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G3 Conservation Corps starts village beautification projects The second cohort of the Guam Green Growth (G3) Conservation Corps program headed to Yigo on Friday, March 18, to participate in their first island beautification event.  G3 launched the second cohort of the conservation corps program in partnership with the University of Guam, the Office of the Governor and the 36th Guam Legislature.   The G3 Conservation Corps is workforce development program preparing our community for the emerging green economy. For the next five months, the 12 new members are expected to train full-time on various sustainability topics, such as agriculture and aquaculture, invasive

New G3 Conservation Corps members in motion Members of the second Guam Green Growth (G3) Conservation Corps cohort display the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development goals during their program orientation, March 14, 2022, at the University of Guam in Mangilao. The G3 Conservation Corps is a five-month workforce development program that will prepare 12 selected applicants for Guam’s emerging green economy. Austin Shelton, University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability (CIS) director and Guam Green Growth (G3) Steering Committee co-chairperson, delivers remarks during an orientation for the second G3 Conservation Corps cohort, March 14, 2022, at UOG in Mangilao. G3 Conservation Corps

Guam Green Growth recognizes first cohort of Conservation Corps graduates The UOG Guam Green Growth Initiative Conservation Corps program graduates pose with UOG CIS and SEA Grant Director Austin Shelton, UOG President Thomas Krise, Lt. Governor Joshua Tenorio, and UOG Senior Vice President and Provost Anita Borja Enriquez after the graduation ceremony on Friday, Nov. 19, at the Ricardo J. Bordallo Governor’s Complex (Adelup) in Hagåtña. An innovative program designed to establish the foundation for workforce development in an emerging green economy achieved a milestone this month by holding its first graduation.   The University of Guam’s Guam Green Growth Initiative recognized its first batch of conservation corps graduates on Friday, Nov. 19, at the Ricardo J. Bordallo Governor’s Complex (Adelup) in Hagåtña. 

RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week twenty Last week, our G3 Conservation Corps started off our Reusable Bag outreach! They passed out our G3 reusable bags and waved at passersby at 7 Day Supermarket in Dededo, Håfa Adai Market in Yigo, and Gangnam Mart in Tamuning to promote the use of reusable bags before the distribution of single-use plastic carry out bags are prohibited in January 2022 (Public Law 35-130). After the outreach on Monday, the Corps continued their Citizen Forestry Program tasks at Sagan Kotturan CHamoru. They then continued the UOG beautification and started painting the planter boxes that they planted guasali

RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week nineteen Last week was all about island beautification for our G3 Conservation Corps! Roland Quitugua, UOG’s Landscape Committee member and an Extension Agent with UOG’s Cooperative Extension and Outreach, taught the Corps how to properly plant and mulch guasåli and weed out the crotons lining UOG’s campus.  The Corps then propagated the crotons that they pruned, which will be used for future campus beautification efforts. They also bush-cut along the entrance of UOG, water-blasted and painted the latte’ stone sculptures in the middle of the campus, and rebuilt the broken planter boxes overlooking Pago Bay. It

Island Beautification Recap: Yoña ISLAND BEAUTIFICATION RECAP: YOÑA Si Yu’os ma’åse to Mayor Quenga and his team in Yoña for hosting our G3 Conservation Corps and volunteers from the Naval Airborne Weapons Maintenance Unit 1! Down at Tagå’chang Beach, the group picked up 12 large bags of trash and 3 large bags of aluminum cans. The Corps also cleared 3/4 of a mile of low-hanging trees and branches on the road down to the beach. There are only a couple Fridays left to volunteer with us for our island beautification efforts. Stay tuned to find out where we’ll be next!

RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week eighteen It was a mix of sustainable activities for our G3 Conservation Corps last week! To start the week off, the Corps went back to GAIN to assist with their energy efficiency projects that they surveyed for GAIN a few weeks ago. They installed and tinted more efficient windows and water-blasted the rooftops to reduce heat gain, cleaned the AC units to make them run more efficiently, and replaced CFLs with energy-efficient LED lights. The Corps then went to Sagan Kotturan CHamoru to conduct a Citizen Forester Program inventory where they plotted 51 trees to track

RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week seventeen It was a mix of business and fieldwork last week for our G3 Conservation Corps! Our friends at GUMA (Guam Unique Merchandise and Art) took the Corps through their business incubator program for the first two days to show them the process of starting their own business. Lorenzo Eduvala, UOG’s Student Academic Counseling Specialist with Enrollment Management & Student Services, performed a professional development training with the Corps on being proactive. Franceska De Oro (@youngbiha), a yoga instructor and a coordinator for Micronesia Climate Change Alliance (MCCA), gave the Corps a lesson on self-sustainability and did

RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week sixteen Our G3 Conservation Corps was at the UOG Triton Farm last week! Here’s what they were up to:- Cleaned and prepped 9 lbs. of lettuce for Triton Farm orders- Harvested 2.5 pounds of basil for Triton Farm orders- Planted 600 lettuce seeds, 72 basil seeds, 72 rosemary seeds, 72 tomato seeds, and 209 taro cuttings- Cleared 300 ft. of weeds in lettuce/herb rows- Cut, pruned, and mulched ~300 banana trees- Transplanted 38 passion fruit plants- Made 8 air layerings of lemmai- Moved 3 truck loads of tree branches to piles- Mulched 68 fruit