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For Earth Day, Become a Green Flag Leader for the Environment! Join a select number of schools across the country taking part in this coordinated national effort to celebrate student empowerment for the environment. Make your school an environmental trailblazer and trendsetter in your community by becoming a Green Flag School. The Event Start solving environmental problems in your school using the framework of the Green Flag Program. Take part in the event to nationally recognize new Green Flag Leaders for the Environment, as schools across the country take a united first step to achieving safer and healthier environments. Over a two-week period at the end of May and the beginning of June, a select number of schools nationwide will host coordinated local media events to celebrate and publicize their reception of the Green Flag Award For Environmental Leadership. The events are aimed at shining local and national spotlights on youth making a commitment to a healthy future for themselves and for future students of their schools.
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How to Participate
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The Green Flag Program Staff is dedicated to providing you the resources, contacts and assistance you need to create safer and healthier school environments. Please to not hesitate to call with any questions regarding any aspect of the program, or any questions concerning the Launch. By Phone: (703) 237-2249 ext. 17 or ext. 21 By Fax: (703) 237-8389 By Email: ludwigsv@chej.org By Mail: Green Flag Staff, P.O. Box 6806, Falls Church, VA, 22040 |
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To Receive Your Green Flag Award To be eligible to receive the Green Flag Award for Environmental Leadership, all schools must:
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Thursday, March 16: "Kick-Off" Conference Call Thursday, March 30: Deadline for Submitting the Participation Form to the Green Flag Office Thursday, April 27: "How to Host a Media Event" Conference Call Wednesday, May 10: Deadline for Submitting the School Environment Survey to the Green Flag Office Monday, May 22 - Wednesday, June 7: Schools host media events to celebrate becoming a Green Flag School Thursday, June 8: "Follow-Up" Conference Call
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The coordinated events to celebrate the new Green Flag Schools will also mark the availability of new materials for middle and high school students, including... "A Guide to Action," a leadership and activism guide containing everything students will need to start earning environmental rewards. The Guide focuses on student empowerment and ownership of the program, and includes tips on how to build a strong team and set long-term goals, and fun activities for the established Green Flag Team. and... |
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The newly designed Green Flag Award for Environmental Leadership for Middle and High Schools. As schools pass safer and healthier policies in each issue area, they attach the corresponding patch to their flag (patches shown below flag).
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Background Info on the Green Flag Program The Green Flag Program is a project of the Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign, coordinated by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. The goal of the program is for students, teachers, parents, and administrative and facilities departments to work together through an investigative process to pass safer and healthier school policies in the program's four issue areas: Indoor Air Quality, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Reduce, Reuse Recycle, and Non-Toxic Products. Since its creation in 2003, schools across the country have been using the Green Flag Program to create safer and healthier school environments. |
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The Green Flag Program is a project of the national Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign, coordinated by the Center for Health Environment and Justice. |
