Sustainability
Sustain (verb) – to provide nourishment
Osprey’s efforts to be an outdoor industry leader in sustainability, environmental and social concerns is an evolutionary process. We want each and every step to support, both internally and externally, the simple definition stated above.
Osprey is proud of its outdoor industry leading efforts to lighten our footprint and we take our role as a leader in sustainability, environmental and social concerns seriously. A stepwise, evolutionary process has produced the following results in 2009 Osprey spent 2009 celebrating 35 years as an independently owned and operated outdoor company. Couple this with the overall life-cycle of our packs and a guarantee that defines the word lifetime, and you have our version of product sustainability incarnate.
- 2009 saw Osprey as a first time participant and sponsor of the Rush Hour Revolution, a three month event promoting bicycling as the alternative commute option within the Outdoor Industry through education, encouragement and exciting challenge-based rewards. Osprey signed up 15 riders for the three month cycling event which saw 47,941 total miles logged and prevented 41,872 pounds of CO2 from entering the earth’s atmosphere. Combined with Osprey’s own Sustainable Transportation Initiative which pays Team Members to carpool and use non-motorized transportation, we have developed a valuable, grassroots tool combating global warming.
- Osprey’s Volunteer Incentive Program pays each Team Member eight hours per calendar year for local, state and national volunteer efforts. 2009 saw Osprey Packs donate a total of nearly 240 volunteer hours on a wide variety of projects including Conservation Next’s Boulder Backyard Collective, National Public Lands Day in Mesa Verde National Park, The Access Fund’s Hawkins Preserve Project and The carpenter Preserve Open Space project, among others.
- The Osprey Pro Deal Donation Program raised over $5000 in 2009 benefitting such groups as the Continental Divide Trail Alliance, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the Pacific Crest Trail Association, The American Discovery Trail and the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation.
- On a local level, Osprey donates 5% of all proceeds from bi-annual community Local’s Sale events to select, local non-profit organizations. In the spring of 2009 we raised $1,260 for the Four Corners Recycling Initiative to aid in efforts to expand local recycling services and educational outreach. In the fall of 2009 we raised $2254.00 for The Bridge Emergency Shelter to aid in their efforts assisting the homeless citizens of the Cortez community. The Osprey Local’s Sale is a reflection of Osprey’s appreciation for and dedication to the Southwest Colorado regional Community.
Support of conservation, education and socially focused groups in North America and abroad
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