Vote For Clean Water: A Winning Picture
September 16th, 2009 | 
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Here’s a classic “Foolproof Photo” I grabbed off the website of The Nature Conservancy. It shows how you can use photos to illustrate even relatively un-photogenic activities like voting and donating for clean water. All it takes is a little creativity!
Anybody out there have a recommendation for a “green” t-shirt company?
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Hi there! Thanks for the consistant stream of good ideas, thought provoking writings and excellent resources.
I am a long time advocate, currently working for a small start-up in Alabama addressing clean air issues.
I used to work for a great eco-friendly t-shirt company here in AL called earth creations http://www.earthcreations.net. They use fair labor, 100% organic cotton and dye everything with clays from the earth – beautiful and high quality product.
Ask for Joy, tell her Kirsten sent you.
cheers,
Kirsten
Different factors to consider when shopping for eco-Ts:
*Shipping distance (choose a company as close to you as possible)
*Fabric (organic cotton or other eco fabric)
*Fabric dyes (ask whether they’re process is low impact)
*Printing inks (Most printing inks are vinylchloride-based: very, very toxic! Anyone trying to pass off a PVC ink as “eco” is lying. Look for water-based inks or other low-tox processes.”)
*Labor (demand fair labor practices – no sweatshop labor)
I’ve used a company in North Carolina called TS Designs. They’re socially-conscious and have solar panels at their facility. They offer organic cotton with a very low impact proprietary water-based ink process and no sweatshop labor. Great company and worth trying, but order way ahead in case there’s any problems to address. There’s been some production quality-control issues. They had trouble with color-matching our logo, and I received some reports of tea-stain-like brown spots showing up on the fabric after a first wash. So, ask about these issues if you decide to try them. Perhaps by now they’ve got it under control.
I was coming here to recommend Earth Creations but Kirsten beat me to it!
We use a company called Concept Eco out of Florida for our Earth Day t-shirts. They have standard designs, but I like to do my own and have them use a heat transfer process. The shirts are 50% recycled PET (plastic bottles) and 50% organic cotton. Nice and soft, and they don’t shrink much. Their website is http://www.DirectAccessIntl.com