People Fixing the World

Redefining luxury fashion

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

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How literacy can change a life

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

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• 10 días

The power of music

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

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• 17 días

Greener ways to feed the world

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

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• 24 días

Magic mushrooms and mental health

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

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Speaking up at work

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

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Clever ways to get kids learning

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

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Bringing dead languages back to life

Australia used to be one of the most linguistically diverse places, with over 200 languages....

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Making life easier for older people

Barcelona in Spain is famous for its beautiful streets, lined with tall apartment buildings. But...

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Overcoming stigma

On this edition of People Fixing The World we meet people who’ve helped overcome long-standing...

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Rewilding Earth

From beavers in the UK to bison in Romania and jaguars in Argentina, ecologists around the world...

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• 2 meses

Keeping the Amazon standing

The Amazon is the largest forest in the world, spread across nine countries in South America and...

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• 3 meses

Fake birds and other stories

This week we have a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023. We...

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Making landfill less awful

Landfill sites are an icon of our wasteful society and the harm we cause to Planet Earth. But...

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The country tackling loneliness

Loneliness affects millions of people around the world and can have a significant impact on our...

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• 4 meses

Building a clinic to save a forest

How do you stop people chopping down precious rainforest? In the Indonesian part of Borneo,...

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The plastic eaters

Every year the world produces 400 million tonnes of plastic – the same weight as all the humans...

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• 5 meses

Fighting period poverty

Millions of women around the world lack access to safe and hygienic menstrual products. But there...

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• 5 meses

Sharing the river

In the farming community of Los Negros in rural Bolivia, the river is their life and livelihood....

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Training heroin users to save their friends

Heroin users in Scotland are being trained to spot when someone is about to overdose and to step...

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