People Fixing The World Podcast
Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.
Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.
A weekly programme looking at common challenges around the world and the creative ways people are trying to tackle them.
Presenter Myra Anubi speaks to reporters, experts and innovators to investigate how effective different solutions are, share their successes and inspire listeners with what is possible.
Episodes to download
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Keeping the Amazon standing
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
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Fake birds and other stories
Boxing Day 2023
This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
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Making landfill less awful
Tue 19 Dec 2023
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
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The country tackling loneliness
Tue 12 Dec 2023
How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
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Building a clinic to save a forest
Tue 5 Dec 2023
How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
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The plastic eaters
Tue 28 Nov 2023
The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.
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Fighting period poverty
Tue 21 Nov 2023
How hand-stitched pads and a comic book are trying to make women’s lives better
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Sharing the river
Tue 14 Nov 2023
How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water
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Training heroin users to save their friends
Tue 7 Nov 2023
How drug users in Scotland are being trained to treat people who have overdosed
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Sea cucumbers fixing the world
Tue 24 Oct 2023
How the humble sea cucumber and its poo is helping coral reefs
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AI for good
Tue 10 Oct 2023
How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives
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Coconuts fixing the world
Tue 3 Oct 2023
How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest
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Surviving earthquakes
Tue 26 Sep 2023
From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects to try and make earthquakes less deadly
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Shockwaves for the heart
Tue 19 Sep 2023
The Austrian surgeon with a radical new treatment for heart disease
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Genetic problem-solving
Tue 12 Sep 2023
From fast-growing food to life-saving rice, is genetic modification a good solution?
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Female farmers fighting sexism
Tue 5 Sep 2023
How women are fighting back against discrimination in agriculture
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The bubble barrier cleaning up rivers
Tue 25 Jul 2023
How Dutch inventors are removing plastic from rivers with a ‘net’ made from bubbles
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Eating invasive species
Tue 18 Jul 2023
When plants and animals invade new areas, can we ‘eat them to beat them’?
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The game that fixes cities
Tue 11 Jul 2023
How cryptocurrency and blockchain are being used to try and solve some everyday problems
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The power of a backstory
Tue 4 Jul 2023
How mini-biographies are helping elderly patients connect with their carers
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Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete
Tue 20 Jun 2023
The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings
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Palm oil that’s better for wildlife
Tue 13 Jun 2023
How a palm oil plantation is helping nature to thrive in Borneo
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Catching the ‘bike bus’
Tue 6 Jun 2023
How kids are finding safety in numbers on their cycle to school
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What to do with an empty mall?
Tue 30 May 2023
The US malls being brought back to life as schools, healthcare centres and offices
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