People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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Redefining luxury fashion
The luxury products that love the planet
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How literacy can change a life
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
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The power of music
Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.
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Greener ways to feed the world
How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
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Magic mushrooms and mental health
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
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Speaking up at work
We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace.
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Clever ways to get kids learning
We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.
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Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
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Overcoming stigma
The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets.
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Rewilding Earth
How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems
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Keeping the Amazon standing
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
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Fake birds and other stories
This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
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Making landfill less awful
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
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The country tackling loneliness
How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
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Building a clinic to save a forest
How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
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The plastic eaters
The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.
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Fighting period poverty
How hand-stitched pads are trying to make women’s lives better
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Sharing the river
How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water
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Training heroin users to save their friends
How drug users in Glasgow are being trained to treat people who have overdosed
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Disaster zone innovators
Hospital trains and robot medics
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Stopping suicide
How volunteers are helping people in crisis in Limerick, Ireland
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AI for good
How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives
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Coconuts fixing the world
How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest (R)
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Surviving earthquakes
From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects trying to make earthquakes less deadly
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Shockwaves for the heart
An Austrian surgeon has a radical new treatment for heart disease
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Genetic problem-solving
From fast-growing food to life-saving rice, is genetic modification a good solution?
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Female farmers fighting sexism
How women are fighting back against discrimination in agriculture
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Surprising solar
New ways of getting energy from the sun
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The bubble barrier cleaning up rivers
How Dutch inventors are removing plastic from rivers with a ‘net’ made from bubbles
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Eating invasive species
When plants and animals invade new areas, can we 'eat them to beat them'?