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This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
Keeping the Amazon standing
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
Rewilding Earth
How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems
Overcoming stigma
The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets.
Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
Clever ways to get kids learning
We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.
Speaking up at work
We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace.
Magic mushrooms and mental health
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
Greener ways to feed the world
How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
The power of music
Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.
How literacy can change a life
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
Redefining luxury fashion
The luxury products that love the planet
Restoring California's underwater forests
We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California
Fighting sexism in society
We look at how entrenched sexist attitudes towards women are being tackled
The school run by kids
The Thai school that’s proving a model for Thailand and beyond.
Living with climate change
We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.
Solving Mexico City's water crisis
We meet the scientists, activists and urban planners tackling the megacity's water woes.
Fashion without barriers
Exploring style and beauty for people with disabilities
Saving water at a time of scarcity
We look at solutions for conserving and reusing water
Making tourism work for everyone
We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly
Africa's best new innovators
Myra Anubi is in Nairobi at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
Rethinking mental health
We look at innovative ways to improve mental health care in the US and Denmark
Protecting wildlife from human activity
We look at projects to reduce the harm caused to wildlife by human behaviour
Olympic-sized solutions
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people’s lives for the better.
Greener ways to keep cool
As the planet warms, how can we keep cool in a climate friendly way?
Switching off our smartphones
How can we all spend less time on our phones?
The medicines dropping from the sky
The HIV drugs being delivered by drones.
Hopping aboard the hospital train
How trains - and trucks - are taking healthcare into the communities that need it most
The power of native knowledge
How communities in Peru and Niger are tapping local knowledge for sustainable solutions
Saving Britain's sea life
We look at efforts being made to tackle the challenges of overfishing and climate change
