Geography lessons in school felt too drab to those who couldn’t warm up to the subject. Greyscale illustrations and incomprehensible maps didn’t help decode rainfall data and river lengths. It was later, with reported stories and projects told by or from the perspective of the people engaging with these natural forces, that this writer experienced living and nuanced surroundings that were hardly divorced from life and actions.

Creative ways to communicate topics such as climate change and the environment, especially to students, is the need of the hour. One such recent initiative was an educator’s guide titled Creative Approaches to Climate and Peace Education, co-created by Climate Illustrated and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, GEI, in Germany.