TURN IT
AROUND!

Our future depends on us – and it’s important to act now....

Nature teaches us the art of healing and finding solace in all troubles and provides the template for peaceful relationships with others. Its laws of interconnection, harmony, balance, interdependence, and above all unity advise us to be humane a...

The trees they teach me That to breathe It means you need To not just take but give That the Sun Is life’s sustenance And the Earth Is his gift to us The animals They speak to me In languages more sophisticated Than our own chattering They see sign...

The Central Asian Climate Education Alliance – TsAKO (in Russian, Центральноазиатский Альянс Климатического Образования – ЦAКО), was formed by representatives of education and climate/ environm...

The Final Duty (2000) is a deeply realistic work – a philosophical reflection on the vast and unfathom- able tragedy of the Kazakh people: the death of the Aral Sea. In this novel by Kazakh writer A. Nurpeisov, the storms of a hard and tangled huma...

The most important lesson; if we fail to protect our planet, we will be left with nothing. We have no other home, no second chance. Across thousands of light-years, there is only one place that welcomes us. We call this place Earth....

Hope comes from acts of loving kindness, from slowing down and resting. Let rest be our ultimate resistance in a world that’s moving too fast towards self-destruction....

Nature and education should be intricately connected. Education is about living a good life, and it is nature that provides us with the bare necessities for our life. Hence, an education drifting away from nature seems to be of little value and r...

Nature taught me about cooperation or gotong royong. Plants are related to each other and complement each other to create a balanced ecosystem. Sometimes a plant's life depends on other plants, such as the endangered Rafflesia flower. Rafflesia flowe...

There must be a willingness to question what it means to have a “good life.” It’s frustrating that so many people still very much define a good life in terms of how much they can buy, how lavishly they can live, how many things they can own. Bu...

The melting of glaciers is the quiet voice of global change....

Every living being teaches us something, we just have to pay attention and interpret it properly....

Every form of living being teaches us a way to love life, with its difficulties and affinities. They show us the result of millions of years of solving problems. Everything is already solved, our architectures, designs and psychologies need to lo...

Day by day, year by year, Life passes me quietly near. I no longer greet the morning light, Youthful strength has taken flight. The river valleys did not rise – They lie in sand, beneath dull skies. Where green once ruled in gentle sway, Now reeds...

Our ancestors had the hands of green. Our lands have always been arable. Let us continue to cultivate and live sustainably in the years to come!...

My ancestors in Indonesia always taught us that we must care for and protect the universe. Nature and humans live side by side in mutual support of each other. My ancestors have taught us to hold ceremonies to express gratitude for what the universe...

Yesterday – trees. Today – stumps. Why? They say it’s sanitary and rejuvenating pruning – the trees interfere with traffic and infrastructure… Now they’re grotesquely trimmed into poles....

Your climate change policies and actions will make or break us all. Open your eyes and stop turning a blind eye to the realities and sufferings of the people outside your offices and social bubbles. Do not wait for the entire planet to be a massive e...

From Nature you can learn to feel the pulse of life in your being, in your body. You can remember and learn how to come into the sacred dance of creation that is happening all around you, you can learn to play your own instrument in the great...