Environmental protection is an issue of global importance, which must become a national priority that targets directly the living conditions and health of the population, achievement of economic interests, as well as capacities for sustainable development of society. Environmental protection, however, can not be fully realized if not correlate legislative and administrative measures with educational ones [1].  The environmental project, one of the recent methods used in environmental education is a research carried out by students, coordinated by teacher and pursuing an environmental issue or problem. The main focus, in such kind of research, is based on communities, which are the form of organization in which students and the inhabitants can get involved in formation of environmental durability and through that can be developed a sense of local belonging – “I live here”, so the students should be more involved in conservation and environmental protection. At the same time, every student learns with pleasure about nature and is indicated, for the teacher, to be guided by this enthusiasm, in his work, and help them to understand the links between different systems around us [1, 2]. Current pedagogical and innovative methods in Education for Sustainable Development, recommended that process of teaching and learning phenomena, components and problems concerning the environment, should focus on the prevalence of methods including active participation, learning through experience, visits, field study, etc [2].  In the environmental project, as research, the students use different methods: methods of oral communication (presentation, querying, reasoning, problem solving, demonstration etc.); written communication methods (manual with map work, text analysis); methods of direct systematic exploration of reality (systematic observation, documents research, case study); methods of working in the field (field observations, evidence collection, interviewing civil society and the authorities dealing with environmental issues); laboratory study methods, analytical method, historical method, etc.  Steps to achieve an environmental project by students, aiming the native locality include: 1. General information about the village (physical and geographical position, topography, climate, hydrographic network, vegetation and animals, soils), according to data from the literature and field observation; 2. History of native village (legends, myths), according to local folklore and historical data; 3.Description of general ecological status (characterization of environmental components and argumentation of their functions in the ecosystem, the ecological status according to environmental reports); 4. The environmental problems identified in native village. The algorithm for characterization of environmental problems, recorded during the study, included the following steps: causes / sources of pollution - consequences / impact –measures of control and prevention. It is not enough for the student to identify and analyze environmental problems. Very important is to find solutions that can solve the studied problems, so their research can try to improve a situation or may be the first step in solving environmental problems through the prism of critical thinking;  5. Conclusions – deduction of conclusions reached by the student, after research. They must be interrelated with the purpose and objectives initially proposed in the study; 6. Bibliography – it is passing in alphabetical order: author, title, publisher, year, consulted pages, internet sites, etc.; 7. Appendices - may include attached press articles, photographs, tables, etc. So, environmental education through environmental project, focused on local horizon, can  complete a large scale of objectives such as: awareness and assumption of responsibility for environmental protection; individual / group initiative adopted to find new solutions for solving environmental problems at national and local level; conservation and environmental protection, beginning with the native environment (the nearest as physical and emotional affiliation) and use of gained knowledge to information, awareness and education of population.