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Biodiversity, Food & Water, Spring 2024, Sustainability
From the Hilltop to the Field: A Georgetown Professor’s Journey into Sustainable Agriculture
Professor Colette Loll reflects on her experiences running a farm using regenerative agriculture practices, and how she has combined her passion for the humanities and agriculture with her concerns about climate change and broken food systems.
July 26, 2024
Biodiversity, Janet Mann, Spring 2024, Sustainability
Searching for Dolphins in the Potomac River
July 26, 2024
Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Erin Czelusniak, Spring 2024, Sustainability
July 26, 2024
Arts & Culture, Environmental Justice, Jennifer D. Roberts, Spring 2024, Sustainability
July 26, 2024
Biodiversity, Climate & Energy, Oswaldo Villena, Spring 2024
The Impact of Global Warming on Human and Avian Malaria
Georgetown postdoctoral researcher examines the impacts of climate change on malaria.
April 1, 2024
Cecilia Cassidy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Food & Water, Marcus King, Spring 2024
Climate Change and the Water Weapon: How Rising Temperatures are Expanding the Footprint of Conflict
Georgetown Professor Marcus King delineates the implications of water crisis on conflict across the globe
March 8, 2024
Cecilia Cassidy, Food & Water, Sarah Devermann, Spring 2024, Sustainability
Leveraging Technology to Make Smallholder Farming Sustainable
Georgetown alumni shares her work in making technology available for small farmers.
March 22, 2024
Biodiversity, Brian M. Griffiths, Environmental Justice, Food & Water, Spring 2024, Sustainability
Food, Culture, and Conservation in Maijuna Lands
A creative nonfiction piece by Assistant Professor Griffiths on his research with Peruvian Indigenous Maijunas.
March 15, 2024
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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