Environment
Badge of Dishonour
NEW INTERNATIONALIST
Budding young lumberjacks in the Boy Scouts of America may be disappointed to find that there isn’t a ‘commercial logging’ badge – but perhaps there should be. An investigation by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has revealed that Scout administrations across the US have conducted high-impact logging on tens of thousands of acres of forestland, and sold prime woodlands to big timber interests and developers. Read more here