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Biodiversity, Food & Water, Rebecca Helm, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Far out to sea, floating ecosystems are developing on dead trees, debris, and even plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Georgetown professor and Earth Commons Affliated Faculty member Dr. Rebecca Helm discusses these floating ecosystems and what they mean for the health of our oceans.
May 3, 2023
Biodiversity, Elizabeth Hogan, Food & Water, Interviews, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Life on the Seas: Navigating a Career in Marine Conservation
May 4, 2023
Alannah Nathan, Climate & Energy, Summer 2023
Raising the Grade of the U.S. Electrical Grid
May 29, 2023
Climate Change, Food & Water, Frontiers of Mariculture, Nicholas Kee, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Under the Jamaican Sea: Turning seaweed into carbon credits at Kee Farms
May 4, 2023
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Climate Change, Food & Water, Frontiers of Mariculture, Nicholas Kee, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Under the Jamaican Sea: Turning seaweed into carbon credits at Kee Farms
Nishitha Vivek (MS ’23) sits down with Nicholas Kee, CEO and co-founder of Kee Farms, a regenerative ocean farm network based in Jamaica.
May 4, 2023
Candice Powers, Climate Change, Food & Water, Frontiers of Mariculture, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Changing our minds, stomachs, and planet
April 28, 2023
Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Gillian Meyers, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Gillian Meyers (SFS ’23) reflects upon the durability of mutually beneficial Corporate-Indigenous partnerships and their effectiveness in protecting people and the planet.
April 25, 2023
Anya Wahal, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Food & Water, Spring 2023
Drought-Stricken, Arizona Farmers Face Bleak Growing Season
Green Commons Award recipient Anya Wahal shares her insights on the dynamics of the water crisis unfolding in the American Southwest.
February 18, 2023
Environmental Justice, Food & Water, Shelby Gresch, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Shelby Gresch reflects on what role the Hoya Harvest, Georgetown’s newly opened campus farm, can play in the growing practice of urban agriculture and how it can contribute to our community.
April 28, 2023
Climate & Energy, Environmental Justice, Malina Brannen
Climate Migration: the Change We Aren’t Talking About
Georgetown college student Malina Brannen breaks down the relationship between climate change and immigration policy and looks at the current state of policy domestically and internationally.
June 10, 2022
Climate & Energy, Elsa Barron
Program Assistant Elsa Barron at the Center for Climate and Security discusses the implications of climate conflict in Syria, Ethiopia, and Ukraine.
June 2, 2022
Climate & Energy, Interviews, Mark Agard, Sustainability
Reimagining Cities: The Future of Urban Planning
An interview with Dr. Christopher Pyke of the Georgetown School of Continuing Studies on the future of urban planning, by Common Home editor Mark Agard.
April 27, 2022
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