Abstract:

Concern for the environment is one of the character values needed in protecting and preserving the universe. Seeing the current phenomenon of environmental damage, it is evident that human awareness in protecting the existence of the environment needs to be grown and increased. Forests are damaged due to human needs for housing, industry, factories closer to the area. These factors should be the focus of our thinking about the environment, ecosystem, habitat. Another factor is that all stakeholders have not implemented environmental laws. Efforts to overcome this include ecological education, increasing awareness of the meaning of the environment for humans, adding public green spaces, greening, waste banks, dumping garbage somewhere, recycling waste into materials that are beneficial to humans. All these efforts will be meaningless if they are not supported by government policies in the form of funds, political will, and a legal umbrella that is assisted by legal certainty and law enforcement and justice. This study tries to find information about improving character education for environmental care for high-level students and lecturers. Strengthening character education is the key to maintaining the existence of the Indonesian nation and state. One of them is strengthening environmental character education. Environmental awareness as a reinforcement of character education needs to be improved to create a healthy and comfortable living environment.

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