General
This is the department Islander Green Team is an organization of.
What is Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)?
This is the day and time Garden Workshops are hosted during the Fall semester.
What is Thursdays from 8:00-10:00 AM.
These three R's of sustainability help to limited the waste going to landfills.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
Bringing one of these to the store instead of using single-use plastic bags can save hundred of plastic bags each year.
What is a reusable tote bag?
This form of civic engagement is crucial for influencing environmental policy through electing representatives.
What is voting? (get registered now in Corpus Christi)
To obtain active membership, members must attend this many events per semester.
What is 5 events?
This migrating butterfly species relies on milkweed, which is native to Texas.
What is the monarch butterfly?
These everyday items can be made using post-consumer recycled materials to reduce waste and raw resource utilization.
What are clothing, shoes, furniture, paper products, and aluminum cans.
Pizza boxes can only be recycled if they don't have this on them.
What is grease/ food residue?
This international agreement aims to limit global warming below 2°C. Only three countries are not participating (soon to be 4, including the US, after the 1 year withdrawal process concludes).
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?
The date and time general meetings are held.
What is biweekly Wednesdays from 5:00-6:00 PM?
This sector is the largest producer of food waste in the U.S., accounting for over 30% of all wasted food.
What is the consumer/household sector?
This word describes meeting the needs of the present generation without harming the needs of future generation.
Sustainability
Scientists estimate that by the year 2050, there may be more of this in the ocean than fish.
What is plastic?
Corpus Christi City Council Members hold a term for this duration of time.
What is two years?
The major that is accepted as an IGT member.
What is ALL MAJORS!!!!
This gardening method involves growing plants without soil, using nutrient-rich water instead.
What is hydroponics?
The UNESCO emphasizes this public resource as the foundation for achieving sustainable change.
What is education/ improving literacy?
This country is currently the largest producer of plastic waste.
What is the United States?
This demographic group is disproportionately affect by the climate crisis.
What are communities of color and low-income communities.
This IGT slogan encompasses the organzation's mission.
What is "We Stand for What We Stand On?"
This type of habitat, that is often lost to development in Texas, is crucial for native pollinators.
What is native prairie?
This practice involves diverting public education funds to private or charter schools (Enacted in Texas this year).
What is school voucher programs?
This single-use item is the most commonly found piece of trash on beaches worldwide.
What are cigarette butts?
This federal government agency, established in 1970, is responsible for clean air, water, and enforcing regulations based on environmental protection laws.
What is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency?