ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to influence the village community in environmental matters really how to protect themselves against the assault of the urban and the industrial community. In a typical Indian village, the family eats its food from a banana leaf which serves as a dinner plate. Many rural communities have a culture and tradition of environmental orderliness and avoidance of resource wastage which, if harnessed properly, can be a great benefit to them. Most of us accepted it as part of a ritual, because in India, when a holy man appears, the devotees have a habit of paying their respects to him with a small offering or food or fruit. Residents of these villages found that when the land went barren there was no work to do, and when there was no work to do, there was no food to eat.
