Community has become the basic unit fot implementating the public policy. Promoting environmental quality is the first step to fulfill sustainable hometown. Therefore, the Environmental Protection Administration of Executive Yuan has implemented a series of environmental reforms since 1997. In order to promote the environmental quality of community, the main characteristics of these environmental reforms are focusing on both bottom-up mechanisms and local community demands. The major works of this project included: (1) to hold both appraisal meetings for multi-community and environmental learning center applicants and assistant meeting for local government public servants, (2) to assist city and county in implementing environmental reforms, resource investigation and environmental learning center projects, toprovide on-the-spot technical counseling and to analyze community indicators on a quarter basis, (3) to convene a local government public servants guidance meeting, to hold the experience sharing and application guideline for next year conferences to promoting the understanding among different communities and the important issues for project application, (4) to have a training class for seed teachers of communities to cultivate environmental education, (5) to hold a workshop for resource investigation to provide teaching materilas, (6) to establish an Community Environmental Action Website to advocate the meaning and practice of community reform and environmental learning center projects, (7) to assess the effectiveness of current community environmental reforms by analyzing a satisfaction questionnaire

Community Reform, Resource Investigation, Environmental Learning Center