{"id":133073,"date":"2021-12-26T01:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T09:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/powerless-fridge-shows-potential-of-frugal-innovation"},"modified":"2021-12-26T01:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T09:21:43","slug":"powerless-fridge-shows-potential-of-frugal-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/powerless-fridge-shows-potential-of-frugal-innovation","title":{"rendered":"Powerless fridge shows potential of \u2018frugal innovation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/powerless-fridge-shows-potential-of-frugal-innovation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though innovation is often associated with Silicon Valley and high-tech start-ups, sometimes all that\u2019s needed to make a big difference in people\u2019s lives is a new spin on tradition, UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant said on 2 July at the opening of a <a href=\"https:\/\/unctad.org\/meeting\/multi-year-expert-meeting-investment-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-productive-capacity-4\">meeting<\/a> in Geneva on the topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitticool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitticool<\/a>, the clay refrigerator that requires no electricity, costs less than $50 and can keep food fresh for 2 to 3 days, is just one example of the power of \u201cfrugal innovation\u201d, Ms. Durant said.<\/p>\n<p>Inspiration came to the Indian inventor, Mansukhbhai Prajapati, after seeing his community suffer during the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, when a magnitude seven quake wrecked more than 8,000 villages, killing around 20,000 and leaving a million others without a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though innovation is often associated with Silicon Valley and high-tech start-ups, sometimes all that\u2019s needed to make a big difference in people\u2019s lives is a new spin on tradition, UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant said on 2 July at the opening of a meeting in Geneva on the topic. Mitticool, the clay refrigerator that requires [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}