How to use environmental education!

According to http://www2.epa.gov/, "Environmental education is a process that allows individuals to explore environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the environment.  As a result, individuals develop a deeper understanding of environmental issues and have the skills to make informed and responsible decisions."  With this proper definition of Environmental education and the past research that I've been exploring about the topic, I feel as though I have a nourished understanding of what it is and the importance of it being used.  From thinking about my past experiences of being taught at school and doing research on the amount of Environmental education being used in public schools, I really do notice that it's being lacked in that area and I really feel as though it does not have to be that way!
According to http://www-personal.umich.edu, activities for young students like having a scavenger hunt in the winter where the students have to find things like finding specific birds, paw prints, berries, pine cones, flowers, and pieces of trash.  So it's pretty easy to see that implementing Environmental education into a teacher's curriculum is not as difficult as it may seem!

Another activity that the website suggested was for teachers to have their students create their own gardens at school.  Giving students the chance to make their own garden with one another would help them to understand important concepts like how vegetables are created which can lead them to having a deeper appreciation and propensity to them as well.
So in my opinion, with these activities listed above, it's clear that using Environmental education is extremely beneficial and can have a lot of value to it.  I think that we as educators should try and work hard to implement this aspect of education into our curriculums because I really feel as though by doing it, it'll create a better generation of learners who enjoy trying to make the world a better and healthier place, especially since the world is in a state of danger with global warming and all.