The Intrinsic Spring Blog

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

Recognising the Transformation In recent decades, many changes have been made in business and society to deal with sustainability and the impacts of new technologies. But these changes mark only the end of the beginning of a major transformation. The current ‘take, make, waste’ economy is increasingly being criticised by society, industry and politics because it is facing raw material, ecological and social limits. It is time for local authorities, agencies, businesses, educational institutions, NGOs, you and me – the citizens, to seize the initiative and lead the way to Better Lives for All. Evidence of the transformation is widespread and has been accumulating for decades. For example, some notable milestones include the numerous Climate Change Agreements such as: the Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997

The Intrinsic Spring In preparation for this first blog post, I asked a few friends just what Intrinsic Spring meant in their lives. They told me – so let’s get their funnies out of the way before we get down. Intrinsic Spring is not a car part, an upholstery support, a bar, a plumbing emergency, a prosthetic limb, a jack-in-the-box, a watch drive, a revised Fosbury Flop, a sprightly walk, a joke cushion, an indoor fountain, an outdoor foundation, a pacemaker or a new kind of Pogo Stick. Thanks for that! Joking aside, Intrinsic Spring refers to the stuff of everyday slipping bye, renewing, transforming, resetting the scene as the bees busy in the geraniums that I watch whilst I write; the granite crystals in