People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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Sea cucumbers fixing the world
How the humble sea cucumber and its poo is helping coral reefs
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Sea cucumbers fixing the world
Meet the oceans’ unsung hero
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Scouts, Knives and a Community Fridge
This week we hear about three small solutions trying to make a dent on some big problems.
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Scanning ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½less People To Make a Donation
A new project is offering homeless people barcodes, which you can scan to make a donation
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Saving water at a time of scarcity
We look at solutions for conserving and reusing water.
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Saving the World’s Ice
Silica beads and whiter clouds - ideas to stop the world’s ice melting
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Saving mums and their unborn babies
Women in Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives
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Saving mums and their unborn babies
Women in Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives
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Saving Lives with Text Messages
The man getting emergency help to accidents using just a mobile phone. And Plastic Roads.
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Saving kids with cancer
The Filipino doctor who’s found an affordable way of treating children with cancer
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Saving Cape Cod’s dolphins
Saving dolphins from stranding on beaches - we meet the team improving survival rates
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Saving California’s butterflies
How rearing butterflies by hand is bringing them back from the brink
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Saving Britain's sea life
We look at efforts being made to tackle the challenges of overfishing and climate change
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Safer cities for women
How can you stop women being harassed in the street?
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Running to do good
Forget the treadmill - these people have turned doing good deeds into a workout
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Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English
The schools changing lives through running and music
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Robots on the beat
How police in the US are using tech, including robots, to fight crime
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Robots on the beat
How police in the US are using tech, including robots, to fight crime
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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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Riding the solar railway
How to make train journeys greener using the power of the sun
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Rewilding Earth
How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems
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Rewarding Green Travel in Bologna
A scheme in Italy that rewards people for taking sustainable modes of transport
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Reviving Italy’s ‘Ghost Towns’
An unusual hotel is helping to breathe life back into Italy’s abandoned villages
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Rethinking mental health
We look at innovative ways to improve mental health care in the US and Denmark.
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Restoring nature for all
We visit a major project in the north of England that is restoring a damaged landscape
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Restoring California's underwater forests
We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California
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Respect My Remittances
Smarter ways for migrants to send money home.
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Residents turn detective to fight crime
Neighbours in the US are using cameras that read car number plates to cut crime
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Renewable kids on the block
We look at new and surprising ways to get clean energy - from the earth, ocean and sun.
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Reinventing the ranch
Can the cattle ranch be updated to fight climate change?