Trends in public participation have become inevitable. In the meantime, community becomes a main platform for public participation. With the rise of environmental awareness, more publics pay attention to environmental quality where they live. 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 local governments in implementing environmental reforms, resource investigation and environmental learning center projects, to provide 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 an on-site workshop at an accredited facility or venue for learning centers to promote capabilities of applying accreditation for facilities and venues in the future, (6) to establish an Community Environmental Action Website to advocate the meaning and practice of community reform and environmental learning center projects

Community Reform, Resource Investigation, Environmental Learning Center