People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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The solutions whisperer
Dhruv Boruah鈥檚 mission is to inspire other people to solve problems facing the planet
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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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What happened next to our problem solvers
Hydrating sweets for the elderly go on sale and how a housing experiment coped with Covid
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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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Making meat in a lab
How meat grown in labs could reduce our environmental impact
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Building with fungi
Growing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium
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Perovskites: The future of solar?
A new kind of solar cell is made by drying a special liquid on a surface
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Riding the solar railway
How to make train journeys greener using the power of the sun
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From prison to star employee
Why former criminals are being chosen for jobs at hundreds of companies in a small US city
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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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Teenage inventor special
Brilliant ideas from school kids to help solve crime, make life safer and much more
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Saving Cape Cod鈥檚 dolphins
Saving dolphins from stranding on beaches - we meet the team improving survival rates
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How to put the internet in a box
Inside the 鈥渟neakernet鈥� - the people carrying websites to places that are off the grid
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How jellyfish can help us
Jellyfish could be used to filter microplastics from water and develop new medicines
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Training police to patrol each other
US police are being taught what to do if they're worried about a colleague鈥檚 actions
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Getting rid of AI bias
Better facial recognition and changing algorithms - how to fight racial bias in AI
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How to prevent drowning
AI to help lifeguards in Israel and weather forecasts for fishermen on Lake Victoria
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Smartphones saving the rainforest
Old mobile phones are being used to catch illegal loggers in the rainforest
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A happier planet
Looking for the happiest places in the world and finding out what makes them happy
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Keeping data forever
Three radical new ways to save data 鈥� in DNA, glass and magnets
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The tech doctors forecasting heart failure
Implanted devices can predict when something is about to go wrong with a patient鈥檚 heart
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Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars
Prisoners and their families are keeping in touch with the Prison Voicemail app
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Financing the forests
Making rainforests a profitable investment
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New uses for old solutions
How two life-saving apps were adapted to fix problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
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How to get everyone online
Balloons and satellites could help more people get on to the internet
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A future without bees
High-tech alternatives to bees include spraying pollen from drones to pollinate plants
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How tech is tackling wildlife trafficking
The exciting new tools helping to save some of our most endangered animals.
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Personality tests for loans
How an online test and a phone might be able to help some people with their finances.
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Kids fixing the world
Clever inventions by children that could improve our lives, from apps to robots
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No more bosses
How do you make work a better place? Get rid of managers, say some companies.
