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In the Intrinsic Spring Blog and the Intrinsic Earth Network, we collaborate to provide the knowledge, means and understanding to impact and improve our one and only world.
Cultivated Meat
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
Plastics Guardian and Polluter
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
The Second Domestication: Precision Fermentation
The First Domestication was about Macrobiology – life that we can see. The Second Domestication is about life that we cannot see so readily – the microorganisms – and Precision Fermentation.
Symbiotic Business
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,
The Transformation of Business, Development and People. Part One: Recognition
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
Being More: The Intrinsic Spring in Our Lives
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
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