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People Fixing The World Episodes

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    Catching up with our solution seekers

    How are Covid dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming the internet getting on?

  2. Catching the ‘bike bus’

    How kids are finding safety in numbers on their cycle to school

  3. Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees

    Is it better to give refugees money, not food?

  4. Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees

    Is it better to give refugees money, not food?

  5. Can We Supercharge School?

    A school in San Francisco thinks it can speed up education using clever technology.

  6. Can We Save Coral?

    Meet the people trying to save the endangered underwater species.

  7. Can US Entrepreneurs Help Fix Education in Africa?

    A growing network of high-tech schools aims to tackle a ‘crisis’ in African education

  8. Can This Smart Street Stop Drinkers Getting Violent?

    How a Dutch city is trying to reduce violence by changing the colour of street lights

  9. Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?

    An Italian doctor asks patients to stay awake all night, to try to allay their depression

  10. Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?

    How phages – viruses that kill bacteria – are saving lives.

  11. Can doughnuts save the planet?

    Doughnut economics in action - how we can live well and save the planet at the same time

  12. Can computer games improve mental health?

    How computer games are being used to help children process grief and powerful emotions

  13. Can computer games improve mental health for young people?

    How computer games are being used to help children process grief and powerful emotions.

  14. Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?

    The projects that are trying to take CO2 out of the atmosphere

  15. Can AI power a green fashion revolution?

    Is AI helping to make fashion more sustainable? Or could it make the problem worse?

  16. Can a $1 million Prize Help Keep Women Safe?

    A competition to design a gadget that will send a secret alert if someone is attacked.

  17. Building with fungi

    Growing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium

  18. Building empathy and fighting disinformation

    The children learning to understand their emotions better and what to look out for online

  19. Building a clinic to save a forest

    How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo

  20. Building a clinic to save a forest

    How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo

  21. Bringing dead languages back to life

    How do you revive a language with no living speakers?

  22. Bringing dead languages back to life

    How do you revive a language with no living speakers?

  23. Bringing dead languages back to life

    How do you revive a language with no living speakers?

  24. Bonus Podcast: My Indian Life Preview

    Introducing Kalki Presents: My Indian Life - our new podcast with Kalki Koechlin

  25. Bonus Podcast: Death in Ice Valley

    A special preview of the new podcast Death in Ice Valley

  26. Board games fixing the world

    Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems?

  27. Being better citizens

    How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.

  28. Beating superbugs

    The small team of Indian scientists who think they’ve found a new way to kill superbugs

  29. Bangladesh’s biker girls

    The motorbike taxi app where the drivers and passengers are all women.

  30. Back from the brink: Uganda’s gentle giants

    The eco-tourism that is helping to protect mountain gorillas in Uganda

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