Environmental literacy in America

A fascinating National Education Foundation Report on environmental literacy points out that in 2001, 63% of Americans got the environmental information from TV. I’d be curious to know what the figure is now, but it begs the question, if this is really true, then why isn’t media literacy part of the standard ecoliteracy curriculum?

Read and download the whole report here.

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