People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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Can We Supercharge School?
A school in San Francisco thinks it can speed up education using clever technology.
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Can We Save Coral?
Meet the people trying to save the endangered underwater species.
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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
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Can This Smart Street Stop Drinkers Getting Violent?
How a Dutch city is trying to reduce violence by changing the colour of street lights
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Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?
An Italian doctor asks patients to stay awake all night, to try to allay their depression
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Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?
How phages 鈥� viruses that kill bacteria 鈥� are saving lives.
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Can doughnuts save the planet?
Doughnut economics in action - how we can live well and save the planet at the same time
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Can computer games improve mental health?
How computer games are being used to help children process grief and powerful emotions
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Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?
The projects that are trying to take CO2 out of the atmosphere
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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.
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Building with fungi
Growing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium
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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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Building a clinic to save a forest
How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
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Bringing dead languages back to life
How do you revive a language with no living speakers?
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Bringing dead languages back to life
How do you revive a language with no living speakers?
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Bonus Podcast: My Indian Life Preview
Introducing Kalki Presents: My Indian Life - our new podcast with Kalki Koechlin
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Bonus Podcast: Death in Ice Valley
A special preview of the new podcast Death in Ice Valley
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Board games fixing the world
Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems?
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Being better citizens
How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.
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Beating superbugs
The small team of Indian scientists who think they鈥檝e found a new way to kill superbugs
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Bangladesh鈥檚 biker girls
The motorbike taxi app where the drivers and passengers are all women.
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Audience takeover: Your questions answered
Answers to your questions about regrowing the rainforest and other stories we鈥檝e covered
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Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions
We hear what you, our listeners, are doing to tackle the problem of plastic waste.
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Audience takeover: Your feedback
鈥淔abulous idea鈥� or 鈥渨aste of money鈥�? Your thoughts on some of the solutions we鈥檝e covered
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An Unlikely House Share
How a homeshare scheme is matching older people and students in Paris.
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Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world
How seabirds and shellfish are protecting our planet
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Alaska's wild solutions
The island powered by renewables - and how mushrooms could be the future of insulation
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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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Africa's best new innovators
Myra Anubi is in Nairobi at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
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Addressing the World in Three Words
Could an app, that divides the world into 3m squares, give everyone a unique address?
