People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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Menopause mentors
How women are using cafes, apps and oils to make menopause a little easier
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Mending Our Disposable Culture
Why volunteers are fixing other people’s stuff free of charge
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Meeting Colombia’s ‘Violentologist’
How a doctor in Colombia changed the way cities monitor and prevent violence
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Meet the neighbours
People in these flats promise to spend two hours a week together to tackle loneliness
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Making your deliveries greener
Four clever ways to reduce carbon emissions from deliveries
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Making tourism work for everyone
We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly
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Making the world a quieter place
How sound barriers and noise sensors are helping to make the planet more peaceful
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Making peace with nature
How conservation can be used to build peace
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Making money go further
How savings and credit groups and a cooking at home scheme are helping with money issues
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Making meat in a lab
How meat grown in labs could reduce our environmental impact
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Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
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Making landfill less awful
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
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Making hospitals less stressful
How leaves, lights, sounds and goats can improve patient health
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Making clean water with rubbish
The chemist using old bones and food waste to make clean drinking water
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Magic mushrooms and mental health
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
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Locust hunters
People in Kenya have been paid to catch swarms of locusts eating farmers’ crops
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Living with climate change
We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.
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Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations
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Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations
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Lend Me Your Eyes
How apps and armchair volunteers are helping blind people around the world.
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Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands
Can adapting your lifestyle add 10 years to your lifespan?
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Last video messages to help children grieve
Making precious video memories for children
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Kids versus Cars
The movement turning streets into playgrounds
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Kids fixing the world
Clever inventions by children that could improve our lives, from apps to robots
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Keeping the Amazon standing
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
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Keeping men healthy
The barbers providing mental health support and the truckers getting help at the roadside
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Keeping medicines cool
How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe
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Keeping data forever
Three radical new ways to save data – in DNA, glass and magnets
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Kangaroo care for premature babies
The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives
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Kangaroo care for premature babies
The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives