Sustainability

We operate a sustainability aware business, including:

1. We are all teleworkers and use foot, bicycle or public transport to travel.
2. Longer distance interaction is almost all via the internet.
3. We recycle.

Our greatest carbon producing activity comes from our servers, which are operated by our partners, LNC Limited:

1. They were pioneers in the area of teleworking and were the technology providers for the EU commissions DG13 Telework organisation.
2. Their HQ is based on an ecologically operated farm where all by products are slurried and recycled on the land.
3. They do not use weed killers, fertilisers or organ-phosphates.
4. They continue to use mixed level planting, which even if non “organic” is much more friendly to wildlife.
5. They minimise the use of mechanical agricultural techniques.
6. They stress the importance of hedgerow maintenance and tree/bush planting.
7. They encourage, by habitat manipulation, a balanced predator/prey environment which has eliminated mixamitosis.
8. They use only low power CPUs and disks.
9. They minimise or eliminate the use of paper.
10. They encourage pro-bono work to the extent of a tithe, but only to causes we think can benefit from it.
11. They personally operate carbon sequestration to the extent of 15-25 kilos per person.
12. They have active programs in place to exploit renewable energy resources such as wind, solar PV and geo-thermal.
13. They have an active energy saving program in place, for example insulated walls and ceilings, triple glazed windows and travel minimisation.
14. Their total HQ power consumption averages less than 3KW from the grid.
15. Their total company power use is little more, home and work included, than a normal person would use at home.
16. They constantly seek to curtail power use and have reduced power consumption by 35% in five years and expect to achieve further reductions in the next two.
17. They are carbon negative, by virtue of active management of their HQ site.
18. They have a company program of research into energy issues and seek to involve all employees in this.