This is intended to be a collection of businesses who do more than just meet consumer needs - they work for a Greater Good. Whether it's a clean environment, better public education, increased arts funding, and end to homelessness, support of medical research - these companies are making the world a better place.

My husband, Myles (who has a blog on here somewhere) is a bicycle commuter.  For a variety of reasons - most of which actually have to do with his sanity - he has eschewed the car in favor of half a dozen bikes that clutter our house with their parts.

Light Socket is a creative writing tutorial program to be run by high school AP English kids for the benefit of the local school communitiy. The high school students set up an after school program based at the high school or at a community center as a drop-in program for younger kids.

Lots of paved land surfaces are currently available for reforestation. Look at the center of almost any city or town and you will see opportunities for little pieces of land, sometimes only a 2-foot wide sliver of asphalt in the middle of a street, to be given back to nature by planting the right kind of vegetation.