About Intrinsic Spring
Better Business, Better World.
The Intrinsic Ecosystem
Intrinsic Spring is the home of Symbiotic Businesses and their underlying knowledge, philosophy and values. It is the place where ideas become realties and knowledge becomes opportunity and capability. We apply the principles of ecology to find a balance between the impacts of economic agency and the complex interactions of natural and human worlds.
Every product, business, knowledge-post and editorial in Intrinsic Spring serves to build systems that work with – not against – our living planet and its many environments.
The Intrinsic Spring Ecosystem brings together knowledge, Symbiotic Businesses, communities and emerging values to reshape our lives. It connects Intrinsic Spring, the Intrinsic Earth Network, Symbiotic Businesses and many diverse communities into one coherent framework — a joined‑up way of seeing and acting in the world. Through shared insight, practical tools, and global collaboration, the ecosystem helps people and organisations navigate the long overdue transformation to a future in which all life on Earth thrives.
The Bridge Books
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Intrinsic Spring is built around a body of work that defines the new landscape of knowledge, science, values and opportunities. Three books form the backbone of the Intrinsic Ecosystem. They provide the theory, worldview, and practical pathways that guide everything we do.
Intrinsic Sustainable Development: Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability – Establishes the joined‑up reality revealed by modern science and shows how sustainable development must evolve to match it. On Amazon.
Intrinsic Capability: Implementing Intrinsic Sustainable Development for an Ecological Civilisation – Explores the human, organisational, and societal capabilities needed to thrive in a multi‑value world shaped by global transformation. On Amazon.
Symbiotic Business:: A Reality Check for Boardrooms, Business Schools and Citizens – The newest and most practical volume, a blueprint for businesses that create regenerative value by working with, not against, their environments. On Amazon.
Together, these works encapsulate the intellectual spring that drives our tools, our community, and our mission: Better Business, Better World.
THIS IS INTRINSIC SPRING
Intrinsic Spring is the voice for a collaboration of peoples that identifies and encourages high-impact innovations for Better Lives and Better Business. With members drawn from around the world, Intrinsic Spring is a unifying and informative force within the global transformations that are setting new standards for the Good-Life, Business Success and Sustainable Development.
Intrinsic Spring is open to all.
INTRINSIC SPRING FOUNDING MEMBERS
Dr Olga Cam,
Environmental Accounting
& Sustainability Education,
Sheffield University, UK.
Natalia Welch,
Entrepreneur,
CEO Pura Panela
& Loro Crisps
Sheffield, UK.
Professor Zeng-Wei Yuan
President Lishu Institute of Ecology,
Nanjing University, China.
Jane (Liu Zhen),
Counsellor,
Beijing, China.
Nick Birkinshaw,
CEO Habitat Works,
Habitat management, wetland
creation & aquatic ecology,
Sheffield, UK.
Dr Mónica Ramos-Mejía,
Sustainability Innovation,
Pontificia Universidad
Javeriana, Bogota,
Colombia.
Dr. Wei Zhang
张薇
Researcher
Finance & Economics
Dr. Yiren Wu
吴祎仁
Teaching Associate
Sustainable Marketing
University of Sheffield
Frank Birkin
Emeritus Professor
Accounting for Sustainability
University Sheffield
Dr Ann-Christine Frandsen,
Multiple-Value Accounting,
University of Birmingham,
UK.
Dr Collins Makunda,
Built Environment &
Design, University of
Nairobi, Kenya
Lily Tu,
Financial Consultant,
Shanghai,
China.
Maria Maria-Teresa Speziale,
Management Accounting
& the Collaborative City,
Bologna, Italy.
Dr Veronica Broomes,
Sustainability Consultant & Entrepreneur,
Sheffield, UK.
Michael McGrath,
Director Stena Mettal,
Gothenburg,
Sweden.
Andressa Schröder,
Arts, Aesthetics &
Cultural Sustainability,
Berlin, Germany.
Dr Lien Monkhouse,
Ethical Marketing &
Vietnamese Cultural
Sustainability,
University of Sheffield,
UK.
Dr Madlen Sobkowiak,
Social & Environmental
Accounting, Ocean
Stewardship, University of
Birmingham, UK.
Jingjing Yu,
Multi-Value Accounting
and Education,
Zhongkai University,
Guangzhou, China.
Dr Tamara Oakes,
Collaborative Business
Models,
University of Twente,
Netherlands.
Dr Hua Chen,
Sustainable
Development,
Nanjing University,
China.
Dr Fan Mingyue, Social
Media & Business
Intelligence, Jiangsu
University, China.
We all draw from the spring
Intrinsic Spring is underpinned by three principles:
New Values
Our Values define us & create the world we occupy – as Knowledge changes so do Values
Major Global Institutions are driving a Multi-value Transformation
in Businesses and Everyday Life
New Knowledge
There is a new foundation for knowledge underlying everyday experience & now identified by science – it is a joined up world
Goals and practices need updating in this new Reality
New Opportunities
When Knowledge and Values change
Worldwide there will be winners and Losers
We see Change as Opportunity to support your Personal and Business Transformations
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