Factory Green, Inc., was an

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clothing and accessories online

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store and was based in

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. Factory Green was co-founded in 2007 by Daniel Lyons,

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, and Jack Short, President and Chairman. The company focused on offering "urban and trendy" environmentally friendly apparel, accessories, and apartment wares, marketing specifically to the college-aged demographic. The company offered both

organic cotton Organic cotton is generally defined as cotton that is grown organically in subtropical countries such as India, Turkey, China, and parts of the USA from non-genetically modified plants, and without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals ...

and

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apparel manufactured in facilities running solely on

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and

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. Factory Green donated a portion of its revenue to the

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Water For Life organization which provides clean water to under-served populations around the globe. Factory Green shipped to the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and

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History

Factory Green was founded by

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

undergraduates, who got the idea for the company from their study abroad experiences in

. The company no longer exists in 2024. The website domain is up for sale.

Philosophy

Factory Green aimed to take the environmental movement to a new generation of socially aware consumers, enabling them to live and wear the green lifestyle, and change the world through reducing their environmental impact.

Customer Base and Apparel

Factory Green's graphic apparel was designed by

fashion and design students. The blank organic cotton and bamboo T-shirts and hoodies were produced in small facilities in India which run on

and

and are constructed by

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workers.College Punks Moonlight as Eco Fashion Designers
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Online clothing retailers of the United States Companies based in Columbia, Missouri