TS Designs’ Job Plan
As the President and the Republican candidates release their ideas for job legislation, I would like to offer our own job program for North Carolina. This will not require a lessening of government regulations or a cut in taxes or benefits. It won’t require more...Sustain-A-Bull and Local Shirts
The Herald Sun ran an article critical of Sustain-A-Bull for purchasing Cotton of the Carolinas shirts printed 30 miles away in Alamance County rather than offshore-made t-shirts printed in Durham. Though we understand that Sustain-A-Bull had to make a difficult...The Color of Commitment
This week marks our first piece-dyed Cotton of the Carolinas order – an order of shirts that were dyed as fabric before the shirts were made. Thanks to Zingerman’s for committing to an order months ahead of time so the shirts could be made just for them....
Organic Cotton Planted in NC!
We’re proud to announce that for the first time in recent memory, organic cotton is being planted in large scale in North Carolina. Two farms in Eastern North Carolina, Parrish Farm and Hickory Meadows Organics, have planted a combined 80 acres of certified...
Cotton of the Carolinas Featured on CNN
Last week, Ronnie Burleson, Eric Michel and Sam Moore were interviewed for a special CNN feature on Cotton of the Carolinas. To see the video and read the article, click here! A longer video will air on CNN in the coming months. Former TSD intern Angie Lovelace (now...Green Interning: Not for the Faint of Heart.
I have the pleasure of introducing my next featured Mover and Shaker in TS DesignsLand – Stuart Pendergraph. As the very first Green Intern TS Designs has ever had, Stuart has set the bar high for interns to come. I first met him back in February – in a...
The Birds, Bees and Flowers
Join us for a day of learning at TSD! We will have three wonderful presenters teaching us about their sustainable fields. When: June 12th, from noon to 5pm Where: TS Designs (map) Price: $30.00 Synopsis We believe that successful small gardens are greater than the...TS Designs Energy Audit
Last Fall, TSD was fortunate enough to take part in Alamance Community College’s energy audit intern program. An intern, Stewart Pendergraph, was assigned to help us improve our energy consumption. His first project: assessing exactly how much energy we use,...All Eyes On Bees
A few months ago, I gave you guys a sneak peak behind the scenes of my blossoming romance with apiculture, a.k.a. beekeeping. When I embarked upon my first long trek out to Fayetteville for an extra few hours of schooling once a week, for six weeks, I never imagined...
Mr. Henry Goes to Raleigh
On Tuesday, Eric Henry visited our state legislature to lobby for the creation of a new corporate form – the Benefit Corporation. Benefit Corporations are a new class of corporation that meet higher standards of performance, accountability and transparency....
New Video – Harvest 2010
Check out this great video filmed and edited by our own Natalie Saragusa – a chronicling of Harvest 2010 and the community surrounding...Throwing Myself to the Renewable Energy Wolves
I received the opportunity on Monday to sit in on a meeting at TS Designs. Little did I know, I would be jumping out of a proverbial plane into a foreign country where I knew not a word of the national language – Renewable Energy Land. If you have had the...