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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Guam Green Growth Beautification Recap: Hågat

Guam Green Growth Beautification Recap: Hågat Si Yu’os ma’åse to Mayor Susuico and his team in Hågat for hosting us and assisting. #GuamGreenGrowth #G3ConservationCorps #islandbeautification

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RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week fourteen & fifteen

RECAP: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps week fourteen and fifteen PLUG IT IN: Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps member Jackie Jones works to re-wire a lighting fixture at John F Kennedy High School. The Group spent the past two weeks replacing fixtures and installing solar panels after lessons on renewable energy. WEEK IN REVIEW: WEEK 14-15 For the last two weeks, our G3 Conservation Corps has been hard at work at JFK High School!They installed 420 solar panels on the gym rooftop and upgraded the fluorescent lighting in some of the classrooms to efficient LED lighting with the JFK maintenance team. In Week

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Conservation Corps assists with energy audit to help cut costs at GAIN animal shelter

Conservation Corps assists with energy audit to help cut costs at GAIN animal shelter Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps members Joseph Certeza and Alana Chargulauf inspect lighting fixtures while conducting an energy audit at the Guam Animals In Need facility in Yigo. The University of Guam’s Guam Green Growth Conservation Corps participated in a hands-on energy survey of the Guam Animals in Need facility in Yigo under the guidance of Guam Power Authority staff. After completing a basic orientation in September, the G3 Conservation Corps members conducted the energy assessment alongside GPA energy auditors at the Northern facility. The energy survey involved an

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