You have to hand it to the snowboard maker Bataleon for at least acknowledging the obvious in this case. They don't pretend like their 'green' product is going to save the world. They at least acknowledge that snowboarding is not a green activity. Filling cars with gas, driving to the mountain, running chairlifts, and riding on manmade snow are all easy targets for opponents of global warming. Bataleon looks at snowboarding, shrugs its shoulders, and says, "Well, the least we can do is make a 'green' board." An even greener option would be to offer a splitboard so that people can skin for turns instead of ridingman made snow and gas-powered lifts, but I don't think one would work with their convex base. Instead we'll just ask people to throw away their old snowboards to buy this green version.