A comprehensive, community environmental inventory is viewed in this booklet as an ongoing process of investigation and study to compile and evaluate information about the natural and man-made environmental features and characteristics of an area. It is of value to the community in planning development and resolving environmental problems and to the school in its environmental education program, with emphasis on the individual community. Section I includes general introductory items which give an overview of the community. Section II outlines natural environmental features and characteristics. Information of this kind provides an ecological basis for making judgments about the environmental effects of human activities. The list of human environmental use areas and characteristics in Section III is a reflection of these activities. Most community environmental problems will relate to one or more of these features, and in practice the stimulus for inventorying. Techniques for detecting and evaluating possible problem areas are suggested in Section IV. Section V contains data useful in understanding human demands upon the environment and causes, effects, and solutions to problems. Social, political, and economic aspects are considered. Sources for inventory information are compiled in Section VI. This work was prepared under an ESEA Title III contract. (BL)