RUN LIKE THE WORLD DEPENDS ON IT.

"We are a team of athletes and environmentalists. Obsessed with creating the highest performing running shoes with the lowest possible impact."

"At hylo, we’re impatient for change. Impatient for a gigantic industry with polluting habits and processes to turn itself around and for fast fashion to slow down.  For footwear to reduce its footprint problem and to put our planet over profit."

“There is something so essentially human about acts like running and gardening. Working with the earth and cultivating crops for food, alongside movement and migration, are both activities that have held the hand of humanity for as long as we have been looking at the stars.”

Errol May reflects on how ‘running dusty’ has led him to embrace the joy of a community based around movement.

Palmetto Running Company is an organisation that is not so much a chain of stores as a set of values: values that inspire its tight-knit community to question how they live, work and, of course, run in a more conscious, connected manner.

Nick Kovaleski, a founding member of the Low Impact Alliance and operations manager for A Runner’s Mind – a run-focussed retail outlet in the Bay Area, California – talks to us about how authenticity, honesty and passion are the driving forces behind better environmental stewardship.

One of the founding members of The Green Runners, a running community ‘making changes for a fitter planet’, David is a person whose need to run is intrinsically wrapped up with his urgent call to action to protect our imperilled natural world.

We recently visited our friends at We Run Belfast to learn more about how their run club is impacting the lives of runners all around Belfast.

“I think we engage with the outdoors in layers or dimensions where there's different ways that you can interact; being active definitely wasn't one of them for me.”

The world doesn’t need more shoes, it needs better ones.

Although competitive, Anya approaches running with an open curiosity for what her body can do and how our footprints can be a way of finding stability and belonging, no matter where we tread.

Chester Robinson does indeed love running, but he has certainly not been ‘banging on’ about it. 

We calculate and publish our carbon number in an effort to be transparent about the environmental impact of our products.

90% of all footwear products currently end up in landfill. hyloop is our platform for changing out - and helping our community extend the lifespan of their products. 

In a relatively short space of time, we touched on so much of what it means to run but also what it means to be an exquisitely vulnerable human finding their way in the world.

Thoughts on a life spent running and the power of gratitude with Run Limited Co-Founder, Molly Bryan.

“Move, as the limbs / of a runner do…In orbit go / Round an endless track.” W.H Auden 

An Interview with Mae Thompson.

We are, and always will be, certified vegan and this is why.

"I run because I can. I’ve run enough to know the benefits on my mental state and wellbeing. It's meditation for me."

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