Category: ECOBOARD • NEWS
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What’s an ECOBOARD? By Stab Mag
Like straws or single-use plastics, the current materials used in surfboard construction will have to go the way of the dodo. Which is why for Stab’s most recent Stab in the Dark, Mick Fanning rode 11 boards that met Sustainable Surf’s ECOBOARD standards. […]
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Outside TV: Jordy and Lakey ride ECOBOARDS
When your career depends on both a healthy ocean and having the highest performing surfboard under your feet, it’s important that sustainability plays a part in choosing the right boards. And while we could rap about this all day (and night), above and below the water… why not hear it right here, direct from Jordy Smith, Lakey Peterson […]
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NSP wins at Paddle Expo
We’re so excited to see brands like NSP – Surf and Stand Up Paddle Boards continuously pushing the needle on #sustainable production. We introduced the team at NSP to our friends at Harmless Harvest and love that these two great brands have come together to create transparency in the supply chain and turn a waste product like #coconut husk into a high-performance material. […]
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Starboard Goes for Gold
Starboard – a SUP and windsurf brand with 25 years of innovative board building and design – reaches Sustainable Surf’s Gold Level status for their Carbon Balsa technology board range. It’s no small task – requiring multiple audits of source materials, building facilities and processes, and for a brand as large as Starboard, commitment to helping […]
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Rob Machado: Shapes and Surfs ECOBOARDS
NEWS FLASH! ECOBOARDS are surfing the airwaves in SoCal, as KTLA 5 News follows our ambassador Rob Machado to explore what’s on his mind, and what’s under his feet…
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Mark Price talks sustainability at Firewire
Loyola Marymount University asked Mark Price to speak with an audience of students in a Los Angeles auditorium about sustainability in the surfboard industry, and a lot more – such as the future of fin design, the production steps to building a Firewire surfboard and what may be next for the WSL.