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#INTHENEWS: Tackling stray animals, reducing plastic bags discussed by beautification task force

Tackling stray animals, reducing plastic bags discussed by beautification task force FROM: GUAMPDN.COM By: Jackson Stephens Photo by: Rick Cruz An increase in staff to deal with stray animals and Guam Green Growth’s initiative to help replace plastic bags were announced during the Islandwide Beautification Task Force meeting on Tuesday To implement high-volume spaying and neutering of stray dogs and cats, the Department of Agriculture has hired veterinarian Mariana Turner, who will be starting in January 2022, according to Department of Agriculture director Chelsa Muna-Brecht. Two animal control officers were hired Monday; they’re training with the court system and Guam Animals

November 14, 2021
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RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week twenty

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

November 9, 2021
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RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week nineteen

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

November 3, 2021
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Recap: Island beautification in Yona

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!

October 29, 2021
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RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week eighteen

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

October 26, 2021
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RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week seventeen

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

October 21, 2021
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RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week sixteen

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

October 15, 2021
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G3 Conservation Corps installs solar panels on JFK to help with renewable energy

G3 Conservation Corps installs solar panels on JFK to help with renewable energy SOAK IT IN: The Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps helped to install solar panels along roofs at John F. Kennedy High School in Tamuning in hopes of promoting renewable energy. Alongside the maintenance contractors for the school, the Corps installed over four hundred twenty solar panels on the school’s gym, cafeteria, annex and classrooms. “It gives me hope that there are alternatives for energy saving and renewable energy sources,” explained Corps member Drake Kemp. “It gives us a way to get away from using our ancient practices and

October 14, 2021
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New energy plan, other gains highlighted at G3 biannual meeting

New energy plan, other gains highlighted at G3 biannual meeting Dr. Austin Shelton, Guam Green Growth Steering Committee Co-Chair gave updates on G3 projects and programs. At the Guam Green Growth (G3) 2nd biannual meeting in September, committee co-chairs reported several program milestones and successes, including a new project that will create a renewal energy road map for Guam.  The G3 working group leads presented their updates and reports to Governor Lou Leon Guerrero and UOG President Dr. Thomas Krise at the virtual event. The two serve as chairs of the G3 biannual meetings.  Austin Shelton, UOG Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant director and G3 steering committee co-chair, said the Department of

October 14, 2021
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