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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
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
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