People Fixing the World

Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better pl

Episodes

Total: 412

From the way we catch food, to how we generate energy, human activity inevitably impacts on wildlife

Rethinking mental health

2024/7/9

In the US, police officers spend about a fifth of their time responding to mental health crises. Thi

In a special programme, Myra Anubi is in Nairobi, Kenya at the final of the Africa Prize for Enginee

Tourism brings money and opportunities to communities around the world, but it brings risks too. Som

Just over a quarter of people on the planet live in water stressed countries. And our increasing dem

US shopping malls, once a mainstay of American life, are in decline. Forty malls have closed since 2

Fashion without barriers

2024/6/4

What we wear helps us express ourselves and communicate to others in the most immediate way. But the

Mexico's capital often floods during the rainy season, but paradoxically, it's also running out of w

Poorer countries are likely to bear the brunt of the impacts of climate change, with rising temperat

The school run by kids

2024/5/14

If you could invent a new kind of school what would it look like? What skills would you teach childr

Across the world millions of women and girls face discrimination and worse because of their gender.

Often described as underwater rainforests and the “lungs of the ocean”, kelp forests line as much as

Premature babies often need a lot of expensive specialised care - but that isn’t always available. S

Redefining luxury fashion

2024/4/16

The fashion industry is the third largest manufacturing industry in the world consuming huge amounts

Learning to read empowers people, reduces poverty and increases their job chances. Yet more than 700

The power of music

2024/4/2

We all know about the power of music to change our mood or to make us move. But an increasing body o

Transforming the global food system is vital in the fight against climate change. Currently, food pr

Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions? We look at pioneering res

Speaking up at work

2024/3/12

Whistleblowers - they're the good guys right? The ones who speak truth to power and have films made

Schools across Senegal have discovered a clever way for children to surf the web even when there isn