People Fixing the World Podcast
Brilliant solutions to the world鈥檚 problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
Episodes to download
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Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English
Tue 18 Sep 2018
The schools changing lives through running and music
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A Green Space Revolution in Paris
Tue 11 Sep 2018
How do you create green spaces in the middle of a city?
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Scanning 蜜芽传媒less People To Make a Donation
Tue 4 Sep 2018
A new project is offering homeless people barcodes, which you can scan to make a donation
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Rewarding Green Travel in Bologna
Tue 28 Aug 2018
A scheme in Italy that rewards people for taking sustainable modes of transport
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Cool Ways of Keeping Things Cool
Tue 21 Aug 2018
How two inventors are trying to revolutionise the way we keep things cold
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Reviving Italy鈥檚 鈥楪host Towns鈥�
Tue 14 Aug 2018
An unusual hotel is helping to breathe life back into Italy鈥檚 abandoned villages
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Why Millions Listen to This Girl
Tue 7 Aug 2018
Why millions listen to this nine-year-old girl's advice
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Training India鈥檚 Fake Doctors
Tue 31 Jul 2018
Can a controversial crash course in medicine help improve the healthcare system in India?
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Stopping Wildfires in Their Tracks
Tue 24 Jul 2018
Three projects that are limiting the impact of wildfires
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Generating Power from the Roads
Tue 17 Jul 2018
A highway in the US is being used to generate power and make toilet paper
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Recycling to Turn Trash into Cash
Tue 10 Jul 2018
Two projects that make life better for people keeping rubbish off the streets
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The Bricks Helping to Rebuild Gaza
Tue 3 Jul 2018
The young Gazan engineer making bricks out of ash and rubble
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Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Can adapting your lifestyle add 10 years to your lifespan?
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Nigeria's Secret STI Test Kits
Tue 19 Jun 2018
The start-up that allows people to self test for STIs in secret
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Can a $1 million Prize Help Keep Women Safe?
Tue 12 Jun 2018
A competition to design a gadget that will send a secret alert if someone is attacked.
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Clean Clothes and Glasses for the Poorest in Society
Tue 22 May 2018
How do you improve the lives of the very poorest people? Sometimes it鈥檚 the simple things.
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Turning Subsistence Farming into an Investment Opportunity
Tue 15 May 2018
How a new Nigerian tech startup is turning small scale farms into financial investments
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The People鈥檚 Peace Talks
Tue 1 May 2018
Can the public can succeed where the politicians have failed?
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The Schools Trying to Build Bridges
Tue 24 Apr 2018
Could bilingual schools help bring peace to a seemingly intractable conflict?
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The Town Trying to Cure Loneliness
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Meet the people trying to tackle loneliness in Frome in the United Kingdom.
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The Babies Teaching Kindness In Class [REPEAT]
Mon 2 Apr 2018
Naomi is not your average teacher. For one thing, she is only six months old.
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How to Help 蜜芽传媒less People in Hospital
Tue 20 Mar 2018
A project that tries to stop people returning to a life of homelessness after hospital
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The Bird Rescuers
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Meet the people designing clever ways to protect our feathered friends.
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Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets
Tue 6 Mar 2018
Recycling chewing gum to fight litter
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How to Talk to Potential Extremists
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Can you persuade potential extremists out of their views by chatting to them on Facebook?
People fixing the world on YouTube
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