Gravity Skateboards Designs a Green Ride
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 05.11.07
Last year, TreeHugger TV featured Comet Skateboards, a sustainable skateboard company that uses bamboo as the main material in their products. When we were recently thumbing through Men’s Journal we came across their “MJ List” which featured another skateboard company called Gravity. Their new “Gravity V-Lam” skateboard is the company’s “greenest model ever” and made in California from recycled scrap birch. We couldn’t find much about the company on their website, but we do know that the V-Lam is available in the 27-inch Mini (their smallest board) as well as the 42-inch Spoon Nose. Via ::Men's Journal ::Gravity Skateboards
bamboo becomes big in skateboarding
there are decks for streetskaters by habitat
http://habitatskateboards.com/products/?p=decks&cat=157
a full line of longboard skateboards by loaded:
http://www.loadedboards.com/newsite_v1/vanguard.html
a bamboo line by sector 9:
http://www.sector9.com/2006/
another bamboo deck by lush:
http://www.lushlongboards.com/06-content.php?cat=boards&subcat=DK_LONGBOARDS&page=DK_BAHARI
more longboard skateboards with bamboo plies and sustainable harvested wood by arbor:
http://www.arborsports.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=AOS&Category_Code=SKATE
canaboard makes street and longboard decks from hemp sheets
http://www.cannaboard.net/about/
and its not only decks. many of the above and a lot of other well known skateboard companies (like element, alien workshop, habitat, planet earth, volcom, satori movement, ipath, etnies) offer organic cotton, hemp and/or bamboo t-shirts, hoodies, jeans, pants and the like.
seems like the highly commercialized skateboard industry reminds the progressive roots of skateboard subculture to some extend.