EURO-ECO 2011 Hanover 21 - 22 November 2011	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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Everything that is going on is happening not to us but thanks to us!

If there is some disorder in our environment it means there is some disorder in our mind: the thoughts, the ideas filling it. Our life is like a copier, it displays everything that exists in our consciousness. It’s our consciousness that reveals all the events of surrounding reality. The man forms them and then lives them through. In order to change life it’s necessary to change the way of thinking and first of all - our awareness. The change of world-outlook changes the existing reality. A man should realize: in order to save the earth and himself from dreadful effects it’s necessary to change radically the conception of Life, to change radically his world-outlook. The existence of our wonderful planet depends on our awareness – either we somehow work on it or the Earth will change itself.

“New civilization should start with new educational programmes” – these are the words of a distinguished Russian scholar and researcher N.N. Moiseev, who in the last years of his life called the problem of ecological education the most important in the sphere of ecology. “The future of Mankind will be settled and solved not in the government’s studies but at a school’s desk of every state” – stated the members of the Roman club.

The fate of ecological education in Russia is becoming one of the most important problems. Judging by a number of publications on ecological problems in Mass Media everybody realizes it. But every person involved in this process gives his own answer to the questions: what to do, when to do, how to do and who will do it. Sometimes the answers are quite incompatible (for example, the answers of manufacturers, politicians and population).

N.N. Moiseev mentioned more than once that the spirit of ecological education turned to “the balance of freedom and responsibility of everybody”. In ecological culture of knowledge this is only one of resources. This is the will that turns knowledge into culture. And this will is not the will of a teacher but the will of a pupil. This will can’t exist without accomplishment of freedom of choice and realization which in their turn are impossible without self-cognition, without knowledge of one’s motives and goals. There are a few schools nowadays where the aims of education are based not on “science” but on cultural values of global scale and in these schools sooner or later three main components of unique educational environment appear: ecology as natural science, psychological integrated courses as the basis of self-actualization and, compulsory, a culturological programme as a support of spiritual formation of an individual.

The solution of ecological problems mainly depends on the choice of the population. It is possible to make air and water clean, to reduce the risk of radioactive irradiation, to guarantee the safety of foodstuffs to preserve nature and mineral resources only in case if the population itself treats these aims on a priority basis, if the population itself watches the actions of the government and business owners, uses its civil rights in order to rule the situation. So ecological problems are created by social imperfection, by juvenility of the institutes of civil self-government, by a mess in vital guidelines of population.

B.Commoner is right to say: “everything is connected with everything.