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. They take the opportunity to ponder the meaning of Socially Responsible Investing on their CSR blog Open For Discussion
- Traidcraft relaunched their online shop – we think it looks great!
- It’s official: innocent smoothies do count as two of your five-a-day
- Facebook’s PR team prove they have a sense of humour by pranking TechCrunch
- Carpet manufacturer Interface’s CEO Ray Anderson (who’s TED talk we featured back in May) has just written a book about his company’s goal of achieving total sustainability by 2020. The book is described on the described on the TED Blog as “a guide for entrepreneurs who are looking for new models of production (especially ones with environmentally friendly attitudes) in a market that’s always reinventing itself”
- Dave McClure (profile) has had a busy summer looking after the fbFund REV social incubator program:
- Seth Godin has a great little post about the importance of teaching
- It was announced on the Howies blog – Brainfood – that they are half way to getting 1 million people to watch The Do Lectures online. Why not help them out with their ambitious goal? They also laid down the rules for the first every howies raft race!
- Method (profile) score a write-up on Inhabitat. Also on Inhabitat: Skyburbs – building suburbs in the skies!
- SuperJam (profile) are offering a free jar of jam to anyone who suggests a stockist that makes an order
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (profile), has been judging the startups at TechCrunch50. He’s been questioning why they aren’t trying to change the world and also whether they really need to raise money to get going:
- Eric Ries has a great blog post about ‘The cardinal sin of community management‘
- Andrew Warner’s recent interview with Matt Mullenweg contains, among other things, a fascinating insight into business models around open source software
- TreeHugger reports that Google is aiming to halve the cost of solar power
Great set of resources David. Thanks for including my work in it!