A Thriving “Triple Bottom Line” Enterprise: T.S. Designs

John Ivanko profiles TSD in his Feb. 25th article for Ecopreneurist. Check the full story out here.

Today TS Designs officially announced Cotton of the Carolinas, an innovative new program that will grow, make, and sell t-shirts in the Carolinas, during the first CotC Stakeholder Meeting.

The meeting was a great success, thanks to the stakeholders, press, and interested parties involved.

Check out the following links for more info:
Press Release
White Paper

The Burlington Times News covers the production of t-shirts for the historical presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.  See the full article here.
NOTE: There is a misquote in the article.  Shannon Clark, our production manager, is quoted as saying “This is a lot faster than normal. Thirty days is pushing it for us.”  Hist actual words [...]

A lot of talk has been swimming around the internet lately about the new standards set forth in the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s new children’s product legislation, the CPSIA.
If you’re not familiar with the new legislation, it sets a maximum threshold of lead (100 ppm) and certain phthalates (0.1% of the phthalates DEHP, DBP, [...]

by Eric Henry and Eric Michel
I recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of running my 2000 Volkswagen TDI on locally-made biodiesel. That’s over 100,000 miles on a fuel that was made from waste vegetable oil, collected from restaurants right here in Alamance County. People frequently ask me why I drive a foreign-made car when [...]

Mebtec is a computer and electronics collection and dismantling center located in Mebane, NC. Their facility handles the dismantling and sorting of donated computers and other electronics into their base components (e.g. plastic casings, circuit boards, metal pieces, etc.), then ships those components off to various companies, many located in NC, to be recycled. [...]

On Halloween, Tom and Eric were pleasantly surprised to receive the Business of the Year award from the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association.  CFSA promotes local and organic agriculture in the Carolinas by inspiring, educating, and organizing farmers and consumers.

Monday afternoon TS was graced with the presence of Judy Wicks and Lyle Estill.
Judy is the founder of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) and Lyle is the founder of Piedmont Biofuels.

Eric Henry has been invited to be the keynote speaker at UNCG’s Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies‘ Fall Symposium.
The focus of the symposium will be Sustainability, making Eric’s and TS Designs’ stories the perfect discussion-starter.
The event will be held from 2:00pm to 4:00pm on October 9th and is free to all visitors, so if you’re [...]

After a lengthy review and testing process, TS Designs is now Oeko-Tex 100 Certified!  The Hohenstein Institute, creators of the Oeko-Tex 100 Standard, reviewed and verified our supply chain, printing and dyeing processes, and final product to ensure that our shirts are in 100% compliance with their criteria.
Below is a copy of our Oeko-Tex 100 [...]