Educations for Empowering

Ethical and religious foundation is part of the phenomena inherent in sustainable development approach. Both these aspects according to the opinion of the writer that underlie the formation of life and social behavior or prosocial behavior that practice in everyday life is to build individual and community behavior in order to have an awareness of environment and natural surroundings.


Fellix Dods in the book describes the Earth Summit a declaration of independence and the principles of sustainable development set out in "The Earth Charter", one of principle, especially number 2, namely the principle of Ecological Integrity contained several commitments in the explanation, namely:
a. Protect and restore the integrity of the earth's ecological systems, with special attention to biological diversity and natural processes in a sustainable life.
b. Preventing crime as the best method of environmental protection and when the limited knowledge, to perform preventive approach.
c. Adopt exemplary patterns of production, consumption, and reproduction that protects existing regeneration capacity of the earth, human rights, welfare and public health.
d. Helping to understand or investigate the ecological resilience and promote the open exchange of knowledge and applications gain wider.

Integrity environment or environmental awareness is part of the international campaign to every individual, community groups, institutions even local governments, regional, and national levels are required to support efforts to maintain and rebuild the environment.

Shape the behavior of individuals or groups of people to have a practical environmental awareness can be done by:
a. Starting from yourself for environmentally friendly
Environmentally conscious behavior starts with doing things and the small steps that are around us or called eco friendly eco living or are living with attention to their surroundings, or the term in general is environmentally friendly. Daily life of every individual has a different habit from that one individual with another individual, if carefully considered the behavior of individuals can be forced to always pay attention to small things and easy to do.

Environmentally friendly behavior is the simplest can be done every one example is: use water wisely, unplugged when not in use do not get used to let the electrical energy in a state of stand-by, reducing products Disposable instant is not too good for health in addition will increase the waste , planting a single tree trunk is all around us, save fuel, and the most difficult to care for the environment is the waste issue and therefore each individual needs to pay attention and - garbage - it's very well namely the 3R approach (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) . That with this pattern contains elements; reduce product waste, reuse of existing sampah2 and recycle rubbish that has been used.

The practice of everyday life for environmentally friendly is not only limited in the household environment, but can be done in the working environment such as: do not wasteful use of paper, use of electrical energy economically or if there is AC quicken certain times only, with the development of information technology can be utilized for each result of the work if we want to send enough via email without having to printout. There are many patterns of life Simple and easy to do that support behavioral change to maintain, save, and preserve the environment for better quality of life.
b. Through environmental education activities

In the agenda of environmental education in the 21st century is mentioned that education is a solution that needs to be prioritized: "... Environmental education has the task of transforming the attitudes and behavior toward the whole community if there is a new venture of the conservation in plants and animals as well as that done by the people or society in order to become a reality

Environmental education activities, whether conducted through formal or non-formal education is an institutional activity covers all aspects that must be executed, the main curriculum for all levels in order to assist the development of a sense of responsibility towards the environment and teaches students about how to keep, and maintain protect the existence of the environment.

Environmental education is focused on changing individual attitudes and behaviors in practice, the emphasis not only on widespread educational needs but also for the sake of changing the content of education itself. Children and adults are required to obtain the knowledge and values that will make them to live sustainably. This requires environmental education related to social education, which seeks to understand the natural world and live in harmony in it. life harmonious in the natural environment is the understanding of individuals on the object that is being occupied, meaning that one's social attitudes and behavior toward the environment in the form of feelings of responsibility will preserve, protect, and preserve the environment from extinction.

Education can give to the community about the ethics and environmental awareness, values, attitudes and behaviors to develop a more sustainable life. This also reinforces the notion that education is not only focused on the environmental aspects of physical, and biological environment but the socio-economic environment and human resource development. Government responsibilities are: To support the sustainable development of the state Education needs to find:
1. Create an environment and development education for all ages and situations that developed.
2. Work environment and development concepts, including those that population, in all education programs, with analyze the cases that cause major issues, so that it becomes a special stage for the decision maker is emphasized on education and training.
3. Involving school children in the study or learning about a healthy environment both at local or regional environment, including drinking water rescue, medical care, food, and economic impacts of resource use and environmental resources.

Thus the propaganda agenda of environmental education in the 21st century will work well if it's really responded to by every institution education providers either type or level of education in all over the country both in local, regional and national levels.
Number of educational institutions with different visions and missions that embrace education, adding a curriculum about the environment in the learning process is an obligation that must be done if you do not want our environment is polluted and extinct. Because through educational activities is a strategy that is more likely to do in campaigning for environmental education, both through its own curriculum in a subject or be integrated into subjects relevant to the content of environmental education itself.
c. Through a campaign or movement organizations and mass media
Shape the behavior of people's lives can be performed with a variety of activities that can be touched directly to the needs of individuals, groups, and society at large. These activities can be performed by various civil society organizations in the environmental community itself as the participation of the movement or campaign about important issues of concern to be known by the public, and in turn the community experience good changes knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and skill and value life in it.

The role of civil society organizations or even the mass media is very big in helping campaign for reform ideas for the public to follow and participate because of changes in program behavior due to the campaign. Experience in various countries as well as in Romania that: "... civil society organizations or NGOs or often called NGS has an important role in assisting the government program as well as environmental actions such as promoting eco-conscious social movement, the promotion of new technologies to preserve the environment.

Likewise, mass media such as television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as an important instrument which has a maximum role to help achieve a rapid development objectives of society, especially changes in behavior and personality in order to have social and occupant awareness of environmental. The role that can be done by the mass media is publishing a variety of environmental activities undertaken by the community.
Mass media channels are all tools that can convey messages, involving the various mass media such as radio, television, and newspapers are allowed to submit news sources to individuals or society, mass media have the advantage, among others can:
1. Reaching a broad audience or reader and a big fast
2. Create knowledge and disseminate information
3. Encouraging change in attitude and behavior is expected.

Both organizations or NGOs / NGS and the mass media have an important role which is expected to menyamapaikan the patterns of development and saving the environment with a variety of news and activities made by the organization, in other words programs conducted by the NGO / NGS and broadcast through mass media will be easily accessible by the public news, news tgerus and over again it will affect the response, feelings, attitudes, and behavior of individuals or society.

Next is how to package programs and campaigns on environmental maintenance are presented in the news interesting and creative so as to influence the behavior of individuals and communities in order to have awareness of environment further.yang harmony can live in it.

Changes in behavior itself hangs self individuals, groups and institutions. Changes in the most narrow is the individual or individuals, continued widespread in the group or community, and the most fundamental is the change and the formation of behavior in an institution.

Changes in behavior in the aspect of this institution is the culmination, because that aspect is a target or object the establishment of behavior related to environmental awareness that emerges; policies, rules, and sanctions that bind the whole structure of social life of society and its environment.

Prosocial behavior not only between individuals associated with other individual human beings, but also may be associated with the environment and natural surroundings as a foothold for someone to perform social functions.

Among the social functions this one can form conscious behavior on the environment, namely the willingness of each individual to establish, maintain, rebuild the environment and natural surroundings in case of damage, which may cause the disaster and the damage is greater.

Gain, maintain and develop the environment and natural surroundings, not only have an effect on environmental improvements physic and biological environment only, but will be broader impact on the development of economic and social environment and human resources for the betterment of human welfare.