About

We hope that by now you've realized that something is a little different about our company. We are two guys who started making shirts in 2004. We kept making them, people kept wanting to buy them, one thing led to another and before we knew it we had graduated from college and were selling shirts out of a BioDiesel RV named Steve.

We now live and work in Portland, Oregon, running the website and selling at the Portland Saturday Market. If you happen to live in or visit Portland, come visit us any Saturday or Sunday between March and December. Our booth number is 816.

We started the company with a commitment to use the most sustainable materials we could possibly use and stay competitive. In our 3 years as a company, we've experimented with Bamboo, Organic Cotton, Recycled Cotton, Recycled PET, and Hemp. In the Fall of 2009 we finally switched our entire line to 100% USA-grown Organic Cotton, and the shirts themselves are stitched, designed, and printed in the United States. We were able to do this at no extra cost, making our shirts of superior quality and competitive price-wise with non-organic t-shirts. We believe that people shouldn't have to pay extra for organic. Someday, organic cotton will just be called cotton, and companies will have to advertise when their shirts are cultivated with fossil fuels and ecosystem-destroying chemical fertilizers.

We are aware that Organic Cotton is not the perfect material, but we believe that as of 2010, US-grown organic cotton is the best material available to us. Bamboo is grown almost entirely in China, is rarely certified organic, and its processing is energy and chemical intensive. Hemp is an ideal material- it grows everywhere, with no extra water or fertilizer, grows extremely fast, and it also produces useful biomass and edible seeds. But hemp that feels as soft as cotton is not yet a reality, and needless legislation against industrial hemp in the United States leads to higher transportation and importation costs.

We are constantly looking to improve the quality and sustainability of our shirts. If you know of a way that we can do this, please let us know. Things are changing fast, and when we can switch to better materials, we will.

Onward!

Sam & Eric,

Co-Emperors, LonelyDinosaur.com