Far from carefully choosing a few business-friendly good causes, Lush has backed a plethora of controversial causes from Guantanamo prisoners, to hunt saboteurs and the anti-fracking campaign.
It kept me going when times were tough, and I have often turned to it in the years since my return as a "spiritual barometer", to make sure I am not straying too far from my chosen path.
I e-mailed the office and notified friends and family that I'd arrived safelyand that my most difficult task so far was choosing from the resort's pillow menu.
N17 doesn't have SESC's theatre, library, swimming pool and sports courts, but there is no doubting the enthusiasm of the apprentices, of whom there are so far five, chosen from a hundred applicants.
At Amai, not far from Union Square, you choose from a fascinating list whose provenance is described in excruciating detail, at which point a staff member pulls the leaves out of an old-fashioned library card catalog cabinet.
Fuel use depends not only on the efficiency of the car fleet but also on the daily decisions that people make — how far from work they choose to live and how often they carpool or use public transportation.
At Planter Resource in the flower district, what appealed to him was an actual pot, but it was far from ordinary: he chose a 39-inch lime-green fiberglass one shaped like a giant Coca-Cola glass.
Director Peter Sellars - never far from controversy - chose to respond to the 450ft spread of red PVC ('a Guernica for the twenty- first century') by staging an hour-and-a-half-long rant against American imperialism, presented in the form of a Pentagon press conference and held directly under the central 'mouth' of Marsyas.
The increment in each of the iterations ensures that the resultant proteins do not diverge far from the initially chosen protein.
As such, the filmmakers had far more to choose from than they had space to show it.
