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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.
Allergens, Costs, Climates and Cures
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
China, Saint George and Nature
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
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,
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