People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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The power of group therapy
Therapy has been helping Boko Haram survivors and street youth in Liberia.
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Keeping medicines cool
How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe
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The future of wind power
How floating wind turbines and power-generating kites could help fight climate change
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Getting kids out of institutions
Meet the people finding families for some of the five million children living in care
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Racing to get kids reading
How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy
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Safer cities for women
How can you stop women being harassed in the street?
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Helping teenagers become good mums
Innovative projects around the world are trying to help teenage mums
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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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Robots fixing sewers
The robots that navigate sewer pipes to find leaks and blockages so people don't have to
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Using lotteries to make us better people
The lotteries that nudge people to take medicine, pick up litter or pay their taxes
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Work: Access for all
We look at workplaces that have welcomed people with learning disabilities on to the team
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Sponge cities that fight flooding
How cities are embracing nature to prevent flooding
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Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches
The entrepreneurs using clever chemistry to turn scrap rubber into fuel and car tyres
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Saving California鈥檚 butterflies
How rearing butterflies by hand is bringing them back from the brink
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How to make fishing nets less destructive
Using underwater sounds and lights so only the fish we want to eat get caught
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Making hospitals less stressful
How leaves, lights, sounds and goats can improve patient health
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Using haircuts to fight oil spills
An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.
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Insects fixing the world
How flies and bugs can help solve the planet鈥檚 problems
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Violent partners: The 鈥榳indow鈥� strategy
How Iceland pioneered a new approach to domestic violence
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Training police to patrol each other
How do you get officers to step in to prevent acts of police brutality?
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The house that fights malaria
Innovative ideas in the battle against mosquitos
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Using VR to change lives
How virtual reality is helping tackle phobias and resolve conflict
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How to fight fake health news
Can playing a video game 鈥榠noculate鈥� your mind against medical misinformation?
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Making clean water with rubbish
The chemist using old bones and food waste to make clean drinking water
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Catching up with our solution seekers
How are Covid dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming the internet getting on?
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The moo loo and other stories
Training cows to use the toilet and a bouncy castle that fights climate change
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Creating an alternative gig economy
Meet the innovators who want to change gig work for the better
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How to make electricity for your neighbours
The energy microgrid that started with scrap metal and an old bicycle
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Food waste: The solar dryer solution
A simple system for saving food and empowering women
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Ways to save the planet: Using the sun
Using floating solar panels and a see-through pyramid to help the climate
