People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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Turning Plastic Trash into Cash
Can β€social plasticβ€ keep the oceans clean and fight poverty too?
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Turning old clothes into new ones
Could dissolving mountains of old clothes help create material for new ones?
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Turning oil platforms into reefs
A home for marine life, but perhaps not in the place you’d expect
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Turning mud into β€clean’ concrete
The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings
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Turning mud into β€clean’ concrete
The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings
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Turning kids into entrepreneurs
Children in Uganda are running their own businesses thanks to special classes in school
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Turning Goats into Water
We travel to rural Pakistan to find an innovative scheme.
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Turning Fatbergs into Fuel
How one company is turning sewer waste into a valuable energy source
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Trieste’s mental health β€revolution’
How Italy’s radical decision to close its mental asylums shaped the way we think today
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Training police to patrol each other
How do you get officers to step in to prevent acts of police brutality?
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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’s actions
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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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Training heroin users to save their friends
How drug users in Scotland are being trained to treat people who have overdosed
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Toilets in Haiti and Circular Runways
A scheme to solve the problem of human waste disposal in Haiti.
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Time to Update the Stranger Danger Message?
Stranger Danger: Still the best message to keep children safe?
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The World Cup of football solutions
How football can solve problems off the pitch
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The War On Fake News
How to fact-check the internet in a post-truth age.
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The Voter Lottery
Can you increase turnout at elections by handing out a cash prize for one lucky voter?
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The Turkish App to Help Autistic Children Learn
Can these games help autistic children get the right education?
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The tree detectives tackling illegal logging
Scientists are building a database to help them tell exactly where wood has come from
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The treasure in our toilets
How human sewage is being recycled to recover a valuable chemical
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The Town Where Public Toilets Are Everywhere
Germany has come up with a clever way of increasing the number of its public toilets.
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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 town rethinking the future of energy
Energy companies have come together in Finland to tackle climate change
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The tiny satellites changing how we see Earth
CubeSats are small but mighty. They track animals, map coral reefs and spot modern slavery
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The tech doctors forecasting heart failure
Implanted devices can predict when something is about to go wrong with a patient’s heart
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The Teachable Moment
The life changing moment that cuts the chances of gunshot victims being shot again.
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The Talent Show for Honest People
In the Integrity Idol talent show, it doesn’t matter if you can sing or dance
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The Sun Water Solution
One man’s mission to try and save lives using sunlight.
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The Street Where Houses Come Half-Built
Why would you build someone half a house?