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What adventure means to me
To me, adventure means freedom. Freedom to dive in and to completely let go, living in the moment and forgetting my to do list. Freedom to feel alive, like my true self, and like I’m ten again.
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Backpacking in Carolina
High up the Welch Ridge Trail, in the quiet, Southern Appalachian forest of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I stop in my tracks and look down at the ground. The trail and sloping mountainside around me are damp and muddy—not something I’ve seen a lot of on this first day of a mid-October
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ADVENTURE
- Diversify Vanlife: The Movement to Make Vanlife Inclusive and Diverse
- 5 Tips for Plus-Size Hikers
- A Guide to Low-Waste Backpacking
- Best Places for Sustainable Travel to Reset for the New Year
- 10 of the Best Hikes in the US for Fire Fall Foliage
- Compost or Bust?
- Striving for Sustainability on the Road
- 5 Best Spots for Lake Camping in North America
- 5 Water Adventures to Have this Summer
- Drinking Safely in the Great Outdoors
- 5 best waterfalls around the world – water you waiting for?
- 5 ways to reduce your dependence on single-use plastics in your daily routine
- What adventure means to me
- Backpacking in Carolina
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INCLUSION
- Small Steps for Big Impact: Anti-Racism Resources
- COVID-19's exacerbation of water insecurity in low-resource communities
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- A perspective on responding to floods and cholera in western Kenya during the time of COVID-19
- Diversify Vanlife: The Movement to Make Vanlife Inclusive and Diverse
- Is the outdoors really inclusive?
- 5 Tips for Plus-Size Hikers
- The LifeStraw team will be out of the office on Giving Tuesday. Here’s Why:
- Going Beyond Safe Water: An experience with LifeStraw in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican border
- Clean Water Across America: A Partnership with LifeStraw and Airstream!
- Tap water contaminants & boiled water advisories - what you need to know and how LifeStraw protects.
- What adventure means to me
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OUTDOORS
- Diversify Vanlife: The Movement to Make Vanlife Inclusive and Diverse
- Is the outdoors really inclusive?
- 5 Tips for Plus-Size Hikers
- A Guide to Low-Waste Backpacking
- Best Places for Sustainable Travel to Reset for the New Year
- 10 of the Best Hikes in the US for Fire Fall Foliage
- Compost or Bust?
- Striving for Sustainability on the Road
- 5 Best Spots for Lake Camping in North America
- Drinking Safely in the Great Outdoors
- Clean Water Across America: A Partnership with LifeStraw and Airstream!
- 5 best waterfalls around the world – water you waiting for?
- 5 ways to reduce your dependence on single-use plastics in your daily routine
- What adventure means to me
- Backpacking in Carolina
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RESPONSIBILITY
- LifeStraw Mid-Year 2020 Impact Report
- Small Steps for Big Impact: Anti-Racism Resources
- COVID-19's exacerbation of water insecurity in low-resource communities
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- A perspective on responding to floods and cholera in western Kenya during the time of COVID-19
- LifeStraw in the time of COVID-19
- The LifeStraw team will be out of the office on Giving Tuesday. Here’s Why:
- Going Beyond Safe Water: An experience with LifeStraw in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican border
- Compost or Bust?
- Striving for Sustainability on the Road
- Cyclone Idai: LifeStraw responds
- Sustainability
- SURVIVAL
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TECHNOLOGY
- A PSA on PFAS: What are they and how can you filter them from your drinking water?
- What You Need to Know About Microplastics
- Does your child’s school have safe drinking water?
- 2019 Mid-Year Impact Update
- 5 ways to reduce your dependence on single-use plastics in your daily routine
- Tap water contaminants & boiled water advisories - what you need to know and how LifeStraw protects.
- Sustainability