ABSTRACT
Until recently, the environmental and the communitarian movements have mostly progressed along parallel lines. The environmental movement often centred on the physical environment and the communitarian one on the body of society. It is important to note in this context, that the society is not a 'social environment' because society is not external to us but we are part of it and it is us; we are not an aggregate of individuals that constitute externalities to one another but we are interwoven, members in one another.
