Category: Sustainable Development Goals

Innovation Vanguard: Technology and Frugal Innovation

December 10, 2020 | Jennifer Cornick

The tech sector is always innovating. Always giving us something newer, better, faster than the previous version. The sector spans everything from cell phones to industrial power convertors. We have […]
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The Social Impacts of Frugal Innovation

November 30, 2020 | Jennifer Cornick

The world is full of really great combinations jam and bread, Batman and Robin, and social impact and frugal innovation. These combinations are natural and the separate pieces feel odd […]
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Supporting Environmental Sustainability through Frugal Innovations

November 13, 2020 | Jennifer Cornick

There is no planet b. This is a climate action slogan. A reminder that we have only this one earth. This perfect planet which grows our food, gives us water, […]
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Circular Food Management in the Urban Regions of Austria

October 21, 2020 | Leni Piech

Food waste is one of the most pressing problems of our time. Especially within cities, the disposing of food, that would have still been edible, is a common concern. However, […]
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Social Impact of Climate Change: How It Is Accentuating Social Injustices

October 14, 2020 | Yiğit Turan

Climate change is real and it already is happening. So much so that the popular English newspaper The Guardian adopted an updated set of terms to better reflect the gravity […]
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How Frugal Innovation Accelerates Change in Austria and the Western Balkans

October 2, 2020 | Jennifer Cornick

Frugal Innovation sounds like something your grandparents or great grandparents would say. They were children of the Great Depression and wars which left the world resource-poor and economically damaged. Looking […]
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What are we going to do about fast fashion?

August 26, 2020 | Jennifer Cornick

Fast fashion is wasteful. I know, it is a line you have heard a million times before (or seen in print in a thousand different iterations). The problem is, we […]
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How Innovation Leads the Cities through the COVID-19 Recovery

July 30, 2020 | Jennifer Cornick

Covid-19 is changing the way we see everything, from the importance of scientific and media literacy to logistics. “The new normal”, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, is here […]
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Why Transport Poverty is an Issue of Social Exclusion

January 2, 2020 | Aneta Pawlik

I come from a small village in the south of Poland, which does not have public transport. It also doesn’t have local government-funded transport connections to the bigger cities in […]
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