Just came across these two articles around the same time and I am interested in this sort of thing as you might imagine so I thought I would pass them on to you, my faithful readers. They both have a similar theme, not the same…similar. The True Cost of a $2 T-Shirt is a podcast about labor conditions in the… Read more →
This time it’s Threadless and I think they stole my phrasing. It was an obvious one though so maybe I should give them the benefit of doubt. In the previous post it was Zazzle who claimed they were having a tree planted for every t-shirt self, but that wasn’t quite true. Threadless aren’t going to have a tree planted for… Read more →
Zazzle have this pretty cool promotion going on at the moment where they will plant a tree for every t-shirt sold (as long as you enter the code: PLANTATREE09). OK, so Zazzle won’t plant the trees themselves but the result is the same. Until Arbor Day (April 24) Zazzle will donate one dollar for every shirt purchased to the American… Read more →
Carbonfund.org have teamed up with Cafepress to produce and sell this pretty sweet tee designed to promote environmental awareness. Here is the blurb from the tee page: Celebrate Earth Day with a carbon-neutral AnvilRecycled shirt. Proceeds benefit Carbonfund.org, which certified the shirt CarbonFree. View Carbonfund.org’s other products at Cafepress.com/carbonfund Certified CarbonFree® by Carbonfund.org’s Product Certification Program, the high-quality, pre-shrunk AnvilRecycled®… Read more →
