Environmental Education

Northern Illinois University recently unveiled a nearly 100-page Sustainability & Climate Action Plan. It outlines how -- from transportation to food services -- the university said it will commit to sustainability. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has the details and how some students are already leading the way.

“Even when the resources were available to teachers, it was still a lot of that burden was still put on them,” said co-founder Ylanda Wilhite.

Student-led environmental education projects are helping them take the lead on issues like climate change

Illinois has had frameworks for environmental literacy since 1995. But the group realized they didn’t even have a solid definition for what environmental literacy even is until now.