Environmental education, including education on land use, must be continual and sequential in scope and process. It should begin early in the formal educational system and, through sustained adult education, provide life-long learning. Easy access for all Pennsylvanians to sound environmental information through all available and emerging technologies. Heightened public awareness of the impacts that public and private decisions have on the environment. Actions by government, business, educational institutions and non-governmental organizations to model and incorporate into their missions and goals sound environmental practices and education.
Stewardship is the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care.
The best way to assure the future health of our environment and economy is to make certain that each generation of Pennsylvanians has the knowledge and skills necessary to make environmentally sound decisions in all spheres of life. That ability must be coupled with their understanding of the broad social and personal benefits such decisions promise to deliver. We look to Pennsylvanians to act and behave in ways that help regenerate and sustain a healthy natural environment. Such action and conduct should arise voluntarily. We cannot coerce or regulate the individual behavior of 12 million people.