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]