4. Vivavi, www.vivavi.com
Named last year by Inc. magazine as one of the 50 most intriguing green businesses helping to drive the green revolution, Vivavi not only sells eco-friendly products, they also run their business in a socially responsible way. The company's furniture showroom and headquarters are powered by 100 percent clean wind energy. Vivavi is also a member of 1% for the Planet (www.OnePercentForThePlanet.org), an alliance of socially and environmentally responsible businesses that donate 1 percent of all sales to environmental organizations.
Another bonus: Vivavi's furniture is flat out gorgeous. Created by independent designers working in sustainable and earth-friendly materials, the line includes this gorgeous wall-mounted bench, made of eco-friendly bent maple plywood and non-toxic water based adhesives, and the A1 chair, made from a single sheet of 1/4-inch aluminum and created for indoor/outdoor use without any hardware or adhesives. (The chair is 100 percent recyclable, but we can't imagine anyone ever wanting to get rid of it.) Vivavi also sells a range of hip kids' furniture — one of the only lines we've seen that isn't so sickly-sweet looking it makes your teeth ache.
