People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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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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Predicting suicide
How machine learning could be used to predict who will take their own life
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Postmen Delivering Kindness to the Elderly
Could postal workers help solve the social care crisis?
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Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation
In 2001 Portugal decriminalised personal drug use to tackle a heroin crisis.
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Plants fighting pollution
Meet the plants that clear up oil spills and provide clean water
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Picking up healthcare with the litter
Collecting rubbish as if your life depended on it
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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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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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Pedal power: How bicycles can change lives
One man鈥檚 mission to transform millions of lives by selling them bicycles
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Palm oil that鈥檚 better for wildlife
How a palm oil plantation is helping nature to thrive in Borneo
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Pakistan鈥檚 Laptop Female Doctors
How do you help female doctors get back to work after having families?
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Oysters to the rescue
The humble oyster is helping to keep the oceans clean and protect shorelines
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Overcoming stigma
The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets
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Our favourite climate solutions
We join forces with fellow 大象传媒 podcast The Climate Question for this special edition
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Olympic-sized solutions
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people鈥檚 lives for the better.
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No more bosses
How do you make work a better place? Get rid of managers, say some companies.
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No more bosses
How do you make work a better place? Get rid of managers, say some companies.
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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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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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New Podcast: In The Studio
Hear all about our new podcast and discover how the most creative people make their work
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Moving In With Refugees
How young Dutch people and Syrian refugees are becoming housemates.
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Micro-homes and sobercoins
The tiny houses helping homeless people to get off the streets
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Mexico's Cartoon Therapists
How do you get children who're victims of emotional abuse or physical harm to open up?
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Menopause mentors
How women are using cafes, apps and oils to make menopause a little easier
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Mending Our Disposable Culture
Why volunteers are fixing other people鈥檚 stuff free of charge
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Meeting Colombia鈥檚 鈥榁iolentologist鈥�
How a doctor in Colombia changed the way cities monitor and prevent violence
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Meet the neighbours
People in these flats promise to spend two hours a week together to tackle loneliness
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Making your deliveries greener
Four clever ways to reduce carbon emissions from deliveries
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Making tourism work for everyone
We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly
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Making the world a quieter place
How sound barriers and noise sensors are helping to make the planet more peaceful
