Arts based environmental education involves an integrated interweaving of the arts, in their broadest sense, and awareness, knowledge and sensitivity to ecological ways of being and environmental activism.Education (writ large) may include informal/ non-formal education spaces, community education and schooling at all levels.The arts in this context include fine and performing arts, practical arts, traditional and Indigenous arts and practices, and new transdisciplinary experimentation. Sculpture, painting, drawing, drama, music, performance, film and animation, design, dance, masks, fibre arts, carving, comix, poetry, and more may be included (and brought together) in arts-based approaches.We hope to explore ways the arts and environmental awareness are mutually shaping and enriching, via reports on research, examples of programs, experiential workshops, participatory discussions seminars and hands-on making and doing.