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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EDUCATE WITH LOVE
Educate us with love, teach us to love. Love influences everything that surrounds us. Eliminate the capitalist protocol that has us tired and stressed, that has other species endangered and extinct....
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PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT IS ALSO PROTECTING US
Climate change has caused a tremendous impact not only on humanity but also on Mother Nature. Remember in 2020, the flood washed away thousands of houses and properties in central Vietnam. Most recently, earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria. The c...
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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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SUSTAINABILITY BEGINS WITH US
Our understanding of sustainable development must go beyond carbon-neutral practices and policies. First and foremost, it should be woven into our relationships and culture – nurturing care and sensitivity both at home and in the workplace. Sustain...
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DISAPPEARING GLACIERS
It pains me to see our glaciers – which for centuries fed rivers and lakes – disappearing so quickly. The mountains, once proud symbols of our country, now seem to cry out for help. Each year, the summers grow hotter, the rains come less often, a...
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THINK LESS ABOUT BUILDING AND DEVELOPING LAND
We need you to think less about building and developing land, and more about growing and protecting environment. We want to continue seeing the animals that you got to see when you were a child. We want to stroll around the garden, hand pick few...
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NATURE HEALS!
Nature heals! Ancestral knowledge about medicinal plants that are passed on in traditional communities can save lives. Including traditional knowledge and young indigenous scientists is a major step forward in the advancement of science and technolog...
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THE PULSE OF LIFE IN YOUR BEING AND BODY
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...
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ME
In the end, it’s not the world that must change – it’s me. If I don’t clean up after myself, then who will?...
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STUDENTS ORGANIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
What do students think about sustainability and education? We asked just under 7000 students from around the world. Here are a few of the results from our survey Students, Sustainability and Education 2020: 92% agreed that sustainable development s...
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WHAT WILL I SHOW MY CHILD?
You might be surprised that a 14-year-old cares about environmental issues but it scares me to see how few of my peers still do. We are the future, yet we don’t take care of the Earth we’ll be living on. I asked my friends what they think about g...
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IS THE QUIET VOICE OF DISAPPEARANCE
The melting of glaciers is the quiet voice of global change....
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CONNECTION TO LAND
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!...
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WILLINGNESS TO QUESTION
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...
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CANCEL CATASTROPHES!
Care, courage, cooperation Can certainly curtail catastrophes. Concerned, caring citizens Consider cleverness, curiosity; Convince communities, committees Crack country’s concurrent crises: Crime, climate change, corruption. Consider conditions: Co...
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WISE USE OF RESOURCES
Nature shows us how animals adapt to their habitats and how organisms evolve to survive in changing conditions. It teaches us about sustainable development and the importance of using resources wisely....
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Reimagining Our Futures Together
To re-learn how we are interconnected with a living, damaged planet we must unlearn the human arrogance that has resulted in massive biodiversity loss, the destruction of entire ecosystems, and irreversible climate change. Pedagogy needs to be framed...
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A TREE LEAF ONCE TAUGHT ME
I keep this photo to remind me of what a tree leaf once taught me. Feeling exhausted after a hard mornings’ work, I sat in the grass to have lunch and picked up this fragile heart-shaped leaf. In that moment, the tree leaf taught me two things, sha...
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BREAK TOXIC CYCLES
It is important that we break toxic cycles. Whatever decisions you make now will not only affect those who are still growing up, but will determine what trends they will carry forward. The future can be bright, if we all work together to unlearn and...
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