The Bite:
Keep the pace with eco-friendlier running shoes. Check out green trainers that allow you to keep up with the best of 'em, even if your phone isn't exactly ringing off the hook with endorsement offers.
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The Benefits:
- Not running far to find them. Big names like Brooks and Nike now offer green options, and they're widely available.
- Gold-medal fabrics. Alternative materials such as silicone-based green rubber (instead of petroleum and PVC, which may release carcinogenic dioxins during production).
- Animal-free finish lines. Some lines are vegan and forgo the leather.
Personally Speaking:
Wanna Try:
- Brooks Trance 8 - incorporates the first-ever biodegradable midsole, an eco-rubber outsole, and recycled cardboard packaging. Also: a men's version ($140).
- END Stumptown - one of the lightest cross-trainers out there, made using partially recycled materials and less-toxic rice- and water-based glues. Also: a men's version ($80).
- Nike Considered Humara - trail runners with most materials sourced from within 200 miles of manufacturing plants. Also: a men's version ($70).
- One World Running and Reuse-a-Shoe - orgs that redistribute or recycle your old running shoes.
Cocktail Fact
While running, your feet hit the ground an average of 800 times per mile.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters choose a pair of trainers made from eco-rubber, we'll conserve enough petroleum to fuel a Prius for the length of 130,196 Olympic marathons (which are just over 26 miles).
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