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Blue Planet Aggregate Science

Love your Planet – Help stop Climate Change

July 29, 2024

Blue Planet Action: Symbiotic Building Materials Blue Planet technology combines waste carbon dioxide with calcium sourced from waste, to manufacture synthetic limestone aggregate.   CO2 is safely and permanently stored  in aggregate   Process is Geomimetic®, meaning that it mimics the earth’s natural process of creating carbonate rocks or limestone – Biomimicry   The calcium source, referred to as Geomass, can be a range of materials: Demolished/Returned Concrete Cement Kiln Dust Steel Slag Fly Ash / APCr Bauxite Residue Silicate Rocks A COST EFFECTIVE PERMANT CO2 STORE The Blue Planet Mix is  CARBON NEGATIVE Blue Planet Mission  is to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere Half of all anthropogenic CO2 can be captured & permanently stored using Blue Technology A Symbiotic Business Read More Here BLUE

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Allergen Environment - The Lancet

Allergens, Costs, Climates and Cures

August 2, 2023

So much news is rightly dominated by external environmental crises: climate change, wildfires, heatwaves, extinctions, pollution, waste mountains, habitat loss and plastics. But this does not mean we should overlook the related crises internal to ourselves: for example, the allergy crisis. The Allergy Crisis in Figures “Allergy is the most common chronic disease in Europe. Up to 20% of patients with allergies struggle daily with the fear of a possible asthma attack, anaphylactic shock, or even death from an allergic reaction.” “More than 150 million Europeans suffer from chronic allergic diseases and the current prediction is that by 2025 half of the entire EU population will be affected.” “Seven times as many people were admitted to hospital with severe allergic reactions in Europe in 2015

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St George & Dragon

China, Saint George and Nature

June 17, 2023

The biggest question of the age is “How did we forget our deep relations with nature?” Climate change, pollution, resource depletion, species loss and even human isolation, depression, lack of identity and dissatisfaction can be explained by our loss of natural relations. In this blog, we can explore an explanation of how we began to lose our sense of natural heritage and contrast it with a belief system for which nature is very much alive and meaningful. We can put together one answer to that question by contrasting aspects of European and Chinese religions. Ancient China had enjoyed a very different relationship with nature from that to be found in Christian Europe. Respective attitudes towards dragons may help to make the distinction clear. In Europe,

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Cultivated Meat

Cultivated Meat

May 16, 2023

Have you tried plant-based meat and dairy? Not as good as the real thing is it? But that will change. Anyone concerned about the terrible, unsustainable impacts of livestock production, will welcome major changes to farming industries. Rearing animals so that we can eat them emits 18% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gases and is a major cause of water shortages and deforestation. However, even if no-meat products are brilliant for sustainability, nutrition and affordability, they will not sell if taste, smell or texture is not up to the mark. So, a next generation of cultivated meat is now undergoing approval around the world. The Dutch company Meatable is a pioneer in cultivated meat products. Their products have the potential to recreate the tastes, smell, texture,

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Plastics Guardian and Polluter

March 15, 2023

Plastics – Nature’s Guardian, Our Benefactor ….. & Polluting Biohazard! John Wesley Hyatt won $10,000 to find a substitute for the ivory that was once in high demand to make billiard balls for the popular sport. The demand for ivory as well as other natural products such as tortoiseshell, horn and linen was depleting natural resources. People wanted alternatives to help save nature. This happened in 1869 and Hyatt had discovered how to make plastics. His invention provided a revolutionary, nature-saving solution. Hyatt’s plastic could be crafted into a variety of shapes and made to imitate many natural substances. Industry could now create many new materials to reduce the depletion of the natural world.  Advertisements of the day praised Hyatt’s plastic as the saviour of

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Symbiotic Business

August 18, 2022

Business Redesign One of the biggest questions for all of us right now is how to make business sustainable. Unless we are to return to living in relatively isolated hunter gather communities, then we will need to collaborate to clothe, house, feed and entertain ourselves. That will be, in the broadest of terms, doing the business. So how will we do it? Who will own, co-ordinate, direct and manage truly sustainable businesses? What will a sustainable business model look like – would we recognise it?  Paul Hawken, the American entrepreneurial ecological activist, considered these questions and decided that it is: Hawken, P. (1993). The Ecology of Commerce. London: HarperCollins. pp. XIII-IV I agree with Paul. We need to drink deep in the Intrinsic Spring, be

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