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Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Madhura Shembekar, Summer 2023
Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversy–and Conversation–Since 2018
Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate emergency.
September 21, 2023
Climate Change, Madhura Shembekar, Summer 2023, Sustainability
Building a Better Future: Urbanism and Conflict in Environmentalism
September 13, 2023
Arts & Culture, Cecilia Cassidy, Summer 2023
Nature, Crisis, Consequence: Using the Past to Rethink Environmental Change
September 9, 2023
Environmental Justice, Food & Water, Summer 2023, Yuki Kato
September 1, 2023
New Series: Frontiers of Mariculture
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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
Alannah Nathan, Interviews, Miguel CuUnjieng, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Georgetown alumnus Miguel CuUnjieng (MSB ‘15) is the Associate Director for EOS at Federated Hermes on the North American team. Miguel shares his experience working in corporate social responsibility and ESG issues, including how he made his start in the field and the lasting influence of his Georgetown education in paving his career path.
October 15, 2022
Arts & Culture, Climate Change, Sarah Craig, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Climate Change and Curriculum: Georgetown’s Core Pathways Initiative at Five Years
Sarah Craig (SFS ’23) reflects on the fifth anniversary of Georgetown’s Core Pathways Initiative, an interdisciplinary program that encourages students to explore issues of climate change through a wide variety of thematic courses.
April 25, 2023
Climate & Energy, Ryan Levandowski, Spring 2023, The Breakdown
The Breakdown: Electric Vehicles
What does the future of electric vehicles look like? Georgetown Climate Center’s Ryan Levandowski answers this and other questions you may have about EVs in this issue’s Breakdown piece.
October 17, 2022
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