Sole Technology skates toward a green future

Pierre André Senizergues can make skateboards do anything. When he was in his 20s, he steered them from the Paris suburbs to Venice Beach and turned them into the key to an apartment he could afford when he started winning skate competitions. In his 30s, he used them as the foundation of a multimillion-dollar Orange County-based footwear, apparel and accessories empire. And in his 40s, he made them the literal building blocks for a line of museum-quality furniture and even a springboard to being an executive producer of Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" documentary about global warming.

By Adam Tschorn

April 19, 2009