A calendar can be used to set reminders or to plan a day, week, month, even a year – but for Guam’s youth it can also serve as a place-based learning tool to teach self-sustaining skills and promote a circular economy for the future.
“When you’re looking at your kids’ books, or maybe you remember when you were back in school – I certainly do, that I was learning a lot in my science classes about deciduous trees, evergreens, polar bears and things like that – we didn’t have lots of place-based education and things like a coconut tree or the way that our weather patterns work,” Austin Shelton, director of the Center of Island Sustainability with the University of Guam, and co-chair of the Guam Green Growth steering committee, said during a…