{"id":11250,"date":"2014-05-25T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11250"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:36","slug":"the-worlds-most-sustainable-skateboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/the-worlds-most-sustainable-skateboard","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Sustainable Skateboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tosten Burks \u2014 <strong>GOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"\" alt=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/S1c0X35TLGZSOZPcdEJoz3xJVYm9X_D-5lbvYdceiIbRVrDqUcdxBPq6hOR88gbbU7zzx-sm8yfo1Y6tnz3M2xqRo5Y=s0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen the pictures \u2014 dolphins, fish, and turtles lie trapped, writhing and dying in abandoned fishing nets, permanently wrecking the fragile balance of our ocean ecosystems. These \u201cghost nets,\u201d as they\u2019re called, are a particular problem on the vast coastline of Chile, where landfills are privatized, and where fishermen have to dispose of old nets on their own. Even if the infrastructure was in place to do so effectively, many can\u2019t afford to cover the price.<\/p>\n<p>But three American mechanical engineers are rolling in with a solution: they\u2019ve spent the last year and a half designing a skateboard that offers an ingenious and affordable way for fishermen to recycle plastic waste. After raising more than twice the project\u2019s original funding goal of $25,000, \u201cThe Minnow\u201d is set to start its first full production run later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.good.is\/articles\/the-world-s-most-sustainable-skateboard\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tosten Burks \u2014 GOOD You\u2019ve seen the pictures \u2014 dolphins, fish, and turtles lie trapped, writhing and dying in abandoned fishing nets, permanently wrecking the fragile balance of our ocean ecosystems. These \u201cghost nets,\u201d as they\u2019re called, are a particular problem on the vast coastline of Chile, where landfills are privatized, and where fishermen have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47078,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions\/47078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}