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Grasping at Straw
Alternative fabrics hit the action-sports market |
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15 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Grasping at Straw Alternative fabrics hit the action-sports market Surf's up, dude -- and so is action-sports apparel makers' interest in alternative fabrics. (OK, that was a stretch.) Clothes made from organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, and even recycled plastic bottles are hitting the action-sports apparel market. Sustainability will "definitely be the next big wave," says the oh-so-punny Don Brown of Sole Tec ... |
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| Topics: green living, news, outdoor recreation (all these topics) |
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Last Action-Sports Hero
Frank Scura's green ideas are sick |
Gregory Dicum |
17 Aug 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Xtremely green demo at a Whole Foods in San Mateo, Calif. Photo: Courtesy ASEC With the recent profusion of green takes on everything from diapers to caskets, Frank Scura's proposition might sound like more of the same: "We're about greening the planet, one skateboard at a time." But Scura, founder of the Bay Area-based Action Sports Environmental Coalition, isn't your average environmentalist. A ... |
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| Topics: green living, outdoor recreation (all these topics) |
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Hike Messenger
Population activist David Nova took his message to the trail |
Sarah van Schagen |
14 Dec 2005 |
Main Dish |
| David Nova. While camping alone in the Mojave Desert three years ago, David Nova was suddenly struck by the lack of human influence -- no buildings, no streetlights, no cars, all the way to the horizon. It wasn't the first time the avid hiker had thought about the effects of population on the environment, but it was the moment he decided he could do something about it. A longtime socia ... |
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| Topics: green living, outdoor recreation, population, West Coast (all these topics) |
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Lost at Sea
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07 Dec 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Lost at Sea In the midst of an expedition to document the impact of global warming and pollution on the Amazon Basin, America's Cup champion Sir Peter Blake was shot and killed yesterday, when pirates boarded his research boat at the mouth of the Amazon River. Blake, a 53-year-old native of Auckland, New Zealand, won the yacht race in 1995 and 2000, but h ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Amazon River, climate, green living, New Zealand, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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