Mario Molina
Executive Director, Protect Our Winters
Jeremy Jones
Founder, Protect Our Winters
The Basics
Company Name: Protect Our Winters
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Founded: 2007
Full-Time Employees: 15
Products:
Social: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter
Claim to Fame:
Turning passionate outdoor people into effective climate advocates
Having the incredible opportunity to work with so many professional athletes, Olympians, and outdoor industry leaders as critical influencers on climate action
The Culture
The best thing about working at Protect Our Winters is:
Working with a small but mighty team, punching above our weight class and when we get a chance to take our meetings to the chairlift or backcountry.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Reconnecting with the very places that drive us to do this work: exploring our outdoor playgrounds, from snow covered mountain tops, single track trails to coastal surf.
What we’re reading:
Currently for climate news, we love Axios’ Generate, and for inspiration, we love All We Can Save, and to keep tabs on everything happening, we’re proud of the POW Dispatch, Protect Our Winters’ weekly wrap-up of climate news, complete with our take on each topic and how that impacts our ongoing efforts to reduce the effects of climate change (which you can sign up for here!).
What we’re listening to:
We’re big fans of the podcasts Drilled and Climate Changers!
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
Passion into Purpose!
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
The outdoor community is not defined by our borders but by our shared passion for our great escapes. Climate change is threatening the places that we love and unite us as Americans, now more than ever we need to find our common ground. By engaging more diverse demographics in outdoor activities, we grow the number of people who are passionate about protecting them from the impacts of climate change.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
In the future we envision, the world embraces renewable energy, electric transport, breakthrough technologies and market policies to achieve carbon neutrality by the end of the century. We drive to crags, trailheads, and renewably powered ski areas in zero-emission vehicles; individuals and industries pay a fair price for their carbon footprint; and elected officials from all parties at all levels of government make addressing climate their top policy priority.