York Times. In it, he ...
José Rodriguez is a Puerto Rico Army National Guard veteran who was shot 21 times as a bystander at a red light during an armed car robbery. He spent two weeks ...
