Green Options » Girl Scouts http://greenoptions.com/tag/girl-scouts Posts tagged 'Girl Scouts' Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:03:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Girl Scouts vs. Cookies http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/16/girl-scouts-vs-cookies/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/16/girl-scouts-vs-cookies/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:03:16 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/16/girl-scouts-vs-cookies/ An orangutan in a rescue center in Borneo. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Frank Wouters.)Hey, way to go, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen! These are two young Girl Scouts who are showing what it takes to be real young leaders and good citizens.

According to the Ann Arbor News, these two 12-year-olds gave up on selling Girl Scout cookies after learning that the cookies are made with palm oil, which comes from Indonesian plantations that threaten the orangutan’s natural habitat. What started out as a research project on orangutans aimed at earning their Bronze Award has since turned into a two-girl campaign against palm oil production.

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