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Leave no Trace para o Caminho de Santiago

The 7 Leave No Trace Principles for the Camino de Santiago

We understand that, although experiences on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela are personally rewarding and unique, a good pilgrimage can have avoidable negative impacts on the places you pass through and the people you meet.

In this context, and reinforcing its commitment to minimum impact practices, Gear Tips has published the following text on its blog: The 7 Leave No Trace Principles for the Camino de Santiago, with a wealth of detail on how we can apply these principles on the world’s most famous pilgrimage. Read the full text at: https://geartips.club/blog/principios-leave-no-trace-caminho-de-santiago/

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Recycling program expanded in Argentina

As an important step in its international expansion process, Gear Tips has installed its second Recycling Program collector in Argentina. This collector is available for outdoor activities at the Alsilta store in Neuquén, located at 270 Buenos Aires Street.

Gear Tips was present at CBAA/CIAA

Gear Tips was present, through various activities, at the Brazilian and International Congress of Adventure Activities – CBAA/CIAA, held in Petrópolis/RJ. At the event, we were responsible for managing the Petrópolis x Teresópolis crossing, which took place in one day, with a focus on geoconservation and minimal impact. We also gave a 4-hour mini-course on the subject, all in partnership with Professor Fernando Pessoa, from Expedições do Cefet. We also set up our stand at the Adventure Fair and took part in a round table discussion on success stories in adventure activities, alongside representatives from INEA and Long Distance Trails. In this way we reinforce our presence by supporting and dialoguing with the most diverse players in the practice of outdoor activities in Brazil and around the world.

Gear Tips presents mini-course at Mountain Festival

On May 18, 2024, Bruno Negreiros, Gear Tips’ socio-environmental coordinator, gave a mini-course on Environmental Conservation and Minimum Impact Practices at the Mountain Festival in São Bento do Sapucaí.

This course discussed conservation definitions and practices, the seven principles of minimum impact and a general reflection on what more we can do to make outdoor sports more conscious and sustainable.

Dia Mundial da Reciclagem 2024

Gear Tips Celebrates World Recycling Day

On May 17, Gear Tips celebrates the important work it has been doing to spread the recycling process in the outdoor activities segment in Brazil. Through the Gear Tips Recycling Program, we promote a positive impact and encourage society to recycle its waste more and more.

Along with Gear Tips, we can also highlight our partners who have incorporated recycling into their actions: 213 Sports (recycling event tarpaulins), Conquista Montanhismo (recycling manufacturing waste), Deuter, CamelBak and Sea to Summit (manufacturing equipment with recycled raw materials), Curtlo (recycling backpacks), Kampa (recycling camping hammocks), Nos Alpes (certified with the Eu Reciclo label) and NTK (encourages the Gear Tips Recycling Program).

Gear Tips neutralizes its emissions from 2023

Gear Tips Outdoor has successfully carbon neutralized its emissions for the year 2023. This initiative is part of the company’s commitment to environmental sustainability and reducing negative impacts on the environment.

Carbon neutrality was achieved by drawing up an inventory that accounted for our team’s electricity consumption and all the journeys made, including the trip to Turkey to receive the UIAA’s Mountain Protection Award 2023. The inventory was then approved by the Earth Organization – OCT, which carried out the neutralization by planting 16 trees of native Atlantic Forest species.

Projeto de Reciclagem é apresentado em curso da UIAA

Recycling project presented at UIAA course

The Gear Tips Recycling Program, winner of the Mountain Protect Award 2023, was presented to the audience at the International Mountain Sports Course of the International Union of Mountaineering Associations – UIAA in Bariloche/Argentina. In this way, the message of sustainability goes further and further afield, with the Project dialoguing on a daily basis with federations in various countries. The course, which took place between April 19 and 21, covered a range of topics, balancing theory with a number of practical activities organized by the Argentine Ski and Andean Federation – FASA.

Gear Tips se torna parceiro corporativo da Leave No Trace

Gear Tips becomes corporate partner of Leave No Trace

Gear Tips and Leave No Trace, a renowned international non-profit organization, have entered into a partnership to promote environmental education and the dissemination of minimum impact practices in Brazil. Gear Tips becomes the organization’s first national corporate partner and will work through actions, the production of knowledge and the promotion of courses to train increasingly aware professionals and practitioners. Since 1994, Leave No Trace has been the most important institution developing research and promoting environmental education related to minimum impact practices in outdoor activities.

Jurapê store in Joinville receives Gas Cartridge Collector

The Gas Cartridge Collector arrives in Joinville, Santa Catarina, at the Jurapê Equipamentos para Aventura store, located at Rua Fernando de Noronha, 204-B, in the Atiradores neighborhood.

The store has existed since 2012 and its name is a reference to Jurapê Peak, a symbol of regional mountaineering in Santa Catarina. Next to the store is the Jurapê Climbing Center, which since 2017 has been involved in training the new generation of climbers in the region.

Gear Tips signs partnership with ATTA

Gear Tips signs an international partnership with ATTA – Adventure Travel Trade Association, the largest global network of adventure travel leaders. This is yet another way in which we demonstrate our concern for making a positive impact on the world through activities in nature.

The institution’s mission is to empower the community to protect natural and cultural capital. Its initiatives include social and environmental projects focused on education, awareness and impact, within four pillars: climate action, women’s leadership, plastic waste reduction and indigenous tourism. Find out more on the ATTA website.

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Gear Tips becomes a member of EOCA

We are delighted to announce that Gear Tips is the first Brazilian company to become a member of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA), an organization that supports and finances global projects aimed at combating the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. As well as being a great achievement for us, being part of EOCA represents an opportunity to insert the country into one of today’s most important agendas: combating the environmental impacts that threaten our survival.

” See the full article on our Blog!

Kmon publishes video on Recycling Program

A new partner of the Recycling Program, Kmon Adventure publishes a promotional video calling on the public to dispose of Camping Gas Cartridges properly.

Kmon is an adventure tourism operator and climbing school located in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, at Rua Dezenove de Fevereiro, Nº 23 (between Rua São Clemente and Voluntários da Pátria).

“ Check out the video on Instagram!