TURN IT
AROUND!
How to
TURN IT AROUND! is a toolkit to help us radically reimagine education in response to the climate and ecological emergency. There is no one right way to use them, but here are some ideas that may get you started in turning this emergency around.
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WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED
We have everything we need in this moment to solve our problems....
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DON’T PAINT THE FACADE OF PROMISE, ACT NOW
When leaders make a decision, they need to address problems at their root cause rather than treat just the symptoms. Things are not as simple as saying "reduce, reuse, and recycle" or adding more renewable energy resources. Climate change, our econom...
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RETHINK. TRANSFORM.
I vividly remember sitting at the table with my grandmother two years ago, talking about life, when she said, ‘Only death is irreversible…’ I thought how perfectly that cap- tures the strength of life and its endless possibilities. That phrase...
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Common Worlds Research Collective
How might common worlding pedagogies foster new ways of learning and living on our damaged earth? Common worlding pedagogies refuse to separate us humans off from our fellow earthlings. Instead of thinking about the world ‘out there’ as something...
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THE CENTRAL ASIAN CLIMATE EDUCATION ALLIANCE
The Central Asian Climate Education Alliance – TsAKO (in Russian, Центральноазиатский Альянс Климатического Образования – ЦAКО), was formed by representatives of education and climate/ environm...
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TRANSFORM UNSUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS
We are living through a social and environmental crisis, which is rooted in systemic inequities. Young people are confronted with this every day. We can’t achieve the change necessary for our survival by using the same systems that got us here in t...
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DO NOT LIE IN WAIT, REACT!
Let the earth give you life and all that you own, Let earth recharge your weary bones. But be warned that in order to fully connect, We must tread with deep and utter respect. Kneel at the stream and pond, Watch the evading prey and the predator conn...
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NDN Collective
What if the best times are ahead of us? What if the only “back” we’re going towards is back into our bodies, into our ancestral ways, into our spirits, into the Earth? What if we could imagine again? Dream again? Climate asks us how we want to...
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ONE BUTTERFLY–AN ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM
The Charlton’s Apollo butterfly is a ‘living fossil’ – an endemic relict high-mountain species found in the Global warming is causing glaciers to melt and altering microclimates in specific locations. Human activities such as deforestation, o...
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EMPATHY
Humans often think in an anthropocentric way considering only what is best for an individual human, in a given moment. We build over environments and corral animals to suit our needs. This has led us to the brink of planetary disaster. The future...
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PAY ATTENTION
Every living being teaches us something, we just have to pay attention and interpret it properly....
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PLANTS LIVE AND LET US LIVE
Plants live and let us live. We must live so that we can benefit each other....
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SPEAK UP, AND…
We are the first generation to know we’re destroying the world, and we could be the last one to do anything about it. Speaking up is one of the most powerful things you can do. Talk to the people in charge. Talk to your friends, neighbours, and...
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EDUCATION FOR SURVIVAL
We really need to learn about climate because we need to know what dangers will come. We can't underestimate the climate. For example, when there is very heavy rain that doesn't stop for days, it can signal floods or landslides....
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RESILIENCE
The global situation is testing the limits of the humanity’s resilience, one more time in history. In these moments we realize that we have the capacity to transform the world in a way that is more inclusive and in symbiosis with nature. The connec...
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TABI TABI PO (MAY I PASS)
Growing up as a Filipino, the culture, taboo, and superstition played a big part of my identity. But if I had one thing to proudly share and pass on the next generations, it would be an old tradition for the kids to say "tabi tabi po" every time they...
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Finding connection in Conversations with Rain
Cup your hands over your ears, pause. listen. Notice overlapping sounds of sea, cave, sense, time, r a i n Now pick up two pencils, one in each hand, and use them to make the Sound of Rain with repeated marks falling onto the page. What if listening...
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EARTH IS ALL WE HAVE
Earth is all we have and we must learn how to take care of her. Including climate education in today’s educational curriculum will bring the urgency of climate action, discouraging activities that lead to global heating and encouraging our collecti...
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CITIES WITHOUT TREES
The more trees are cut down in our cities in Uzbekistan, the more it hurts. Too often, they are removed just to build something – yet sometimes that ‘something’ is of no use to anyone....
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