Our desire to know our world is the genesis of all knowledge; our determination to understand and control it, the basis of science and technology: and our recognition of its complexity and beauty, the origin of spirituality. Thus the “environment” has never been outside the ambit of the educational process, nor has its central role been denied. However, the environment, whatever it connotes, has been taken for granted for a very long time. This was so even after the scientific and technological growth that began in the eighteenth century and intensified in this century catapulted the world into a new era. Science and technology became the catalysts and nuclei for the continuing growth of knowledge and its effect on the human lifestyle.