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Using haircuts to fight oil spills

An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.

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Making hospitals less stressful

How leaves, lights, sounds and goats can improve patient health

• 23 mins

How to make fishing nets less destructive

Using underwater sounds and lights so only the fish we want to eat get caught

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Saving California’s butterflies

How rearing butterflies by hand is bringing them back from the brink

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Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

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

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Sponge cities that fight flooding

How cities are embracing nature to prevent flooding

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Work: Access for all

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

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Using lotteries to make us better people

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

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Robots fixing sewers

The robots that navigate sewer pipes to find leaks and blockages so people don't have to

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Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete

The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings

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Helping teenagers become good mums

Innovative projects around the world are trying to help teenage mums

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Safer cities for women

How can you stop women being harassed in the street?

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Racing to get kids reading

How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy

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Getting kids out of institutions

Meet the people finding families for some of the five million children living in care

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The future of wind power

How floating wind turbines and power-generating kites could help fight climate change

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Keeping medicines cool

How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe

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The power of group therapy

Therapy has been helping Boko Haram survivors and street youth in Liberia.

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Saving kids with cancer

The Filipino doctor who’s found an affordable way of treating children with cancer

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Using finance to fight homelessness

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

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Getting refugees out of tents

Can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people?

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How to fix democracy

The debating platform that brings people together

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Fighting fashion waste

Turning discarded clothes into something useful.

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What 3D printing can fix

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

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Hands-off health tech

How medics can treat people without touching them

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How to get people eating less meat

Can ‘fake meat’ help reduce the amount of meat we consume?

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The food waste warriors

Three women with innovative projects that stopping food from going to waste

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Dads on duty

How volunteer dads are reducing school violence in Louisiana

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Ending road deaths

How to stop cars from killing people

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Sustainability in death

How you can be eco-friendly after you die

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Educating refugees

Helping young displaced people get a better start in life

• 23 mins