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This action research studied the impact of special environmental education course that included project- based learning skills within cross disciplinarily context; on pre-service teachers’ green-citizenship and their application of project based learning skills. The sample studied consisted of 162 second and third year primary pre-service teachers, of different subjects, in the Lebanese University, Faculty of Pedagogy, First Branch, UNESCO. Results were collected using three different tools: A pre-test and post-test were completed using a questionnaire to measure participants’ environmental knowledge, practice, and attitudes, and a rubric to evaluate project- based learning skills, and the rate of paper recycling performed by student teachers for measuring environmental commitment. Qualitative and quantitative results showed that there was a significant improvement in the level of pre-service teachers’ green-citizenship. The implications of this study endorsed the importance of pre-service environmental education training as criteria for teacher green-citizenship certification. (Published Abstract)