Abstract
The article investigates that the process of formation of ecological culture has passed from primitive society through primitive form, slave, feudal (adaptive-regressive form), to modern society with progressive-adaptive form of ecological culture. In the process of evolution, these changes led to coevolution associated with the development of man and society, and with the evolutionary development of nature itself. It is proved that in the conditions of global deterioration of ecological situation the new vision of the person consists that it is seen not as the owner, and is an organic part of the nature. The idea of priority cooperation with nature is being developed, and the search for ways to achieve these goals begins. The human community is approaching the initial stage of forming a holistic environmental culture. It is revealed that as a new historical type, a new stage of culture of society has the following structure: industrial culture (culture of industrial type), post-industrial or information culture (culture of information society) and ecological culture as a new type (period) of culture; environmental culture, which implies a new stage in the development of culture in general, associated with a change in the goals of production, its reorientation to the preservation of nature and humanity itself.