People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods
The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities
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How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods
The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities
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How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone
Mobile phones and apps are being used to detect fake medicines and save lives
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How to save the banana
The banana is under threat from a deadly disease. These people are trying to save it.
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How to reuse and repair
The people finding new ways to keep old things in use
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How to reuse a demolished building
Can you construct a building by reusing materials from ones that have been knocked down?
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How to put the internet in a box
Inside the “sneakernet” - the people carrying websites to places that are off the grid
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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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How to move the Earth
The plans to use lasers or asteroids to move our planet away from the sun
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How To Make Sushi From Methane Gas
A new process uses bacteria that eat methane gas to make food.
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How to make fishing nets less destructive
Using underwater sounds and lights so only the fish we want to eat get caught
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How to make electricity for your neighbours
The energy microgrid that started with scrap metal and an old bicycle
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How to Help ĢƵless People in Hospital
A project that tries to stop people returning to a life of homelessness after hospital
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How to have better sex
Solutions to help people enjoy sex more
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How to have better sex
Solutions to help people enjoy sex more
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How to Get Wheelchairs on Planes
Why can’t wheelchair users just roll onto aeroplanes?
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How to get people eating less meat
Can ‘fake meat’ help reduce the amount of meat we consume?
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How to get everyone online
Balloons and satellites could help get more people get on to the internet
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How to Get Blood Where it is Needed
An entrepreneur in Nigeria is using an app to solve the blood shortage.
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How to fix democracy
The debating platform that brings people together
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How to fight fake health news
Can playing a video game ‘inoculate’ your mind against medical misinformation?
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How to Build a City for an Ageing Population
Japan’s Kashiwa City has redesigned buildings and jobs to adapt to an ageing population
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How To Be A Better Mum In Jail
A project in the US puts doulas into prisons to give babies a good start in life.
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How to be a better dad
Teaching men to look after their babies and how this can help cut violence against women
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How they’re saving the kakapo
It’s a flightless bird close to extinction, but the kakapo recovery team is on the case.
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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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How sport can bring outsiders in
We look at two projects that show how sport can be a powerful tool for social inclusion.
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How seaweed is surprisingly useful
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet.
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How Nepal Doubled its Tiger Population
Over the past 10 years, Nepal has almost doubled its population of Bengal tigers
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How literacy can change a life
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read