Hey everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network.

You're here today with Kara Williard and you can check out all the other stuff we are doing

and reviewing over at BlisterReview.com.

Well, today's conversation is one that I am very excited about. I got to talk

with Kim Miller, Scarpa North America's CEO, to discuss the impressive efforts that Scarpa is taking

to center sustainability into every aspect of what they do. Scarpa has been a Italian-based brand since the 1930s, but these days they are working on

instilling a metric-based, transparent, and effective action plan to be a leader in the outdoor

industry, including undergoing the intensive process of becoming a B Corp and publicly publishing

their very own Green Manifesto, which you can read over on their site, and it is linked in the show

notes to this episode. Kim Miller has been on Gear 30 a couple of times before, and I have also

linked those episodes in the show notes because they are both

really great. And you can hear a lot more about Kim's impressive background and technical

knowledge in these previous episodes. But for today's conversation, Kim and I focused on what

the process of developing Scarpa's Green Manifesto looked like. What undergoing life cycle analysis for different products entails?

Some of Scarpa's products that are best exemplifying these principles and how they have refused

to compromise the performance and quality of their product line, yet how tricky this balance

can be.

More broadly, Kim and I talk about why this work is important,

not just in an environmental sense, but how it spans a lot more than just reducing a carbon

footprint as a brand. Kim is incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about these topics,

and I have a feeling that he will instill some inspiration and

encourage some individual action, which brings me to this point as people who all love and

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