The Fixers Podcast
The Fixers Podcast
Podcast Description
Fixers is a podcast about real people solving real problems. Hosted by high schooler Amrita Kumar, each episode features entrepreneurs, inventors, and changemakers tackling challenges around the world—from cleaning up oceans to empowering farmers. With curiosity and a drive to understand how things actually get fixed, Amrita digs into what these fixers do, how they do it, and what we can learn from their work. Fixers is for anyone who believes the world’s biggest problems are worth solving—and wants to know where to start.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of social entrepreneurship, innovation, and ethical consumption. Topics explored include sustainable practices, community empowerment, and the impact of ethical sourcing, with episodes like The Fight for Fair Chocolate showcasing how companies like MOKA Origins work to improve the lives of cacao farmers through fair trade practices.
Fixers is a podcast about real people solving real problems. Hosted by high schooler Amrita Kumar, each episode features entrepreneurs, inventors, and changemakers tackling challenges around the world—from cleaning up oceans to empowering farmers. With curiosity and a drive to understand how things actually get fixed, Amrita digs into what these fixers do, how they do it, and what we can learn from their work. Fixers is for anyone who believes the world’s biggest problems are worth solving—and wants to know where to start.
In this episode of The Fixers Podcast, host Amrita Kumar interviews Dr. Alan Bigelow, Science Director at Solar Cookers International, to explore how solar cooking technology is transforming lives for 2 billion people who struggle daily to access cooking fuel.
Dr. Bigelow shares powerful stories from refugee camps in Kenya, where women are trading food rations for firewood, and explains how solar cookers—devices that use mirrors, black cookware, and greenhouse principles—can cook meals and pasteurize water using only sunshine. Listeners will discover how this elegant, low-tech solution addresses deforestation and energy poverty while saving money.
From his unique journey as a particle accelerator physicist who co-founded a solar-powered eco rock band called Solar Punch, Dr. Bigelow reveals how inclusive design and listening to local communities—especially women—has been crucial to scaling this technology globally.
Support the Mission: Visit solarcookers.org and solarcooking.org to learn more about solar cooking technology, access design plans, and discover how you can get involved in bringing clean cooking solutions to communities worldwide.
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