People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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A Green Space Revolution in Paris
How do you create green spaces in the middle of a city?
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Scanning Homeless 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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Rewarding Green Travel in Bologna
A public transport system rewards citizens for taking sustainable modes of transport
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Cool Ways of Keeping Things Cool
How two inventors are trying to revolutionise the way we keep things cold
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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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Why Millions Listen to This Girl
Why millions listen to this nine-year-old girl's advice
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Training India’s Fake Doctors
Can a controversial crash course in medicine help improve the healthcare system in India?
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Stopping Wildfires in Their Tracks
Three projects that are limiting the impact of wildfires
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Generating power from the roads
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
Two projects that make life better for people keeping rubbish off the streets
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The Bricks Helping to Rebuild Gaza
The young Gazan engineer making bricks out of ash and rubble
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Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands
Can adapting your lifestyle add 10 years to your lifespan?
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Nigeria's Secret STI Test Kits
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?
A competition to design a gadget that will send a secret alert if someone is attacked.
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The Street Where Houses Come Half-Built
Why would you build someone half a house?
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Fighting Food Waste
Tech solutions for fighting food waste
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Clean Clothes and Glasses for the Poorest in Society
How do you improve the lives of the very poorest people? Sometimes it’s the simple things.
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Turning Subsistence Farming into an Investment Opportunity
How a new Nigerian tech startup is turning small scale farms into financial investments
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The Speed Detectors
The volunteers catching speeding motorists
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The People’s Peace Talks
Can the public can succeed where the politicians have failed?
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The Schools Trying to Build Bridges
Could bilingual schools help bring peace to a seemingly intractable conflict?
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Crossing Divides: Solutions for Peace
Can grassroots initiatives really have a meaningful impact on peace?
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Problem-Solving Prizes
How big cash rewards can drive innovation
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The Town Trying to Cure Loneliness
Meet the people trying to tackle loneliness in Frome in the United Kingdom.
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The Babies Teaching Kindness In Class
Naomi isn't your average teacher. For one thing, she's only 6 months old.
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Taking Out the Space Trash
How do you clean up the rubbish that orbits the Earth?
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How to Help Homeless People in Hospital
A project that tries to stop people returning to a life of homelessness after hospital.
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The Bird Rescuers
Meet the people designing clever ways to protect our feathered friends.
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Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets
Recycling chewing gum to fight litter.
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How to Talk to Potential Extremists
Can you persuade potential extremists out of their views by chatting to them on Facebook?