# Jack Candlish

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Design for Positive Impact - Jack Candlish

When you think of Surfing, you think of fresh salty air, blue water, big waves crashing on the beach, sunshine, and nature … But if you look a bit closer at your average modern-day surfboard, it’s far from natural. Over 80% of surfboards are made from polyurethane foam, fibreglass and polyester res…

Jack Candlish

“I want to produce and live in a way that enables my kids to have the same kind of experience I had growing up. That is my way of sustainability.” - Jack Candlish Jack Candlish is the founder of Verdure, a sustainable surfboard company based out of Wellington, New Zealand. After noticing a lack of…

Ep: 80 - Jack Candlish - Your surfboard is trashing the ocean

A laid-back carpenter by day, after hours you’ll find Jack Candlish crafting the perfect ride, one surfboard at a time… and he might just change the world while he’s at it. A nature lover with a passion for waves, Jack observed firsthand the contradiction between the tranquility of the ocean and t…

Jack Candlish

“I want to produce and live in a way that enables my kids to have the same kind of experience I had growing up. That is my way of sustainability.” - Jack Candlish Jack Candlish is the founder of Verdure, a sustainable surfboard company based out of Wellington, New Zealand. After noticing a lack of…

Turning straight objects into curvaceous pieces of timber that take a thrashing

I caught up with a young guy named Jack Candlish. We met up on an overcast Sunday afternoon at his workshop in Berhampore, Wellington. I’d got in contact with Jack a little bit earlier to find out if he was keen to sit down for a conversation which we could turn into a podcast episode. Turns out he…

UIOK 55: Environmentally friendly surfing with Jack Candlish

I catch up with Jack Candlish in his studio in Berhampore to chat about Organic Dynamic and his journey. Being one paper shy of finishing his degre for he past 7 years. Building the beginnings of a business out of his parents garage. Trying out a whole lot of hings to figure out what he was into. …