By Heather Dunham •
January 15, 2009
Open any pregnancy or baby book, and you’ll find that list: the baby essentials, the things you absolutely cannot live without. While many accessories are easily recognized as frivolous, certain items are truly indispensable: the basic necessities for life with a baby.
Or are they?
In this weekly series, we’ll be looking at several baby essentials that really aren’t. They may be useful in certain situations, but if money or space is tight, or if you’re just looking to simplify and reduce consumerism and waste, here’s how to get along just fine without these so-called “essentials.“
Martin Fisher is an enthusiastic rulebreaker. And he’s on his way to making millions. Millions of products that help people in third world countries live a better life. In 1991 he co-founded ApproTEC (now KickStart.org) to develop and market new, appropriate technologies in Africa. He and his group have created over 29,000 new jobs, generating $37 million a year in new profits and wages — transforming subsistence farms into highly [...]
Product Categories for our Topics (next post) follow:
- Essentials – air, water and food… products and processes for human survival.
- Clothing — what to wear!
- Shelter — spaces and places for living and working.
- Energy — a power-full life.
- Health — healing and feeling good.
- Conversion — waste not, want not, have more… from composting to upcycling.
- Materials — elemental building blocks: biological and technical.
- Tools — making things easier.
- Movement — getting there.
- Connection — we are not alone: direct and indirect communication; knowledge; governance.
- Play — having fun along the
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