People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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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 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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Reinventing the ranch
Can the cattle ranch be updated to fight climate change?
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Regrowing the rainforest
It has taken 40 years, but this man has regrown a patch of rainforest in the Amazon
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Regrowing the rainforest
It has taken 40 years, but this man has regrown a patch of rainforest in the Amazon
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Reducing US Police Shootings
How a new training system could reduce deadly police shootings in the US
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Redefining luxury fashion
The luxury products that love the planet.
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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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Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets
Recycling chewing gum to fight litter
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Racing to get kids reading
How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy
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Putting Forgotten Pills Back to Work
An app is helping people donate their leftover drugs to people who can't afford them.
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Putting a price on carbon
How to increase the cost of causing climate change
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Protecting wildlife from human activity
We look at projects to reduce the harm caused to wildlife by human behaviour
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Problem-Solving Prizes
How big cash rewards can drive innovation