Boy Scouts in America are being given the 12th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook which is being dubbed as the first green edition.

The 475-page paperback is made of 100% post-consumer-waste recycled paper, and the production process is also environmentally friendly; the paper was produced free of chlorine chemistry and biogas energy was used during manufacturing.

 
Not only are the boy scouts going all eco on us but they’re going digital as well as the guidebook will not only be available in paperback but also in digital form. Supplementary material will be available online for the first time on the Boy Scout Handbook website: www.scouting.org. Videos, expanded information and resource links compliment the handbook. The Scouts are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year but they’re certainly not falling behind the times.  

 
To provide a vintage look, art from previous handbooks is combined with modern photographs and illustrations in the new version. “It helps them see themselves as part of these hundred years of history because of these old handbook illustrations,” said Dan Zaccara, national training chairman for the Boy Scouts.
Similar to the first edition in 1911, the new handbook is divided into three sections:

• Scoutcraft
• Woodcraft
• Campcraft

However, unlike the original edition the new one will have new information in it covering internet safety, fiscal management and nutrition. To make this even more 21st century there will be an additional iPhone application and a Spanish version!

 
“The Handbook – like our organization – adopts new and modern methods while maintaining the message of preparedness, responsibility and self-reliance,” said Boy Scouts of America Chief Scout Executive Robert Mazzuca. “Earlier Scouts earned merit badges in bee farming, blacksmithing and signaling, but now our Scouts work on 21st century subjects like composite materials, nuclear science and oceanography.”

 
Early practices that will sustain them throughout life.

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