New threads available online!

check out the website for the two new designs - and a cool redesign of the Interwoven site!

based on customer comments, i've made the women's shirts longer in the torso - and these new shirts are super soft. even softer than the last designs. you'll love the way they fit.

also, again because of your comments, i created a new donation element. for every sale of the white threads, i'm donating $5 to America's Second Harvest to help fight the growing cost of food for lower income Americans. this will be a meaningful donation during a time when all of our budgets are stretched, but none so much as those who already were in need. the yellow threads will be the same one-shirt-donated-per-purchase model.

these shirts were designed by Suzanne Frye.

look good, do better.

In the audience: Kiva.org, Witness.org

i'm at an account planning (day job) conference in Miami this week and just had the privilege to listen to representatives of both Kiva.org and Witness.org speak. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley Flannery and Witness outreach manager Su Patel were brilliant. here are some notes i took:
• Both organizations thrive because of the Internet
o Connect people to the tools
o Tap into people’s need to form engagement
• Internet brings things far away, closer
• Orgs are powered by people energy
• Engagement is just as important as donation
• Both are constantly evolving and are OK with that
• What’s the stickiness of the social network?
• The difference between a donation and a loan is dignity (BRILLIANT!)

check both these orgs out...participate.

hi. i'm the blog that hasn't been updated.

things are busy - truly harried - in my world. interwoven threads is going gangbusters in spite of the new designs not yet on the web site (soon, i tell you, soon). meanwhile, the shirts are below, if you dig 'em, holler at me (andy(at)interwoventhreads(dot)com) and I can make it happen old school. or, if you're into the whole "shop at a store" thing, the new shirts will soon join the last three styles at Interwoven Threads two great retailers:
Chicago: Grasshopper 510
Kansas City: Gifted Hands

OK...so, a bit of inspiring "do-better" retailing here from the good folks at and who support 1% for the Planet.



it's another great way to do better with your purchases. and with the spread of brands supporting 1%, you're sure to find some of your favorites.

i'll update this as soon as the new shirts are ready to be purchased on line. then will watch e-commerce happen.

Do better this weekend! and new threads!

Want to do something entertaining AND meaningful this weekend? Join the Barclay Martin Ensemble at 7:30 this Saturday, June 7 in UMKC's Spencer Theatre. Local singer-songwriter Barclay Martin is collaborating with the global non-profit HALO and organic clothing company Interwoven Threads to raise money for HALO's newest international aid effort. The night of the concert, $1 from every CD sold as well as $5 from each Barclay Martin Ensemble and Interwoven Threads T-shirt will be donated to HALO. Martin hopes to raise $1,000 during the evening to fully fund the purchase of beds and bedding for 20 at-risk Ugandan girls in need of residence at the HALO orphanage in Kampala. The event will be sponsored by PresentMagazine.com.
Tickets available at the door.

You also will be able to purchase the BRAND NEW INTERWOVEN THREADS' summer line, before they are available on the Interwoven website.

More pics!

The girl who silenced the UN

This is powerful. A child's perspective on environmentalism from a very personal perspective.

Nau, now a then.

Just posted some thoughts on the closing of clothing brand Nau, over at WoolardSpeak.

who will be the green referees?

the dozen blog has a great post on Brita and Fiji water options' fight over who's the most green.

read it here. i don't know if this is a relevant argument, but for me the relevance lies within the possibility that brand competition now will be including "who's the most green." i think it's easy to see that a reusable filtration system - when paired with a reusable bottle - is much greener than a disposable bottle shipped miles and miles.

more of a moral of this story might be what do you, as a consumer, view as the line you'll cross or the greenness you'll expect from your favorite brands. are you your own green referee? do you rely on companies to tell you they are greener?