Ethical Sense or Adsense?

I received the email below yesterday (no idea why it was written in lurid purple!). Having had a look, I wasn’t initially convinced that Blackle is for real. Both natural and paid search results differ from those returned on conventional Google. It could be that it’s only set up for US searchers. Or a more [...]

Fair Flowers Fairer Business – The Rise of Ethical Flowers

This June in the UK was recorded as having the highest rainfall level of the last fifty years (ie since records began!). Surprisingly, last year The Met Office issued warnings of high temperatures and continued hot weather during the same period. We had the hottest April on record ever this year. All very odd. It [...]

Fair Flowers Fair Server – Carbon Neutral Flower Hosting

A couple of weeks ago we moved our website to greener pastures; RackSpace. Moving ISPs is not something you want to do on a regular basis and is often associated with fear. The fear of losing something along the way (our website and thus livelihood, for instance!). This time the process of migration was done [...]

World Environment Day Give Away

Tuesday 5th June was an exciting day for Sam (tech and design guru), Ronald (flower buying Dutch masterpiece), Alina (chief flower wrangler) and myself (me!), as we attended ABN Amro’s “World Environment Day” fair in ABN’s offices in the City of London. ABN Amro is pretty hot on sustainable initiatives and driving ethical, environmental policies [...]

Missing In Traction…

I’ve been cycling to work most days of late, as we no longer have the electric van that we trialled recently so my options have been either extortionate pay as you go tube fares or a fun and healthy bike ride to kick the day off. Not much contest really. However, I clearly had bad [...]

The newest member of the Arena family

We got this fine specimen in from Hiremech today, to begin a week’s trial – it’s an electric van. If it does the trick, we’ll get fully Arena-branded ones for all our central London deliveries. Here’s Mariusz, Arena’s Head of Distribution, plugging her in for the first time. And this is Tom (on the right) [...]

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