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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