We're super excited to announce that LUNA is now officially on Facebook! Just like the Clif Bar Facebook page, the LUNA page is your go-to resource for all things LUNA, including LUNA Bars, LUNA Minis and LUNA Protein as well as LUNAFEST, Team LUNA Chix and much more. Show your LUNA love by becoming a fan (it's as simple as clicking the "Like" button) and join the community. While you're there, drop a comment and get involved! You'll be rewarded with lots of future LUNA news and updates. And if you want to get technical, here's the official URL: http://www.facebook.com/luna…

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It takes all the right ingredients to be a successful professional triathlete. You surely know Chris McCormack. Macca has the ideal mix -- a great ambassador for the sport, a terrific accent and one of the world's best triathletes. But even Chris experiences pre-race jitters and gets a tad nervous in the hours before a race. Take a special behind-the-scenes look at how TEAM CLIF BAR athlete Chris channels his energy so that he's ready to rock when the starting gun goes off.

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The CLIFCast Podcast is back! Episode 6 is now live on iTunes and available to stream below. And this time it's all about Protein. Protein is the building blocks of muscle. Without it, you can’t get all the amazing benefits from your workout because protein helps tissues recover and rebuild. But what exactly is protein? What are the different foods we can eat to get it into our body, and is it something we crave? Here we will learn the differences between plant-based proteins and animal-based proteins, when to eat, what protein snacks to have, and we may even shatter…

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San Francisco bike peoples -- the CLIF BAR 2 Mile Challenge team wants to treat you to a free day at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. And all you have to do it hop on your bike! On Sunday, August 22, Clif Bar’s hosting what we’re calling a “Fun Ride to the Academy.” If you’re San Francisco Bay area-based, you probably know of the pure awesomeness that is the new California Academy of Sciences. So here’s the deal. We’ll give away free tickets (that's up to $24.95 per ticket!) to the first 100 people…

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This amazing video came to us via TEAM CLIF BAR athlete Hans Rey. It's a ridiculous adventure through the Scottish Highlands with a few of the world's best mountain-bike madmen, specifically Danny MacAskill and Steve Peat. Here's a little setup from Hans himself: Peaty and I have been planning a trip to the Scottish Isle of Skye for a long time, when things finally started falling into place we invited YouTube sensation Danny MacAskill to join us. In whirlwind fashion, the Scottish native has been living the dream of every kid in the world, since his film clip debut on…

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UPDATE: Entries are officially closed! Thanks to everyone for the amazing response. We'll announce the winner this Monday, August 2. UPDATE 2: The moment has come! Congratulations to nrogers -- our grand-prize winner -- for going above and beyond, creating a entire mock blog, post entries and more. Truly an awesome effort that deserves to be recognized. And the runners up: Swisscheez, TisShannon, and Capecodbeer -- You'll each get something for you great submissions. Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by and dropped their creative comment. This was an EXTREMELY difficult decision, as there were so many awesome entries.…

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Clif Bar & Company is often graced with special guests, and this week we were lucky enough to be visited by Colin Beavan. For an entire year, Colin and his family lived as environmentally as possible, meaning no electricity, no fossil fuel based transportation, no...well, you get the picture. Definitely an extremely daunting task considering that Colin and his family live in the heart of craziness: Manhattan. Colin documented his journey in a book and movie of the same name, "No Impact Man." It's an incredibly interesting and eye-opening project that is parallel to many things that Clif Bar is…

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The CLIFCast Podcast is back with Episode 5: Energy, now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. Ricardo returns to help you learn about exactly what energy is (is it the same as calories?), how it feels in your body and what the best foods are for it. Our in-house Clif Bar runners share nuggets of their experience while our nutritionist, Tara, grounds us with a heap of well-researched facts about the benefits of fat, the best vegetables to eat for energy and why caffeine can increase your performance. Do the benefits of caffeine go beyond an increased sense…

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As promised, here's Part 3 in out series of special behind-the-scenes videos with the Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team. To see the first two parts, head over to the Clif Bar & Company YouTube channel. In this video, cycling is a real game of chess. And there are enough crashes to make you think twice before flying down a rainy curve. Enjoy!

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On Tuesday, you saw Part 1 in a special series of behind-the-scenes videos with the Garmin-Transitions team on the Clif Bar & Company YouTube channel. In Part 2, The Journey, see how the once small, local Colorado team has become one of the best cycling teams in the world. As the CLIF BAR was born in small kitchen, Team Garmin was born in someone's garage. Get the full story in this awesome video and stay tuned for Part 3, coming up!

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Since 2001, the people here at Clif Bar & Company have been collectively donating at least 2,080 hours each year (and usually, much more) to our favorite causes, in what we call Project 2080. Why 2,080? That’s how many hours one full-time employee works in a year. A couple times a year, we pool everyone together and shut Clif HQ down for an entire day of service to a single organization. Last month that organization was the Alameda Point Collaborative, that's working to end homelessness by providing housing and services to create communities where formerly homeless families and individuals can…

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What better time than summer to head out on the road with the Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team? Being one of the hardest endurance sports in the world, nutrition is incredibly important to cycling – burgers and fries just don’t cut it! So Garmin has nutrition down to a science, which includes a traveling chef that prepares healthy, organic meals, and CLIF SHOT BLOKS and SHOT Energy Gel. Want to see what it’s like to go Garmin? Check out a special series of behind-the-scenes videos with the Garmin-Transitions team on the Clif Bar & Company YouTube channel. Or you can check…

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UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who participated, and for sharing so many wonderful thoughts about Clif Bar! The response was amazing. The two winners have been emailed, so please check your inbox and respond within 24 hours. We'll update back here when the bags are officially claimed. We'll be doing lots of fun giveaways and much more on the Clif Blog, so make sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook to keep up! Our friends over at Rickshaw Bagworks (find Rickshaw Bags on Twitter and Facebook) were nice enough to create a few custom messenger bags designed with Clif Bar…

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A couple weeks back, the Clif Bar & Company creative team gave us -- the people here at Clif HQ -- a peek at the brand new booth that you'll start seeing at all Clif events. So why not share? I grabbed Lisa and a camera, and she gave a little behind-the-scenes look at the design of the booth, and a sneak peek of the cool sustainable elements that you might not normally see -- especially when it's bursting with people at during packed events. And what's a Clif booth without a little thumb wrestling and bicep curling? Hopefully you'll…

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For the next two months, LUNA heads out on tour with Lilith Fair. In a flurry of over 30 cities in the US and Canada, Lilith features a huge group of top female artists including Sarah McLachlan, Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Kelly Clarkson, Cat Power, Erykah Badu and many more. And our very own Shannon is hitting every single stop on the tour. Hi, I'm Shannon Mujica and I have a feeling that for the next few months I'll be known as the "LUNA Girl". Why, you ask? For the next eight weeks I will be on tour representing…

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If you've been following us on Twitter, Facebook or right here on the Clif Blog, then you've surely seen some of our fun, wacky adventures of office life. Well, chalk this one up on the big board: The 1st Annual Clif Bar Iron Cupcake* Throwdown! Eat your heart out, Bobby Flay. We've had more than a dozen Clif Bar & Company participants and a panel of Clif volunteer judges. After after the judging, we put the remainder of cupcakes up for donation to the rest of the company with all proceeds going toward the AIDS Walk San Francisco. Looks like…

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Episode 4 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this episode, Race Day, Ricardo talks all about what to do on the day of a race. He explores what foods and drinks might be best for your half or full marathon, or other long distance race. What should you eat the night before a race, the morning of, or mere minutes before the starting gun goes off? Learn about eating and drinking on and off course, on and around your big day.

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The official Clif Bar & Company band has a gig on June 18, and we want YOU to be there! That’s right, Clif Bar’s very own Dung Beetles will be jamming your faces off at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California. This is a benefit concert supporting the Northern California Special Olympics. It’s a sliding scale entry fee ($5-$20), so bring what you can. All proceeds will go to this mighty fine organization. The Dung Beetles have been honored to play at such Bay Area venues as the Presidio Yacht Club (yep, Christmas 2008), 111 Minna and Ireland’s 32 (quite…

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Spring has sprung and our CLIF family is growing! We’re incredibly excited to introduce you to the newest member, CLIF Crunch. CLIF Crunch is an all-natural and organic crunchy granola bar that contains a special blend of organic whole grains. It comes in four flavors — Chocolate Chip, Honey Oat, White Chocolate Macadamia Nut and Peanut Butter. The athletes and foodies in the CLIF Kitchen developed the first line of crunchy granola bars to feature whole, baked-in chips made of chocolate, white chocolate and peanut butter for added bursts of flavor throughout the bars. You may have already started to…

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The people here at Clif Bar & Company are loaded with incredible travels -- seriously. And with an eight-week sabbatical awarded every seven years with the company, why wouldn't we be? So after listening to countless tales of amazing worldly adventures, I figured it's time to share. Here are 12 inspiring trips that will leave you yearning for a life-changing vacay of your own! 1. From Cape Town to Cairo Clif Traveler: Claire My sister and I had planned to spend the last week of our African adventure (which began in Cape Town, then routed through Kenya and Mauritius) in…

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Episode 3 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this episode, your main man Ricardo talks all about hydration. Whether running a 5-mile loop or a 100-mile Ultra – dehydration happens. But if you know what to drink and when, you can diminish the chances of depleting your body of its greatest and most important resource: water. In this episode, we explore the effects of water and electrolytes in our body, the dangers of sodium loss, and the best way to replenish all of them.

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We make LOTS of stuff. So if you ever find yourself on the hunt for specific Clif Bar & Company products, you'll probably want to give our handy new Store Locator a whirl. It's incredibly simple. Simply enter your zip code, and check the box(es) for the product(s) you're looking for and click "Submit." You're done! Now you have a nice list of your closest retail locations and a visual icon for the products that each store carries (We still recommend calling your local store(s) ahead of time to determine availability.) But it wasn't always this easy, and we thought…

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If you've been poking around the Clif Bar & Company website this week, you may have noticed a huge upgrade to our video player. Welcome to the world of CLIF TV, where you can explore all our video offerings by categories and interests, and view them in full screen. In addition to sprucing up video in our own neck of the woods, we made some big changes to our home where most of the world watches their video – YouTube. We now have a brand new YouTube Channel to showcase a ton of great Clif Bar video content. Kicking things…

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Episode 2 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this edition, Ricardo is back to explore the nutrition of recovery. Just because your body has stopped moving doesn’t mean you’re anywhere near done. Truth is, your body continues to work double-time on the inside in order to recover from your well-earned wear and tear. What foods and/or drinks are best for rebuilding muscle tissue? What are the best ways to recover lost fluids and electrolytes post race? And what is this “Recovery Window of Opportunity” we keep hearing about? The answers are within.

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Happy Bay area Bike to Work Day! In honor of our local holiday (OK so it's not a real vacation, but certainly a vacation from our cars, right?), we wanted to get Bay area people caught up with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, an important organization that is leading the charge for bikers in San Francisco. We have a program here at Clif Bar & Company called Project 2080 where we collectively donate at least 2,080 hours to our favorite causes throughout the year. Tina Reid works on the LUNA Experience Marketing Team at Clif Bar, supporting LUNAFEST (our traveling…

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If you've been following the Clif Bar Blog, well, you saw yesterday's launch of the 2010 CLIF BAR 2 Mile Challenge (a huge thanks to Ryan and everyone involved here at Clif for making it happen). If you've yet to check it out, head on over to the 2MC website and get started! Along with yesterday's announcement debuted Join the Ride -- an awesome stop-motion video shot entirely on bike cameras -- hosted on the brand new Clif Bar & Company YouTube channel. Officially, it lives at www.youtube.com/clifbarcompany. You'll notice the new branded channel with handy resources and links to…

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It’s that time of year again when we celebrate the end of the ski and snowboard season by heading off to somewhere sunny and warm for the Clif Bar Golden Eagle Awards. Each spring we present the ski resort industry’s environmental achievement awards during the National Ski Area Association’s annual conference, held this year in Orlando, Florida. We presented seven total awards including the grand-daddy prize for overall environmental excellence, which went to Whistler Blackcomb (Whistler, British Columbia). Among other things, they helped develop a renewable energy project at the resort that will generate enough energy—33 gigawatt hours of hydro-electricity—to…

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Welcome to CLIFCast, the Podcast from Clif Bar offering information and insights on Sports Nutrition for Runners. Get the lowdown on proper nutrition, hydration, and other tips and tricks dedicated to getting the most out of your training and race day efforts. On this edition of CLIFcast, Ricardo talks about learning the basics of nutrition. See, the thing is, we love to run and be active, but many of us don't really know how to eat and drink well in the process. We’ll be exploring what we should eat, when and how. Do we drink right before a run or…

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Let's face it -- we're all busy. We here at Clif Bar & Company understand that everyone doesn't always have the time to flip through the newest book on the food system and sustainability. But thankfully, there are some amazing films out there that do the job wonderfully, summing these interesting topics up in a visual package. To celebrate the end of earth month, here are some great, informative films out there that are a wealth of information. The Real Food Challenge - Check out this wonderful video from a student-run grassroots organization that is changing campus food service across…

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These days, hosting a entirely green event is easier than you think. But even if it's not within your means to go entirely green, every little bit helps. Here are 12 handy tips (and plenty of resources) to put green well within your reach. Embrace Zero Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Compost 1. Recycle. Provide marked recycling containers throughout your venue. Compost too! Earth911 provides a handy search tool for locating recycling centers in your area, as well as providing other up-to-date recycling/composting news. 2. Use recycled paper. And go paperless whenever possible. San Francisco-based Conservatree offers small- and large-scale paper…

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Yes, Earth Day 2010 has come and gone, but we're continuing the Earth Day spirit -- in pug form! And so we came across this hilarious video from The Daily Puglet. Here's the gist -- if a pug can recycle, so can you. And not only that, this pug sorts paper and plastic, rides the bus, conserves water and more. This is definitely a must-see heading into your post-Earth Day weekend. Hope you enjoy it!

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Today marks the 40th annual Earth Day -- that's right, the FORTIETH! So in honor of Mother Nature, we here at Clif Bar & Company have been getting in the Earth Day spirit by challenging ourselves to donate 400 hours of service to environmental organizations during the entire month of April. So that means we're asking every single person here to donate at least two hours of earthy service this month in what we call the 2080 Earth Month Challenge. And to make it a little competitive, individual departments at Clif Bar that organize an event and log the most…

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