6 RedemptionSet in the pleasant Oxfordshire countryside, the Pharmaceutical Ecology Corporation’s headquarters had the appearance of an under funded private school – by design, the anonymous dour look shielded a concerned but uninformed general public from the cutting edge work going on within.
The PEC had been in existence for twenty years. It had started out with high ideals, created by ecologically-driven scientists Ken Holton and Denise Ricard. The founders had resisted the temptation to use an amalgamation of their surnames for the company, choosing instead to declare their concern for the environment by including the word Ecology in the moniker - and this concern drove all their projects and investments. If any innovation offered little or no benefit to the crumbling environment it
