The Refinishing Touch Blog

One of the keys to environmental education is making it standard, rather than supplemental. The Department of Education took a step towards making that happen by including environmental literacy in its budget for the first time this past February.

"Advancing the environmental literacy of our students is key to addressing today's increasingly complex environmental and related economic, social, natural resource, and energy issues," said Don Baugh, Director of the No Child Left Inside coalition.

When all young people are learning how to take care of the environment, it will become expected, not the exception. Students need to make environmentally responsible practices part of their everyday routine, using it to help consider their lifestyles, product choices and careers.

Environmental change can happen on a personal level or on a classroom level; now we get to see it happen on a national level.