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People Fixing The World Episodes

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    Protecting wildlife from human activity

    We look at projects to reduce the harm caused to wildlife by human behaviour

  2. Rethinking mental health

    We look at innovative ways to improve mental health care in the US and Denmark

  3. Africa's best new innovators

    Myra Anubi is in Nairobi at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

  4. Making tourism work for everyone

    We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly

  5. Saving water at a time of scarcity

    We look at solutions for conserving and reusing water

  6. Fashion without barriers

    Exploring style and beauty for people with disabilities

  7. Solving Mexico City's water crisis

    We meet the scientists, activists and urban planners tackling the megacity's water woes.

  8. Living with climate change

    We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.

  9. The school run by kids

    The Thai school that鈥檚 proving a model for Thailand and beyond. (R)

  10. Fighting sexism in society

    We look at how entrenched sexist attitudes towards women are being tackled

  11. Restoring California's underwater forests

    We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California

  12. Redefining luxury fashion

    The luxury products that love the planet

  13. How literacy can change a life

    How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read

  14. The power of music

    Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.

  15. Greener ways to feed the world

    How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger

  16. Magic mushrooms and mental health

    Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?

  17. Speaking up at work

    We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace.

  18. Clever ways to get kids learning

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

  19. Making life easier for older people

    We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.

  20. Overcoming stigma

    The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets.

  21. Rewilding Earth

    How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems

  22. Keeping the Amazon standing

    Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees

  23. Fake birds and other stories

    This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.

  24. Making landfill less awful

    The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture

  25. The country tackling loneliness

    How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel

  26. Building a clinic to save a forest

    How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo

  27. The plastic eaters

    The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.

  28. Fighting period poverty

    How hand-stitched pads are trying to make women鈥檚 lives better

  29. Sharing the river

    How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water

  30. 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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