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ORGANIZATION NAME AND CONTACT INFO:
IPM Institute of North America
4510 Regent Street
Madison, Wisconsin
53705
Phone: 608-232-1426
Fax: 608-232-1440
URL: www.greenshieldcertified.org
Email Contact: info@greenshieldcertified.org
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ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
HISTORY
The IPM Institute of North America was developed as an independent organization to promote integrated pest management, or IPM, an approach that relies on strategies to prevent pest problems and does not routinely use pesticides, and was incorporated in 1998.
The Green Shield Certified program is based on “IPM STAR”, an IPM certification program established in 2003 by the IPM Institute of North America and partially funded by the U.S. EPA to work on 10 school systems. Currently, more than 40 school systems nationwide have been certified under IPM STAR. Subsequently, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit national environmental advocacy group, and the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, which supports environmentally beneficial programs, provided a grant to the IPM Institute of North America to reduce urban pesticide use. The Green Shield Certified program began development in 2005, and was then launched in 2007.
FUNDING
The IPM Institute of North America is funded by grants, mostly from government, but also from private foundations and industry, and from contracts for its services, including for research, training, etc. The Green Shield program is funded by grants, such as from the Natural Resources Defense Council, and evaluation and certification fees.
STRUCTURE
The non-profit IPM Institute of America operates the program. The Institute’s Board of Directors includes experts in IPM from universities, government, and business. The program manager typically makes the final decisions regarding Green Shield Certified standards, although the Board of Directors has the final say if a conflict arises. The program is advised by a Technical Advisory Committee, comprised of experts from universities, non-profits, and industry.
ACCREDITOR
(not an accreditor)
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
James M. Cubie, former chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, and founder and former director of the Agricultural Conservation Innovation Center, Inc., now a project of American Farmland Trust
Thomas A. Green, President of IPM Works, Madison, WI, Founder of the IPM Institute of America, Director of the National Foundation for IPM Education
Barry Jacobsen, Professor of Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, and former National IPM Coordinator, USDA
Mr. Robert S. Kallen, President of RSK Strategies, LLC, Chicago, IL, providing expertise and capital to small growing companies in the food industry, and adjunct professor of economics at Roosevelt University, Chicago
Curtis H. Petzoldt, Assistant Director of the New York State IPM Program and Vegetable IPM Coordinator at Cornell University
James P. Tette, Former Director, New York State IPM Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Luis Agurto, Sr., Founder and CEO of Pestec (certified by Green Shield Certified)
Thomas A. Green, PhD, President, IPM Institute of North America
Dawn H. Gouge, PhD, Associate professor and Associate Specialist, Department of Urban Entomology, University of Arizona
Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist at Natural Resources Defense Council
Jack Marlowe, President and Owner of Eden Advanced Pest Technologies (certified by Green Shield Certified)
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