Well, I just spent an hour writing a long, thoughtful, much-linked blog about Seventh Generation—the eco cleaning products company out of Burlington, Vermont—and the post refused to save, and vanished into the internet ether.

So, this is all I got—a new ‘ethical’ competition names Seventh Gen the best company on earth. Check out the other top winners—great companies, all—and decide for yourself whether such cos are indeed the greatest, and if so whether they’ll lead Capitalism down a green=green path…or if this is a bunch of hopeless hippie hype and self-congratulation as the world, by and large, goes to global warming hell in a handbasket.