People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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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鈥檚 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
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Surviving earthquakes
From a VR game to a hobby seismometer 鈥� 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 鈥榥et鈥� made from bubbles
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Eating invasive species
When plants and animals invade new areas, can we 'eat them to beat them'?
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The game that fixes cities
How cryptocurrency and blockchain are being used to try and solve some everyday problems
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The power of a backstory
How mini-biographies are helping elderly patients connect with their carers
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Fighting the heat
Meet the innovators making our super-heated cities liveable
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Turning mud into 鈥榗lean鈥� concrete
The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings
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Palm oil that鈥檚 better for wildlife
How a palm oil plantation is helping nature to thrive in Borneo
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Catching the 鈥榖ike bus鈥�
How kids are finding safety in numbers on their cycle to school
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What to do with an empty mall?
The US malls being brought back to life as schools, healthcare centres and offices
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Helping elephants and humans get along
How to prevent conflict between people and animals
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Dementia friendly neighbourhoods
How to design a neighbourhood with older people in mind
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Making peace with nature
How conservation can be used for peacebuilding
