People Fixing The World

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

World Service,461 episodes

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Bringing dead languages back to life
How do you revive a language with no living speakers?
10 Jan 2023,23 mins
Fighting the megadrought
How Chile has found ingenious ways of finding and using water
03 Jan 2023,23 mins
Micro-homes and sobercoins
The tiny houses helping homeless people to get off the streets
27 Dec 2022,23 mins
Grannies fixing the world
The projects around the world using the influence of grandmothers to help improve lives
20 Dec 2022,23 mins
Board games fixing the world
Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems?
13 Dec 2022,23 mins
Sleep solutions
Innovative ways to help people get a better night’s rest
06 Dec 2022,23 mins
The body suit that stops muscle spasms
Clever physiotherapy tools to help people get moving
29 Nov 2022,23 mins
The World Cup of football solutions
How football can solve problems off the pitch
22 Nov 2022,23 mins
Jobs for girls
How training women in male dominated professions is changing finances and attitudes
15 Nov 2022,23 mins
COP27: Growing a forest the right way
Tree-planting schemes don’t always work, so what’s the best way to do forest restoration?
08 Nov 2022,23 mins
Picking up healthcare with the litter
Collecting rubbish as if your life depended on it
01 Nov 2022,23 mins
Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world
How seabirds and shellfish are protecting our planet
25 Oct 2022,23 mins
Educating refugees
Helping young displaced people get a better start in life
18 Oct 2022,23 mins
Sustainability in death
How you can be eco-friendly after you die
11 Oct 2022,23 mins
Ending road deaths
How to stop cars from killing people
04 Oct 2022,23 mins
Dads on duty
How volunteer dads are reducing school violence in Louisiana
27 Sep 2022,23 mins
The food waste warriors
Three women with innovative projects that stopping food from going to waste
20 Sep 2022,23 mins
How to get people eating less meat
Can ‘fake meat’ help reduce the amount of meat we consume?
13 Sep 2022,23 mins
Hands-off health tech
How medics can treat people without touching them
30 Aug 2022,23 mins
What 3D printing can fix
How 3D printing is changing lives from prosthetic limbs to classroom aids
23 Aug 2022,23 mins
Fighting fashion waste
Turning discarded clothes into something useful.
16 Aug 2022,23 mins
How to fix democracy
The debating platform that brings people together
09 Aug 2022,23 mins
Getting refugees out of tents
Can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people?
02 Aug 2022,23 mins
Using finance to fight homelessness
How bank accounts and clever investments are improving the lives of homeless people
26 Jul 2022,23 mins
Saving kids with cancer
The Filipino doctor who’s found an affordable way of treating children with cancer
19 Jul 2022,23 mins
The power of group therapy
Therapy has been helping Boko Haram survivors and street youth in Liberia.
12 Jul 2022,23 mins
Keeping medicines cool
How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe
05 Jul 2022,23 mins
The future of wind power
How floating wind turbines and power-generating kites could help fight climate change
28 Jun 2022,23 mins
Getting kids out of institutions
Meet the people finding families for some of the five million children living in care
21 Jun 2022,23 mins
Racing to get kids reading
How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy
14 Jun 2022,23 mins