Earth Day

In this spirit, we recently expanded our organics line across Men, Women, Kid & Baby, including the American Apparel fitted T-shirts that you hipster conservationists have requested.

In addition to the organics, though, we’re also doing a carbon-neutral T-shirt in honor of Earth Day.  We teamed up with Carbonfund to offer this shirt, and Carbonfund will receive the proceeds from the sale of this shirt – so if you’ve been hankering for a new T-shirt but don’t want your carbon footprint to grow, this is an Earth-friendly purchase you can embrace.  As a bonus, it’s a talking point for those of you who want to raise awareness and educate strangers about the various ways in which they can reduce their own carbon footprints.  (Yes, we mean you, Berkeley residents.)

Whatever your plans for Earth Day, don’t forget the mantra: reduce, reuse, recycle.  As an addendum to that rule, Carbonfund will add: reduce what you can, offset what you can’t.

Hey, together those are a haiku.

Reduce what you can
(Reduce, reuse, recycle)
Offset what you can’t

Let’s see if we can make another…

Green is the new black
Reduce your carbon footprint
Small feet are sexy

(Your own Earth Day haiku contributions are welcome…)

Whatever your resolution, just remember: you don’t really have to start thinking about that until, like, the 2nd at the earliest.  And the second falls on a Friday this year, and who starts resolutions on a Friday?

And of course then you have a weekend, so that’s not really the time to start resolutions either…

So, Monday then.  Yeah, Monday the 5th works.  Let’s make a note of it.  In fact, let’s commemorate it with a haiku:

Push resolutions
Monday’s no fun anyway
Vacation: over

Have a happy 2009!

While these fine folks were visiting our offices, we had the chance to sit down and ask them some deep and philosophical questions about CafePress. While we were at it, we asked the same 5 questions of some of the CafePress staff, including our co-founder and CEO Fred.

The answers were wide-ranging and inventive. As is our Community.

So we put together this T-Short in order to give y’all a peek into the world of the ‘Press. It’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you cry, it’s better than “Cats.”

OK, maybe not. There’s no singing. But that’s probably a good thing…

The high quality version is here, or you can enjoy the slightly fuzzier version below.

If you want to send us video of yourself answering these questions, the questions are:

1. What is your gutmonkey?
2. Give me a haiku about CafePress. (This is an implied question, i.e. “Can you give me a haiku? Please?”)
3. If you were stranded on a desert island and could have a single CafePress product with you, but that product was in unlimited supply, what product would it be and why?
4. If you could put a t-shirt on someone living or dead, and that person had to wear that t-shirt every day for their entire lives, what would be on the shirt and who would be wearing it?
5. If there were no CafePress… [fill in the blank]

This inspired me to write some of my own, because it’s Friday.  And why not write haiku on Friday?

It’s sunny outside
Time to audit my t-shirts
And prepare for warmth

Spring cleaning arrives
A good time to clean up shops
As well as closets

Have a good weekend
Start some good conversations
And wear it loud, folks