Turning Goats into Water

Myra Anubi looks at two solutions that harness the power of pictures to help disabled people. Books Beyond Words is a UK charity that publishes books with no words, just big pictures on every page. They are made for people with learning disabilities, who come together to read the ...  Show more

We visit two projects exploring practical responses to homelessness and housing insecurity. Presenter Myra Anubi travels to Edinburgh to see the work of Social Bite, a charity creating small communities of prefabricated homes on unused land, offering people a stable place to live ...  Show more

What if smallholder farmers could use their produce and livestock to pay for goods and services? TED Fellow and alternative currency enthusiast Fariel Salahuddin is working to make this a reality in places including rural Pakistan, where basic necessities like water and electrici ...  Show more

Researchers in Saudi Arabia have developed a prototype solar panel which generates electricity and purifies water at the same time. The device uses waste heat from the electricity generating process to distil water. An individual panel for home use could produce around 4 litres a ...  Show more

On an all new Animal Calls- Karpathia talks about a friends suggestion to keep her goats in a unused greenhouse and why that's a bad idea, plus talks to a caller about the therapeutic nature of taking care of farm animals. 

Dr Ameliah Scott pilots herself around remote NSW to take care of animals and have a cuppa with their owners.