Snowboarders Do It Greenly

My favorite snowboard-culture magazine, Snowboarder, is now even better; they are proudly (they tout it on the November, 2006 cover) printing on recycled paper! Not only that, but there is a decidedly environmentally-minded slant to quite a bit of their coverage in various departments; in the photo section they encourage folks to go digital, and the cover story is all about the “Green Not Gas Tour”. In true rider style, the article opens with:

Last winter, thirty snowboarders found out what it takes to tour the United States of America for FREE in an RV fueled by recycled waste vegetable oil. We took filthy emissions, fuel payments, petroleum consumption, and comfortable conventional life archetypes and shoved them up the crooked asses of all those who dare to stifle growth and hope for future generations.

Yeah! The tour hit lots of hardcore snowboarding locales, and makes the connection between petroleum consumption, global warming, and every snowboarder’s worst nightmare: less snow. There’s a video you can buy (that covers both riding down mountains and the details of all the trip’s eco-friendliness) at the Grease Not Gas website.

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Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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3 Comments on “Snowboarders Do It Greenly”

Socialpyramid

Awesome!! It’s about time the snowboarding community get organized around global warming. According to a Colorado College State of the Rockies Report Card released in April, by mid-century, springtime snowpack in the Rockies is likely to decrease by 37 percent and by as much as 80 percent in certain resort areas like Taos, New Mexico and Salt Lake City. That’s way scary!

10/16/06 » 9:32 pm »
the drop » Blog Archive » Wheels on Meals

[...] Wheels on Meals 18,000 miles at the cost of 4 cents per mile‘Grease Not Gas’ is a group of people dedicated to social change through alternative fuels. It was originally founded to create a diesel-to-oil information DVD, their project has grown, through collaborations with Snowboarder Magazine and MTV, into a documentary movie detailing the ins and outs of the renewable energy. The movie shows the nationwide tour of the band Piebald and their snowboarder friends, who’re traveling across the US powered by SVO (straight veggie oil) and WVO (waste veggie oil). The article in Snowboarder Magazine (which is printed on recycled paper) opens with: “Last winter, thirty snowboarders found out what it takes to tour the United States of America for FREE in an RV fueled by recycled waste vegetable oil. We took filthy emissions, fuel payments, petroleum consumption, and comfortable conventional life archetypes and shoved them up the crooked asses of all those who dare to stifle growth and hope for future generations.” The project features video podcasts of their adventures, and will soon have web forums, so they and their website visitors can chat about what they’re up to. The tour hit lots of hardcore snowboarding locales, and makes the connection between petroleum consumption, global warming, and every snowboarder’s worst nightmare: less snow. There’s a video you can buy (that covers both riding down mountains and the details of all the trip’s eco-friendliness) at the Grease Not Gas website. [...]

10/17/06 » 3:18 am »
Daniel

Check out this 2001 VW Beetle TDI! We’re converting it to run on Waste Vegetable Oil(WVO).

2001 VW Beetle TDI WVO Conversion

08/08/07 » 7:54 am »