Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Friday, 19 March 2010

Natural Progression

Wood and EPS have been gaining popularity over the last few years. When combined correctly they can result in eco friendly, durable, flexible and lightweight performance-orientated boards, such has Dan Hess Surfboards. Here in Cornwall Mark Roberts has been beavering away creating his technique for this type of equipment and his boards tick all the right boxes - you can read more @ http://www.driftsurfing.eu/surf_article.asp?ID=1862.

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Thursday, 29 October 2009

A Greener Wave


Surfboards and the environment have been a hot topic in surfing for a year or two now. With the demise of Clark Foam and the continued publicity of global warming there has been a big push on alternative materials to the petro chemical based polyurethane. With this in mind I did a bit of my own research on the subject and interviewed the enviromentally conscious managing director of Homeblown, Tris Cokes. We talked at lenght about eco boards and Homeblowns unique MDI foam. To find out more check out the article on Drfit @ http://www.driftsurfing.eu/surfing_article.asp?ID=1838