T.S. Designs' mission is to build a sustainable company that considers people, the planet and profits. They have been working towards sustainability since 1977, and in the late 1990s changed their mission to a triple bottom line approach. Currently over 90% of their t-shirts are domestically made and over 70% are made in North Carolina. Their Cotton of the Carolinas program aims to shift cotton production back to a local level with a goal of "dirt to shirt" travel of 600 miles to support North Carolina jobs and lower transportation footprints.