Female founders: Green tech in the blue economy
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Subsistence fishing employs hundreds of millions of people around the world. It’s an enormous business worth trillions of dollars. It’s also a dirty business. High-cost diesel motors and expensive, inefficient lights consume huge amounts of fossil fuels, leaving a considerable carbon footprint. But these lights are essential. Venturing out onto the high seas in a small boat is always dangerous, but night fishing is absolutely treacherous, so although good lighting saves lives, it also requires a lot of power. We follow the female scientists who are developing solar tech to help fisherfolk in South East Asia reduce their impact on the environment, improve their health and put money back in their pockets.
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| 0:00.0 | The Happy Pod is a special weekly episode from the Global News Podcast bringing new positive stories and uplifting interviews from around the world. |
| 0:09.0 | I've got some good news for you. It's a beautiful place to be. |
| 0:12.0 | A really good vibe, you know? |
| 0:14.0 | It's the audio equivalent of rose tinted spectacles. |
| 0:17.0 | The world's happier stories for your stories, absolutely inspirational. |
| 0:20.0 | A pletting. Remarkable. |
| 0:22.0 | Listen now by searching for the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service, where we're looking into the work of some of the trailblazers providing solutions to the world's biggest problems. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Harriet Robinson and I'm going to be meeting female founders working in the very male-dominated world of green technology. |
| 0:49.0 | In their case, it's the blue economy they're disrupting. |
| 0:52.0 | We don't have any problem much when it comes to solar power, so we're trying to utilise that. |
| 0:56.0 | We need to find a solution. |
| 0:58.0 | How to maintain the product quality while we're using the production cost. |
| 1:03.0 | Knowing they're able to enjoy leisure time now as a byproduct of our solar power bank, it feels absolutely amazing. |
| 1:10.0 | For many coastal regions, the ocean is a hugely important food source, often providing for those who may otherwise struggle to feed their family. |
| 1:18.0 | But the pressure of supply and demand has left the fishing industry littered with problems that not only harm the environment, |
| 1:25.0 | but also put people at risk. |
| 1:33.0 | Now women entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia are addressing these issues at grassroots. |
| 1:38.0 | Their work is improving lives, saving money and reducing the impact of local fishing. |
| 1:44.0 | So let's follow the fish on their journey to our plates, starting at the source. |
| 1:52.0 | Some of the nightfisher folks use this really heavy and bulky car batteries that are actually not safe when they go out into the sea. |
| 2:01.0 | And they use that, of course, if it gets wet, there could be a lot of damages. |
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