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NSTP - 7 - Environmental Education

Environmental education teaches people about the environment and sustainability so they can be informed citizens. It aims to create environmentally literate citizens who will protect natural resources and ensure sustainability, equity, and efficient use of resources. Environmental education should be action-oriented, experiential, future-oriented, globally-oriented, holistic, interdisciplinary, and issue-oriented. It also covers topics like types of pollution, the 4Rs of ecology, seven environmental principles, and important Philippine environmental laws.

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NSTP - 7 - Environmental Education

Environmental education teaches people about the environment and sustainability so they can be informed citizens. It aims to create environmentally literate citizens who will protect natural resources and ensure sustainability, equity, and efficient use of resources. Environmental education should be action-oriented, experiential, future-oriented, globally-oriented, holistic, interdisciplinary, and issue-oriented. It also covers topics like types of pollution, the 4Rs of ecology, seven environmental principles, and important Philippine environmental laws.

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Environmental

Education
Environmental Education
• It a process of teaching and learning, helping
to acquire understanding, skills and values
that makes them active and informed
citizens in the development and maintenance
of an ecological, sustainable and socially just
society.
Objectives of EE
• have environmentally literate and responsible
citizenry who will ensure the protection and
the improvement of the environment and
bring about sustainability, social equity and
economic efficiency in the use of the country’s
natural resources
EE must be:
• Action-oriented
• Experiential
• Future-oriented
• Globally-oriented
• Holistic
• Interdisciplinary
• Issue-oriented
Classification and Sources
of Pollution
• Air Pollution
– Outdoor Pollution
– Indoor Pollution
• Water Pollution
– Point Source
– Non-point Source
• Solid Wastes/ Land Pollution
4Rs of Ecology
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Repair
7 Environmental Principles
• Balance of Nature
• Biodiversity
• Interconnectedness
• Change
• Materials Cycles
• Finiteness
• Stewardship
Important Environmental
Laws
• R.A. 9003 – Ecological Solid Waste
Management Act of 2000

• R.A. 9275 – Philippine Clean Water Act of


2004

• R.A. 6969 – Toxic Substances, Hazardous and


Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990
Important Environmental
Laws
• R.A. 8435 – Agriculture and Fisheries
Modernization Act of 1997

• R.A. 8749 – Clean Air Act of 1999

• R.A. 9512 – National Environmental


Awareness and Education Act of 2008

• R.A. 9513 – Renewable Energy Act of 2008

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