This site aims to provide an accurate but simplified overview of the exciting, complicated and controversial world of environmental education (EE). Our goal is to help interested spectators and participants understand EE and the ways it can help them meet their goals.

The world's first intergovernmental conference on environmental education resulted in the 1978 Tbilisi Declaration which established three broad objectives. These are:

• To foster clear awareness of and concern about economic, social, political and ecological interdependence in urban and rural areas;
• To provide every person with opportunities to acquire the knowledge, values, attitudes, commitment and skills needed to protect and improve the environment;
• To create new patterns of behavior of individuals, groups, and society as a whole towards the environment.

Curriculum - the knowledge and skills that we want students to learn

Instruction - the ways we expect teachers to teach and students to learn

Assessment - how we know if students have learned what we want them to learn

School Site - where the learning happens

As with education reform, equity is an issue that cuts across the four categories described above. For EE, equity issues include environmental justice perspectives and a challenge to include urban as well as multicultural issues and audiences.

Who? A sample listing of organizations that provide EE resources and services.

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