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People Fixing the World Episodes

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    Would You Rent Your Clothes?

    Would you rent your clothes?

  2. Working Less For The Same Pay

    Some companies are cutting the hours their staff work but keeping their pay the same

  3. Work: Access for all

    Workplaces that have welcomed people with learning disabilities on to the team

  4. Work: Access for all

    We look at workplaces that have welcomed people with learning disabilities on to the team

  5. Why Millions Listen to This Girl

    Why millions listen to this nine-year-old girl's advice

  6. When Local Currencies Go Digital

    The app that wants to keep money flowing in your local community.

  7. What to do with an empty mall?

    The US malls being brought back to life as schools, healthcare centres and offices.

  8. What to do with an empty mall?

    The US malls being brought back to life as schools, healthcare centres and offices

  9. What happened next to our problem solvers

    Hydrating sweets for the elderly go on sale and how a housing experiment coped with Covid

  10. What 3D printing can fix

    How 3D printing is changing lives from prosthetic limbs to classroom aids

  11. Ways to save the planet: Using the sun

    Using floating solar panels and a see-through pyramid to help the climate

  12. Ways to save the planet: Swap concrete for wood

    We investigate the power of nature鈥檚 own creations to help fix climate change

  13. Ways to save the planet: Fridge detectives

    We meet detectives hunting down old fridges to stop greenhouse gases escaping from them

  14. Ways to save the planet: Ancient solutions

    We could save 16% of emissions by using biochar, a simple indigenous fertilising method

  15. Watching out for Gran with help from her toaster

    How we could improve care for the elderly by monitoring their use of home appliances

  16. Violent partners: The 鈥榳indow鈥� strategy

    How Iceland pioneered a new approach to domestic violence

  17. Viking Therapy?

    The Viking clubs where men fight their demons.

  18. Using VR to change lives

    How virtual reality is helping tackle phobias and resolve conflict

  19. Using satellite photos to help distribute cash

    Togo has found a new way to send emergency cash to people struggling in the pandemic

  20. Using lotteries to make us better people

    The lotteries that nudge people to take medicine, pick up litter or pay their taxes

  21. Using haircuts to fight oil spills

    How old hair is being used to help the planet

  22. Using finance to fight homelessness

    How bank accounts and clever investments are improving the lives of homeless people

  23. Urban Cable Cars

    Can cable cars help poor communities feel more connected?

  24. Unsung victories in the fight against disease

    Remarkable successes against some of the most unpleasant illnesses on the planet

  25. Turning waste into power

    How old food and hot computers are being used to provide new sources of energy

  26. Turning waste into energy

    Instead of sending all our waste to landfill, some companies are using it to make energy

  27. Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

    The entrepreneurs using clever chemistry to turn scrap rubber into fuel and car tyres

  28. Turning the desert green

    One man's plan to make the Sinai desert fertile

  29. Turning Subsistence Farming into an Investment Opportunity

    How a new Nigerian tech startup is turning small scale farms into financial investments

  30. Turning preachers into LGBT allies

    How a group of Kenyans reduced homophobic hate and violence

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