Featured Item: Rabbit Skins Organic Cotton Toddler T-Shirt

Concerned about exposing your child's tender skin to harsh chemicals?  The answer is pure and simple.  Slip your little one into this pamperingly soft T-shirt knit exclusively of organic cotton.  They even use dyes which are environmentally friendly and sewn the natural and white tees with 100% cotton thread.  What's more, the cotton fibers were combed and ringspun to create a 5 oz. jersey fabric that's as strong as it is silky-soft.  Because Toddlers are tough on clothes, they've added shoulder-to shoulder reinforcing tape and double needle stitched sleeves and hem. Rabbit Skins also offer this infant tees and onsies, too!  For more information on these and more earth-friendly apparel options, contact us today!

Featured Item: Soybean Cotton Jersey Polo

Did you know that it takes 300 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to make one cotton t-shirt?  Or that 4 million tons of textile waste or discarded every day - the average American alone throwing away approximately 68 pounds alone? These days there are surprisingly numerous - and fashionable - apparel options available to consumers wishing to make more environmentally conscious choices. Bags, shorts, blankets, jackets and more are available in a variety of fabrics which are designed to reduce your footprint.  We have access to organic cotton, recycled polyester, bamboo-based fabrics - even apparel and accessories made from recycled plastic bottles.

We love these Men's and Ladies' polos.  Not only are the comfortable and sharp looking, but they are made of a combination of cotton, spandex and azlon - a soybean-based protein used to make fabric.  Another upside?  Azlon has natural wicking properties, so you will stay cooler and drier in these shirts than your average cotton or poly polo.  To order these, or other earth-friendly apparel, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Promote your Eco-Friendly Business in Kind

It may be Earth Week, but businesses and individuals are showing more environmental consciousness and responsibility every week of the year these days.  If you have a environmentally-friendly bend to your group or organization - or just want to generally promote your business while also promoting a message of eco-responsibility, there are literally hundreds of promo options available to you.  We think that this bookmark pen is pretty cool.  Not only is it useful and memorable (always a plus when choosing a promotional product) but the pen is made from cornstarch and both items are  made from over 65% biodegradable materials.   To order this, or any other eco-promo products, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Clear Advantages

With more and more customers becoming environmentally aware, eco-products are a wonderful resource to promote a business.  Say you're a heating company that focuses on bio-diesel, a geothermal installer, a local food co-op retailer, or even a beauty supplier who specializes in organic and natural products.  You still need to be promoting your business and spreading awareness for your products, but wouldn't you prefer to do that with a product which reinforces your message of environmental responsibility?  Take these awesome pens, they're 80%  made of  recycled plastic water bottles. What's more, there are endless options for earth-freindly promotionals: rulers, mugs, awards, notebooks, key tags... the options are endless.  Contact us today to find the right eco promo for your business and your budget.

Brand Your Business: Natural Growth

When it comes to promotions, you need to be thinking at least a month in advance.  Event planning, production times, and proper marketing and advertising all take more time than most people realize.  Regular promotions can be an important tool in keeping your business top of mind with your customer base, as well as a tool to grow awareness of your business with those out there who have not yet discovered your business.  Now that we're in mid-March and the temps are rising, people's minds naturally turn to Spring.  But don't focus on coming up with a St. Patrick's day promotion, or March Madness tie-in.   Instead, focus more on what you can be doing in April or May.  Maybe an Earth day promotion is right for your business? If your business is involved with the exploding Green movement in this country, or even utilizes or sells green materials in their day-to-day operations, a green promotion is right up your alley!  There are literally thousands of earth-friendly promotional products out there. Pens, rulers, magnets and more are available in corn-plastic, a naturally derived plastic that's 100% biodegradable.  Notebooks, post-its, journals and more are available from recycled paper.  There are-usable cloth shopping bags available, as well as solar powered flashlights.  Almost anything you can think about comes in an eco-friendly version, making it easy for you to promote your business in the most environmentally friendly way.  Call us for more information on eco promotional items today.

E-Catalog: Ash City's 2012 line

Ash City is proud to be ranked one of the top 4 suppliers in America for corporate apparel.  They offer stylish, innovative choices with ingenious features to increase wearability and comfort. For 2012, they are introducing brand new designs and noteworthy advnaces in apparel manufacturing technology. With a real focus on eco-freindly fabrics and earth-friendly apparel, Ash City is truly in line with the changing needs of the modern customer.  Check out their latest catalog here and contact us for more information or to place an order.

Featured Item: Rabbit Skins Organic Cotton Toddler T-Shirt

Concerned about exposing your child's tender skin to harsh chemicals?  The answer is pure and simple:  Slip your little one into this pamperingly soft T-shirt knit exclusively of organic cotton.  They even use dyes which are environmentally friendly and sew the natural and white tees with 100% cotton thread.  What's more, the cotton fibers were combed and ringspun to create a 5 oz. jersey fabric that's as strong as it is silky-soft.  Because Toddlers are tough on clothes, they've added shoulder-to shoulder reinforcing tape and double needle stitched sleeves and hem. Rabbit Skins also offer this infant tees and onsies, too!  For more information on these and more earth-friendly apparel options, contact us today!

Featured Item: Playback Recycled Cotton Hoodie

One of our favorite apparel suppliers, Playback offers a whole host of amazing, earth-friendly apparel options - saving the world one seriously cool item at a time.  Their eco-logic fabric is 70% recycled cotton scraps from clothing production, so when you wear Playback, you help save the natural resources needed to grow new cotton, reduce the chemicals used in clothing production, and keep tons of fabric out of landfills.  Even better, Playback uses the unique properties of their yarns to create textures, patterns, and surprises you can't get with standard methods, so your apparel is utterly unique and the envy of all your friends!

This hoodie is an icon of effortless cool and laid-back comfort - from the scuba-shaped hood to the 'how-the-heck-did-they-do-that" dual tone fleece.  Contrast drawstrings and antique brass hardware further the look.  Available in pullover and full-zip styles, this fleece also comes in many different colors.  For more information, or to order, contact us today, and introduce earth-friendly to fashion forward.

Brand your Business: Earth-Friendly Water Bottles

Happy May, everyone!  Now that we are finally enjoying longer, sunnier days and winter has truly been left behind, it's time to start thinking of how to incorporate promotional products into your seasonal promotions.  For instance, if you run an inn or hotel, why not consider offering a hiking, biking package complete with branded water bottle? This BPA free bottle is also earth-friendly and  fully biodegradable, designed to biodegrade within 1-5 years in a managed landfill. It comes in white or natural high density polyethylene with red, blue, black, dark green or green top, and it's made in the USA! For more promotional ideas, check out our online catalog.

Featured Item: Rayon (from Bamboo) Long Sleeve Dress Shirt

One of the world's most renewable plants, bamboo grows up to a foot a day without the use of chemical pesticides.  Bamboo charcoal technology uses high heat to convert bamboo into charcoal - which is then made into a soft polyester fabric that naturally wicks moisture.  When used to develop rayon from bamboo fabric, bamboo offers a soft hand and breathable wear, making bamboo fabrics a superior Earth-friendly apparel item as well as an excellent choice for warm weather apparel.

This lightweight yarn dyed poplin shirt is made with sustainable bamboo rayon, boasts an exceptionally soft drape and hand, and features  reinforced top-stitching on armholes, shoulder seams and back yoke. It is available for Men and Ladies in several attractive colors.  It's sure to become your new go-to shirt and today and tomorrow you can still get it at 15% off as part of our April "Eco Fabrics" sale.  

Brand your Business: Earth-Friendly Pens

Earth Day may have come and gone, but there is no reason why we can't strive to incorporate changes into our daily lives - and business practices - that will provide a lasting effect all year round.  One such way is to make the switch to Earth Friendly fabrics, another is to switch to Earth-friendly plastics.  Numerous items now come in biodegradable plastics, and some plastics are now being made from corn instead of petroleum.  These pens are an example of both.  Biodegradable, corn plastic pens are a great way to show your customers that you care about the environment, your community, and the world.  It can also reinforce a company's image of natural products or eco-consciousness.  For more earth-friendly promotional items, check out our online catalog, or give us a call and we'll draw up a presentation just for your organization.

Featured Item: Anvil 5 oz., 100% Organic Cotton T-Shirt

Earth Day is tomorrow, but Earth day is about more than just 24 hours, it's about changing your day to day mindset about how our lives affect the environment and the world around us.  One small step which can have huge impact is to choose Earth-friendly fabrics.  Clothing and accessories made from soybeans, bamboo, recycled textile scraps and even recycled glass and plastics use less land and fossil fuels, produce less air pollution and fewer carcinogens, and generate less waste than traditional cotton and poly apparel.  Another great fabric choice is Organic Cotton.  Not only is it better for the environment, but -like many other eco fabrics -  it is super-soft! Want to say hello to your new favorite t-shirt?  Meet our Anvil Organic tee.  It's available for Men,  Ladies and Youth and it's so comfy you'll never want to take it off.  (And hey - if you never wash it, think of all the gallons of water you'll save too!) This April, save the earth and save 15% on any of our featured Earth-friendly fabrics and start making everyday Earth Day.

Featured Item: Soybean Cotton Spandex Jersey Polo

In the past 10 years, amid growing demand from customers, the market has become more and more receptive to Earth-friendly fabrics, and a growing collection of eco-friendly apparel and accessories have been designed and distributed on the principle of Reduce, Recycle and Reuse. Over the course of the past few years, our e.c.o line has grown to an impressive 50+ styles. This innovative collection uses fabrics derived from organic, sustainable, renewable and recycled fibers. One of our favorite products are these sport shirts made from Soybean fiber.

  

Soybean fiber is a renewable, biodegradable resource that is a waste byproduct of the soybean production process. It creates a remarkably soft garment with a nice weight to it.  Once you try these shirts, traditional fabrics just won't do it for you anymore! This month save 15% on these items, and all our Eco-Apparel & accessories.  To view more items within our  e.c.o collection, click here.

Featured Item: Playback Recycled PET bottle T-shirts

Did you know that Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour?  Also, the average American throws away about 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per year. What to do?  Embrace the ever-growing industry that makes clothing from recycled cotton and polyester!  Our line of  Playback recycled cotton T-shirts and sweatshirts is made from collecting post-industrial cotton scraps and plastic and glass bottles and sorting them by color.  All materials are then broken down into fibers and spun into yarn. By creating colors from the original recycled component (like beer bottle brown and water cooler blue), not only are less chemical dyes used, but the colors are richer and more complex than conventionally-made clothing.

Recycled poly apparel is super-soft, super-wearable and super-cute!  This month, purchase any of our featured Earth-Friendly fabrics and SAVE 15%!  So help out the Earth a little AND help yourself to a new wardrobe while you're at it!

April Newsletter: Hat Sale, New website, and Earth-Friendly Fabrics

It's April, and we've already survived our first (and hopefully only) April snowstorm.  Have you checked out our latest newsletter?  Spring is definitely making us frisky!  We've recently unveiled our brand new website and we're still in love with it! We announced a Nike Golf  sport shirt which has been recently discontinued and is currently 50% off.  Also, we're featuring TWO sales this Spring!  In honor of Earth Day, we're promoting Earth-Friendly fabrics this month.  From bamboo to modal,  Recycled Poly blends to Soy Bean based fabrics, our eco-friendly merchandise is high-quality and low "footprint." Purchase any of our specially marked items this month and save 15%.  PLUS, we're in the Spring-cleaning mood, so stop in to our 42 Cottage Street location and purchase ANY of our in-stock hats for just ONE DOLLAR.

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Brand your Business: Earth-Friendly Promotional Mug

People are becoming more conscious about the products they’re buying and how these products are made.  That’s why we’re proud to offer apparel, accessories and promotional items crafted from sustainable resources.  From sport shirts to fleece hat to plastic pens and mugs, these eco-friendly, socially responsible products respect the planet and other people. We love the idea of corn and wheat being manufactured into handy plastic objects.  It's a great way to not only promote your business (or outfit your staff) but also lessen your "footprint." Win, win!