People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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The country tackling loneliness
How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
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The concrete cleaners
Making cement that locks in carbon dioxide instead of releasing it into the atmosphere
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The career where it helps to have a criminal past
Ex-cons are running part of the US probation system, and it’s transforming young lives
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The bubble barrier cleaning up rivers
How Dutch inventors are removing plastic from rivers with a ‘net’ made from bubbles
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The Bricks Helping to Rebuild Gaza
The young Gazan engineer making bricks out of ash and rubble
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The breath of life
A clever way to provide life-saving oxygen
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The breath of life
A clever way to provide life-saving oxygen
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The body suit that stops muscle spasms
Clever physiotherapy tools to help people get moving
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The Bird Rescuers
Meet the people designing clever ways to protect our feathered friends.
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The big transport swap
Would robot shuttles, buses on demand and free rides persuade you to ditch your car?
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The Banks That Run on Time Instead of Money
How time banks allow people to save and spend their hours
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The Babies Teaching Kindness In Class [REPEAT]
Naomi is not your average teacher. For one thing, she is only six months old.
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The Babies Teaching Kindness in Class
Naomi is not your average teacher. For one thing, she is only six months old
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The ATMs that dispense clean fuel
How a start-up in Kenya reinvented the cooking stove
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The ancient technology getting a second wind
Wind-powered ships are sailing cargo around the world again to help cut pollution.
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The 15-minute city
Everything you need on your doorstep: a radical plan to improve our cities
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Thailand’s Disease Detectives
The volunteers photographing dead chickens to stop the spread of dangerous diseases.
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Thailand’s Condom King
We meet a man behind a sexual health revolution in Thailand.
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Test-tube rhinos
Scientists have an incredible plan to save the northern white rhino from extinction
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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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Tech That Tricks the Brain
Two tech start-ups are using wearable technology to trick the brain to solve problems
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Teaching Kids To Think
What happens when you teach kids how to think for themselves?
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Talking signs, amazing peas and planes mapping fires
Innovative solutions for city navigation, plastic waste and forest fires
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Taking Out the Space Trash
How do you clean up the rubbish that orbits the Earth?
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Tackling sport’s concussion problem
How the latest technology is helping to tackle head injuries in sport
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Switching off our smartphones
How can we all spend less time on our phones?
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Sustainability in death
How you can be eco-friendly after you die
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Surviving earthquakes
From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects to try and make earthquakes less deadly
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Surprising solar
New ways of getting energy from the sun
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Superblocks To The Rescue?
How they’re re-designing the road system to reclaim the city from cars in Barcelona.