Green Flag Program

A nationally recognized environmental awards initiative, the Green Flag Program promotes student leadership and activism for the creation of safer and healthier school environments. Created in 2002 as a project of the Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign, coordinated by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, the Green Flag Program helps schools across the country achieve environmental success in the program's four issue areas: waste management, indoor air quality, non-toxic products, and integrated pest management.

Exeter began working on the Green Flag Program in the spring of 2006.  A team of students, faculty and staff was formed to conduct an environmental assessment of the campus and complete the first step of the program.  The next step is to address the program's four issue areas by instituting policy change.  Two groups of Environmental Proctors have begun work on different project areas of the GFP.  One group is working on a, "No Idling pamphlet" to address indoor air quality, while the other group has just begun research on the Academy's cleaning supplies, to determine the feasibility of using all non-toxic cleaning products.  These students hope to finish their work on indoor air quality and non-toxic products by the spring. 

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Learn about Exeter's involvement in the program last year