People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?
How phages 鈥� viruses that kill bacteria 鈥� are saving lives.
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Can doughnuts save the planet?
Doughnut economics in action - how we can live well and save the planet at the same time
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Can computer games improve mental health?
How computer games are being used to help children process grief and powerful emotions
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Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?
The projects that are trying to take CO2 out of the atmosphere
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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.
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Building with fungi
Growing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium
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Building a clinic to save a forest
How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
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Bringing dead languages back to life
How do you revive a language with no living speakers?
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Bringing dead languages back to life
How do you revive a language with no living speakers?
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Bonus Podcast: My Indian Life Preview
Introducing Kalki Presents: My Indian Life - our new podcast with Kalki Koechlin
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Bonus Podcast: Death in Ice Valley
A special preview of the new podcast Death in Ice Valley
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Board games fixing the world
Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems?
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Beating superbugs
The small team of Indian scientists who think they鈥檝e found a new way to kill superbugs
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Bangladesh鈥檚 biker girls
The motorbike taxi app where the drivers and passengers are all women.
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Audience takeover: Your questions answered
Answers to your questions about regrowing the rainforest and other stories we鈥檝e covered
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Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions
We hear what you, our listeners, are doing to tackle the problem of plastic waste.
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Audience takeover: Your feedback
鈥淔abulous idea鈥� or 鈥渨aste of money鈥�? Your thoughts on some of the solutions we鈥檝e covered
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An Unlikely House Share
How a homeshare scheme is matching older people and students in Paris.
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Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world
How seabirds and shellfish are protecting our planet
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AI for good
How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives
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Africa's best new innovators
Myra Anubi is in Nairobi at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
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Addressing the World in Three Words
Could an app, that divides the world into 3m squares, give everyone a unique address?
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A wheelchair that learns
The wheelchair that uses AI and how clothes can help communicate feelings
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A Sporting Chance
How sport can change the lives of young people from some of the toughest backgrounds.
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A simple way to help a relative if they鈥檙e arrested
A group in California is teaching families how to help loved ones charged with crimes
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A safe place to be gay
An idea used in video games is helping LGBTQ people in the Middle East talk safely online
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A new way to detect an invisible poison in water
Scientists hope a new test will save millions from drinking arsenic in their water
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A happier planet
Looking for the happiest places in the world and finding out what makes them happy
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A Green Space Revolution in Paris
How do you create green spaces in the middle of a city?
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A future without bees
High-tech alternatives to bees include spraying pollen from drones to pollinate plants
