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International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC)

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Earlier this year, we attended the 1st of its kind – the IASC industry summit at Camp Woodward West. The importance of this event was all the top brands and manufacturers in the industry to discuss key issues such as the creation of more skateparks, environmental/sustainability – going green, how to make ASR better, dealer/shop issues, government regulations, and so much more. The initial speaker the first night was Pierre, owner of Sole Technology. The highlight though was a guy from Harley Davidson who helped turn their company around years ago - his presentation was very inspiring and fostered a lot of thinking about the similarities between chartering a Harley Davidson and skating your favorite brand. The 3 day event was largely successful and we enjoyed skating, bowling, and other fun activities, and most importantly networking.

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Pierre of Sole Tech

Gary Ream – owner of Woodward and Ron

Paul Schmitt – Createaskate and Ron

Tags: asr, bamboo, green, iasc, international association of skateboard companies, sustainability, woodward west
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Earth Clock

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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Roots and Shoots Day of Peace/Jane Goodall Institute – charity event

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Yesterday, BambooSK8 attended a charity event (in celebration of Internationl Peace Day) that we were invited to be a part of in LA’s Griffith Park. It was hosted by actor Pierce Brosnan and his wife with music by Gavin Rossdale, whose beautiful pregnant wife Gwen Stefanie (No Doubt) was in attendance as well. Anyhow, the event had numerous eco/green companies with booths set up (many kid focused) so it was great to see the momentum of positive change. We were thanked for our contribution of a bamboo deck that was painted on by artist Theo Hetherington, who then silent auctioned them off for the charity event. They also handed out our bamboo postcard fliers – including putting them in the celebrity gift bags; which we felt was great! We were very honored to be a part of this day of peace.

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ASEC summit – Laguna Beach, CA

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

BambooSK8 joined numerous other action sports companies for the 2nd annual Action Sports Environmental Coalition Summit on August 13th in Laguna Beach, CA at a great art studio.

The keynote speaker was actress/activist Darryl Hannah, who said, “forgive me in advance – I’m not much for public speaking” as she read the words verbatim off the paper. Although she had written her speech around 3am that morning, her words cut to the bone of what it means to stand for something in the pursuit of sustainability and were quite inspiring.

ASEC founder Frank Scurra did a great job of pulling everyone together to have a sense of gratitude towards life – our breath, the air around us, the nutrients we put in our bodies, the ecosystems that thrive in perfect unity, etc. Lunch was provided by Chipolte and was excellent. Artwork from Mike Kershnar was displayed around the facility – really great stuff too.

The basic purpose of this event was to bring companies together to share ideas and put together action that will result in each company being more sustainable and ultimately, our industry leading the world in this pursuit. While it makes incredible sense for all of us companies to go in together and purchase let’s say - organic cotton t-shirts so we can all save money on the large volume discount, it is unlikely everyone will want to play ball or coordinate the efforts right now.

It’s expensive to go green for many because they have been doing business for so long down the wrong path – ie. high volume VOC glues in their decks, toxic cotton t-shirts, polluting due to excess shipping, etc. It’s a shame because our industry could be leaders in the eco/green movement of sustainability. I want to believe and trust that others will do their part over the next year. For us, bamboo is the ultimate in sustainability!

Please visit www.asecaction.org for more details on ASEC.

Photo with Frank Scurra

Photo with Mike Kershnar

Tags: action sports, action sports environmental coalition, asec, bamboo, bamboosk8, frank scurra, mike kershnar, sustainability
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Action Sports Retail (ASR) – September 4-6th

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

We would like to thank everyone who stopped by our booth (#3519) at ASR in San Diego. Despite the large amount of people complaining about how bad business is for them, we found optimism along with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for our eco-friendly decks. Many people were stoked on our decks and thought they were incredibly beautiful. Also, our entire booth was done in bamboo – fencing, table and chairs, and our larger-than-life 25′ tall bamboo stalk/art piece thanks to Ron. This is what being sustainable is about!! It is also important to thank Frank and the Action Sports Environmental Coalition for allowing us to be featured in the Green room upstairs, the display case upstairs and the dealer/GREEN area downstairs. Please support this wonderful organization!! We gave out a lot of free decks to folks so we thank those that provided the positive feedback to us.