Education has a pivotal role to play in achieving a sustainable economy and society. The cognitive and cultural separation of “ecology and environment" from the human enterprise, has led to a large scale degradation and depletion of natural resources. The guiding ideology needed to learn and teach sustainability is an ideological orientation that emphasizes conserving cultural values, beliefs, and practices that contribute to sustainable relationship with the environment. All the citizens must be environmentally literate. Perhaps the best way to visualize is by incorporating environmental education in the structure, pedagogy and curriculum of academic institutions. Environmental education however is not new to India. Protection and improvement of the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife; and living harmoniously with the environment is embedded in the Constitution of India in articles 48A and 51 G (Government of India, 2008). Awareness and connection with Nature is an integral part of the Hindu culture; worship of flora, fauna, rivers, oceans, and mountains, in fact of anything that may be life sustaining, is considered part of religious/social observations with an ecological meaning. Strict instructions on the need to preserve the environment and protect it from degradation are part of this ethos and have been laid down in ancient Hindu scriptures like the Vedas, Puranas, and the Upanishads (Baez et al., 1987, Haigh, 2008, Ravindranath, 2007, Sarabhai, 1995). Protection of the environment and its connections with daily communal life has always been an integral part of the social fabric of Indian society (Ravindranath, 2007). This ethos has been very simplistically echoed by Gandhi's words "Live simply so that others may simply live"

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