Speaking of interesting news...

While Major League Baseball it is pulling the All Star Game out of Georgia in protest of the state’s recently passed election law, Patagonia is giving $1 million to groups to push voting access in the state.

In an announcement Tuesday morning, the outdoor apparel maker announced it will divide the money equally between the New Georgia Project and the Black Voters Matter Fund, two grassroots groups that actively opposed Senate Bill 202 in Georgia before Gov. Brian Kemp signed the legislation last week.

Patagonia does not have a Political Action Committee, but in a message to other corporate leaders, CEO Ryan Gellert called on them to similarly fund and support activists working to challenge the Georgia law and others like it being considered in state legislatures around the country.

“I call on fellow CEOs to join in denouncing these attacks on our democracy and to do more than make a corporate statement,” Gellert wrote. “The strength of our democracy depends on every vote being counted everywhere, and we must protect access to the ballot box.”

  Atlanta Journal Constitution

Awesome. If I'm not mistaken, Patagonia has always been a progressive, environmentally forward-looking company. But it's nice to see its CEO challenge other companies.  And also nice to see other corporations take note of the handwriting on the wall as well as America's demographics change.

Kudos to Patagonia

Outdoor retailer Patagonia announced Wednesday that it plans to donate the $10 million it is saving from President Trump’s corporate tax cuts this year to environmental groups.

“Based on last year’s irresponsible tax cut, Patagonia will owe less in taxes this year — $10 million less, in fact,” CEO Rose Marcario wrote in a LinkedIn post Wednesday afternoon. “Instead of putting the money back into our business, we’re responding by putting $10 million back into the planet. Our home planet needs it more than we do.”

"Taxes protect the most vulnerable in our society, our public lands and other life-giving resources,” she continued. "In spite of this, the Trump administration initiated a corporate tax cut, threatening these services at the expense of our planet.”

Marcario added that the donation will be made on top of the company’s ongoing “1% for the Planet” campaign, which gives 1 percent of the company’s sales to the environment's preservation and restoration.

“It will go a long way toward funding grassroots groups; including those dedicated to regenerative organic agriculture, which may be our greatest hope for reversing the damage done to our overheated planet,” she said.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.