Subject: Go Green Activities related to World Environment Day (WED)
Activity Date: June 5-6, 2009
Publication: Philippine Daily Inquirer
Publication Date: June 18, 2009
Format: Broadsheet Newspaper
Language: English
Scouts join re-greening of Intramuros through “Go Green”
Three Hundred Seventy Boy Scouts joined about 70 other volunteers that included businessmen, generals, school teachers, and students in planting 550 trees across the walled city of Intramuros, a Philippine Heritage site, on January 10, 2009.
The Intramuros Tree Planting event is the latest in the series of tree planting projects undertaken by the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) under its “Go Green! Go for the Real Thing!” project in partnership with Coca-Cola. All of the trees used in the event came from the “Go Green! Go for the Real Thing!” Tree Nursery at the BSP National Headquarters in Manila.
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BSP Scout Nursery Course
Course Description: To provide Scouts the knowledge of actual plant propagation.
Number of Scouts Required: At least 40 Scouts per session
Instructors/Facilitators/ Merit Badge Counselors: Staffing ratio of 1:10 Scouts
Course Objectives: At the end of the course, Scouts will be able to:
1. Learn the importance of trees in our environment
2. Demonstrate actual plant propagation
3. Earn the ”Go Green!” merit badge
4. Bring home his own bag of sown seeds (12 seeds minimum)
BSP Go Green Program of Activities
The following is the detailed program of activities that Scouts must undergo in preparation to earning their Go Green, Grow Green and Earn Green Merit Badges.
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“Go Green! Go for the Real Thing” as a BSP program
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines under the Program Division created an activity which is related to the said project. The concept is to develop a series of complimentary Merit Badges (MBs) that will develop a Scout into a proactive environmentalist, nature lover and entrepreneur.
Go Green and Grow Green are now required MBs and Earn Green is an elective MB.
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