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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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 talks with Eyal Harel, CEO and co-founder of BlueGreen Water Technologies, based in Israel, about tackling the algal blooms devastating lakes and oceans around the world—including the one that turned up in the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool.
We explore how BlueGreen's reformulated treatments trigger what Eyal calls a ”community-wide collective suicide” in toxic bacteria, using satellite remote sensing to guide treatment at unprecedented scale.
It's a strategy built on working with nature rather than against it—once the toxic population collapses, biodiversity moves back in on its own. The conversation moves from the science of why water is such an underexplored, chaotic environment to a real-world case study in South Africa, where a lake serving half a million people went from a dead zone to a thriving ecosystem within weeks of treatment, and closes with how that project reshaped BlueGreen's entire business model around carbon credits.
Whether you're drawn to the science of ecological restoration or curious what it takes to build a company in an industry investors run away from, this conversation will change how you think about water, climate mitigation, and letting nature do the heavy lifting.
Learn more about BlueGreen Water Technologies at bluegreenwatertech.com.
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