She’s not waiting. Neither are we.
The Real Story
Here's what climate change actually looks like: It's a widow in a rainforest village whose crops stop producing. Rainfall patterns have shifted, the land that fed her family for generations no longer works. She can't afford medical care for her children. She can't afford school fees.
Her options narrow fast. She can take whatever work she can find—often sex work, because it's one of the few ways an uneducated woman can earn money quickly. Her daughter watches this happen. Watches her mother's choices disappear. And unless something changes, that daughter is headed down the same path. No education means no options means the cycle repeats.
This isn't a story about polar bears or melting ice caps. It's about real people losing real options. The climate crisis hits hardest in places we don't see—erasing livelihoods, eliminating choices, forcing impossible decisions on people who've done the least to cause the problem.
And while we're debating culture wars and doom-scrolling through our feeds, entire communities are watching their worlds shrink.
The connection most people miss: When you destroy someone's economic options, they're forced to destroy the environment to survive. When you give them real alternatives—healthcare, income, dignity—they become the planet's most effective protectors.
That's not just feel-good theory. That's how you actually solve this.
The Kind of Help That Actually Works
We partner with organizations that don't do awareness campaigns. They do real work. The kind that changes someone's Tuesday.
Take Health In Harmony, the first organization we're supporting. They figured out something brilliant: If you provide accessible healthcare to rainforest communities, people stop cutting down forests. Not because you told them to. Because you gave them another option.
Here's how it works: A woman in Indonesia can access quality medical care for her family. But it's not charity—that strips people of agency. Instead, she can pay with seedlings she's grown, handicrafts she's made, or conservation work. She maintains her dignity. Her family stays healthy. And instead of old-growth rainforest disappearing, it's being restored.
The same model creates jobs, empowers women economically, and protects biodiversity. One choice, multiple impacts.
In one year, Health In Harmony's work offsets more greenhouse gases than the entire city of San Francisco produces in three years.
But more importantly? Thousands of families have healthcare access they didn't have before. Women have economic independence they didn't have before. Communities have forests they didn't have before.
This is what we mean when we say we support organizations making a real difference. Not raising awareness. Not starting conversations. Changing lives and ecosystems at the same time.
What Your Leggings Actually Do
You're buying workout gear anyway. Might as well make it count.
13% of every purchase goes directly to organizations like Health In Harmony. Not "a portion of proceeds." Not "up to." Exactly 13% of gross revenue. Every single time.
What does that actually fund?
850+
Trees planted and protected per $100
12
Medical visits enabled
2.5
Tons of CO₂ offset annually
But here's the part that matters most: Behind every one of those numbers is a person. A woman who can now support herself. A family with healthcare access. A community that's protecting their forest instead of watching it disappear.
You're not just protecting the environment. You're funding someone's options. Their health. Their economic independence. Their future.
And yes, you're fighting climate change in the process. The most effective way possible—by making it economically viable for people to be the solution.
Ready to Make it Count?
Every piece of gear you buy creates ripples you’ll never see. But they’re real.
And they’re happening right now.