Thursday, June 25, 2015

Surfing industry takes sustainability for a ride

 Surfing is a sport often described as spiritual -- about as close as you can get to being in sync with Mother Nature -- and now the industry is taking sustainability for a ride, CBS News' Carter Evans reports.

 "When I'm in the ocean, I feel alive. That's something that resonates so deep within my soul that it literally lights me up," surfer Greg Long said.

 It may come as a surprise that the tools of the trade are actually toxic to the environment. Wetsuits and surfboards have been made with harmful petroleum-based products for more than 50 years.

Long is one of the best big wave surfers in the world, paddling into swells six stories high. In 2014, he won Billabong's Ride of the Year.

Now, he's trying out the world's first surfboard made from algae.... [Read More]

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