In the past 20 years, our deteriorating environment has become a global problem. Sustainable development has become our goals for a better future. In its SDG’s 2015-2030, the United Nation has shown that people and the continuity of the environment are integral. Sustainability means that it would provide for the recent generation necessities, without risking the needs of future generations. The research focus is building environmental awareness for the 4th-grade students of Darussalam Elementary School, Panongan Regency, Tangerang. The propose strategy is by inserting educational comic through their formal Environment Education subject. It is develop through active engagement with the students as well as the teacher and Darussalam school environment using Participatory Action Research combine with Design Thinking methods. The result will be an educational comic that promotes environmental awareness that is connected to the school physical and learning environment. In the same time the comic will sparks the children’s imagination and ask them to put their knowledge from the book into action. This strategy of correlate people (the children), place (identity) and use (knowledge and action) is deemed effective in building sustainable environmental awareness for the future generation and has the potential to replicate nationwide.

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The problem of clean water supply is connected to the growth of the human settlement. In the last 20 years, the area of Jabodetabek has grown to become the home of 30 million people. The massive growth changes many rural areas into urban, consequently including the Mekar Bakti village, Panongan regency, Tangerang, where modern development has entered and intervened. This massive change has created problems at the expense of losing local wisdom that is also subjected to clean water preservation and conservation system. The research then tried to use video documentary as a means to preserve the local wisdom of water conservation and as a campaign tool for the community of Mekar Bakti village to retain their already ethical values and systems on conserving clean water. The research conducted using the methods of Participatory Action Research combines with Design Thinking and video documentary methods. It will allow the researcher team to investigate along its quantitative sides as experimental innovations, as well as its qualitative sides as experience and appreciation of participatory endeavors. In a broader sense, the strategy can be used to preserve local wisdom as an exemplary practice aligns with modern development.

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