Communities are made of families, and undoubtedly suitable for carrying out environmental protection. This research aimed at proposing the developmental model of environmental communities by exploring the activating mechanisms, main influential elements and the problems encountered during the establishing process of central Taiwan environmental communities. Firstly, 10 leaders from national model environmental communities (N.M.E.C.) were interviewed. Then 750 questionnaires for communities with fine and ordinary reputations for environmental protection in central Taiwan were issued. 265 of them were replied validly with a 35.3% recovery rate and the Cronbach αwas .827. The results were shown as：the main factors forming a model environmental communities (M.E.C.) included outstanding leaders, participation of residents and the contributions from enthusiastic persons. The financial resources mostly came from government or community development funds. The human resources mainly composed of volunteer teams, the community affairs committees and the residents. The cleaning of communities environment, the propagation of environmental education and the recycling of kitchen garabage were the most important tasks to form M.E.C. The results were shown that community environment improving as well as the greening and beautifying of community environment are two key items for improving community environment protection. The staves of community devoted themselves to environmental tasks resulted from the expectation from residents. It will be more easier to attract the residents' participation if the community perpetual development ideals go together. The more positive attitude and better control over perceived behaviors of the staff members have, the stronger behavior intentions toward community environmental affairs. The stronger behavior intentions they had, the more aggressive and practical actions were shown out.