{"id":3674,"date":"2009-01-02T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2009-01-07T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T17:53:40","slug":"snowboard-manufacturing-turning-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Manufacturing Turning Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/02ski-500.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/02ski-500.jpg','popup','width=542,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/02ski-500-tm.jpg\" height=\"184\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"02Ski 500\" \/><\/a><strong>Jesse Huffman<\/strong> writes up another great snowboarding story for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/02\/travel\/escapes\/02ski.html?8dpc\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. This one, on who snowboard companies are jumping on the &#8220;green manufacturing&#8221; movement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More snowboard makers than ever, from grass-roots innovators like Mervin in Sequim, Wash., to multinational companies like Burton, are offering green or eco-friendly boards this ski season. And the trend is just beginning. Boards made with sustainable materials account for just 2 percent of the $140 million board market, according to Snowsports Industries America, a trade group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those quoted include: <strong>Burton&#8217;s Todd King<\/strong>, <strong>Salomon&#8217;s Alex Warburton<\/strong>, <strong>Arbor&#8217;s Bob Carlson<\/strong>, <strong>K2&#8217;s Doug Sanders<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Basich<\/strong> and <strong>Mervin&#8217;s Pete Saari<\/strong> (pictured right). Cleaner is better and if it help sells, great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/02\/travel\/escapes\/02ski.html?8dpc\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Huffman writes up another great snowboarding story for The New York Times. This one, on who snowboard companies are jumping on the &#8220;green manufacturing&#8221; movement. More snowboard makers than ever, from grass-roots innovators like Mervin in Sequim, Wash., to multinational companies like Burton, are offering green or eco-friendly boards this ski season. And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}