EcologistDating is a collaboration between Loveandfriends.net and the Ecologist (which is published by The Resurgence Trust)

Loveandfriends have been running high quality, 'niche' dating sites for 'thinking people' since 1999 and are honoured that the Ecologist wanted to team up to provide this service. The idea is to enable like-minded 'Eco friendly' people to find each other for love and friendship.

Members of EcologistDating are joining an existing database of many 10,000s of people from a network of other high quality sites. 'Eco Search' is a key way of finding other eco minded people as the computer will search out people whose profiles, jobs and interests flag them up as likely to be eco friendly.

Look out for the 'Eco Leaf' Badges on profiles. These get assigned according to how eco friendly the computer analyses each profile to be.

Five leaves would indicated someone very eco friendly - for example they could be a vegan who directly joined EcologistDating.com itself. One leaf would be someone just slightly eco friendly - perhaps they are on a partner site such as loveandfriends.com but are vegetarian or into gardening. A grey leaf indicates no eco clues have been found in their profile. If you have any suggestions for fine tuning our eco analysis system - please do let us know.