We’ve got some fantastic news for international CLIF Bars fans. CLIF Bar is now available in Japan!

The 68g bar is now available in six delicious flavors: Chocolate Chip, Crunchy Peanut Butter, Oatmeal Raisin Walnut, Blueberry Crisp, Chocolate Almond Fudge and White Chocolate Macadamia Nut.

Alongside CLIF Bar, we’re also bringing CLIF SHOT BLOKS to Japan in four flavors: Orange (contains caffeine), Strawberry, Mountain Berry and Tropical Punch (contains caffeine), along with CLIF SHOT Energy Gel in Chocolate, Citrus (contains caffeine), Double Expresso (contains caffeine), and Razz.

Plus, we’ve just launched the Japanese CLIF Bar website to support our new Japanese audience.

Right now, you can find CLIF Bar products in Japan at the following retailers:

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Watch the Freeskiing World Tour Live right here!

After four days of snowy British Columbia, Canada weather, the SWATCH Freeride World Tour by The North Face 2013 (FWT) officially announces its day of competition on Mackenzie Peak’s “Mac Daddy” face Friday, January 11, 2013.

CLIF has proudly partnered with the event again in 2013, and the exciting first stop of the global big mountain freeriding comp can be witnessed from anywhere in the world via the live webcast below and is also available at freerideworldtour.com.

Friday’s day of competition will start at 9:00am PST (6pm CET) and will begin with the men’s snowboarding, and then men’s freeskiing runs. The competition day will continue with women’s snowboarding and finally the women’s freeskiing.

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The MetroPCS Dallas Marathon is debuting a new name and a new course this year. Yet one thing will remain unchanged:  you don’t mess with Texas!  The new course incorporates more hills than the most recent two courses have, which means that smart, strategic running will be the name of the game this coming Sunday.  Your Clif Bar Pace Team leaders are ready to guide you on race day, but until then, here’s a chance to study up – and get psyched up!

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The Team CLIF Bar athlete sponsorship program has been in existence nearly as long as the company itself and remains an essential component in supporting the development of our core sports, testing our products, and spreading the word about all things Clif! As important as this program is to us, it’s also a very large (over 1500 total athletes) and amazingly diverse group of people with demanding schedules, and we had never had more than a couple athletes in our office at the same time.

So, in an effort to build a better athlete community (and honestly, just to see what would happen!), we invited 42 TCB athletes to our home base here in the Bay Area for two whirlwind days of fun and engaging activities. As this was a test run of sorts, we did our best to include athletes from each of our eight core disciplines ranging from grassroots amateur competitors to some of the best professionals in the world. This is how the inaugural Team CLIF Bar Athlete Summit all went down.

After a casual San Francisco dinner at Pizza Orgasmica on Wednesday night, the athletes who chose not to go bar-hopping ‘til the wee hours made their way to their comfortable digs at Hotel Del Sol in the City’s Marina District. If an urban 1950’s boutique motor lodge made up in the finest of Palm Springs flair sounds cool, then Hotel Del Sol is your place! Just don’t jump in the pool from the 2nd story room balcony – they don’t appreciate it.

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By Elysa Hammond, Director of Environmental Stewardship, Clif Bar & Company

We take climate change seriously at Clif Bar & Company. As one part of our climate strategy, we partner with NativeEnergy to help build new sources of renewable energy. Since 2003 we’ve invested in more than 30 renewable energy projects, including the first Native American-owned wind turbines in South Dakota and a large-scale wind farm in Greensburg, Kansas, a town that rebuilt green after being destroyed by a massive tornado. We’re especially excited about our recent support of school-based wind turbines in Indiana. 

This year I visited the Hoosier state’s first school-owned wind turbine—one that our carbon offset investments helped build. I was thrilled to see firsthand the benefit renewable energy projects can have not only on a local school economy but also in making hands-on science education more tangible and relevant.

I visited Union City High School not only to see the wind turbine but to meet John Zakelj, the visionary science teacher who inspired the project.  A few years earlier John built a small-scale solar array and wind turbine at the high school as way of bringing science and math to life for his students. The positive energy from that work moved beyond John’s classroom, generating interest in wind by the Randolph Eastern School Corporation and town of Union City. 

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