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.  The Green Thing website is full of inspiring videos and stories from creative people around the world with excellent ideas for leading a greener life.

And Green Thing is two years old this week.  Happy Birthday Green Thing!

One of Green Thing’s recent brilliant ideas is Glove Love: a project designed to reduce waste and encourage re-use.  Green Thing describes Glove Love as “the stylish and sustainable union of the country’s single gloves.”

Green Thing are collecting lost and lonely gloves, washing them, finding them a new partner and then selling them.  When you buy a pair of Glove Love gloves, you can specify your size but the pair you receive will be a surprise.

Warm your hands and warm your heart, knowing that you have done a little bit to help the environment.  And made two lonely gloves very happy.

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Fraser’s quote explains his inspiration:

“My real inspiration is Body Shop founder Anita Roddick. When she was alive she proved you can make a successful business AND make it ethical.

“The fact she gave all her cash to charity says everything. I’d like to run my business like that.”

In other veg pot news, innocent recently introduced a new ‘autumn special’ veg pot called butternut pearl barley risotto. Look out for it in shops now!

This time we’d like to revive the age-old town vs country debate and ask whether it has any bearing on how lovely a company is. What do you think?

Poll closes: Friday 10th April, 2pm.

• The Guardian will be published exclusively on Twitter
• MOO announce the SUPER ECO FRIENDLY Business Card. Simply paint a business card you’ve been given by someone else then stick new letters on!
• President Obama visits Fruit Towers
• Google’s latest product – CADIE – will create the perfect webpage and help you with your email
• Firebox launched a couple of new products: SatNav shoes and the iREMember dream video recorder

What was your favourite April Fool this year?

Also: check out our list from last year and the huge list over on TechCrunch!

In the last couple of years they have launched in more than 1,000 stores, been named one of Scotland’s top innovations and set up a project running hundreds of tea parties for thousands of lonely elderly people all over the UK.

Congratulations to Fraser and everyone who has worked with SuperJam!

Last week I had lunch with Fabio De Benardi who is behind a delightful little website called ilikeucoz.

Billed as the world’s first appreciation engine, ilikeucoz is a free service that lets you send little messages of appreciation to your friends and loved ones. There is a nifty appreciation feed on the site’s homepage (they call it the ‘Cozmos’) which reminds me of another beatiful website: Twistori.

Fabio and a small team launched the site in just 48 hours at the Launch48 event last month.

Why not try out ilikeucoz now and brighten up someone’s day?

A few weeks ago a site called Corkd.com, run by Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, was hacked into, a story which made the front page of TechCrunch.

In a flash, Gary was on the scene with an honest update of the situation (see clip below). He took control of the situation and even turned it to his own advantage:

“Solid black eye! Very excited for the people at Adult Friend Finder. We’re in the midst of fixing it. Happy new year!”

The problem was then quickly resolved using the power of Twitter. Gary shares the full story with us here:

If you’re a Gary Vee fan then check back tomorrow as we’re going to run a little profile of him!

Also check out our previous post about Gary Vaynerchuk: The Future of Communities.

Great service comes from the heart…

Since February 14th (Valentine’s day), we’ve written about many of the lovely things that companies have been up to. Now it’s your turn to vote on your favourite company!

Once you’ve voted, spread the word far and wide about this poll and try to win as many votes as possible for your chosen company! Also, you could add the reason for your vote in the comments…

The winning company will win the prestigious LovelyCompanies.com People’s Award and will be able to display a special badge on their website!

The poll closes next Friday (21st November) at 6pm!