X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Natura


Guilherme Leal

He is the co-chairman of the Board of Directors of, and owns a 25% stake in, Natura, Brazil's leading manufacturer and marketer of skin care, solar filters, cosmetics, perfume and hair care products.

Natura

In 2012 it had more than 1.2 million "consultants" (resellers) spread throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Mexico, Peru, USA, Australia, UK and among others, and since 2006 surpasses Avon's sales in Brazil.

Otto Scharmer

He has worked with governments in Africa, Asia, and Europe and has delivered award-winning leadership and innovation programs for companies, including Daimler, Eileen Fisher, PriceWaterhouse, Fujitsu, Google, and Natura.


Cecilia López Montaño

In the past, she was a member of the board of directors with the International Water Management Institutelocated in Sri Lanka with Rawoo, the Advisory Council of the Dutch Government, Globalization for Development in New York, and in Colombia, Fedesarrollo and the Natura Foundation.

Claudius Aelianus

The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship (which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium XI.40, that he had seen the bull Serapis with his own eyes).

Cupronickel

Notably, Andreas Libavius, in his Alchemia of 1597 mentions a surface-whitened copper aes album by mercury or silver; but in De Natura Metallorum in Singalarum Part 1, of 1599, the same term was applied to "tin" from the East Indies (modern-day Indonesia and the Philippines) and given the Spanish name: tintinaso.

Fons memorabilium universi

This organization had been developed in the 13th century by Vincent of Beauvais in his Speculum naturale and had also been used by Bartholomaus Anglicus in his De proprietatibus rerum and by Thomas of Cantimpré in his Liber de natura rerum.

La Novelle Natura Brevium

La Novelle Natura Brevium (1534) was a treatise on English law by Anthony Fitzherbert.

Robert S. Corrington

In order to effectively speak or theorize about nature, then, Corrington has picked up on “a distinction dear to Averroes, Thomas of Aquinas, Baruch Spinoza, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (among others)” between natura naturans nature naturing and natura naturata nature natured.


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