People Fixing the World Episodes Available now
The concrete cleaners
Making cement that locks in carbon dioxide instead of releasing it into the atmosphere
Bangladesh’s biker girls
The motorbike taxi app where the drivers and passengers are all women.
Putting a price on carbon
How to increase the cost of causing climate change
A simple way to help a relative if they’re arrested
A group in California is teaching families how to help loved ones charged with crimes
Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns
Solar-powered lamps are giving girls independence and stopping them becoming child brides
Trieste’s mental health ‘revolution’
How Italy’s radical decision to close its mental asylums shaped the way we think today
The school that puts wellbeing first
One primary school has found a way to deliver therapy to about 10% of its students
Residents turn detective to fight crime
Neighbours in the US are using cameras that read car number plates to cut crime
Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations
Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation
In 2001 Portugal decriminalised personal drug use to tackle a heroin crisis.