nstp 2: lesson 1

• Environmental Education had been introduced in the Philippine Educational System for many years, but it had never been properly and strongly addressed to ensure functional environmental programs.
• Environmental Education is contextualizing environmental issues within the physical, biological, social, economic, historical, and cultural imperatives of the Philippines.
• environmental education is a process of teaching, learning, and helping people to acquire understanding, skillsand values that make them active and informed citizens for the development and maintenanceof an ecological, sustainable, and socially just society.
• The goal of Environmental Education is to mold an environmentally literate andresponsible citizenry who will ensure the protection and the improvement of the environment andbring about sustainability, social equity, and economic efficiency in the use of the country's natural resources. People must develop a sympathetic attitude towards the diversity and sustainability of resources on earth for the survival and stability of life.
• The specific objectives of Environmental Education can be attained in terms of the learners' awareness, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and participation in the resolution of environmental problems, issues, and concerns. The learners must consider the environment in its totality-natural and built, technological and social (economic, political, cultural, historical, moral, and aesthetic).
• environmental education mut be:

  1. action oriented
  2. experiential
  3. future oriented
  4. globally oriented
  5. holistic
  6. interdisciplinary
  7. issue orriented
• action oriented 


  it should involve finding solutions to real environmental problems and issues
• experiential


  it should use variety of approaches and environments
• future oriented


  must be concerned with the present and future generations
• globally oriented


  must consider the whole earth as one ecosystem
• holistic


  must deal with the natural and man-made aspects of the environment
• interdisciplinary


  must relate to all disciplines
• issue oriented


  must deal with local, regional, national, and global perspectives
• Environmental problems in developed and developing countries worldwide are among themost important concerns facing people and their governments.
• environmental problems include:

  1. population growth
  2. poverty
  3. deforestation
  4. pollution of water, air, and soils
  5. waste disposal
  6. loss of species
• Pollution is defined as the alteration of our surroundings, wholly or largely as a product of man's actions, through direct or indirect effects that change every pattern of chemical and physical constituents of organisms.
• Air Pollution is the physical and chemical alteration of the properties of air which rendersthe air harmful to human health, vegetation, and animals.
• TSP means total suspended particles
• WHO means world health organization
• major types of air pollution

  1. outdoor pollution
  2. indoor air pollution
• Outdoor Pollution is a type of pollution derived from the mixture or collection of additional loadsof chemicals produced by natural events and human activities which react with the natural components of the atmosphere thereby producing harmful effects to living systems.
• Indoor air pollution is a type of pollution derived from the accumulation or build up of chemicals, SPM, and VOCs inside offices, buildings, houses, schools, and commercial stores. This chemical build-up is harmful to health.
• chemical substances that contribute to air pollution

  1. nitrogen oxides
  2. carbon monoxide
  3. organic compounds
• air pollution - control

  1. input control
  2. output control
• input control involves the prevention of a problem before its occurence, or at least limiting the effects the problem will produce.
• Output control means cleaning up an area that has been damaged by pollution. This is more expensive than input control.
• There are five major input control (air pollution)

  1. restriction of population growth
  2. use of less energy
  3. augmenting energy deficiency
  4. waste reduction
  5. production of non-polluting renewable forms of energy
• "Clean Air Act" was passed in 1999 to provide comprehensive and integrated policy for air qualitymanagement. The law set the national standards for the protection of the environment and theimprovement of the quality of the air we breathe.
• Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
• Environmental Management Bureau(EMB)
• Republic Act No. 8749, otherwise known as the Philippine Clean Air Act
• Philippine Clean Air Act is a comprehensive air quality management policy and program that aims to achieve and maintain healthy air for all Filipinos
• coverage of the CAA (quality standards)

  1. mobile sources
  2. point sources
  3. area sources
• Mobile sources refer to vehicles like cars, trucks, buses, jeepneys, tricycles, motorcycles, and vans.
• Point sources refer to stationary sources such as industrial firms and the smoke stacksof power plants, hotels, and other establishments.
• Area sources refer to sources of emission other than those mentioned above. These include smoking, burning of garbage, and dust from construction unpaved ground, and so forth.
• Water pollution is defined as the physical or chemical changes in the surface and groundwater caused by pollutants and which can adversely affect living organisms.
• Major Sources of Water Pollution

  • Point sources refer to sources of discharges, pollutants or any affluent, such as wastewater, through pipes, ditches, and sewers into bodies of water to specific location.
  • Non-point sources are widely scattered and they discharge pollutants over a large area.
• point sources


  Sources: sewage treatment plants of factories, electric power plants, abandonedunderground coal mine, oil tanker, and offshore oil wells
• non-point sources


  Sources: run off into surface water, seepage into ground water in urban and suburbanlands, and construction areas and roadways.