Once upon a time, the earth was clean, undamaged, and “healthy” but with each passing day humans with their pollution emitting vehicles, bad habits and ignorance are making this planet earth a living garbage. With the increase in environmental information people are gradually understanding their role in protecting their world. This is the very reason that environmental education is gaining momentum in our education system.

Environmental education teaches us the ways in which natural environment should function and more importantly our contribution in its betterment as we are the ones who have blemished it. There are several websites, books, magazines published and media campaigns done to provide environmental awareness to the general mass. Environmental instruction has also become an indispensable part of all primary till post-secondary level education in schools.

Conservation is a key aspect of environmental lifestyle. Charity begins at home, why go outside? Look around you and you’ll get ample scope of conserving energy at any hour. For example, heating or cooling can be made more effective by completely shutting down the windows, covering every gap or hole, by improving your insulation and what not. This will help retain maximum cooling or heating. Nevertheless, good for your pocket too. Appliances consuming maximum electricity are AC units, heaters, light etc. Try switching to high efficiency (energy star) machines for smart energy utilization. One can also install a programmable thermostat which automatically sets daytime and nighttime temperatures. It is advisable to keep your home temperature at 78 degrees or more in the summer and 72 degrees in the winter. Wearing less in summer and more in layers in winters in something that most countries have been doing for ever and continue do so because they have been educated in doing so.

The most important lesson in environmental education is to protect our earth from the ever increasing pollution. The first step to avoid creating pollution such as using a public transportation or carpool. Biking is even better. The above guidelines are some of the vital ways to save our environment and pass on a happy healthy world to our next generation. Enlighten yourself with more environmental education today.