Renewable Revolution

Technology => Advances in Health Care => Topic started by: AGelbert on February 21, 2015, 01:08:51 am

Title: Frugal Innovations
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2015, 01:08:51 am
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This is how people in less
affluent countries are paving
the way for a sustainable
future.

The humanitarian way is not
in scrounging for profit, but
scrounging for the full use of
every resource.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRZ6OrSvvI&feature=player_embedded

Getting the most out of what we have

"Jugaad", or frugal innovation, is the practice of creating technology to meet human needs using the smallest amount of resources as possible. This method has sparked out of necessity in many countries of the global South, as the wealth of money, power, industry and developed resources just simply isn't as present in many of these regions. But could this process of frugal innovation be paving the way to a sustainable future? - See more at: http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/enlightened-simplicity/frugal-innovation-resourcefulness-as-the-essence-of-sustainability.html#sthash.onJN6pfX.dpuf