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Earth Friendly Products
What are Earth Friendly Products? We have never come across a definition of earth friendly products, so we have to …
Corporate Gifts
This Blog Is About Corporate Gifts Corporate gifts – sounds boring, doesn’t it? We searched the internet for examples of the kind of gift you can give. Twenty minutes later, we realised that outside of (incredibly lovely) bars of chocolate there is very little else on offer to send to a business or employee as a gift. Honestly, we saw some tragic ideas…. The Worst Corporate Gifts We Saw Included those old-fashioned ‘balls on a string that knock together’ executive toys, clocks that told you the time in Paris, New York and Hong Kong (money never sleeps!), hip flask (for …
Growing Cut Flowers
Growing Cut Flowers in the UK One of the most amazing ways you can use your garden space here in the UK is to grow your own cut flowers. Cut flowers are such an unusual product – they are basically plants that are being chopped whilst in their prime, sent out for sale, then we are buying them and placing them in a vase in order to watch them die. To do this with flowers grown in other countries means the flowers are put through several modes of transport (trucks, planes, lorries, trucks again, then cars…) just to reach our homes. It …
Arnold Schwarzenegger & Climate Change
Just before Christmas last year, Arnold Schwarzenegger (of Mr Universe, Terminator, Governor of California fame… you’ve heard of him, right?) posted a short essay on Facebook about climate change. It was titled: I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change A fantastic, emotive title, but even better is what he had to say in the post – he refused to spend the time debating with naysayers who didn’t believe in climate change. Just took this waste of time and energy arguing about ‘the facts’ right out of the equation. “To use one of the four-letter words …