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In this episode of The Fixers Podcast, host Amrita Kumar talks with Niki Armacost, CEO of Arc Finance and former mayor of Hastings on Hudson, New York, about using microfinance to bring clean energy access to the world's poorest communities.We explore how energy loans work at the last mile, why microfinance institutions originally considered them too risky, and how Niki reframed that assumption entirely. Niki also shares what surprised her most—that the community organizing skills she honed in...

Most of us flip a switch and never think about where our electricity comes from—but what if 60% of it was nuclear power and you had no idea? That was Dr. Larkin Mosscrop's reality before she entered the nuclear field 15 years ago.In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Mosscrop, a scientist who started her career as an ecologist studying climate change before transitioning into nuclear energy. She's now the Manager for Environmental Services, Clean Energy and Community Engagement at Kinectrics,...

In this episode of The Fixers Podcast, host Amrita Kumar talks with Punit Dhandhania, founder of the Kuddle Life Foundation in India, about rebuilding ocean ecosystems one concrete block at a time. After diving on a traditional fishermen's reef made of sunken trees off the coast of Pondicherry, Amrita sits down with Punit to learn how artificial reefs are bringing marine life back to waters devastated by industrial bottom trawling.Listeners will learn how artificial reefs work—from the firs...

In this episode of The Fixers Podcast, host Amrita Kumar talks with Juan Garcia Montes, Program Manager for the +SOL Mini-Grid Initiative in Mozambique, about bringing electricity to communities that have never had it before. Juan shares 25 years of experience working in the solar industry across Africa, focusing on how solar mini-grids are transforming villages where 600 million people still live without reliable power.Listeners will learn what happens when electricity reaches a village for...

Meet Alan Bigelow, PhD, Science Director at Solar Cookers International, which is bringing solar cooking technology to people who struggle daily with access to cooking fuel. This elegant, low-tech solution addresses the problems of deforestation and energy poverty.

Meet Jeff Abella, cofounder of MOKA Origins, an ethical chocolate and coffee company who is helping reshape broken supply chains, support farmer-owned cooperatives, and reframe chocolate as a specialty food rooted in dignity and transparency.