{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Green alternative to fibreglass surfboards' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54be3fd8eafeecae13a36e' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54be3fd8eafeecae13a36e' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nGreen alternative to fibreglass surfboards\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eCornwall, UK - September 20051. Various of surfers riding waves at Watergate Bay2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard \"The main impact...\"3. Various of Pat and surfing buddy walking down beach with ecoboards4. Wave...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eCornwall, UK - September 2005\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of surfers riding waves at Watergate Bay\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard \"The main impact...\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of Pat and surfing buddy walking down beach with ecoboards\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wave washing over ecoboard\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard \"It's got wood...\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various exteriors of Eden Project biomes at St Austell\u003cbr/\u003e8. Balsa trees inside biome\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard \"Well the main part...\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various, hemp plants growing at Eden Project\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Smit, Chief Executive, Eden Project \"A surfboard is about...\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various, surfboard exhibition at Eden Project featuring ecoboard\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard \"We can't see a reason...\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Pat Hudson and friend running into sea with ecoboards at Watergate Bay\u003cbr/\u003e15. Surfer catching wave on Ecoboard\u003cbr/\u003eSurfing is about as close to nature as you can get and surfers are passionate about looking after their coastal environment.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the boards they use are made from fibreglass and petrochemicals which are far from environmental friendly.\u003cbr/\u003eNow a couple of surfers in the UK have come up with a green alternative.\u003cbr/\u003eSurfers have a unique link with nature and many are fervent environmentalists.\u003cbr/\u003eBut in actual fact, most of them are riding some of the most toxic pieces of sports equipment on the planet. \u003cbr/\u003eNearly a million surfboards a year are produced worldwide - almost all of them fibreglass and petro-chemical based.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"The main impact that you've got from making boards from fibreglass is that, what you'll have is, you'll have to think of a way at the end of it's life how you're going to dispose of it. Most surfers will hopefully keep a board for a couple of years, if you're a top pro you could be getting through one every two weeks. If you think, one every two weeks, you're going to be disposing of this. If you throw it into the rubbish tip of into landfill it's still going to be there in hundreds of years.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard\u003cbr/\u003eSo a small pod of surfers in Cornwall, England have decided to make a change.\u003cbr/\u003eThey've made a board entirely out of natural materials that lets them enjoy their sport without impacting on the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's got wood, it's got hemp and it's got a plant-based resin, so at the end of it's life, rather than a traditional surfboard which you're then going to have to think of a way to dispose of, you can just chop this all up and use it as garden mulch or just stick in in your composter.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard\u003cbr/\u003ePat Hudson is the Waste Neutral Coordinator at Cornwall's Eden Project -- the world's biggest greenhouse.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was here that the eco-board was born.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen a balsa tree had to be felled in the Humid Tropics Biome, Pat suggested it be made into a surfboard.\u003cbr/\u003eAll the other elements are grown here too.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well the main part of the board is balsa, similar to what we've got growing behind us here. And then that's then put into planks, four inch planks, six or seven of those. Then it will be shaped into a blank and then put down into a fine shape to suit the individual surfer. After that we lay a hemp cloth over it, and then the final touch is to put a plant resin over there to seal it so it's useable in the water.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard\u003cbr/\u003eThe hemp used in the eco board is grown in the outside areas of the Eden Project. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is in fact a cannabis plant , albeit a variety without any intoxicating qualities.\u003cbr/\u003eThe project has the wholehearted support of Eden Project founder and Chief Executive Tim Smit.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"A surfboard is about as environmentally unfriendly as you can get it in the way it's put together normally. Our eco-surfboard is a beautiful piece of, if you like, natural engineering. I understand it's not as fast as a competition board so it needs to have a bit of work done on it to get it a bit sharper in the water. But ultimately I think its more symbolic than anything else, because most people who are surfers are actually into the environment, and I think most of them feel a residual guilt that the machine which gives them their buzz is so environmentally unfriendly.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Tim Smit, Chief Executive, Eden Project\u003cbr/\u003eThe Eden Project has put the eco-board at the centre of an an exhibition illustrating an about-turn in surfboard technology.\u003cbr/\u003eIt aims to show how modern boards are increasingly aping the materials of their forebears.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Pat Hudson, Co-creator of Ecoboard\u003cbr/\u003e\"We can't see a reason why everybody can't be making boards that are totally sustainable, and that can reach throughout the world. 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