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The best thing about camping is being away from technology, power and the modern world. The worst thing about camping is being away from technology, power and the modern world.

The fact is, without a phone, as leaders we are asking for a world of pain, we need to be in contact with home contacts, parents, head office and at worst the hospital. The difficulty here is that all these fancy phones, like my Iphone for example require a hugh amount of power to keep them alive and us in contact, when you have 12,000 camping outdoors power can be a real problem.

Both Irish and Australian scouts celebrated 100 years of scouting this year, and both Jamboree camps aimed to leave very little carbon foot print behind by offsetting the energy used in the buildings by using very little on the campsite thus making what 12.000 people use considerably less than normal.

What Telstra in Australia did, took it to the next level by donating 500 solar panels to the different subcamps, allowing the scouters vital access to power with no damage to the environment ! Top job Telstra! The full article can be read here