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People Fixing the World Episodes

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    Coconuts fixing the world

    How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect forests

  2. Coconuts fixing the world

    How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest

  3. Cloud Catchers In Peru

    Can catching fog solve the global water crisis?

  4. Clever ways to get kids learning

    We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.

  5. Cleaning up India's streets

    We look at two projects that turn plastic and cigarette butt waste into everyday products

  6. Clean Clothes and Glasses for the Poorest in Society

    How do you improve the lives of the very poorest people? Sometimes it鈥檚 the simple things.

  7. Checking-in With The Problem Solvers

    World Hacks returns to stories from last year to see how these projects have developed.

  8. Checking out the solar hotel

    How China鈥檚 鈥渟un king鈥� dreamed of cities built of solar panels

  9. Checking in with the problem solvers

    Stopping forest fires with goats and more 鈥� an update on projects we鈥檝e visited before

  10. Checking in with the Problem Solvers

    We update you on stories from 2018 including a plan to catch junk in space

  11. Challenging attitudes to disability

    The silent cafe and VR game trying to make life better for people with disabilities

  12. Catching up with the problem solvers

    Are stickers still saving lives? Was a coral reef repaired?

  13. Catching up with our solution seekers

    How are Covid dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming the internet getting on?

  14. Catching the 鈥榖ike bus鈥�

    How kids are finding safety in numbers on their cycle to school

  15. Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees

    Is it better to give refugees money, not food?

  16. Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees

    Is it better to give refugees money, not food?

  17. Can We Supercharge School?

    A school in San Francisco thinks it can speed up education using clever technology.

  18. Can We Save Coral?

    Meet the people trying to save the endangered underwater species.

  19. Can US Entrepreneurs Help Fix Education in Africa?

    A growing network of high-tech schools aims to tackle a 鈥榗risis鈥� in African education

  20. Can This Smart Street Stop Drinkers Getting Violent?

    How a Dutch city is trying to reduce violence by changing the colour of street lights

  21. Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?

    An Italian doctor asks patients to stay awake all night, to try to allay their depression

  22. Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?

    How phages 鈥� viruses that kill bacteria 鈥� are saving lives.

  23. Can doughnuts save the planet?

    Doughnut economics in action - how we can live well and save the planet at the same time

  24. Can computer games improve mental health?

    How computer games are being used to help children process grief and powerful emotions

  25. Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?

    The projects that are trying to take CO2 out of the atmosphere

  26. Can a $1 million Prize Help Keep Women Safe?

    A competition to design a gadget that will send a secret alert if someone is attacked.

  27. Building with fungi

    Growing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium

  28. Building a clinic to save a forest

    How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo

  29. Bringing dead languages back to life

    How do you revive a language with no living speakers?

  30. Bringing dead languages back to life

    How do you revive a language with no living speakers?

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