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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