Sustainability and Cooking become Eagle Required starting 2013/14

Sustainability, a new merit badge, will join Environmental Science as an interchangeable option pair Eagle-required badge after its debut at the 2013 jamboree.   Cooking will become Eagle-required as of Jan. 1, 2014.  The total badge count will remain at 21.  The elective badge count will drop from 10 to 9,with one spot replaced by cooking.