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Environmental education

Environment and human life is a component interdependencies. Environment consists of biotic and abiotic environment. Biotic environment is an environment that consists of a community of living organisms, such as plants and animals. While of an environmental abiotic environment is composed of inanimate objects, such as light, temperature, air, water, soil, minerals and moisture. Humans need the environment to support daily activities and human environments require that the results of the environment can be best utilized. Therefore, because the environment is very important for humans, the humans must preserve it and use it wisely. For that, people need to be equipped for Environmental Education from an early age in order to properly treat the environment around it. This is also confirmed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of National Education (MONE) and Ministry of Environment (MOE) in 1996 and then revised in June 2005. The signing of the MOU is significant as an attempt to seek how the love of the environment can be as a charge of education for students of students from an early age in formal education. Because all composed or structured from the start, is expected to provide results or achievement of better environmental management.

   There are different kinds of understanding of Environmental Education (EE). According to the convention of UNESCO in 1997, the Environmental Education is a process that aims to create a global community with a concern for the environment and the problems associated therein and has the knowledge, motivation, commitment and skills to work both individually and collectively in seeking or provide alternative solutions to environmental problems that exist now and to avoid environmental problems of life.

    According to Yusuf (1994) Environmental education is a process of developing an appreciation of the interdependence between human and biophysical and auxiliaries that terbina attitudes and values ​​would memelihra harmonious relationship between the components of the environment.

    Then according Soeriatmadja in 1997, Environmental education is a process that aims to develop an awareness of humanity will be living environment with all the problems contained therein. Thus, we can conclude the understanding of Environmental Education (EE) is a process that has the aim to create a society that is aware of the environment by taking into account environmental problems that occur and can provide solutions to overcome them.

  Environmental Education (EE) also has a vision and mission. Vision for Environmental Education is the realization of human beings who have the knowledge, awareness and skills to play an active role in rangkaa preserving and improving the environment. While the mission of the Environmental Education, among others:

• Develop a national education policy paradigm of the environment

• Improving access to information evenly environmental education

• Increase synergies between actors of environmental education

• Develop institutional capacity for environmental education

     Environmental education is directed to aspects of the attitudes and behavior of student learners to understand the importance of the environment for life and how to love and maintain the environment so that it becomes embedded in their daily lives. With the environmental education is taught, it is expected to encourage and give people an opportunity to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes that can foster awareness, commitment to protect and improve and utilize the environment wisely, it can also create new patterns of behavior that is friendly to environment and are able to develop environmental ethics.

    Environmental quality has been bad this time was different to the environment at an earlier age. This is a result of increased pertambahn population and rapid technological development. Pollution is everywhere and make people worry about the state of the environment. Seeing the environmental problems that occur when rapidly evolving and complex, expected for Environmental Education is able to contribute to the environmental quality of life better. Keep in mind once again that the environment and human interdependence, need each other. So, people must start from now to more wisely manage the environment so that in the future our children can feel the quality of the environment is good.