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I’ve learnt a lot. Take cotton, for example. A simple, natural material, you might think, but Natalie Southgate, founder of The Organic Toy Company knows otherwise. ...

Established in 1990 by Prince Charles, Duchy Originals is a pioneer of the organic food movement. Beginning with a humble oaten biscuit in 1992, a recent partnership with Waitrose means the Duchy range will include over 500 organic products (see video below)...

Remember Green Thing? We introduced you to him last year and while he may appear to be a hideous monster he is, in fact, not hideous at all. The Green Thing is a not-for-profit organisation designed to promote sustainable living...

Share and annotate your videos with Omnisio! Paul Graham, founder of ycombinator, discusses the value of benevolence when working with tech startups.

In case you haven’t come acrossiFixit before, they’re a relatively small startup that offer detailed electronicsteardowns, DIYrepair guides and all the tools you’d need to do them.Basically, they’re aim is to put the power back in the hands of the consumer, when it comes to the maintenance and rep...

innocent drinks recently had a visit from the folks at LeapAnywhere.com and they were kind enough to take a camera crew around with them so that we can all have a peak inside! Look out for innocent’s Sustainability Manager Jess Samson who we wrote about last December.

In his heartwarming talk from this year’s TEDGlobal in Oxford Jonathan Zittrain discusses various random acts of kindness from the online world.

Yesterday Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of LastMinute.com, was placed at No. 25 in the Telegraph’s 50 Most Influential Briton’s in Technology. Back in 1997, with business partner Brent Hoberman, she started LastMinute.com which became one of the hits of the UK’s dot-com era. Sinc...

How would you like your employer to hold you accountable for your carbon footprint? WSP Group is doing just that. The global management and consultancy service is pioneering a novel way to reduce the carbon footprint of its employees...

Microsoft don’t feature very often here on LovelyCompanies.com but all that could be about to change with their new ad campaign for Windows 7. Is this not the cutest advert you’ve ever seen? (Hat tip: @LeeSimpson)

Here’s a round-up of all the posts from the LovelyCompanies.com blogroll that I’ve starred recently in my Google Reader. Feedback on this experimental post format is very welcome! McDonalds were named in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the fifth year straight. Th...