The article is based on reflections coming from research done on the multiple possibilities of 'practical' environmental education, taking, as starting point, a study on ethnobotany that sought to get to know and value popular knowledge about plants in rural districts of the city of Uberlândia, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The survey was conducted among children, youth, and people from the community of the districts of Tapuirama and Cruzeiro of Peixotos and used various media languages. Different methodological approaches were used in the course of the investigation in an attempt to adjust to the reality of each district. The data were collected using various visual media, such as photography and video. These tools were present in the different workshops held over the course of the research project; during the last one, there was the collective production of the documentary titled Causos do Cerrado (Stories of Savannah). The study brought interaction between local (the tradition of the folk knowledge on plants) and global (technological resources employed in media production).
environmental education; media and education; folk knowledge about plants