This blog series invites readers to rethink innovation. Rather than starting with technology or scale, it begins with people, practices, and context. It brings together:
Academic insights into frugal innovation: lessons from decades of research and the potential of frugal practices for sustainable solutions worldwide.
Cultural and philosophical perspectives on frugality: values and practices from diverse traditions, highlighting collective well-being and sustainable living.
Roots of Innovation creates a space where research meets real-world experience, and where alternative forms of knowledge and innovation can be explored and celebrated.
Most of us feel that the prospects for our future are very uncertain because we are facing several crises simultaneously. Environmental sustainability is…
As The Netherlands is currently suffering from extreme heat this summer, it is worth reminding ourselves of the effects of the latest heatwave, which took place…
By Beryl Onjala for Water-Energy Blogs Among the many efforts to establish sustainable and reliable electricity access for the estimated 600 million people who…
by Sophia Healy Every morning, I fill my water bottle from the kitchen tap without a second thought before I leave to go to class. Like many students, I then…
By Charlotte Rapp Simplicity, a term that has gained a lot of attraction in recent years. You have probably heard it before. 'Less is more, less overthinking…
by Meta Gewald A brick, one of the building blocks of society, made from our waste. It almost sounds too good to be true, Nzambi Matee from Nairobi, Kenya is…
In this GoFrugal Research Insights edition, we spotlight a fourth case study of bottom-up frugal innovation in a small enterprise in Kenya to understand how…
The third edition of the Minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development (FI4SGD) started in September. This minor, set up and coordinated by CFIA in…
In CFIA's GoFrugal blog series affiliated researchers reflect on the role of frugality and frugal innovation in times of Corona in different parts of the world…
In this blog series staff members, students and affiliated researchers of the International Centre for Frugal Innovation (ICFI) reflect on the role of frugality…
