{"id":90039,"date":"2019-04-28T02:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T09:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/west-michigan-scouts-learn-about-sustainability"},"modified":"2019-04-28T02:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T09:42:47","slug":"west-michigan-scouts-learn-about-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/west-michigan-scouts-learn-about-sustainability","title":{"rendered":"West Michigan scouts learn about sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/west-michigan-scouts-learn-about-sustainability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALLENDALE, Mich. (WOOD) \u2014 West Michigan scouts gathered Saturday at the Consumers Energy\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodtv.com\/news\/ottawa-county\/states-largest-solar-garden-operational-in-west-michigan_20180328090001783\/1085250546\">Solar Garden in Allendale<\/a><\/strong> to learn about sustainability and how they can be good stewards of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, the scouts learned how their choices have an impact on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sustainability merit badge is actually quite a tough one to do, it requires a lot of thinking, a lot of planning,\u201d said John Miller, Western Michigan University professor and merit badge counselor. \u201cThat\u2019s part of what scouting is about is having the youth learn that they can effect change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodtv.com\/news\/ottawa-county\/west-michigan-scouts-learn-about-sustainability\/1959435497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENDALE, Mich. (WOOD) \u2014 West Michigan scouts gathered Saturday at the Consumers Energy\u2019s Solar Garden in Allendale to learn about sustainability and how they can be good stewards of the earth. At the event, the scouts learned how their choices have an impact on the environment. \u201cThe sustainability merit badge is actually quite a tough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}