Buy Green (if you have to buy new): Major lines like Burton are launching their own eco boards made from sustainable materials.
His big break came unexpectedly, four and a half years ago, when Kate Tierney, vice president for sales at a big natural foods distributor, agreed to serve on Alter Eco's board.
Indeed I can, and after spending one day fending off jokes about my planks I spend the next five trying to hang on to a K2 Eco Pop board.
The Burton Eco Nico Board is made from a mix of recycled and new (but less toxic) materials.
More snowboard makers than ever, from grass-roots innovators like Mervin in Sequim, Wash., to multinational companies like Burton, are offering green or eco-friendly boards this ski season.
This rechargeable, eco-friendly hover board features twin 250 Watt motors, large rubber tires and a built in gyroscope to keep you upright.
But since Kurien was coming in from the Eco Energy business, the board chose to put him in charge of operations from January itself.
Boards like the Eco Nico, Answer and Zero fall into the high-end category, and are priced between $500 and $700.
A Scholastic message board where children share eco-friendly tips, called Save the Planet, has had three million page views in the past year.
She has served on the board of Australia's national eco label, Good Environmental Choice Australia, and won the Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year Award for entrepreneurship.
Zuniga was a founding board member of Earth Communications Office (ECO), an organization that harnessed the power of the environmental movement and the entertainment community.
