Gear Patrol believes in not only bettering men (and, by extension, all of mankind) but also this rock we call Earth. Like men, it is resilient, but given the environmental treacheries we impart on this planet we know that there’s also a consequence to every action we take…

That said, Gear Patrol strives to be a green operation. We’re not flawless, and I’m sure if you look closely we make plenty of mistakes, but we do our best.

Here are the steps the Gear Patrol team and its crew take to ensure minimal impact on our environment:

1. Gear Patrol is hosted on Dreamhost’s 100% carbon-neutral servers and system operations. They meticulously monitor all their consumption from paperwork to electricity usage and invest in Emission Reduction Credits to offset their impact. Sweet.
2. Gear Patrol works in a 98.5% paper-free environment. We’re a business, so contracts are inevitable. Our damn lawyers and accountants won’t allow us to operate totally paper-free (yet). We’re working on changing their minds. Stubborn, those guys.
3. For the most part, Gear Patrol editors work off of laptops and mobile phones, ensuring our business-related electricity consumption leans more to the side of “less”.
4. The sheer amount of gear we encounter daily is immense, so we recycle all the boxes and packing materials that come our way or we use them for our own shipping purposes. They can also used make a sweet fort.
5. Magazines are great (we love them), but by-god the amount of paper required to print them is ghastly. Not to mention those annoying-as-hell subscription cards (to whom it may concern: we know where to subscribe to your magazine so stop with it already!). Gear Patrol strives to be an online initiative; one that you can read without having to cut down trees. We might do some printed things in the future, but for we’ll hold it to just our business cards.

Look, we know that no one is perfect. Still, we’re not going to sit here and spin “green” like it’s some marketing corporate-initiative run by people who could care less about anything but good PR. We’re sure that in time we’ll get better and take further advantage of all the great Green Gear there is out there. In the meantime, we love suggestions and recommendations, so make ‘em.

So men… take a moment to find out if there’s excess in your own life that impacts the planet. Find a way to cut back on it and do something good. Make it your next advancement.

- The Gear Patrol Crew

A few blocks away from the Gear Patrol offices. Our own spot of green.