TAC is directly confronting the twin emergencies of climate change and

biodiversity loss. We have a firm commitment and clear path to Below Net Zero council operations from 2023, and to planting 4,000 trees by 2025.

Those actions highlight our new Sustainability Action Plan. The pathbreaking plan minimizes TAC’s negative impacts and maximizes its positive impacts on biodiversity and climate, at the council level. The comprehensive plan is the first of its kind among Scouting organizations anywhere. We encourage all in TAC to support its implementation.

The plan contains 73 Action Items across 6 Action Areas:

 Reduce greenhouse gas emissions below net zero from 2023

 Plant a tree for every TAC Scout

 Maximize planet-positive aspects of core Scouting program

 Operate Camps and Events sustainably

 Reduce waste and plastics, and produce sustainably

 Advocate for action by others

TAC’s Sustainability Action Plan is here:

TAC’s 2021 Sustainability Challenge for unit and individual action continues.

Full details are here:

If you have an active registration in a District, Council, Executive Board role, or are

an official Merit Badge or NOVA Counselor, you need to renew your registration

annually - even if you hold a position as a unit leader and you are paying your membership fees through the unit. However, you only need to pay one set of membership fees annually. Merit Badge and STEM/NOVA Counselors do not pay a registration fee, but must complete Youth Protection Training and complete the registration process.

For District and Council positions, please renew your registration here.

Merit Badge or STEM/NOVA, please renew your registration here.

Complete your renewal by December 15th. Non-Unit Registrants and Counselors will

also receive an email directly from the Council to remind you to renew.

November is recharter month in the Transatlantic Council. ALL units expiring on 31 December 2021 will be asked to complete their online recharter between November 1 through 30.

Tutorial links are posted on our council website. If you have not added your new Scouts and volunteer leaders to your current roster, please get them registered now and then your unit’s renewal will be easier in the online recharter system.

Find the most up to date information here:

Council Commissioner Jeff Arter will have members of the Commissioner

Corps assisting all month long with online open-office recharter hours to answer

your questions in real time! Find those meeting details on the rechartering home page.

For any further questions, please reach out to our Council Commissioner or a

member of our field staff: Sarah, John, Garrett or Rodney.

While this is not an event coordinated or sponsored by the Transatlantic Council or any of its districts, we know that many units participate in this event. To that end, we have once again created a patch to commemorate the weekend. This is in addition to the traditional Historic Trail patch.

Order your NUTS! weekend patch. Only 200 were produced and they are selling fast.