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Yvon Chouinard
Environmentalist and CEO
Date of Birth:
November 9, 1938
Place of Birth:
Lewiston, Maine
Since 1985, Yvon Chouinard's Patagonia has donated 1 percent of its annual sales to grass-roots environmental groups, and it has gotten more than 1,200 companies to follow its lead as part of its "1% for the Planet" group.
