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		<title>Five Efficient T-Shirts Of 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple years ago, a simple organic cotton T-shirt wasn&#8217;t so easy to find. Now, with Quicksilver, H&#38;M, and even Forever 21 getting into the green fashion business, eco-friendly T-shirts are a dime a dozen. Still, finding well-fitting and stylish T-shirts made using fair labour can take some work &#8212; especially if you&#8217;re interested [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just a couple years ago, a simple organic cotton T-shirt wasn&#8217;t so easy to find. Now, with Quicksilver, H&amp;M, and even Forever 21 getting into the green fashion business, eco-friendly T-shirts are a dime a dozen. Still, finding well-fitting and stylish T-shirts made using fair labour can take some work &#8212; especially if you&#8217;re interested in the latest in eco-friendly and innovative materials and design. Here&#8217;s a look at five of the most efficient T-shirts available now:<span id="more-2434"></span></p>
<p><strong>Revenge Is&#8230; a Plastic Bottle T-shirt</strong><br />
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<p>The <a href="http://www.revengeis.com/products.htm">Revenge Is Plastic Bottle T-shirt</a>&#8216;s made of an innovative new fabric &#8212; a blend of organic cotton and recycled PET (recycled plastic bottles) &#8212; that&#8217;s soft, stretchy, and comfortable.  A Los Angeles-based company that&#8217;s committed to using local labor, Revenge Is prints the company&#8217;s eco-angst-y name on the front of each T-shirt. For the back, customers can take their pick of a few progressive messages &#8212; i.e. “energy independence&#8221; or &#8220;taking back our country.&#8221; The shirts cost $38 at <a href="http://www.revengeis.com/products.htm">Revenge Is</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Artevist Community-Designed T-shirt</strong><br />
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<p>Threadless fans with a socio-progressive bent can source their outfits at <a href="http://www.artevist.com/">Artevist</a>, a new site that lets designers submit &#8212; and members vote on &#8212; T-shirt designs with a message. Winning designs &#8212; like &#8220;<a href="http://www.artevist.com/index.php/store/product/3847/">Destroy and Deny</a>,&#8221; pictured above &#8212; get printed on <a href="http://www.tsdesigns.com/">T.S. Designs</a> and <a href="http://www.metaefficient.com/clothing/bamboosa-clothing.html">Bamboosa</a> T-shirts, all made in the U.S. out of bamboo and organic cotton. T-shirts cost between $27 &#8211; $34 at <a href="http://www.artevist.com/">Artevist</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Sub Urban Riot Organic Cotton T-shirt</strong><br />
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<p><a href="http://suburbanriot.com/www/index.php?osCsid=vj0nteief5s1cen5uc4st2q757">Sub Urban Riot</a>, a company founded by Pacific Northwest replants who settled in Venice., Calif., offers some unique twists to the regular organic cotton T-shirts, like the extra length and asymmetrical V-neck line in the pink <a href="http://suburbanriot.com/www/product_info.php?products_id=43&amp;osCsid=vj0nteief5s1cen5uc4st2q757">Guns and Roses</a> T-shirt above. The designs often have an ecological message that&#8217;s more hip than preachy; they&#8217;re available for $14.99 &#8211; $39 at <a href="http://suburbanriot.com">Sub Urban Riot</a> and <a href="http://btcelements.com/products/?view=sub_product&amp;sid=2504">BTC Elements</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Under the Canopy Organic Cotton T-shirt</strong><br />
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<p>While <a href="http://www.underthecanopy.com/">Under the Canopy</a>&#8216;s T-shirts are fairly basic, these soft organic cotton tops have the best fit of any T-shirt I&#8217;ve ever tried on. Under the Canopy&#8217;s use of innovative materials is a topic we&#8217;ve <a href="http://www.metaefficient.com/clothing/under-the-canopy-metaefficient-clothing.html">written about before here</a>. The T-shirts generally cost $28-$34 at <a href="http://www.underthecanopy.com/under-the-canopy-ECOfashion-s/2.htm">Under the Canopy</a>, but the <a href="http://www.underthecanopy.com/product-p/2070.htm">men&#8217;s Vote Ecologically T-shirt</a>&#8216;s on sale for a mere $9.99 at the moment.</p>
<p><strong>Cubist Literature Reclaimed T-shirt</strong><br />
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<p>Pre-loved thrift store T-shirts turned inside out + off the wall design + wry slogan = <a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results_shop.php?search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_35322&amp;search_query=recycled">Cubist Literature&#8217;s eco-friendly T-shirts</a>. Craig Hunter, who makes these eco-T-shirts, says he likes &#8220;the recycling/upcycling factor involved in giving old clothing new life.&#8221; Cubist Literature&#8217;s upcycled T-shirts are efficient because they avoid the energy-intensive process of re-manufacturing a T-shirt. Plus, since this Etsy store puts the customer directly in touch with the creator-seller, the T-shirts avoid the travel carbon footprint of regular T-shirts. The T-shirts cost between $16 &#8211; $35 at <a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results_shop.php?search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_35322&amp;search_query=recycled">Cubist Literature</a>.</p>
<p>A couple other Etsy sellers upcycling pre-loved T-shirts are <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5005258&amp;section_id=5274996">KMStitchery</a> and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=76591&amp;section_id=5425439">devotees</a>.</p>
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