Our Brands

Little Green World provides environmental consultancy services, awareness training modules, and experiential learning tools to schools, village panchayat, mountaineering institutes, and government agencies across the Himalayan region. They work with these groups to develop and adopt sustainable practices related to waste, water conservation, land use, climate change mitigation, and environmental monitoring. Their mission is to help people in the region transition to zero waste, sustainable lifestyles that are in harmony with nature. Little Green World knows the local context and adapts their services to local conditions. They offer sliding scale fees and concessionary rates as needed.

Little Hands and Nature empowers children to develop emotional resilience, confidence, and creativity through mindful, nature-based play. They produce sensory play sets, craft kits, potion-making kits, subscription boxes, party kits, and activities that foster parent-child connection and encourage playful exploration. Little Hands and Nature prioritizes recyclable, biodegradable, and sustainably sourced materials, prints with plant-based inks, uses recycled packaging materials, and encourages customers to repurpose packaging into art projects or storage. They plant trees through GoodAPI and donate products to cooperative schools, children’s hospitals, and children in underserved communities. Little Hands and Nature is a Green America certified business.

Little Lagoon Hostels offer affordable accommodation on Sri Lanka's east coast in Arugam Bay and on the south coast in Ahangama. In order to avoid resource use and new construction, they have renovated existing buildings, converted shipping containers into private rooms, and upcycled building materials and furniture. Little Lagoons minimizes single-use plastics, segregates and recycles waste, and has a free water refill station. They support local community initiatives by organizing charity dinners and contributing to local events.

Little Sun brings clean energy to communities living without electricity in Africa and inspires people to take climate action globally. They started with the design and distribution of Little Sun lamps, small portable solar lights that enable students to study after dark without the toxic fumes from kerosene fuel. Little Sun also uses the lamps to raise awareness and give people everywhere direct and personal experience with solar energy. Recognizing that the lamps are only the first step on the energy access ladder, Little Sun expanded to other programs. They increase agricultural productivity by providing solar energy for irrigation, cold storage, crop processing, and mechanization, and they improve health outcomes by equipping rural health centers with solar systems and distributing solar phone chargers to community health workers. Little Sun also partners with humanitarian aid agencies to distribute solar devices to refugees, internally displaced people, and host communities around the world.

Surangani Voluntary Services (SVS) has been working to develop better learning environments for children in Sri Lanka since 1992. They support preschools in disadvantaged communities, provide educational necessities for children in low-income families, and publish picture books and children’s songs in Sinhala, Tamil, and English. In 2011, SVS established the Little Tree Center for special needs children in Buttala. They have a small snack factory and handicraft workshop to provide continuous support for the center. Little T’s peanuts are grown with no synthetic agrichemicals by the mothers of special needs children and are processed and packed in the snack factory. Their kithul jaggery roasted peanuts and deviled peanuts are popular snacks and gifts.

Live Safe Education reduces the risk of physical harm through practical and effective personal safety education and self-defense training for schools and organizations in Australia. Learning self-defense enhances confidence and wellbeing and results in a safer community. Live Safe provides discounted and pro bono services to charitable organizations and is committed to making the physical and mental health benefits of their training accessible to everyone. Each paid training program enables them to provide accessible training through Krav Maga Australia, their social enterprise in Moorabbin that serves survivors, neurodivergent youth, people with physical challenges, and low-income communities. Live Safe Education is a Social Traders Certified Social Enterprise and a member of Social Enterprise Network of Victoria (SENVIC).

Living Heritage Koslanda is a luxury boutique hotel in Sri Lanka's hill country that was developed over more than thirty years to respect and preserve the region's natural biodiversity and traditional heritage. The forest retreat was designed by Manik Sandrasagra in collaboration with renowned Sri Lankan architect Channa Daswatte. Buildings were positioned and constructed according to traditional astrology and architecture. Local craftsmen used sustainably sourced local timber, clay bricks, tiles, and stone and traditional building methods, some of which had to be relearned and revived. Living Heritage Koslanda is committed to sustainable tourism. They preferentially hire from the surrounding area and have enabled a number of local women to earn an income and provide a better education for their children. They cultivate an organic garden for salad greens, herbs, and vegetables and harvest black pepper for sale. Through conservation and extensive tree planting, Living Heritage Koslanda has regenerated 80 acres of forest and is now working with local schools and other partners to expand these activities beyond their boundaries to combat environmental degradation and climate change.

Living on the Spectrum provides an online directory of information and resources in Australia to improve the lives of neurodivergent individuals and caregivers. The site is free and accessible and makes it quick and easy to find inclusive businesses, products, services, events, news, research, and other information related to autism and living on the spectrum. Businesses that offer events, services, or products for the neurodivergent community are able to add free basic listings or paid premium listings. Not-for-profit organizations are able to add all listings for free. Living on the Spectrum was developed by and for the neurodivergent community. They provide work placement opportunities for young autistic individuals and actively support other organizations led by autistic individuals and caregivers through volunteering and financial contributions.

Living Seeds was started by a family from Kurunegala to improve access to healthy, all natural foods, create market access and employment opportunities for local families, support the transition to organic agriculture, and reduce the use of plastic packaging. Living Seeds aims to serve as an example of an environmentally responsible company. They specialize in value products from local ingredients including aloe vera, lime, ginger, cinnamon, pepper, coconut, pineapple, okra, and polos.

Living Woodlands creates forests and restores native biodiversity in Ireland. They work with individuals, businesses, schools and community groups to transform bare or under-used land into flourishing living woodlands that serve as biodiversity havens and rapidly sequester carbon. After identifying a project site, Living Woodlands adds locally sourced compost to restore soil health and enable underground mycelial webs to grow and flourish. They select 10 to 15 species of locally sourced native saplings suited to the soil type. Forest planting is done with community volunteers, including school children, and follows the Miyawaki method to mimic natural afforestation. Living Woodlands uses citizen science to monitor biodiversity. Community members serve as stewards and conduct surveys and studies of their local forest with support from a scientific advisory panel. This method develops living woodlands 10 times faster than conventional tree planting. Living Woodlands is a member of Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland and a not-for-profit company. All surplus is reinvested towards their mission.

Liya Diriya is a community based women's association in the Digana area that works for environmental sustainability and the betterment of society. To reduce plastic waste, they produce reusable bags from unbleached cotton and upcycled fabrics. Local enterprises partner with Liya Diriya to create custom bags with hand-painted logos and designs. The women also collect the blank pages from used exercise books and upcycle them into new notebooks.⁠ Liya Diriya is registered as a women's society with the local government and works closely with Tamarind Gardens Farm.

LiyaWela is a collective of young artists that wants to preserve traditional Sri Lankan temple art and painting techniques. They are focused on the 3Rs: reducing, reusing, and recycling. The LiyaWela artists collect or buy used housewares, scrap wood, and other waste materials from rural suppliers. They paint these items and give them a second life.

Local Futures is dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by restoring cultural and biological diversity and strengthening local communities and local economies worldwide. They are a pioneer of the new economy movement. Since 1978, Local Futures has educated millions on the systemic root causes of our contemporary social, environmental, and economic crises, developed a strategy for change called economic localization that simultaneously addresses the root causes of these crises, and connected a global network of resonant people and organizations. They raise awareness through books, campaigns, events, education for action tools, and films including The Economics of Happiness and Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Local Futures founded the International Alliance for Localization, hosts World Localization Day, organizes Economics of Happiness conferences, and maintains Planet Local, an online library of inspiring grassroots initiatives. They are registered as a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a remote team and offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Ladakh. Local Futures is part of the New Economy Coalition and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.

Good Market is a curated platform that brings together people creating a better world. All of the vendors on the site have been through an application and review process to ensure they meet Good Market standards and are good for people and good for the planet.

Local Village supplies equitably sourced and sustainably grown African ingredients including ancient grains, superfoods, gluten-free flours, pastas, legumes, and snacks. They aim to be part of a healthier food system, a living value chain that connects our diverse humanity, our traditions, and cultures through food. Local Village sources from agripreneurs and small-scale producers throughout Africa and focuses on indigenous, locally adapted crops with minimal water requirements like fonio, teff, sorghum, tiger nuts, bambara ground nuts, baobab, amaranth, and moringa. They use their platform to share recipes and raise awareness about African ingredients. Local Village is part of Nourishing Africa and Value for Her.

Local Women's Handicrafts (LWH) is a fair trade women's collective that creates unique ethical fashion and housewares. The founder worked as a child laborer in a Nepali sweatshop and started LWH in 2008 when she was still a teenager. Today, LWH production facilities provide a safe space for women who have escaped exploitation, abuse, forced marriage, and other injustices. They have the opportunity to heal, participate in training, develop new skills, and receive a stipend. After the training, they can choose to work at the center with a living wage or open their own business. LWH prioritizes environmentally responsible materials and practices. They minimize waste and make hand-woven, hand-knit, and felted products from recycled sari, local hemp, and wool. LWH aims to end childhood slavery, forced marriage, and other injustices against women and create a transparent textile industry that honors dignity, human rights, and sustainability.

Good Market is a curated platform that brings together people creating a better world. All of the vendors on the site have been through an application and review process to ensure they meet Good Market standards and are good for people and good for the planet.

London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) works with families and communities to give London's children, especially those most in need, the best start in life by providing access to high quality, affordable early years education and care. They have been promoting child welfare and family health since 1903. Today, they run 40 nurseries across 12 London boroughs that provide education and care to children from birth to five years old. LEYF uses a cross-subsidy model and works with partners to provide funded places and additional meals and hours of care for children in need. Their sustainability strategy, Green LEYF, is an organizational commitment to environmentally responsible practices, teaching children to care for the planet, and building a community of eco champions. They have achieved Planet Mark and ISO 14001 Environmental Management certifications. LEYF is a member of Social Enterprise UK, Social Business Trust, Early Years Alliance, and Early Education and Childcare Coalition. They operate as a not-for-profit social enterprise and reinvest all surplus towards their mission.

London Skills & Development Network (LSDN) aims to enhance the life chances, economic independence, and social mobility opportunities of their students by helping them develop the necessary technical, academic, and life skills to realize their fullest potential. They provide adult education and community learning programs, consultancy services, and capacity-building support in partnership with local authorities, housing associations, probation services, faith groups, and other community service providers. LSDN runs the Skills & Development Alliance, Apprenticeships in Action, Railway Training Network, and Career Development Network. They have an active environmental policy and track energy, water, waste management, and transport use. LSDN has Living Wage Employer accreditation and is a member of Social Enterprise UK, Mental Health Charter, Investors in People, Good Work Standard, Care Leaver Covenant, Armed Forces Covenant, Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS), and the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). They are a not-for-profit social enterprise and reinvest all surplus towards their purpose.

Longsock produces nosework kits for dogs to make scent training sustainable, safe, and accessible. Their refillable toys are made from organic cotton and wool, and their compostable scents are made from locally grown organic herbs and spices. Longsock dog toys provide mental stimulation, use up excess energy, reduce anxiety, build bonds, and make it easy to engage in daily play without long walks, extra treats, toxic materials, or unnecessary waste. Products are manufactured at a not-for-profit sewing facility in Texas that employs refugees and provides fair wages.