So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish! Publisher Shea Gunther Leaves EF to Try Out For The NBA

Goodbye EarthFirst.com readers. After 10 months of steering the Editorial Voice at EarthFirst.com, I’m leaving to become the new Eco Politics blogger at the soon to be launched Mother Nature Network, a green blog and media company founded by Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell and Atlanta adman Joel Babbit. (MNN is looking for College Correspondents, check out details here or here)

I’m really excited about the new gig, but will miss the platform I had here at EarthFirst.com as well as the regular cast of writers, readers, and regular commenters, both cool and rightwingtard.

I have to give some big props to EarthFirst.com’s lead writer Stephanie Rogers. She started writing for me in the Spring and soon proved to be a Human Awesome Content Machine. I would feed her links and a few sentences of editorial direction and she would churn out engaging, smart, readable gems of stories every time. She turned half page rants fired off by me in the middle of the night into 3,000 word essays that got people thinking, linking, digging, and talking. She’s one of the best I’ve worked with and I’m looking forward to getting into a position to hire her again.

A big thanks to my partners at EF, Jordan Heller and Michael Hoffman. They gave me the keys to the blog and let me run with it. I know that EarthFirst.com will come out of the current slump in the market stronger and more ready to take on the world under their leadership.

So long. Thanks for the all the fish.

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Rhubarb ftw.

Meatspace Tees: Eco-Friendly Ink on Organic T-Shirts

If you’re looking for some badass new t-shirts to add to your closet, Meatspace Tees has just what you need.  The new company is the project of our very own Shea Gunther, so naturally there’s a green angle.  Shea, a longtime eco-entrepreneur, combined his love of screenprinting with his green sensibilities to create awesome t-shirt designs like the one pictured above (which is my favorite for obvious reasons).

The details on Meatspace Tees’ green cred:

We only print on American Apparel’s 100% organic cotton shirts, made in downtown LA by well compensated workers with better healthcare than we have.

We one print with green ink- the Gen IV ink series from International Coatings does not contain PVC, Phthalates, Organo-Tin Compounds, AZO, Heavy Metals, PCP, APEO, Poly Chlorinated Biphenyls, or Pesticides. It blows my mind that regular (and cheaper) plastisol inks have all of those ingredients.

We buy wind credits to offset 100% of our energy use from our office and shop as well as from all our travel.

We include wind credits in the sale of every shirt to offset the emissions used in shipping it from us to you.

We use all natural citrus based cleaners and supplies in the shop. Our ink cleans up with just water, removing the need for nasty solvent cleaners used in standard plastisol printing.

Shea’s commute to the Meatspace Office: walking downstairs. Miles driven: 0.

We only have things shipped to our shop via Ground and we buy wind credits to offset the impact

We recycle like fiend

Tidal turbines turns us on.

Gotta love it when you can find t-shirts with slogans like ‘To the Blog Cave!’ AND they’re green.  Meatspace Tees is also home to the one and only sanctioned Nerdfighters t-shirt. Check out all the designs at MeatspaceTees.com!

Link [Meatspace Tees]

EarthFirst’s Shea Gunther on Green Talk Radio

EarthFirst.com Publisher and VP of Content Shea Gunther was interviewed on episode 135 of ‘Green Talk Radio’ with Green Living Ideas’ Sean Daily!  Shea talks to Sean about his various green ventures, including the 5(!) companies that he’s founded by the age of 30 and upcoming projects like the organic screenprinted t-shirts he’ll be selling at MeatSpaceTees.com.  He also discusses the need for ‘greedy greens’, how he crafts the snarky editorial voice here on EarthFirst and how companies can get good publicity for doing green works (and bad publicity for greenwashing).

“I really don’t think that we’re in danger of there being a green burnout because it just makes too much sense.  It might take a little bit longer for everyone to come around to it, but when you can show people that we can live in a world where we can have TVs, and we can take trips and we can wear nice clothes, and you know – we can do all that stuff without polluting the crap out of the world – then, how do you argue with that?”

Check out the podcast at PersonalLifeMedia.com!

Link [Green Talk Radio]

Hello World! Welcome to EarthFirst.com, the site that’s NOT Earth First!

Welcome to EarthFirst.com. Let me start off by telling you who we’re not. We are NOT Earth First!, the radical environmental activists fond of sitting in trees, screaming in the woods, and damning The Man. We’re EarthFirst.com, a bunch of snarky green entrepreneurs and video producers dedicated to cutting through the eco-fluff in search of the heart of the new green movement. We have our radar set for greenwash and are not afraid to call out the jerkasses slowing down the fight against the old way of doing things.

I’m Shea Gunther, the newly hired VP of Content and head of this here blog. I’ll be doing most of the writing and working with the writers that we bring on board to help me out. I’ve been bouncing around the green blogosphere for the past few years and couldn’t be more excited about working with the rest of the good folks here at EarthFirst.

We’ll be blogging here for the next few months while we get all our ducks in a row with our plans to produce daily high quality green video content.

I love getting comments and tips from readers, so zip me an email at shea@earthfirst.com if you have anything good. If you have anything bad send it to ICouldGiveABleep@hotmail.com.

Rock on rockstars.