Vote Green at District Cotton’s Eco T-Shirt Competition!

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As promised this is my submission to DistrictCotton.com’s Shoot Out t-shirt design competition. I’ve posted a review of DC here, and was so impressed with their stance on ethical business I thought I’d make a contribution, and this is it. The theme for the contest is “Big City” and DC are donating 10% of all profits from the winning t-shirt (as with all their tees) to a great charity, in this case Trees Not Trash.

So help me out and vote for my t-shirt design!

Hey it takes two seconds and it’ll be a great piece of PR for the blog. Okay, I should give you a little background on the design, it’s kinda self explanatory, however two things that came to mind when I was making this design. Firstly the theme of the competition is “Big City” and you can’t get much bigger than New York, and seeing as this project donates towards an environmental cause it seemed only right I take it in a greener direction, and yes I mean that literally!

Secondly as I was about to slink off to bed at 5am, TCM were playing yet another rerun of the original Charlton Heston version of The Planet of The Apes, and there before me was the striking finale (yes I will spoil it for you if you haven’t seen it… tsk tsk). CH collapses on the beach beating it with his fists as he surveys, in the distance, The Statue of Liberty up to her neck in sand. Charlton roars the words – ‘You finally really did it! You Maniacs! You blew it up…” and so on.

An alternative version of the future events that for me at least is a little palatable though.was described in a recent documentary entitled “Life After People” – where after a hundred years or so nature starts to reclaim almost every man-made structure in the world, and for a while it looks really rather beautiful. Jungles in skyscrapers, hanging trees on the bridges, birds nesting, wildcats prowling around, and it made me think (once again), that the ecology argument isn’t so much about saving the earth as saving ourselves. Life will go on with or without us, the human race and all of its greatest achievements are at stake, so we either deliberately make the cities greener now or wait a century for nature to do it for us. The only problem is that nature will eradicate us to do it; food stocks will dwindle, fertility rates will drop, you’ve heard it all before. I know, it’s the same old story from yet another p/t doom sayer, but it has to be done or there will be no more doom sayers, no more people, no more big cities, no more iconic architecture, or movies, beer, cool t-shirts, even the bloggers will die out (eventually) – although I’m sure some of the most successful have already invested in a live/work space on the Moon.

Seriously vote for me lol. I never thought I’d have to say that, from now on I’ll leave that one to Barack, (if the Clintons let him :p).

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