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People Fixing the World — 482 episodes

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Saving Chile's urban wetlands

2

The SafeBox

3

The secrets of greywater

4

Arrows of hope

5

Back from the brink: Uganda’s gentle giants

6

Fashion without barriers

7

Empowering the LGBT community

8

The Kindergarten makeover

9

Making cities feel quieter

10

The power of poetry

11

Super seagrass

12

The school run by kids

13

Who cares for the carers?

14

The positive power of your peers

15

Family Friendly Cities

16

Helping prisoners to become better parents

17

Wild horses

18

No brother left behind

19

Can AI power a green fashion revolution?

20

Making friends in Sweden

21

Our favourite solutions

22

Saving mothers with portable ultrasound

23

Rethinking dyslexia

24

Building empathy and fighting disinformation

25

Preserving Peru’s food heritage

26

How literacy can change a life

27

Saving seabirds and squirrels

28

Making organ donation easier

29

Helping and healing in Sierra Leone

30

Harnessing the wind to keep us cool

31

Alaska's wild solutions

32

The preschool in a retirement home

33

Surgery in a backpack

34

Transforming life in cities

35

The power of play

36

Digging deep to help farmers

37

Flower Power

38

Front Yard Floods

39

A Washing Machine Solution

40

Speaking out

41

Safer streets in Cairo

42

How seaweed is surprisingly useful

43

Being better citizens

44

Saving mothers and babies

45

Cutting food waste

46

The traffic lights tackling poverty

47

What to do with stray animals

48

Making hospitals kinder for kids

49

Making life easier for older people

50

Shipping containers fixing the world

51

Malawi's waste warriors

52

Working with our minds

53

Helping Chile's stolen children

54

The classroom tablet revolution

55

Tackling bias in health

56

Gadgets for blind people

57

How sport can bring outsiders in

58

Recovery for all

59

Radioactive rhinos

60

Building a clinic to save a forest

61

Helping the children of sex workers

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Fishing trash from our oceans

63

Renewable kids on the block

64

The artificial limbs bringing hope in Gaza

65

How to have better sex

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Making money go further

67

Improving our eyesight

68

Sharing the river

69

We're coming back for 2025!

70

Restoring nature for all

71

Our favourite solutions

72

The cows fighting wildfires

73

Reducing gun violence

74

Cleaning up India's streets

75

Coconuts fixing the world

76

Sorting extreme waste

77

A wheelchair that learns

78

The race to save Madagascar's biodiversity

79

The jails where they do things differently

80

Fixing elections - for the better

81

The pioneering TV news service

82

Keeping men healthy

83

Saving Britain's sea life

84

The power of native knowledge

85

Hopping aboard the hospital train

86

The medicines dropping from the sky

87

Our favourite climate solutions

88

Switching off our smartphones

89

Greener ways to keep cool

90

Olympic-sized solutions

91

Protecting wildlife from human activity

92

Rethinking mental health

93

Africa's best new innovators

94

Making tourism work for everyone

95

Saving water at a time of scarcity

96

What to do with an empty mall?

97

Fashion without barriers

98

Solving Mexico City's water crisis

99

Living with climate change

100

The school run by kids

101

Fighting sexism in society

102

Restoring California's underwater forests

103

Kangaroo care for premature babies

104

Redefining luxury fashion

105

How literacy can change a life

106

The power of music

107

Greener ways to feed the world

108

Magic mushrooms and mental health

109

Speaking up at work

110

Clever ways to get kids learning

111

Bringing dead languages back to life

112

Making life easier for older people

113

Overcoming stigma

114

Rewilding Earth

115

Keeping the Amazon standing

116

Fake birds and other stories

117

Making landfill less awful

118

The country tackling loneliness

119

Building a clinic to save a forest

120

The plastic eaters

121

Fighting period poverty

122

Sharing the river

123

Training heroin users to save their friends

124

Disaster zone innovators

125

Sea cucumbers fixing the world

126

Stopping suicide

127

AI for good

128

Coconuts fixing the world

129

Surviving earthquakes

130

Shockwaves for the heart

131

Genetic problem-solving

132

Female farmers fighting sexism

133

Surprising solar

134

The bubble barrier cleaning up rivers

135

Eating invasive species

136

The game that fixes cities

137

The power of a backstory

138

Fighting the heat

139

Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete

140

Palm oil that’s better for wildlife

141

Catching the ‘bike bus’

142

What to do with an empty mall?

143

Helping elephants and humans get along

144

Dementia friendly neighbourhoods

145

Making peace with nature

146

Menopause mentors

147

Fighting corruption in schools

148

The hidden powers of bacteria

149

Work: Access for all

150

Kangaroo care for premature babies

151

Sports fan solutions

152

The people fixing childcare

153

Stopping harassment on public transport

154

Endometriosis: The search for solutions

155

Challenging attitudes to disability

156

Getting refugees out of tents

157

Sea cucumbers fixing the world

158

The ring that could help save women’s lives

159

Turning waste into power

160

The healing power of forests

161

Plants fighting pollution

162

Bringing dead languages back to life

163

Fighting the megadrought

164

Micro-homes and sobercoins

165

Grannies fixing the world

166

Board games fixing the world

167

Sleep solutions

168

The body suit that stops muscle spasms

169

The World Cup of football solutions

170

Jobs for girls

171

COP27: Growing a forest the right way

172

Picking up healthcare with the litter

173

Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world

174

Educating refugees

175

Sustainability in death

176

Ending road deaths

177

Dads on duty

178

The food waste warriors

179

How to get people eating less meat

180

Robots on the beat

181

Hands-Off Health Tech

182

What 3D printing can fix

183

Fighting fashion waste

184

How to fix democracy

185

Getting refugees out of tents

186

Using finance to fight homelessness

187

Saving kids with cancer

188

The power of group therapy

189

Keeping medicines cool

190

The future of wind power

191

Getting kids out of institutions

192

Racing to get kids reading

193

The library where the books are people

194

Safer cities for women

195

Helping teenagers become good mums

196

Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete

197

Robots fixing sewers

198

Using lotteries to make us better people

199

Work: Access for all

200

Sponge cities that fight flooding

201

Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

202

Saving California’s butterflies

203

How to make fishing nets less destructive

204

Making hospitals less stressful

205

Using haircuts to fight oil spills

206

Insects fixing the world

207

Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars

208

Violent partners: The ‘window’ strategy

209

Training police to patrol each other

210

The house that fights malaria

211

Using VR to change lives

212

How to fight fake health news

213

Making clean water with rubbish

214

Catching up with our solution seekers

215

The forest sound detectives

216

The moo loo and other stories

217

Creating an alternative gig economy

218

How to make electricity for your neighbours

219

Food waste: The solar dryer solution

220

Ways to save the planet: Using the sun

221

The tiny satellites changing how we see Earth

222

The 15-minute city

223

COP26: The tech helping you to help the planet

224

Ways to save the planet: Ancient solutions

225

How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone

226

Talking signs, amazing peas and planes mapping fires

227

Can computer games improve mental health?

228

Robots on the beat

229

Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles

230

Saving mums and their unborn babies

231

The hotel for homeless people

232

The library where the books are people

233

Ways to save the planet: Fridge detectives

234

Ways to save the planet: Swap concrete for wood

235

The seaweed farmers adapting to warming seas

236

Locust hunters

237

Turning preachers into LGBT allies

238

The ATMs that dispense clean fuel

239

Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

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Unsung victories in the fight against disease

241

How five friends can change a refugee’s life

242

The great mosquito swap

243

The career where it helps to have a criminal past

244

Test-tube rhinos

245

Smashing the glass ceiling for young Africans

246

The helpline for jealous and violent men

247

Turning the desert green

248

Catching up with the problem solvers

249

Regrowing the rainforest

250

Turning oil platforms into reefs

251

The forest sound detectives

252

The detection dogs tracking poachers and Covid-19

253

Pedal power: How bicycles can change lives

254

Shred it yourself: The DIY plastic recyclers

255

Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles

256

Watching out for Gran with help from her toaster

257

How to reuse a demolished building

258

Using satellite photos to help distribute cash

259

The magic greenhouse

260

The secret to making your stuff last longer

261

Tackling sport’s concussion problem

262

Beating superbugs

263

How to store power in soil and salt

264

The breath of life

265

The spacesuits saving mothers’ lives

266

A forest down your street

267

The solutions whisperer

268

Can doughnuts save the planet?

269

What happened next to our problem solvers

270

Saving mums and their unborn babies

271

Making meat in a lab

272

Building with fungi

273

Perovskites: The future of solar?

274

Riding the solar railway

275

From prison to star employee

276

Audience takeover: Your questions answered

277

Teenage inventor special

278

Saving Cape Cod’s dolphins

279

How to put the internet in a box

280

How jellyfish can help us

281

Training police to patrol each other

282

Getting rid of AI bias

283

How to prevent drowning

284

Smartphones saving the rainforest

285

A happier planet

286

Keeping data forever

287

Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?

288

The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

289

The tech doctors forecasting heart failure

290

Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars

291

Financing the forests

292

Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

293

New uses for old solutions

294

How to get everyone online

295

A future without bees

296

How tech is tackling wildlife trafficking

297

Personality tests for loans

298

Kids fixing the world

299

No more bosses

300

The ancient technology getting a second wind

301

Electricity that grows on trees

302

The breath of life

303

A Sporting Chance

304

The great spreadsheet in the sky

305

The farmers moving their fields indoors

306

Making the world a quieter place

307

The big transport swap

308

Regrowing the rainforest

309

The treasure in our toilets

310

How to be a better dad

311

How they’re saving the kakapo

312

Audience takeover: Your feedback

313

A safe place to be gay

314

Meet the neighbours

315

The good lads

316

The miracle cure: Exercise

317

Fighting depression together

318

Running to do good

319

Forecasting volcanoes

320

The pharmacists fighting high drug prices

321

How to move the Earth

322

Checking in with the problem solvers

323

Making your deliveries greener

324

Convicting more rapists

325

Turning kids into entrepreneurs

326

Saving the World’s Ice

327

Stopping abuse with protection dogs

328

How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods

329

How to save the banana

330

The future of freight

331

Gaming for good

332

The town rethinking the future of energy

333

Shopping for a better life

334

Turning waste into energy

335

Spotting the sound of a cardiac arrest

336

The snakebite squad

337

Meeting Colombia’s ‘Violentologist’

338

A new way to detect an invisible poison in water

339

Oysters to the rescue

340

The concrete cleaners

341

Bangladesh’s biker girls

342

Putting a price on carbon

343

A simple way to help a relative if they’re arrested

344

Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns

345

Trieste’s mental health ‘revolution’

346

The school that puts wellbeing first

347

Residents turn detective to fight crime

348

Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

349

Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation

350

Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?

351

Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?

352

Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions

353

Reinventing the ranch

354

Working Less For The Same Pay

355

Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?

356

The tree detectives tackling illegal logging

357

The reuse and refill revolution

358

DNA tests for dogs to tackle problem poo

359

The great mosquito swap

360

The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

361

Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?

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The digital detectives tackling child sexual abuse

363

Crossing divides in Cyprus

364

Last video messages to help children grieve

365

Turning old clothes into new ones

366

Predicting suicide

367

‘No Men Allowed’ – The Gym Getting Women Fit and into Work

368

How Nepal Doubled its Tiger Population

369

The shopping mall where everything is recycled

370

The Turkish App to Help Autistic Children Learn

371

The Talent Show for Honest People

372

Does the world need more babies?

373

Checking in with the Problem Solvers

374

The Little Libraries Bringing Books into People’s Homes

375

Can US Entrepreneurs Help Fix Education in Africa?

376

Can This Smart Street Stop Drinkers Getting Violent?

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How 'Buddy Benches' are Making Playtime Less Lonely

378

Smart Boats That Sail on a Bed of Bubbles

379

The Banks That Run on Time Instead of Money

380

How to Build a City for an Ageing Population

381

The Country That Can Jail You For Using Plastic Bags

382

Time to Update the Stranger Danger Message?

383

Tech That Tricks the Brain

384

‘Rental sisters’ for Japan’s Reclusive Young Men

385

Fighting the ‘Water Mafia’ with Pipes in the Sky

386

Mending Our Disposable Culture

387

Smart Stimulation for People with Dementia

388

Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English

389

A Green Space Revolution in Paris

390

Scanning Homeless People To Make a Donation

391

Rewarding Green Travel in Bologna

392

Cool Ways of Keeping Things Cool

393

Reviving Italy’s ‘Ghost Towns’

394

Why Millions Listen to This Girl

395

Training India’s Fake Doctors

396

Stopping Wildfires in Their Tracks

397

Generating Power from the Roads

398

Recycling to Turn Trash into Cash

399

The Bricks Helping to Rebuild Gaza

400

Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands

401

Nigeria's Secret STI Test Kits

402

Can a $1 million Prize Help Keep Women Safe?

403

The Street Where Houses Come Half-Built

404

Fighting Food Waste

405

Clean Clothes and Glasses for the Poorest in Society

406

Turning Subsistence Farming into an Investment Opportunity

407

The Speed Detectors

408

The People’s Peace Talks

409

The Schools Trying to Build Bridges

410

Problem-Solving Prizes

411

The Town Trying to Cure Loneliness

412

The Babies Teaching Kindness In Class [REPEAT]

413

Taking Out the Space Trash

414

How to Help Homeless People in Hospital

415

The Bird Rescuers

416

Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets

417

How to Talk to Potential Extremists

418

Putting Forgotten Pills Back to Work

419

Improvising Your Way Out of Anxiety

420

The Hydroponics Revolution

421

The Currency Based on Good Deeds

422

The Babies Teaching Kindness in Class

423

Kids versus Cars

424

Can We Save Coral?

425

Checking-in With The Problem Solvers

426

Scouts, Knives and a Community Fridge

427

The Ring That Could Help Save Women’s Lives

428

How to Get Wheelchairs on Planes

429

Drone Delivery: Medicines By Air

430

Smartphone-Activated First Aiders

431

The Former Neo-Nazi Helping Others To Quit

432

How Iceland Saved Its Teenagers

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The Missing Maps

434

The Town Where Public Toilets Are Everywhere

435

Addressing the World in Three Words

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How Iceland is Fighting the Gender Pay Gap

437

Viking Therapy?

438

How Cervical ‘Selfies’ are Fighting Cancer in The Gambia

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How To Make Sushi From Methane Gas

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When Local Currencies Go Digital

441

Condom Lifesavers and Voices for the Voiceless

442

The Dutch Antibiotic Revolution

443

How to Get Blood Where it is Needed

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Pakistan’s Laptop Female Doctors

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Urban Cable Cars

446

Does Universal Basic Income Work?

447

The Teachable Moment

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Mexico's Cartoon Therapists

449

Cutting Cow Farts to Combat Climate Change

450

Thailand’s Disease Detectives

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Can We Supercharge School?

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Turning Fatbergs into Fuel

453

Thailand’s Condom King

454

How To Be A Better Mum In Jail

455

Would You Rent Your Clothes?

456

The Stickers that Save Lives

457

Turning Plastic Trash into Cash

458

Turning Goats into Water

459

Saving Lives with Text Messages

460

Greener In Death

461

Helping Disabled People With Sex

462

The Data Donators

463

Postmen Delivering Kindness to the Elderly

464

The Parent Hack For Cheaper Childcare

465

Toilets in Haiti and Circular Runways

466

Checking out the solar hotel

467

Moving In With Refugees

468

How China is Cleaning its Air

469

The Voter Lottery

470

Denmark’s Food Waste Vigilante

471

The Sun Water Solution

472

Lend Me Your Eyes

473

The War On Fake News

474

Superblocks To The Rescue?

475

An Unlikely House Share

476

Jobs for Syrian Refugees

477

Respect My Remittances

478

‘Bribing’ Mums To Feed Their Kids

479

Teaching Kids To Think

480

Reducing US Police Shootings

481

Cloud Catchers In Peru

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Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees