Author Archives: Lindsay

About Lindsay

Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh since 2005. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon.

CommonWealth Press

Once upon a time, 2 girls decided they would silk-screen their own I heart PGH t-shirt and set up a little website. Well these girls wanted to be a good business and used sweat shop free t-shirts. We the t-shirts were so popular that these girls were running their own sweat shop to keep up with demand – CommonWealth Press saved the day. I first met Dan when I was looking for a screen printer who 1. actually knew what they were doing and 2. could help me make all the shirts people had order. Dan and I had a long conversation about screen printing and chemicals and the enviroment. Basically screenprinting isn’t soo good for the earth, but everything that Commonwealth Press uses to print t-shirts is as green as it can be.
Dan and Shannon started CommonWealth Press in the basement of their southside house. CommonWeatlh has grown and they are now located in an awesome loft above the beer distributor on 2oth Street in the South Side.
So if you need t-shirts or stickers or a website give Dan and Shannon a call, they will be happy to work with you to get exactly what you need. They can order sweatshop free or organic t-shirts too! They can also help you get other things like stickers and pins made up.

Bar Art

About a month ago the City Paper profiled Duncan Prahl – by day he works at a green building company, at night he can be found at local watering holes (often Kelly’s) setting up arrangements of plastic toys. Check out his website BarAnimals.com
to see some of his arrangements.
Click here to see the City Paper interview with Duncan – http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=Local%20Vocal&action=getComplete&ref=5012

run-baby-run

run-baby-run
is back and better than ever. Over the past 2 years Run-Baby-Run has held one day workshops about how to run for office.
Now Run Baby Run is looking to put together a team of women to run for office in 2006. The hardest part is finding women to run.
If you have ever thought about running for office or if you know a woman who you think should run for office please contact Gloria ASAP – gtforouzan@yahoo.com.

Girlcott Success

Oh yet another reason to heart western PA. The girls who are participating in the “Girls as Grantmaker” program called for a boycott of Abercrombie and Fitch’s t-shirt with saying like “Who needs brains when you have these” or “I had a nightmare I was a brunette” printed across the chest. The girlcott was successful and Abercrombie will remove the shirts from the stores. Continue reading