Alex Haraus

Alex Haraus Outdoor Creator + Storyteller For Good
Helping people get outside and make a positive impact for the world we call home.

Outdoor Storyteller + Adventurer
Just trying to bring people together for the outdoors :)
Write Your Letter To Save Old Growth:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tGkhuEYsf7kFI5e-BTCf3ILeda8gn_JbUlxVIOiLiJk/edit?tab=t.0

05/02/2026

If you’re in Colorado and feeling spontaneous… 👀
So psyched to do this with y’all. See you this weekend in Estes Park at , event details at the link in my bio!

The most wholesome outdoor meetup of the year 🥹It’s no secret that our environment needs help, so we want to build commu...
04/22/2026

The most wholesome outdoor meetup of the year 🥹

It’s no secret that our environment needs help, so we want to build community in our state to do good for it and build resilience! Y’all have been turning out to trail cleanups and other community events, so it’s time for a whole weekend of fun and friends!

Get the lowdown by swiping through the slides. If you want to make a weekend of it and maximize your prize potential, snag a free spot for the scavenger hunt we’re putting on the day before. We’ll have time to socialize after and is providing a discount code for bookings you can use to get 20% off staying the night with us.

Then it’s the main event: Come Together Colorado, on May 3rd. A whole day of fun, games, inspiring workshops and time outside in good company to celebrate and prepare for another year of doing good together.

See full event details and snag your ticket for 20 bucks at the link in ’s bio (as well as the bio of every collaborator). If you need a scholarship to cover your ticket, just shoot us a DM! See you in the mountains!

04/18/2026

In case you needed some good news ❤️

This May, is hosting a weekend of outdoor fun and advocacy training at : the second annual Come Together Colorado!

The main event on May 3rd is a day of coming together to make friends and watch advocacy sessions right outside Rocky Mountain National Park so you can walk away a more confident advocate for the people, lands, and waters of our state.

We’ll have games, time for a picnic (byo lunch or grab some in Estes Park), a ticketed giveaway with over $1,000 prizes and talks and sessions led by…


haraus worried.wanderer



An opening by former National Park ranger .r.auerbach and a birdwatching hike with wildland conservationist .rothman!

will also be hosting a scavenger hunt the day prior so you have more time to make friends and win prizes, and is providing discounts to those who book rooms with the code in the event page description.

All ticket proceeds will be used to put on more community events for the rest of the year around Colorado like the trail cleanups, and as always, we have scholarships available if you need the cost covered. We never want cost to prohibit someone from coming, so just DM us if you need that.

Tickets + full event details are at the links in our bios. We can’t WAIT to see you there! ☀️

04/17/2026

It breaks my heart to share this: The Senate voted 50-49 to drop the ban on mining that protects the thousands of lakes known as the Boundary Waters watershed from pollutive mining. Thank you to everyone using their voice for this quiet place, who has stood and continues to stand with the Boundary Waters ❤️‍🔥 Here’s how I’m thinking; figured I’d share. Feel free to share your emotions in the comments, and be kind to each other.

Follow to keep up with the Boundary Waters, because it’s still possible to stop the mine at the state level.

Beyond honored and grateful to keynote and speak twice for last month as part of their Admitted Students Day and anothe...
04/14/2026

Beyond honored and grateful to keynote and speak twice for last month as part of their Admitted Students Day and another event they put on for the broader University of Michigan and Ann Arbor public, teaching folks how to use social media for good.

It’s so dang inspiring to hear what students are working on and the way everyone is thinking is absolutely brilliant. UM’s community is incredible. The questions asked during & after each presentation were many of the best I’ve been asked at speaking events, and I’m so excited to see what everyone goes on to build.

The weekend affirmed lessons every in-person event has over the last year: there are friends everywhere, SO many more people are working to build a better world than screens would lead us to believe, and person-to-person connection is the best kind by far.

I started learning the “there are friends everywhere” lesson in serious depth when I lived on the road and traveled the country to give building a platform a real shot. In-person & online, so many have rallied together since starting this channel and gone on to do amazing things. In fact, the “Viral For Good” presentation is built on my belief that, truly, anyone can build a platform and deserves to have a say in the fate of their community. It’s been awesome to see creator after creator rise in their advocacy over the years.

Whether it’s your school, town, industry, state or country, push to influence it, because you can. You can! And as crazy as social media can be, it’s introduced me to many of the best people and fiercest collaborators in my life. I’m really, really grateful we’re all on the same team. We can do incredible things together with these apps. I’m so thankful this journey’s brought me in touch with you & so many other great people; creators & organizations alike!

It blew my mind to see an audience take notes on what I have to say. Whether you came to a talk or follow my work here, thanks for listening the thoughts of a guy who loves humanity & the world we call home, and, most importantly, thank you for so evidently loving the same. Onward together ❤️‍🔥 Thanks !

Moments from our second trail cleanup as the 🎆 Such a life giving day. We can’t believe that…- 65 people showed up to h...
03/02/2026

Moments from our second trail cleanup as the 🎆

Such a life giving day. We can’t believe that…

- 65 people showed up to help
- We collected over 1,070 pounds of trash: more than half a ton!
- Folks of all ages came to help, from kids to grandparents, and some people brought their whole families
- Incredible, life giving conversations were had by all
- The and both threw in people and resources to make this SO much easier logistically than it was the first time

Could never have guessed that, less than a year after and I sat down last March and said we just wanted to make something to do good in a tough time, over 265 people have come together for environmental stewardship in different towns across Colorado.

Our next cleanup is March 28th! If you’re in CO, follow to stay in the loop on what time and where exactly it will be when we lock the details. All are always welcome and we can’t wait to do more good with you.

It’s a brutal moment in history, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop gathering. In fact, it’s all the more important to join hands and do good for our communities to make them more resilient. The conversations and friendships that happen at these are always some of my favorites of every month, so no matter who you are or where you come from, pop in and meet some folks at one of our upcoming events. No doubt it’ll be fun :) Thanks to everyone who joined this time; see you at the next one!

02/24/2026

You inspire us ❤️ Over 11,000 people went to send letters to protect old growth forests on the Pacheedaht First Nation’s homelands in about a week. Incredible work - now, we wait for the government’s decision. You can call the Premier and let him know your thoughts at 250-387-1715; just know it will be an international call if you live outside Canada, so you may have to pay depending on where you live, how you call and what your phone plan looks like. Feel free to use the letter writing instructions at the link in my bio to help frame what you say when you call. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch some of our earlier videos.

Follow to stay in the loop, thank you to for the spectacular footage, , .tessier and for showing us around and an enormous thank you to everyone working to help save this special place. Onward together.

02/21/2026

Some of the biggest trees on Earth hide here on Vancouver Island, so over 4,000 people have gone to send letters to protect its old growth rainforests from being cut down.

The individual trees can be over 1,000 years old, but antique yellow cedar forests in their entirety are a special class of forest dating back to the last Ice Age that can be over 11,000 years old. They’re very rare, breathtakingly beautiful and hold the precious kind of deep, complex biodiversity only millennia can develop.

Vancouver Island is claimed by the Canadian province of British Columbia despite having land unceded by local First Nations. “Unceded” means no treaty was ever signed to hand the land over to British Columbia or Canada. The land in this video, cut and uncut, is the unceded ancestral homeland of the Pacheedaht First Nation.

Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones, a former logger turned advocate, smiled and welcomed us to see his home. I wanted to see what was happening here because I’d seen clear cuts on public land in the States and heard they were worse on Canadian public land, due to the Canadian government’s refusal to improve their version of the Endangered Species Act, the “Species At Risk Act,” which our government in the US is trying to get rid of. It felt like a good time to gather, learn and rise together as people of all 3 nations - Pacheedaht First Nation, Canada and the USA - around the story of those trying to protect the old growth forests in and around the Fairy Creek Watershed.

57% of the lumber from British Columbia is exported to the USA, often for luxury home sidings. That means the body of the massive cedar tree seen lying on the mountainside in this video has high odds of ending up as shingles in the USA, along with the rest of the trees in this video.

The British Columbian government opened a public comment period asking if they should clear cut the intact old growth forest at the start of this video. It’s open to international participation, meaning anyone on Earth can share their thoughts, and closes Feb 22, 2026. It takes less than 10 minutes and instructions on how to send yours are at the link in my bio.

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