This article explores the relevance of environmental education in modem society, with a particular focus on its role in urban areas. It does this by exploring the words environment and education and envisioning how they relate to each other The author finds that environmental education can enable a relevant and fulfilling education within a community-specific environment. Such an education would emerge from, and thrive on, broad community introspection into the scope both of its natural resource needs and of the values that it desires to nurture. The piece concludes that environmental education, properly conceptualized, has much to offer all communities.
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